Taylor Patrick O'Neill
@thomaesplendor
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PhD, Theology | Professor. Husband. Father. | Board Member of @SacraDoctrina. | My book: Grace, Predestination, and the Permission of Sin, @CUAPress ↓ #GoPackGo
Massachusetts
Joined August 2017
I've decided to start a substack to replace my old blog. I like some of the features of substack. No paywall, so it's free to subscribe if you're interested. There's a chat for subscribers. But you can also just check the site like a normal blog. https://t.co/8dovQWn9pu
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Check it out. We have some excellent articles in this issue, which is devoted to moral theology.
The newest issue of the official journal of The Sacra Doctrina Project, Lux Veritatis: A Journal of Speculative Theology, is out! As always, the full issue and each article are available for free download. Paperbacks are also available. https://t.co/Psq0MEjgSZ
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It's from a line in Aeterni Patris. The genitive is first (although grammatically awkward) to emphasize St. Thomas.
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Bad words are not always merely bad words. The medium is the message. The deeper problem is the habituation of the intellect to a certain crudeness of mind that prioritizes insults over arguments and a habituation of the will that prioritizes getting even over charity.
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This is what happens when you get so angry that you retreat to paganism, where the weakness of God is considered true weakness and human strength considered true strength.
I’m tired of Gen X and millennial moralfagging. We get it, y’all love being slaves to jews and women.
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Listening to Nick Fuentes will endanger your soul. What he advocates is the religion of the antichrist: a mere facade of Christianity that is hollow inside, totally devoid of the radical love that constitutes the life of God. Like Pelagianism, it does away w/ the cross of Christ.
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That speculative, scientific understanding is not what most people think of when they think of difficulty or intelligence. Of course, not all doctorates are created equal either. Some fields are harder than others and some institutions are harder than others.
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Doctorates might not be as hard as some people think, yet they're not easy either. But I think folks outside of academia think it certifies you as either a trivia whiz or some sort of computing genius. What it does (usually) is certify you as an expert in something.
Doctorates are hard to get in the sense that a marathon is hard: it’s a test of stubbornness and ability to endure drudgery and pain, not a test of intelligence or creativity (which you would think the test for the Guild of Scholars would be).
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And doesn't this go for medical doctors too? If a medical doctor demands to be called "Dr." or introduces themselves as such in informal settings, is it less annoying? Conversely, is it more annoying for students to call their profs "Dr." than for patients w/ their medical doc?
I agree with this, too. The goal is to be normal. If people are using formal address, go with that. If it's informal, go with that.
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"Your best servant, O Lord, is he who looks not so much to hear from you what he wants to hear, but rather to want what he hears from you." St. Augustine
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I think that one of the greatest failures of contemporary philosphical and political dialectic is that it sees principally through the lens of opposing teams rather than opposing truths.
“Nietzsche shared with many intellectuals of his time and our own a passion for irresponsible rhetoric in the attempt to get one up on opponents. But philosophers, for their misfortune, are not the only people in the world. Genuinely mad and frantic people are all around them and
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Yes, there are different senses of dignity. But the first and most proper sense is the ontological sense that is predicated of the nature. All other senses are downstream from that one, and that was the one being discussed in the unfortunate video "debate."
Aquinas thinks there are multiple grounds of dignity, though. So while men and women are equal in respect of substantial form as ground of dignity, people can differ in dignity according to, e.g. estates. (ST II-II 131.2ad2, cf. II-II 102.1ad2) Rulers have dignity superior to
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A serious question for those who will reject the above as some kind of lib or modernist argument: which of the following is false? - Human dignity comes from being imago Dei. - Imago Dei is said of the nature. - Men and women have the same nature.
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It seems to me that there is a lot of confusion here because people are equivocating on equality. What St. Thomas teaches is clear: the dignity of men and women are equal. This does not mean that men and women (or this man and that man) are equal or the same in other regards.
Being made in the image of God doesn't mean men and women are equal. Lila Rose doesn't know the basics of Catholic teaching yet keeps spamming "Natural Law" and "Catholic teaching" like a robot. Men are stronger than women in reason, this is well-known and theologically certain.
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We need a total ban on online debates until we can figure out what the hell is going on.
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If you can't see the juvenile, irrational nature of this brand of "conservatism" then you are absolutely blind. This is middle school puerility masquerading as strength and intelligence. Please stop forming your intellect with this stuff. It will absolutely endanger your soul.
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People online: "We don't have a problem with reactionism and 'based' culture." Also people online: "Lila Rose is a blue-haired feminist. If you nag your husband about watching porn, you're a lib." She mutes her wantonly, then hangs up on her, then laughs about it like a child.
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We just want the UP back. By all rights, it should be ours.
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A refreshingly calm, reasonable, and nuanced set of remarks from Pope Leo.
Pope Leo XIV responding to the US bishops’ statement on the detention and deportation of migrants: “No one has said that the United States should have open borders. I think every country has a right to determine who and how and when people enter. But when people are living good
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"The degree of your love at the moment of death determines the degree of intensity the Beatific Vision will have for you eternally." - Charles Journet
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