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Articles
The catalogue — every article on LumenVeritatis, grouped by pillar. Click a title to read; click any bracketed citation to open its primary source.
Answering Protestant Claims
Answering the Secular World
Philosophy & Classical Formation
The Four Causes
Material, formal, efficient, final — the metaphysical grammar Catholic thought inherits from Aristotle and receives through Aquinas
Potency and Act
On dunamis and energeia, actus and potentia — the distinction the First Way depends on, reported from Aristotle and Aquinas
The Socratic Method
Elenchus, aporia, disputatio — how the classical tradition teaches by questioning, and how the Christian Doctors received and grounded the method
Substance and Accident
What the Church means by these words — and why the distinction is the grammar of the Creeds, the Incarnation, and the Real Presence
The Transcendentals
What the One, the True, the Good, and the Beautiful are, and why they are one thing seen from four sides
What is Beauty?
On pulchrum — the classical definition, the three conditions, and why the Church calls beauty the radiance of the first three transcendentals
What is the Good?
From Aristotle's ergon argument to the rich young man — what every appetite in every creature is, finally, seeking
What is Truth?
Pilate's question, the classical answer, and the Person who calls Himself the Truth
The Moral Life
Is Missing Mass on Sunday a Mortal Sin? — What the Church Actually Teaches
The precept, the excusing causes, and the three conditions — reported from the Code of Canon Law, the Catechism, Aquinas, the Didache, Justin Martyr, and the Council of Trent
Mortal vs Venial Sin — What the Church Actually Teaches
The three conditions, the conciliar definition, and the biblical and patristic warrant, reported from primary sources
The Sacraments
Can I Receive Communion If…? — A Decision Tree from the Church's Own Law
The conditions of worthy reception, reported from Scripture, the Council of Trent, the Code of Canon Law, the Catechism, the Didache, Ignatius of Antioch, Justin Martyr, and John Chrysostom
How to Go to Confession — Step by Step, Grounded in the Church's Own Texts
A reader-at-the-door reference — what the sacrament is, what is required for validity, and the procedure from examination through satisfaction, sourced to CCC, CIC, and Trent