Edward Feser

The Vice President has St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, and indeed the entire mainstream Christian and natural law traditions on his side. His critics have, on their side, woolly liberal bromides and foot-stomping.

This is the good man who also once offered himself in exchange for Israeli children held hostage. Bloodthirsty fanatics insist that we choose a side to hate, that we demonize either the Jewish people or the Palestinian people. The cardinal sets an example by refusing to do so

Pope Leo XIV’s choices to take a traditional name and to appear in traditional papal garb – as Benedict XVI did and Francis did not – are small but encouraging signs of a man who subordinates himself to the papal office and understands the importance of continuity with the past

Here is the entire passage from the Catechism. Underlined in red are the bits people tend to leave out.

With due respect to the pope, the remark is manifestly false. To cite just a few names among many, sainted doctors of the Church such as Thomas Aquinas, Alphonsus Liguori, and John Henry Newman were against abortion and for the death penalty, as were sainted popes such as

“You shall not kill by abortion the fruit of the womb and you shall not murder the infant already born” (The Didache or Teaching of the Twelve Apostles, c. 90 A.D.)

From thirty years ago, when the pod people were still incubating in the backwaters of the university and Paglia was like the guy in the first act of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, vainly warning “They’re coming! They’re coming!” Now we’re in the third act and they’re everywhere.

Still processing the fact that the pope is a guy named Bob from Chicago 😄

Some people delude themselves that he’s joking. He is not joking (and it would be repulsive even as a joke, given the context). Trump has said this sort of thing repeatedly over the years. He even devoted a whole chapter of his self-help book Think Big and Kick Ass to singing the

Catholics for Harris, this is what you're voting for. Don't spend your thirty pieces of silver all in one place.

A man can avoid this by never sleeping with a woman unless he is married to her, and never marrying a woman who would even consider having an abortion

If you’re a Catholic who wets your diaper and cries “racism” or “homophobia” every time someone’s feelings are hurt by “insensitive” language, but can’t work up the mildest outrage at mockery of the Eucharist, I submit that maybe your religion isn’t actually Catholicism

Abortion will be seen by history as the great moral failure of our time. It is extremely depraved in itself, and the refusal to ban it reflects other depravities, such as addiction to sexual vice and refusal to do one’s fundamental duty as a social being (i.e. to one’s children)

I can’t be the only one who wonders what people are going on about when they use the expression “lived experience.” Is there such a thing as non-lived experience? Why not just say “experience”?

The West isn’t re-paganizing but apostatizing. It is worse to repudiate the Christian religion than never to have had it. It is worse to fall from the heights than never to have been raised to them. Christianity took us above Plato and Aristotle. Apostasy is taking us below them.

Really couldn't care less about Pope Leo's politics as long as he's faithful on doctrine. Too many people on all sides of current political disputes can't understand the difference.

Selfish hedonism, the crass commercialization of what was once sacred, and the casual murder of children. Modern liberalism in one headline.

“The Church is intolerant in principle because she believes; she is tolerant in practice because she loves. The enemies of the Church are tolerant in principle, because they do not believe, and intolerant in practice because they do not love.” Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange

If a Christian lives by his convictions, he’s labeled a fanatic. If he fails to do so, he’s labeled a hypocrite. If he defends those convictions, he’s labeled a culture warrior. If he does not, he’s labeled a fideist. His enemy always presumes guilt, then manufactures a charge

Yes, it does - that's exactly what a child looks like a few days after conception.