A note from Australia. Thomas Aquinas writes in the Summa that “the divine law commands certain things because they are good, and forbids others because they are evil -- while others are good because they are prescribed, and others evil because they are forbidden.”
Christianity, the religion of love, is condemned for being hateful; in the meantime, those who hurl this accusation are wholeheartedly embracing hatred, not least for Christianity. What is going on?
You must remember that this is Texas.
On Easter morning, the children were going downstairs, ready to hunt for their Easter baskets before going to church. They are well instructed in the liturgy.
Spontaneously, their father said “Alleluia!”
Their mother replied, “The Lord is risen!”
The children replied, “He is risen indeed!”
The times are strange and getting stranger. Not least of its ideological brutalities is that according to the fashion of the day, a certain form of contempt for women is called feminism.
Greetings from Jerusalem (yes – you also have readers from the holy land).
