Catholic Daily Brief

Definitions taken from The Dictionary of Dogmatic Theology (1951) by Parente, Piolanti & Garofalo

How to Rule the Tongue

Definitions taken from The Dictionary of Dogmatic Theology (1951) by Parente, Piolanti & Garofalo

Ch. 11: Life and Death (Conclusion)

Of Other Ways of Governing our Senses According to the Different Occasions Which Happen

Ch. 9: Meekness and Violence

Ch. 8: Corporateness and Individualism

Ch. 21: Of the Guard of the Outward Senses and How from These We May Pass to the Contemplation of the Divinity Ch. 22: Using the senses to meditate on the Mysteries of Christ's Life

Ch. 20: Overcoming Sloth

Ch. 19: How to Resist the Lusts of the Flesh

Ch. 7: Authority and Liberty

Ch. 6: Faith and Reason

Ch. 17: Of the Order to be Observed in the Conflict With Our Evil Passions Ch. 18: Of the Way to Overcome Sudden Risings of the Passions

Ch. 15: Suggestions on the Manner of Fighting Ch. 16: In What Way the Soldier of Christ Should Take the Field Early in the Morning

Ch. 5: Love of God and Love of Man

Ch. 13: Resisting Sensual Impulses and Cultivating Virtues Ch. 14: What to Do When the Will Feels Overcome with Temptation

Ch. 4: Joy and Sorrow

Ch. 3: Sanctity and Sin

Ch. 2: Wealth and Poverty

Ch. 1: Peace and War

The Catholic Church, Divine and Human

Introductory: Jesus Christ, God and Man

Ch. 9: Bible-Reading in the 'Dark Ages'

Ch. 8: Our Debt to the Monks

Ch. 12: Of the many wills that are in man, and of the warfare between them

Variations in Text Fatal to Protestant Theory

Ch. 6: The Original Manuscripts and Their Disappearance

Ch. 5: Deficiencies of the Protestant Bible

Ch. 4: The Catholic Church Compiles The New Testament

The Church Precedes the New Testament

The Making of the Old Testament

Introduction Chapter 1: Some Errors Removes

Ch. 10: Of the exercise of the will Ch. 11: Inducing the will to seek only the good pleasure of God

Is Communism inevitable?

Chapter 7: On Spiritual exercise Chapter 8: Hindrance to a right discernment Chapter 9: On Curiosity

Is Communism undemocratic?

Is Communism immoral?

Chapter 4: How to know whether we are acting with distrust of self and trust in God Chapter 5: Timidity is not a virtue Chapter 6: Further advice on distrust of self and trust in God

Is Communism against religion?

Chapter 1: In What Spiritual Perfection Consists Chapter 2: On Distrust of Self Chapter 3: On Trust in God

"The truth finally becomes apparent that neither in any operation with factual propositions nor in any appeal to instinct can the Innovator find the basis for a system of values. None of the principles he requires are to be found there: but they are all to be found somewhere else."

"And all the time—such is the tragi-comedy of our situation—we continue to clamour for those very qualities we are rendering impossible. You can hardly open a periodical without coming across the statement that what our civilization needs is more 'drive', or dynamism, or self-sacrifice, or 'creativity'. In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful."

"If naturalism is right, then it is at this point, at the study of man himself, that it wins its final victory and overthrows all our hopes: not only our hope of immortality, but our hope of finding significance in our lives here and now. On the other hand, if naturalism is wrong, it will be here that it will reveal its fatal philosophical defect, and that is what I think it does."

"The Angels of heaven, He said, rejoice more over one sinner doing penance than ninety-nine just who need not penance; the publican in the back of the temple mourning over his sins, He said, went back to his house justified. Now in His farewell discourse before the Ascension, He bade the world repent."

"If Our Lord took the worst the world had to offer, and then by the power of God rose above it; if He, the unarmed, could make war with no other weapon than goodness and pardon, so that the slain had the gain, and they who killed Him lost the day, then who should ever be without hope? Who shall ever despair in any momentary defeat by evil? Who shall fail to trust when he sees walking in the darkness the Risen One with glorious scars on hands and feet and side?"

"If this commission were given solely for the time span of the Apostles, it is evident that they could not possibly go to all nations. The dynamism or current that was passed into the Apostles under the headship of Peter was to continue until Christ’s Second Coming. No doubt was left concerning the authority and the work of the Church when the Master would leave the earth."

"Thus we must admit that Faith, as we know it, does not flow from philosophical argument alone; nor from experience of the Numinous alone; nor from moral experience alone; nor from history alone; but from historical events which at once fulfil and transcend the moral category, which link themselves with the most numinous elements in Paganism, and which (as it seems to us) demand as their pre- supposition the existence of a Being who is more, but not less, than the God whom many reputable philosophers think they can establish."

"If you make the adults of today Christian, the children of tomorrow will receive a Christian education. What a society has, that, be sure, and nothing else, it will hand on to its young. The work is urgent, for men perish around us."

Why can't there be women priests?

"Thomas thought that he was doing the right thing in demanding the full evidence of sensible proof; but what would become of future generations if the same evidence was to be demanded by them? The future believers, the Lord implied, must accept the fact of the Resurrection from those who had been with Him."