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- The Law Of Nature and the Law Of GodThe Foundations of Law and OrderThe English word 'law' first and foremost evokes the idea of restraint, prohibition and sanction imposed by authority. A law is thought of in terms of a decree which shapes people's behaviour with an external force of threat or encouragement. Ideally, of course, the laws of decency and honesty etc. are internalised so as to become the habit of mind of a well functioning member of society. This is...
- Jesus Christ: The Master Key to Hope in the Age of ScienceEdward Holloway FAITH Magazine November-December 2009The joy, the inspired enthusiasm, with which the first Christians proclaimed the Incarnation of Christ and the tidings of great joy that it held for all the peoples is known to us as a matter of history, but it has become a fact of past history rather than modern history. Today, when Christian civilisation hangs in tatters, when the Catholic Faith of the nations has been rent with heresies...
- The Economics of Secret Abortions and Emergency Birth ControlLet us begin with the ubiquitous word confidentiality. Whether it be used in clinics, pharmacies, youth groups, by GPs or school nurses, there is no avoiding it. The policies that are routinely sold to our children rest on the contention that all people have the right to confidentiality and therefore we must have confidential access to sexual health services, to abortion and so on. One might associate the word with another – secret...
- Holloway on… Conscience and the Natural Law Part IIHolloway on… Conscience and the Natural LawPart II We must now leave a basic understanding of the root of conscience from those powers of intellect and will which integrate the very substance of angel or of man. We leave any suggestion of the law of conscience as “Thou shalt not”, to concentrate upon the relationship of the law of right and wrong to the communion of grace we have with the living God. It is to be observed that the most basic of the “Laws of Nature” promulgated by Moses did not...
- Woman and the Cardinal Virtue of TemperanceCormac Burke FAITH Magazine November-December 2013Temperance or moderation implies self-control. We might compare temperance to driving a car. An untrained or unpractised driver, lacking control of his car, ends up by crashing, perhaps killing himself or others. And so with people who lack self-control; they are heading for a crashed and self-destructive life.In a car engine there is a lot of power and energy. But the different sources of...
- The Unity Law Throughout The Plan Of CreationIntroductionThis paper addresses a theme which lies at the very heart of all of Edward Holloway’s work. It takes in creation, Incarnation and Parousia in one sweep. The idea of that one sweep perhaps also holds a key to grasping the importance of what Holloway has attempted to say. As a result, this paper will not confine itself to just the theme of this symposium: it goes beyond the question of society and family, of morality and...
- Civil Law and the Homosexual PersonWhy can’t you just let us do what we want to do?” “How does this harm you?” “Don’t impose your morality on us!” “If you don’t like this, fine, you yourself don’t have to do it.” These sentiments, common place in the homosexual rights movement, could easily have been those of slaveholders and those involved in the slave trade, and as such they would strike us as...
- Holloway on… Conscience and the Natural LawIt is impossible to treat of “conscience” without coming at once into the domain of the Natural Law. Yet, this expression is straightaway a great “turn off”, and many read no further when mention is made of “the Natural Law”. This is not because of modern controversies in faith and morals which impinge upon the subject. It is because the treatment of the subject, the very concept itself, is so often presented as appallingly dry and hopelessly abstract. One will try to avoid that approach, and...
- The Unity Law and the RosaryFAITH Magazine July-August 2008
- The Mother of God and the AnnunciationFAITH Magazine March – April 2011As the source of all being, God, in his divinity, does not have a mother. If he did she would be God, (and we're not going down that avenue here!). In his humanity however he does have a mother. Mary has been called "Mother of God" from the Council of Ephesus in 431 AD onwards. This title emphasises that her son, Jesus, who has two ways of being (two natures: divine and human), is just one person, the...
- Truth, Compassion and the Secularisation of the People of God"But you, beloved, build yourselves up on your most holy faith; pray in the Holy Spirit; keep yourselves in the love of God; wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life." (Jude 20-21).“We have adopted a fashionable but false dichotomy between truth and compassion. A wholly legitimate concern to show gentleness in our pastoral approach has become confused with compromising the content of the faith...
- The Possibility of Knowing and Loving GodWith the arrival of the new translation of the Roman Missal there is, as one would expect, much talk about the kind of language we use to express our relationship with God. This is a cause for hope and we welcome the liturgical reforms. Embedded in the debate about what register of language and what kind of words we might use in the Mass is a more fundamental, and vital, question: how valid is it to use any kind of human language to talk to,...