Classical Theist

New Substack: Is the Mere Unanimous Consensus of Catholic Theologians Sufficient for Infallibility? https://classicaltheist.substack.com/p/is-the-mere-unanimous-consensus-of?r=1x9wqe&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true

New Substack: The Unforgivable Sin: Easier to Fall Into Than We Think https://classicaltheist.substack.com/p/the-unforgivable-sin-easier-to-fall?r=1x9wqe&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true

The manner in which the agent intellect reduces abstracted forms from potency to act involves a degree of spiritual intimacy between knower and known not entirely unlike the conjugal act Hence, when the soul chooses sin, a type of spiritual adultery against the Lord is committed

Very important text from Donum Vertiatis on what to do when wrestling with non-infallible magisterial texts

i am getting so tired of american catholic converts who insist on overlaying a modern american evangelical prudishness onto a 2,000 year old faith. for these people, catholicism survives as a palimpsest with its old-world rituals, its deep, sensual, mysterious…