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Fr. Angelo Geiger discusses the Pro-life losses in the fall elections with hostess Corinn Dahm of “Face of Pro-Life.” He focuses on the philosophical error of relativism that is at the root of the abortion plague, including misinterpretations of the principle of separation of Church and state as well as some of the tactics of the pro-abortion media. This is the first edition of this long running series to appear on Air Maria. Thanks to Darlene Wagner for making these videos available!

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For a clear and concise overview of the state of Catholicism in the light of the 2008 elections and the history of moral relativism in the US the Mindszenty Report for December 2008 is a must read, all in just three pages! Oh, and Happy 50th anniversary to the Cardinal Mindszenty Foundation!

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Homily #090821 ( 12min) Play – Pope St. Pius X was elected at a critical time in the Church’s history when the error of modernism was at its first high mark. Let us look to him as an example to fight against it today when it has reached a new high point.
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Conferences #113 – Fr. Ondrako gives the final lecture ( 61min) >>> Play

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The final lecture for the Newman-Scotus Symposium is given by Rev. Dr. Edward Ondrako, OFMConv. titled: Intuition and Certitude: Newman and Scotus Anticipate Liberal Christianity and Modern Voluntarism

Fr Edward Ondrako explores how Scotus anticipated the theology and thinking of Newman and both of them anticipated [and gave an orthodox rebuttal to] much of modern theology. He ties this to the balance that Pope Benedict is advocating between a continuity with the doctrinal tradition on the one hand and the relating it to the modern culture on the other.

Notes:

He shows that Scotus is not the stepping stone to Kant and Hegel but that he anticipated many of their main points and answered them in an orthodox way long before their arrival.

Newman too was very critical of Hegel and Kant even very early in his career. Fr. Ed also contrasts Scotus and Newman to Suarez, that he is an eclectic that is closer to Thomas than Scotus.

Properly understood both Newman and Scotus are, in fact, the great antidote to modern skepticism and the exaggerated separation of faith and reason. This is in line with Pope Benedict when in England during the same trip when he beatified Newman where he asked all scholars to reunite scholarship with sanctification.

Fr Ed traces three different schools of theological thought which represent the major influences today.

Caveats – Modernism is both seductive and subtle. So the subtle doctor is likely to have the answer but so too they will likely be misunderstood because of this very subtlety, especially when he mentions the same problems that the modernists do.

Scotus fought against the major precursors to Kant and Hegel of his day, Joachim of Fiores and others.

Pope to Abp. Rowan

Contribution of Scotus in formal distinction of will and intellect, recognizing the difference between the two but also the close relation between them.

Newman – to alter the type is to corrupt the type and this is not development. He cites his mistakes but also his unflagging effort to resist liberalism in religion and it subjectivism and relativism that guts the truths of the religions and sacred revelation. Thus he is the antidote to post Vatican II relativism and personal interpretation. Newman clearly outlines all these problems long before they became the great problem they are today.

Conclusion

Be Catholic. Be intellectual. Be holy. Explore the causes of the radical separation of will from intellect.

Development of doctrine must preserve the type. Must preserve the distinction between Creator and creature but still be related.

Three competing schools:

1. Aristotle Thomas
2. Ockham, Hume, Kant
3. St. Bonaventure, Scotus

and his point is that Newman fits into the third more than the first two.

Question 1

Fr Ed recommends Benedetto Ippolito (video on AirMaria) . Fr Tedesco has something to say but needs to be interpreted in the interiorizing idea not in the sense of mere personal interpretation.

Postript

Bl. Scotus anticipated the modern sense that the world is rigged against Christianity. This is not to be pessimistic but a realist. In the modern situation this is due to Locke’s ethics that reduce objective truth to little or no value. Pope says this, as well,  and asks the Dominican and Franciscans to do the hard work of establishing the basis for avoiding over rigidity on the one hand and hopelessly arbitrary relativism on the other.

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Homily #150502b ( 24min) Play – Fr. Elias gives the homily for the Marian Day at the Mother of the Redeemer Retreat Center on May 2nd, 2015. He covers the life of St. Athanasius whose memorial is today. The stalwart defense of truth that Athanasius led against the onslaught of the government backed Arian Heresy of the late Roman Empire is analogous to modern push to relativize all morality.
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Mass: St. Athanasius – Mem – Form: OF
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St. Albert the Great, Bishop and Doctor of the Church, is credited with laying the foundation for the great Scholastic synthesis of all truth, both natural and divinely revealed, which was the crowning achievement of Christian philosophy and theology in the 13th Century.

