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Back to Search07: Who created God?
First, whatever a thing has besides its essence must be caused either by the constituent principles of that essence (like a property that necessarily accompanies the species--as the faculty of laughi…
Published on 9 years, 4 months ago
06: Why didn't you accept the immaculate conception, St. Thomas?
Objection 3. Further, as it has been stated above, no feast is celebrated except of some saint. But some keep the feast of the Conception of the Blessed Virgin. Therefore it seems that in her very Co…
Published on 9 years, 5 months ago
05: Are wet dreams/sexual dreams sinful?
"Nocturnal pollution may be considered in two ways. First, in itself; and thus it has not the character of a sin. For every sin depends on the judgment of reason, since even the first movement of the…
Published on 9 years, 5 months ago
04: Does purgatory really exist?
Whether there is a Purgatory after this life?
Objection 1. It would seem that there is not a Purgatory after this life. For it is said (Apocalypse 14:13): "Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord. …
Published on 9 years, 5 months ago
03: Why are there 7 sacraments?
For spiritual life has a certain conformity with the life of the body: just as other corporeal things have a certain likeness to things spiritual. Now a man attains perfection in the corporeal life i…
Published on 9 years, 5 months ago
02: Do we need faith to know that God exists?
It is written (Romans 1:19), "That which is known of God," namely, what can be known of God by natural reason, "is manifest in them."
Our natural knowledge begins from sense. Hence our natural knowle…
Published on 9 years, 6 months ago
01: Who are you, St. Thomas?
Because the doctor of Catholic truth ought not only to teach the proficient, but also to instruct beginners (according to the Apostle: As unto little ones in Christ, I gave you milk to drink, not mea…
Published on 9 years, 6 months ago