Moral Theology
Sins of the TongueThe Fire No Bridle Holds
On backbiting — the sin of detraction, why it is harder to repair than theft, and the saints who warned where it leads.
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Lucerna Memoriae
Articles on the Faith — Scripture, doctrine, history, and the tradition of the Church, shared by topic.
On backbiting — the sin of detraction, why it is harder to repair than theft, and the saints who warned where it leads.
Read →The living tradition of Latin in Catholic life — its theological foundation, linguistic stability, liturgical role, and answers to common objections.
Read →What did Our Lord recoil from in the Garden of Olives? A meditation on Gethsemane, lukewarmness, Divine Mercy, and the cup Christ asked the Father to remove.
Read →The narrow path, the little number, and the eye of the needle: why heaven's way is narrow, and why grace, not grit, carries the soul through.
Read →A case for the traditional fast and against the inversion of sacred time — how the weekly architecture of Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday was lost, and what rushed in to fill the void.
Read →On the bodily Assumption of the Blessed Virgin — the Ark taken up, the body not abandoned, and the hope that what happened to her is promised to us.
Read →Why the angels fell, why Adam fell, and what both refusals had to do with a God of flesh and a Woman crowned — probation, the rejected Incarnation, and the Queenship of Mary.
Read →On the weekly architecture the Church once kept — and what was traded away when the sacred calendar gave way to the commercial one.
Read →A short walk through the earliest surviving handbook of the Church — and what it shows about how the faith was actually lived just after the Apostles.
Read →How the chronology from Adam to Abraham fits together — and what the overlapping lifespans quietly teach about the handing-down of memory.
Read →From Eden's fruit to Babel's brick to the glow in our hands — human pride, the scattering of the nations, and the rest that finally answers it.
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