Immaculate Conception

On the eve of the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception I want to put to rest a myth in Catholic Theology. St. Thomas Aquinas didn't deny the Immaculate Conception. If you ever hear this comment you will now have the tools necessary to defend the Angelic Doctor against those who would try to defame him using the Blessed Mother.

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“the principles of St. Thomas, as we have observed, do not decide against the privilege, they even lead to it, at the same time as the mind is acquiring an explicit notion of preservative redemption.”

— http://iteadthomam.blogspot.com/2010/01/did-aquinas-deny-immaculate-conception.html

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Read the article linked by Don Paco. It is very short and very clear. He simply shows the three intellectual phases of Aquinas' thought concerning the Immaculate Conception. I'm always discouraged when I even hear Dominicans repeat the myth. We should be better defenders of our brother Thomas.

Happy reading!

Medjugorje

I'm really excited that this commission is meeting. I want the issues around the purported apparition to be done. As I currently see it, the divisions caused by this event are both divisive and unhelpful.

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“The commission, which has been working in strict secrecy, is studying the shrine and in particular reports of Marian apparitions at Medjugorje which began in 1981.”

— http://www.ncregister.com/blog/edward-pentin/vatican-medjugorje-commission-findings-not-imminent/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

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Some people know that I am very skeptical of this event being a true apparitions. I will neither support it or deny it until the investigation is complete. My largest concern, however, is that if the events at Medjugorje are deemed inauthentic there will be a lot of disillusioned people.