It is arguable that in the history of thought and intellectual activity, the accomplishments of Albertus Magnus, his disciple St. Thomas Aquinas, and the Scholastics constitute a zenith yet to be equaled or surpassed. In fact, the abandonment of their method of metaphysical thought has given rise to the deadly heresies of our culture of death, in particular, to the falsehood of relativism. That is why recent popes have directed the faithful to conserve and perpetuate the study of scholastic theology, in particular that of St. Thomas of Aquinas. In the same tradition of the Scholastics, Pope St. John Paul II reasserted the harmony and complimentary truth of the natural and sacred sciences in the 1998 encyclical on Faith and Reason (Fides et Ratio).

Correction: Fr. Alan erroneously states that it was Pope Pius XII who declared St. Albert a doctor of the Church; rather, it was Pope Pius XI, who simultaneously canonized St. Albert and declared him Doctor in 1931. Pius XII named Albert patron saint of natural scientists in 1941.

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Mass: St. Albert the Great – Opt Mem
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On the memorial of St. Gregory the Great (Pope & Doctor of the Church, Sept. 3), Fr. Alan explains how the current crisis of sexual abuse within the Church conspicuously points to the need for reform, beginning by restoring the principle of truth in matters of faith and morals, especially with regard to sexual behavior.

St. Gregory reformed the Church in his day, addressing lost discipline in the clergy and in the liturgy by restoring the sense of sin and of the sense of the sacred. These fundamental issues are today undermined by the loss of the principle of truth, through relativism. A sense of truth must be restored in order to resolve the crisis at the root.

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Mass: St. Gregory the Great – Mem

Readings: 
1st: 2 Cor 4:1-2, 5-7
Resp: Ps 96:1-3, 7-8, 10
Gsp: Lk 22:24-30

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Fr Ignatius gives the homily at Bloomington, IN on Feb 13, 2021, on how we should pray to have the wisdom of heart to counter the relativism of our time that is systematic, cultural doubt and despair. He cites the readings of the day where Jesus satisfies the large crowds with food and he can satisfy us with the food of truth that will cure us of the original sin resulting from our first parent’s doubt.

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Mass: Saturday 5th Week of Ordinary Time – Wkdy
Readings:  – http://usccb.org/bible/readings/021321.cfm
1st: gen 3:9-24
Resp: psa 90:2, 3-4, 5-6, 12-13
Gsp: mar 8:1-10

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Fr Terrance gives the homily at Bloomington, IN on May 30, 2022, on how the moral issue of transgenderism is covered by the 6th Commandment, you shall not commit adultery

To lie against the nature of love is a sin.

Our sexuality will be eternal in heaven.

Gender dysphoria, Fluidity and subjectivity of gender identity, a move away from objectivity.

Baseball umpires should call it as it is, now we call it as we want.

The dictatorship of moral relativism Pope Benedict XVI.

A new form of old dualism heresy, I think therefore I am, sharp division between body and soul, a ghost in a machine.

Body is separate from who you are.

Truth is that we both body and soul and our bodies are part of our person, not accidental but substantial

To want to change our bodies is a sign of other problems

Shaming and canceling of those who disagree with new sexuality

Being taught to children, children with difficulties being given more difficulties with surgery and hormones.

High rates of suicide

Against many commandments, not just the 6th

We need to help those with gender dysphoria

this message is unpopular but we should be willing to not be liked. Rather, we need to love even when it is unpopular.

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Mass: Monday 7th Week of Easter – Wkdy
Readings:  – http://usccb.org/bible/readings/053022.cfm
1st: act 19:1-8
Resp: psa 68:2-7
Gsp: joh 16:29-33

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Fr Terrance gives the homily at Bloomington, IN, on Sep 07, 2023, where he continues his series “Catechesis on Sexuality,” explaining here the errors of modern gender theory, focusing on how the language of this ideology warps our sense of truth that becomes so dark that we need to have much compassion on those who get caught in its web.

