Wells and Stalin

H. G. Wells visited Stalin in 1934 and chatted with him about the theory of socialism, noting that though he’d only just touched down in Moscow, “I have already seen the happy faces of healthy men and women and I know that something very considerable is being done here.”

Fashions in churches

Recently, a leader of one of the Protestant Churches in Dublin said to me that all our Churches were now wearing clothes which do not fit well because they had been tailored for us when we were fatter.

Atheism and baby killing

An atheist female friend of mine admitted to having two abortions, after which she said, "God will never forgive me."

Belloc on modernists

As Hilaire Belloc said, "Do not, I beseech you, trouble yourself about forces already in disarray. They have mistaken the hour; it is not the middle of the night, but the coming of the dawn."

Aquinas on "ensoulment"

Aquinas makes it quite clear:
We are NOT ensouled bodies - rather we are embodied souls

Didache

The Didache
"The second commandment of the teaching: You shall not murder. You shall not commit adultery. You shall not seduce boys. You shall not commit fornication. You shall not steal. You shall not practice magic. You shall not use potions. You shall not procure [an] abortion, nor destroy a newborn child" (Didache 2:1–2 [A.D. 70]).

Usury

Dante, following as always Thomist theology, put the moneylenders in Hell in the same circle as the sodomites -- each was perverting nature. I think of this every time I drop by my bank, St. Mary's Credit Union, here in Manchester, New Hampshire, which was founded by a French Canadian priest. (It charges interest.)