Traditional Latin Mass in Maryland

Father James V. Schall, S.J. posts an incredible essay on Ignatius Insight dated February 18th. Here is just a snippet: [...] For a long time, even into early modernity, it was considered that "human nature" would itself be the criterion for establishing the "limits" of science. It was understood that what man is from nature cannot and ought not to be experimented with or radically altered. If from Hume on there is a doubt about whether a nature, human or otherwise, exists or can be known, such a limit disappears. Nothing now prevented the elimination of a given human nature as a norm of human worth. Once man himself became an object of his own scientific studies, however, the very structure of man was called into question. Science becomes not so much a study of what is as of what "ought to be"—as if what man actually was had no prior meaning. We only want to know "What we can do." Man himself becomes an object of "scientific" im...

Insight Scoop has a Q & A session posted by Carl Olson that is a give and take between His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI, and priests and seminarians in his Diocese that is originally from Chiesa: I wanted in part to speak precisely of the last, universal judgment, and in this context also of purgatory, hell, and paradise. I think that we are all still affected by the objection of the Marxists, according to which Christians spoke only of the beyond, and overlooked the earth. So we want to show that we are truly concerned about earthly things, and are not people who speak of faraway realities, who do not help the world. Now, although it is right to demonstrate that Christians work on behalf of the world – and we are all clearly called to work so that this world that may truly be a city for God and of God – we must not forget the other dimension. Without keeping this in mind, we do not work well on behalf of the world. Demonstrating this was one of my fundamental aims in writing t...