#new advent

[jurakan]

The largest Catholic website in the world

Not sure how I feel about it, but New Advent has updated to include a list of all the cardinals and their "alignment".

[jurakan]

Can I have a fun fact about the filioque or is that illegal

[digging through the Fun Fact box] Uh... that's an odd request, but as far as I know, it's not illegal? Today You Learned that Saint Thomas Aquinas addressed the Filioque in his writing, I guess?

I mean, if you know the guy at all, you're probably not surprised. The man had Thoughts on, like, everything. But in Question 36 of the Summa Theologiae (mostly, Article 2), he raises all the objections about the theology of the matter and the inclusion of it in the Creed. The Greek Orthodox, as you probably know, don't include the Filioque in their version of the Nicene Creed because it wasn't added until after the Council of Nicaea, but later. Thomas has a reply to that point--mostly, that adding clarification is to something in the creed is just fine.

You can read the entire thing on New Advent.

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"Our Lord requires of us only 'meekness' to be helped by the Holy Spirit. The spiritually 'meek' are not milquetoasts, or spineless wimps. The Greek praus for 'meek' means controlled strength, a suppleness like that of an athlete. Without praus, a surfer would stand stiff and soon fall off the surfboard, and a boxer would be knocked out with the first punch without agile footwork. God calls the arrogant, who will not bend their opinions to his truth, a 'stiff-necked people' (Exodus 32:9). Arrogance, as the opposite of meekness, is spiritual arthritis. Get rid of that moral stiffness, and then 'The Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything and remind you of all that I told you' (John 14:26)."

— Father George Rutler, Meekness is not weakness. Meekness is controlled strength..., New Advent