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Jesse Romero's Blog · Catholic Teaching · Theology
Aug 23, 2023
There is an organ in my home. As I look at the notes on that organ, I could ask, which note is good and which note is bad? Which note is right and which note is wrong? One cannot say that any particular note is right or any particular note is wrong. What makes any note right o...
Jesse Romero's Blog · Apologetics · Catholic Teaching
Aug 8, 2023
Is it true that the more you subscribe to divine truth, the less free you become? Before I went to school I was free to believe, for example, that Shakespeare was born in 1224. But finally, I was told that Shakespeare was not born in 1224, but rather in 1564. I found out that...
Jesse Romero's Blog · Daily Reflections with Fulton Sheen · Catholic Teaching · Theology
Jun 22, 2022
What do you want most? First, life. Honor, ambition, power, what good are these without life? At night we put out our hand instinctively in the dark ready to lose that member rather than lose that which we treasure most, our life. Then, as we continue, we find that there is so...
Jesse Romero's Blog · Theology · Marriage & Family
Nov 20, 2020
The Greeks had three words for love. The first was eros. Eros was that little god that used to shoot arrows into the earth to make it fertile. Eros was the subject of the discussion in the house of Agathon that Plato records. Eros is not that which pushes us toward another, bu...
Jesse Romero's Blog · Daily Reflections with Fulton Sheen · Catholic Teaching · Theology
Aug 27, 2019
Look at the weak reason of people today-their confusion of mind, their failure to even recognize any such thing as truth or goodness. They will read one book on Monday and will say, “Oh, I’m a materialist.” Then they‘ll read another book on Tuesday and become communists. They'...
Jesse Romero's Blog · Theology · Catholic Teaching
Aug 26, 2019
Look at the limitations of our reason: how poor it is! Even those with very good powers of reason have admitted in the end that they have captured just a little of truth. The great scientist Isaac Newton said that he felt as if he were standing on the seashore of infinite trut...
Jesse Romero's Blog · Daily Reflections with Fulton Sheen · Theology · Catholic Teaching
Nov 21, 2018
The western world has very much affirmed the ego of man. That is the great difference between the East and the West. In the eastern world, where there is an overemphasis on the sovereignty of God, God does everything, man does nothing. That is the reason that there's been very...