A real tour de force, amazing. I must read more of Aquinas' works. Thank you Imperator this was one of the finest essays I've ever read.
All my life, nationalistic sentiment, the idea of sacrifice and service to Canada, and to the Motherland France and Scotland and my adoptive home of my twenties Japan has always run strong in me. I just never had a term for the philosophy the notions that permeated my being; thomistic thought. What is more is that simply being Nationalistic, being a lover of your homeland, of your fatherland or motherland need not mean you hate other nations. It is about love, charity and after a fashion chastity. Treating the nation akin to how one would one's spouse or parent, and wishing to do everything to assist them and serve them.
God wants us to love our homes, to care for our Christian brothers and to forgive their wrongs. He also wants us to remember that service to the homeland brings us closer to him not farther.
Without that, the Gospel’s radical call is lost: love of neighbor isn’t just civic duty, it’s a sacrificial, sometimes disruptive kin-dom logic. A secular justice framework preserves the household; a Christ-centered one might even ask us to dismantle its walls.
Excellent and timely article. Thank you.
You’re very welcome.
A real tour de force, amazing. I must read more of Aquinas' works. Thank you Imperator this was one of the finest essays I've ever read.
All my life, nationalistic sentiment, the idea of sacrifice and service to Canada, and to the Motherland France and Scotland and my adoptive home of my twenties Japan has always run strong in me. I just never had a term for the philosophy the notions that permeated my being; thomistic thought. What is more is that simply being Nationalistic, being a lover of your homeland, of your fatherland or motherland need not mean you hate other nations. It is about love, charity and after a fashion chastity. Treating the nation akin to how one would one's spouse or parent, and wishing to do everything to assist them and serve them.
God wants us to love our homes, to care for our Christian brothers and to forgive their wrongs. He also wants us to remember that service to the homeland brings us closer to him not farther.
Without that, the Gospel’s radical call is lost: love of neighbor isn’t just civic duty, it’s a sacrificial, sometimes disruptive kin-dom logic. A secular justice framework preserves the household; a Christ-centered one might even ask us to dismantle its walls.
Christ made himself “a stranger” among us
Oh please, Christ was a Jew living in Israel.
He’d been in Egypt temporarily & then returned home to Nazareth.
Don’t make him out to be an immigrant.
That’s the Marxist propaganda of all religions lately, including the Liberation Theologist captured Vatican.
But it’s not true.
Agreed w Liz.
St. Thomas points to an intelligent, and Catholic, approach to immigration. Unlike the US Grift Bishops and the Slithering Leo and his Roman Minions.