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"Omnis enim res quæ dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur, nondum habetur quomodo habenda est." ("For a possession which is not diminished by being shared with others, if it is possessed and not shared, is not yet possessed as it ought to be possessed.") —St. Augustine, De doctrina Christiana lib. 1 cap. 1

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Forum-Related / Happy feast of St. Isidore the...
Last post by Geremia - October 25, 2024, 11:01:03 AM
Happy feast of St. Isidore the Farmer today (🇺🇸 local feast)!
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General Discussion / "Freedom of speech is an Ameri...
Last post by Geremia - October 12, 2024, 03:10:59 PM
Quote from: Cdl. Pacelli, recalling his 1936 visit to 🇺🇸Freedom of speech is an American birthright.
(Hatch & Walshe 122)

Interestingly, 1936 is the year of the FCC's Communications Act regulating political TV advertising.
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Catholic Resources / Re: Writings of the saints and...
Last post by Geremia - September 19, 2024, 11:11:59 AM
Quote from: kerrysky on September 19, 2024, 02:59:41 AMMethods of Saying the Rosary by St Louis de Montfort (PDF)
Thank you, but that's already in the e-book library.
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Catholic Resources / Re: Crowdsourced Transcription...
Last post by Geremia - September 18, 2024, 03:54:33 PM
I think New Advent is sourced from CCEL.
See Theological Markup Language (ThML).
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Catholic Resources / Crowdsourced Transcriptions
Last post by k42s - September 18, 2024, 12:37:14 PM
Does anyone have experience with online transcription projects of public-domain Catholic texts? Many websites like New Advent, Sensus Fidelium, CatholicSaints.mobi and eCatholic2000 have HTML or EPUB versions of old texts, but the raw sources are not always referenced. I'm aware of two websites that do what I'm referring to:


I'd love to hear of more examples of this (or of more people willing to volunteer), as it brings facsimiles of great Catholic works to a format that's highly readable on web browsers, e-readers and TTS services.
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Theology / St. Thomas and conscience
Last post by ptlopes - September 18, 2024, 08:15:55 AM
Hello, everyone!

In his "Beatitude", Garrigou-Lagrange says that conscience, when binding, is called commanding or forbidding conscience. When not binding, it is called permitting or advising conscience.

However, Henri Grenier says in "Thomistic Philosophy" that antecedent conscience "binds" or "incites" and doesn't mention any permitting conscience.

In his textbook about moral philosophy, Charles Coppens writes: "conscience, then, may be defined as a practical judgment formed by reasoning from a universal principle to a particular fact, whereby I decide whether a certain individual act ought to be done or omitted, or whether it may be done or omitted, at my choice." Copper doesn't write about any "advising conscience"

Why do they disagree? Was St. Thomas clear about this?

Thanks and God bless you!
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Holy Scripture / Re: Mariam = "star of the sea"...
Last post by Geremia - September 12, 2024, 05:45:05 PM
St. Bernard, in his Second Homily on Luke i. 26 in today's matins, says:
Quote from: St. Bernard of ClairvauxIt is said: And the virgin's name was Mary. Let us speak a few words upon this name, which signifieth, being interpreted, Star of the Sea, and suiteth very well the Maiden Mother, who may very meetly be likened unto a star. A star giveth forth her rays without any harm to herself, and the Virgin brought forth her Son without any hurt to her virginity. The light of a star taketh nothing away from the star itself, and the birth of her offspring took nothing away from the Virginity of Mary. She is that noble star which was to come out of Jacob, Num. xxiv. 17, whose brightness still sheddeth lustre upon all the earth, whose rays are most brilliant in heaven, and shine even unto hell, lighting up earth midway, and warming souls rather than bodies, fostering good and scaring away evil. She, I say, is a clear and shining star, twinkling with excellencies, and resplendent with example, needfully set to look down upon the surface of this great and wide sea.
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Catholic Resources / Re: Additional Catholic eBook ...
Last post by k42s - September 06, 2024, 05:19:45 PM
Quote from: Geremia on August 26, 2024, 11:58:08 AMI made some more rsync URLs:

Thanks! For those needing a refresher, the other two rsync links are here, and the rough storage needed to mirror the libraries are:
  • CalibreLibrary: 197 GB
  • Zotero: 3 GB
  • Physics: 1 GB
  • Audiobooks: 3 GB
  • ResProDeo: 36 GB
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Theology / Greatest Thomist of All Time: ...
Last post by Geremia - August 30, 2024, 09:10:04 PM
½ hour documentary by Christian B. Wagner of Scholastic Answers

See the ¶-length biographies of John of St. Thomis in Raul Corazzon, Theory and History of Ontology.