Ignatians will equip themselves to present the truth and beauty of the Catholic Faith to non-Catholics by a demanding intellectual formation in philosophy, theology, the liberal arts and oratory. They will give special importance to St. Thomas Aquinas’s theology and its scholastic method which has already proven its effectiveness by the long line of converts […]
Defining “Creative Minorities” The term “creative minorities” usually refers exclusively to groups of intellectuals or people of extraordinary influence in society: this is not the meaning I give to the term in these chapters. Rather I intend it to be a term that is inclusive of all those Catholics who act to imbue society with […]
“You are the salt of the earth…You are the light of the world” (Matthew 5:13-14) When Priests Move, the Church Moves The birth and range of influence of these groups trembles in the balance for the pivotal factor is whether or not the leaders of the Church will resolve to become creators of creative minorities. For the priests by […]
“To convert somebody, go and take them by the hand and guide them” – St. Thomas Aquinas The Priest must lead the way for Lay Catholics The Priest, due to his triple mission, is called to lead the way for the laity in proposing the Faith to non-Catholics. As the anointed one of God by […]
The following is an excerpt from the insightful position paper “The Extraordinary Form and Men” published by the Foederatio Internationalis Una Voce (FIUV) at https://www.fiuv.org/p/fiub.html N.B. Most of the footnotes are not included here. Since the 1970s, in the developed world, the ratio between Catholic men and women attending Mass, and committed in other ways […]
Traditional Latin Mass Welcomed by Catholics The magazine-format newspaper, The Economist, on Dec 15th 2012 published an article entitled “A traditionalist avant-garde: It’s trendy to be a traditionalist in the Catholic church”. “The Latin Mass Society of England and Wales, started in 1965, now has over 5,000 members. The weekly number of Latin masses is […]
“To Hell with Culture”: Unacceptable Rejection of Culture-Building for Catholicism No man is a lone island: we are surrounded by others and in a thousand ways each day we are either helping or hindering each other to act in the image and likeness of God and reach our destination in Heaven. When all of our […]
Why Ignatians study Philosophy and Theology with St. Thomas Aquinas as their North Star? Ignatians Choose St. Thomas because He is Anti-Dictatorship of Relativism The Society of Ignatians, for the foreseeable future, will fight for Christ and the salvation of souls in a world largely dominated by the “Dictatorship of Relativism” (Benedict XVI). In a […]
Why Ignatians study Philosophy and Theology with St. Thomas Aquinas as their North Star? Ignatians Choose St. Thomas because He is Anti-Dictatorship of Relativism The Society of Ignatians, for the foreseeable future, will fight for Christ and the salvation of souls in a world largely dominated by the “Dictatorship of Relativism” (Benedict XVI). In a […]
Why Ignatians study Philosophy and Theology with St. Thomas Aquinas as their North Star? Ignatians Choose St. Thomas because He is Anti-Dictatorship of Relativism The Society of Ignatians, for the foreseeable future, will fight for Christ and the salvation of souls in a world largely dominated by the “Dictatorship of Relativism” (Benedict XVI). In a […]