One of the more striking things I’ve come across reading Pascendi Dominici Gregis is the tone. Pope St. Pius X writes many words, and he minces not a one of them. But we have not yet come to the end of their philosophy, or, to speak more accurately, their folly. (par. 8) By most measures, that is a sick burn! Blind that they are, and leaders of the blind, inflated with a boastful science, they have reached that pitch of folly where they pervert the eternal concept of truth and the true nature of the religious sentiment; (par.

A post entitled Keeping Faith Real by Marc Cardaronella introduced me to the concept of “enrichment of faith”. A definition, by way of quotes: It’s the idea that faith is only truly enriching when it’s a lived reality in the heart of the believer. And, it must be communicated that way. Everything, “all pastoral activity,” Wojtyla wrote, was to be directed toward fostering a mature faith that was fully lived.

Jesus came so that all might be saved. Now He never said that all would be saved, or even most. But salvation is at least possible for anyone. Nobody knows better than God that different people have different capabilities. Some, like St. Thomas Aquinas, can dictate three different books to scribes at the same sitting and have one of them be considered the best theological treatise of all time. Others like St.