Monday, 12 August 2019

Nation and State: an article in the style of St Thomas Aquinas

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Deinde considerandum est de divisione inter gentem (vel nationem) et civitatem secundum beatum Thomam de Aquino. Circa hoc quaeri...
Friday, 9 August 2019

The Credo of the People of God (1968): Paul VI’s Rejection of Contemporary Errors

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The Credo of the People of God is a profession of faith made publicly by Pope Paul VI on June 30th, 1968. It has been of help to me in rec...
Friday, 2 August 2019

The Church's Civilizing Task: Marriage in Medieval Europe

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Henri Bourassa, in a beautiful discourse given in Montréal in 1918, spoke — among other things — about the “civilizing task” of French-C...
Monday, 18 January 2016

Pagan Rome, Christian Rome (translated from Bourassa, La Langue)

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Pagan Rome, Christian Rome Of this task, the Church has never fallen short. Docile to God’s designs, the humble fisherman of Galilee, poo...
Tuesday, 5 January 2016

The structure of marriage: a lifeline from Catholic Quebec

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In the civil code, you possess a precious heritage. Yours is indeed a great and noble responsibility: the thought of seeing to it that the ...
Tuesday, 17 November 2015

Les hommes violents: pouvons-nous les abolir?

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Il est bien connu que les hommes, c’est à dire les êtres humains du sexe masculin, font la plupart des crimes violents: le viol, l’incendi...
Monday, 16 November 2015

Christ loves the French

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The France of yesteryear, the France who prayed, the France who sustained the Church, the France who wrote fewer books, but better, the Fra...