Matthew Tapie
@mtapie.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Theology and Director of the Center for Catholic-Jewish Studies, Saint Leo University. Judaism and Catholic theology. New book: The Mortara Case and Thomas Aquinas’s Defense of Jewish Parental Authority (CUA Press, 2025).
I think I will have to call you Dr. Gnocchi for the rest of your life.
April 21, 2025 at 6:42 PM
I think I will have to call you Dr. Gnocchi for the rest of your life.
beyond the will of those in power, since such a criterion, in given circumstances, could be used to judge their actions. This explains why totalitarianism attempts to destroy the Church, or at least to reduce her to submission, making her an instrument of its own ideological apparatus." Cent Ann 45
April 14, 2025 at 7:06 PM
beyond the will of those in power, since such a criterion, in given circumstances, could be used to judge their actions. This explains why totalitarianism attempts to destroy the Church, or at least to reduce her to submission, making her an instrument of its own ideological apparatus." Cent Ann 45
"The culture and praxis of totalitarianism also involve a rejection of the Church. The State or the party which claims to be able to lead history towards perfect goodness, and which sets itself above all values, cannot tolerate the affirmation of an objective criterion of good and evil...
April 14, 2025 at 7:04 PM
"The culture and praxis of totalitarianism also involve a rejection of the Church. The State or the party which claims to be able to lead history towards perfect goodness, and which sets itself above all values, cannot tolerate the affirmation of an objective criterion of good and evil...
"Not even the majority of a social body may violate these rights, by going against the minority, by isolating, oppressing, or exploiting it, or by attempting to annihilate it." Centesimus Annus, St. John Paul II
April 14, 2025 at 7:02 PM
"Not even the majority of a social body may violate these rights, by going against the minority, by isolating, oppressing, or exploiting it, or by attempting to annihilate it." Centesimus Annus, St. John Paul II
"…[T]he very doctrine of catholic doctors derives its authority from the Church. Hence we ought to abide by the authority of the Church rather than by that of an Augustine or a Jerome or of any doctor whatever.” ST II-II 10.12 co
March 20, 2025 at 7:35 PM
"…[T]he very doctrine of catholic doctors derives its authority from the Church. Hence we ought to abide by the authority of the Church rather than by that of an Augustine or a Jerome or of any doctor whatever.” ST II-II 10.12 co
Fr. Serge-Thomas Bonino, Dean of Philosophy the Philosophy Faculty at the Pontifical University of
Saint Thomas Aquinas, and former secretary general of the Vatican’s International Theological
Commission
Saint Thomas Aquinas, and former secretary general of the Vatican’s International Theological
Commission
March 1, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Fr. Serge-Thomas Bonino, Dean of Philosophy the Philosophy Faculty at the Pontifical University of
Saint Thomas Aquinas, and former secretary general of the Vatican’s International Theological
Commission
Saint Thomas Aquinas, and former secretary general of the Vatican’s International Theological
Commission
...I started to think about jobs and having money when I am older, buying nice things, living the rich life, becoming possibly famous…but I started to realize if God alone constitutes the human person’s happiness, no created good can constitute my happiness, as Aquinas states."
December 18, 2024 at 1:47 PM
...I started to think about jobs and having money when I am older, buying nice things, living the rich life, becoming possibly famous…but I started to realize if God alone constitutes the human person’s happiness, no created good can constitute my happiness, as Aquinas states."
Correct. Aquinas says there is no spiritual benefit (I.e. no longer efficacious for sanctifying grace) after the passion. However, it does not mean that there is no longer a theological significance to the ongoing observation of the rites which I make clearer in the forthcoming chapter.
November 21, 2024 at 7:56 AM
Correct. Aquinas says there is no spiritual benefit (I.e. no longer efficacious for sanctifying grace) after the passion. However, it does not mean that there is no longer a theological significance to the ongoing observation of the rites which I make clearer in the forthcoming chapter.
In his defense of "outward" Judaism, which he takes to mean circumcision, Aquinas undermines the cessatio
legalium tradition and resists the relativizing force of Gal. 5:2, which he thinks teaches that circumcision is superfluous. See p. 179-181. This part is more important than the 9:4-5 comments.
legalium tradition and resists the relativizing force of Gal. 5:2, which he thinks teaches that circumcision is superfluous. See p. 179-181. This part is more important than the 9:4-5 comments.
November 20, 2024 at 7:20 AM
In his defense of "outward" Judaism, which he takes to mean circumcision, Aquinas undermines the cessatio
legalium tradition and resists the relativizing force of Gal. 5:2, which he thinks teaches that circumcision is superfluous. See p. 179-181. This part is more important than the 9:4-5 comments.
legalium tradition and resists the relativizing force of Gal. 5:2, which he thinks teaches that circumcision is superfluous. See p. 179-181. This part is more important than the 9:4-5 comments.