Showing posts with label Thomas Aquinas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thomas Aquinas. Show all posts
Monday, June 3, 2019

Adriano Oliva's Amours: L'Église, les divorcés remariés, les couples homosexuels — On the Pastoral Implications of Aquinas' Recognition That Homosexuality Is Natural

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In my last posting some days ago about Adriano Oliva's  Amours: L'Église, les divorcés remariés, les couples homosexuels  (P...
Wednesday, May 22, 2019

Adriano Oliva's Amours: L'Église, les divorcés remariés, les couples homosexuels — Aquinas on Inclination to Homosexuality as Natural

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As I have promised in previous postings, I'd like to share some more reflections about Adriano Oliva’s book, Amours: L’Église, le...
Sunday, May 19, 2019

Adriano Oliva's Amours: L'Église, les divorcés remariés, les couples homosexuels — Response from a Reader re: Aquinas' Theology of Marriage

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One of my Facebook friends, Jean-François Garneau in Montréal, has responded to my recent posting  about how Adriano Oliva's book Amo...
Friday, May 17, 2019

Notes on Adriano Oliva's Amours: L'Église, les divorcés remariés, les couples homosexuels — On Sexual Relations Between Women as Less Sinful Than Sodomy

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As a footnote to what I posted yesterday regarding Adriano Oliva's book Amours: L'Église, les divorcés remariés, les couples h...
Thursday, May 16, 2019

Notes on Adriano Oliva's Amours: L'Église, les divorcés remariés, les couples homosexuels — Procreation in Aquinas' Theology of Marriage

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Back in January 2016, I shared with you some notes  about Adriano Oliva's book  Amours: L'Église, les divorcés remariés, les ...
Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Adriano Oliva's Amours: L'Église, les divorcés remariés, les couples homosexuels: Book Notes

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I've just finished reading the new book by the noted French Dominican Thomist scholar Reverend Adriano Oliva, Amours: L'Églis...
Friday, November 23, 2012

Same-Sex Marriage and Families of Gay Couples: Two Theological Perspectives (and a Poem)

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The video: poet Alvin Lau declaiming his poem "Full Moon" at the opening round of individual finals at the 2006 National Poet...
Friday, September 28, 2012

A Reader Writes: "There's a Rich Vein of Understanding about Marriage That Remains to Be Discovered"

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Another stellar comment here in the past few days by boltingmadonna, who writes the following in response to my posting earlier in the ...
Monday, August 13, 2012

Frank Cocozzelli on Ryan's Aquinian Epiphany: So Much Smoke and Mirrors

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At Talk to Action, Frank Cocozzelli has just reposted a piece he wrote last May on Paul Ryan's p-r driven Aquinian epiphany in t...
Sunday, August 12, 2012

Droppings from the Catholic Birdcage: Paul Ryan and "Give Me Thomas Aquinas"

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After Paul Ryan discovered that there was a downside to his infatuation with Ayn Rand (a radical individualist who also happens to ha...
Monday, January 23, 2012

On Conscience, the U.S. Bishops, and Manufactured Battles with the Obama Administration: David DeCosse at NCR

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National Catholic Reporter is now carrying valuable commentary by David DeCosse , director of campus ethics programs at Santa Clara U...
Friday, January 6, 2012

Minnesota Archbishop Nienstedt Seeks to Bludgeon Consciences of Clergy re: Marriage Equality

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An important posting yesterday at Michael Bayly's Progressive Catholic Voice site, to which I want to draw readers' attentio...
Monday, October 10, 2011

Thomas Aquinas, Natural Law, and Occupy Wall Street

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This could well be a sign held by an Occupy Wall Street demonstrator:  Those things which some possess in excess of reasonable ne...
Friday, November 19, 2010

A Gloss on Catholic Theology of the Body as Bogus Science Propping Up Bad Theology

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A gloss on what I've just posted about the ludicrous science now being used to prop up bad theology, as proponents of the theology of ...
Monday, October 12, 2009

Engaging the Issues: Abortion as Murder, Genetic Evidence about the Beginning of a Human Person

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As the posting I just uploaded notes, I’ve fallen behind in recognizing and responding to comments about my postings of the last several day...
Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Thomas Aquinas on the Fecundity of Creation (and the Necessity of Gay Persons to Mirror God's Fecund Nature?)

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These are two separate journal entries from the spring of 1990, on a similar theme: A theological theme keeps popping into my mind. It has ...
Thursday, September 11, 2008

9/11: Do Good, Avoid Harm--In Memoriam

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My memories of September 11, 2001, will forever be intertwined with the death of my mother on September 15 the same week. September 11 was...