Today’s Gospel speaks of Jesus promising Simon Peter to make him a fisher of men, emphasizing our mission to spread the Gospel. We must combat false teachings, including gender theory, which is riddled with philosophical errors. Gender theory is likened to Medusa from Greek mythology, representing various philosophical errors. Pope Benedict XVI in 2011 called gender theory an Anthropology Opposed to Faith and Right Reason. Pope Francis has also criticized gender theory. As Catholics, we believe in Genesis 1:27 – God created us male and female – https://bible.usccb.org/bible/genesis/1?27.

The Vatican II document, Gaudium et Spes 36 – https://www.newadvent.org/library/docs_ec21gs.htm – when God is forgotten, the creature itself grows unintelligible. Gender theory denies creation and the creator. We believe in the reality of male and female, while gender ideology promotes harmful interventions. Catholics believe in the unity of body and soul, while gender ideology sees only the mind and will. We believe in shared human nature, while gender ideology denies it. We believe in truth, while gender ideology denies its existence.

We believe in the sacredness of life, human beings, and their sexuality. The gender movement profanes God’s creation. We must pray for those who transition, as they are often victims of societal pressures. Sister Lucia, a visionary of Fatima, once said that the battle between Christ and Satan would be over marriage and the family. In opposing gender ideology, we fight for Christ’s kingdom.

00:00 – Introduction
00:49 – Gender theory errors, Denies creation, creator
04:02 – Denies reality and givenness
06:34 – Scientifically, only two sexes
08:24 – Promotes self-harm
09:09 – Denies body-soul unity
10:04 – Denies shared human nature
11:12 – Denies truth and meaning
12:02 – Rebels against nature
13:07 – Men and women made for each other
14:12 – Profanes the sacred
15:03 – This is the decisive battle – prayer needed

Gaudium et Spes (see paragraph 36) – https://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_const_19651207_gaudium-et-spes_en.html

Bibliography for Catechesis on Sexuality:

Benedict XVI Christmas Audience to Roman Curia, 2012. – https://www.vatican.va/content/benedict-xvi/en/speeches/2012/december/documents/hf_ben-xvi_spe_20121221_auguri-curia.html

Abigail Favale, The Genesis of Gender: A Christian Theory, Ignatius Press, 2022. – https://ignatius.com/the-genesis-of-gender-ggp/

Catholic Diocese of Arlington, A Catechesis on the Human Person & Gender Ideology, August 12, 2021. – https://www.arlingtondiocese.org/bishop/public-messages/2021/a-catechesis-on-the-human-person-and-gender-ideology/

Mary Eberstadt, Adam and Eve after the Pill: Paradoxes of the Sexual Revolution, Ignatius Press, 2012. – https://ignatius.com/adam-and-eve-after-the-pill-aeapp/

Donald De Marco & Benjamin Wiker, Architects of the Culture of Death, Ignatius Press, 2004. – https://ignatius.com/architects-of-the-culture-of-death-acdp/

John Grabowski, Unraveling Gender: The Battle over Sexual Difference, TAN Books, 2022. – https://tanbooks.com/contemporary-issues/social-issues/unraveling-gender-the-battle-over-sexual-difference/

Michele M. Schumacher, Metaphysics and Gender:  Emmaus Academic, 2023. – https://www.amazon.com/dp/1645852903

Paul M. Quay, The Christian Meaning of Human Sexuality: Expanded Edition, Ignatius Press, 2017. – https://ignatius.com/christian-meaning-of-human-sexuality-digital-cmhs2e/

John DeSilva Finley, Sexual Identity: The Harmony of Philosophy, Science, and Revelation, Emmaus Road Publishing, 2022. – https://www.amazon.com/dp/1645851893

Congregation for Catholic Education, Male & Female He Created Them: Vatican City, 2019. –  https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/ccatheduc/documents/rc_con_ccatheduc_doc_20190202_maschio-e-femmina_en.pdf

Playlist for Gender Theology: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCut9-qb3FE&list=PLejh_e0-LN4wghC0gzMPLNQtCetSvAhL_

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Mass: Thursday 22nd Week of Ordinary Time – Wkdy
Readings:  – http://usccb.org/bible/readings/090723.cfm
1st: col 1:9-14
Resp: psa 98:2-6
Gsp: luk 5:1-11

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