21 January 2016, The Tablet

Spiritual readings – 23 January 2015


 
St Thomas Aquinas showed how faith and reason might be put into a conversation in which one learns from the other. Integration of faith and reason, of the whole of our knowledge with the whole of our faith, is the goal and the mark of a Catholic scholar. The aim is to live with all the truths that God wants us to know: those truths he has revealed and those truths he wants us to discover. Most importantly, the goal is to live with God himself as a saint.FRANCIS CARDINAL GEORGE, OMIIN A GODLY HUMANISM: CLARIFYING THE HOPE THAT LIES WITHIN (CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA PRESS, 2015)There is something in you that is not touched ... by for or against, by the raucous teams of totally right or totally wrong. There is a part of you that is patient with both goodness and evil to gradually show t
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