Observations of a Mosquito #10

Loquacity, which is a vice and a form of sloth, is perhaps even more unknown as a vice than is curiousity, which is also a form of sloth; both, however, are very common, and shamelessly so.

Very often men hold fast to errors in matters of religion - as well as in other things - because they dislike the consequences of the opposite opinions; they have, however, exchanged certain inconveniences for far greater ones.

No one has ever been too humble, nor could anyone ever be.

It is far too easy to treat the Holy Eucharist with less care can one would give even to a mere million billion dollar cheque.

If the majority of any parish's budget is spent on things unrelated to Holy Mass, such as the vestments, the altar furnishings, the church's upkeep, and the music, then that parish's budget needs to be altered.

Observations of a Mosquito #3

Nothing in the world of right and wrong is gray; things that appear such are actually composed of multiple elements, some black and some white.

Men who have food, money, and sex without marriage are not men but boys - or, if men, they become boys - and they never mature.

Sin clouds the intellect; immodest dress is both sign and proof of an irrational mind.

The success of the New Evangelization is predicated on the proper worship of God. Its failure, too, begins in problems with the offering of Holy Mass.

The Church has trained and continues to train too many medievalists and too few philosophers and theologians who are trained in the medievals.