The Fred Martinez Report

  Alasdair McIntyre, Walter Farrel OP, and Charles de Koninck, among others, agree that Suárez (1548-1617) was neither a Thomist nor a reliable interpreter of Thomism.  

Forwarded this email?  Subscribe here  for more MACHINE WORSHIP How Modern Man is trapped in his own inventions Frank Wright Dec 19   READ IN APP   In this brief series I will explain some of the ideas and processes which have produced a system of machine worship, replacing the earlier revolutionary cult of the worship of Man. Seen from a critical perspective, modern “progress” from the deification of Man to that of his machines is the liberation of mankind into a trap. FROM MAN TO MACHINE Our lives are already shaped by machines. Socialised on algorithms, our food and food-for-thought are produced by a constantly refining technique and technology on whose products we increasingly rely for our sustenance and our sense of reality. Yet the  progress  of the last century towards a  utopian technological society  seems to have  hit the brick wall of reality . The  consensus politics  that has managed the West by this technique has produ...

The Annulment Machine, the Dialogue Industry, and the Roman Rite Front How the postconciliar system dissolves what it can’t openly deny Chris Jackson Dec 17... ... Fr. Wathen’s blunt diagnosis of post-conciliar annulments in the JPII era is still true today The late Fr. James Wathen’s  discussion of the annulment crisis , even in the time of JPII, was deliberately unvarnished: he called diocesan marriage tribunals “annulment committees” and accused them of “conjuring up grounds” for nullity, often disregarding the spouse who insists the marriage was real. https://theradtrad.blogspot.com/2014/07/it-just-wont-go-away.html It Just Won't Go Away Feeneyism. It is a minority opinion. It always has been and, unless it finally dies out, it always will be.  Feeneyism, for the uninitiated, is a reading of  Extra ecclesiam nulla salus  that denies the Roman concepts of Baptism through blood and through desire, and in turn renders a highly legal reading that restricts salvation ...