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Once inside one of the seminary's U-shaped, granite buildings, the energetic theologian turned to the question of church and state, and the discussion reached back to Thomas Aquinas and back to the transitional thought of 16th century St. Robert Bellarmine.* At one point. Father Murray had to...
God's Reason. The concept of a law of man's nature prior to the "positive" laws he enacts has meant many things to many thinkers. It is a pre-Christian notion, going back farther than Aristotle, and in the Christian era it is by no means exclusively...
Jew to Catholic. Raised in Brooklyn, the son of a master cooper, Greenburg lost the use of his legs when he got polio at 16. He took up weight lifting, soon huffed through 500 knee bends at a time. (He now mows his lawn at a dead run, each day...
St. Immanuel. Disagreeing with those Catholics who "glibly say that Protestantism is emotionalism," Father Weigel insists "it has an intellectuality. It favors scholarship and has always produced it." Scientific exegesis, of scriptural texts has been "mainly a Protestant endeavor." But Protestant intellectualism, according to Father Weigel, is empirical, skeptical, relativistic...
Says the Very Rev. Dom Aelred Gra ham, prior of the Portsmouth Priory, a Benedictine monastery whose monks run the exclusive Portsmouth Priory School, which annually sends the majority of its graduates to non-Catholic colleges (top favorite: Harvard) : "Sooner or later, boys are going to have to face the...