Ask Aquinas
Ask Aquinas: Why don’t we hear ‘Yahweh’ in church anymore?
For several decades (starting during my own early childhood), some Catholic hymnals contained a few hymns that used the Divine Name Yahweh (e.g., “Yahweh, I Know You Are Near,” by Dan Schutte of the St. Louis Jesuits, 1970 — a graduate of the same Milwaukee Jesuit high school from which I later graduated, whose music […]
Ask Aquinas #2 with Br. Daniel Maria Klimek, T.O.R.
Q: Was Mary made full of grace because she would never sin, or would she never sin because she was made full of grace? A: It is because she was predestined to be the Mother of God that Our Lady was made full of grace, being without original sin from the first moment of her […]
Ask Aquinas #1
Q: The single Bible paragraph on the “nephilim” is rather vague. What exactly do we know about them? What were they really? A: The word “nephilim” means fallen ones, and they are described as the offspring of the daughters of men and the sons of God (Gen 6:1-4). Who are these mysterious “sons of God”? […]