Tag Archives: Politics

Pius XII & Hitler

I recently came across John Cornwall’s Hitler’s Pope, published in 1999 by Viking Press. Just reading the Prologue and the first chapter was enough to convince me that this was not the type of solid research I was looking for. Not only was the author’s bias obvious, but his facts were more than dubious. In [...]

The Dangers of Scientism – Part Six

by Brother Francis Maluf, M.I.C.M.
Put in the language of philosophy, this difference between philosophy and the sciences can be expressed in the following terms: philosophy seeks the ultimate explanation, while science is satisfied with the proximate causes of things.

Now as far as the mind is concerned, proximate explanation is really no explanation at all. [...]