Denzinger can be helpful, but its weakness is that it looks as if it's just a canon of laws. The notion that the Truth of dogma giving insight into God the Creator and God the Redeemer is seldom represented. The result of understanding Church teachings, says St Thomas, produces wisdom.

Further, the Revelation as Law approach leaves lacunae whose vulnerability invites the likes of Heidegger to satisfy.`

This is not 1913.

Almost all the confusion in the Church is a consequence of Rahner's writings: E.g., Sacramental theology, theology of Grace, Moral theology . Amoris Laetitia is based on the work of Josef Fuchs SJ, a disciple of Rahner.

I understand the possible need of cleaning the stones, which is said to remove certain destructive chemicals. Ditto for Chartres Cathedral.

On the other hand, in addition to the irrefutable beauty of both churches, of equally irrefutable importance is that they've survived centuries. Both have seen destructive fires and sanctity as well as impiety. And Chartres was a very important center of Neo Platonism in the 12th century. To present cleaned versions as if they were new seems to soil them with the naive self preoccupation of the overblown yet fragile ego of 21st century man. If the two churches could talk, We've seen it all before might be heard.

The ret 3 star worked with Wes Clark in Europe. Also with Richard Holbroook--of whom he was not a fan.

Lots of Army here. My soph year in hs i played basketball with a jr. Good guy who left because his father was transferred to DC. Then a year later he was named Chief of Staff. Harold K Johnson, a survivor of the Bataan Death March.

Also the same hs year but in football there was another jr jwho was not that good. His family left after a year, and no one ever mentioned him. Then in 1968 I turned on the Sugar Bowl, and he was starting for Wyoming. Didn't hear about him for some time until I discovered he was a general in Delta Force. Retired but was brought back in as Chief of Staff: Pete Schoomaker. His brother, whom I did not know, went to Med School, also got a PhD, and later was named Army Surgeon General. Two brothers, one a 4 star, the other a 3 star.

After high school I attended the West Point Prep School. Had an appointment but turned it down. Years later on the day the US captured Saddam there was a press conference at Ft Hood, televised at the half of an NFL game. Who was the CG at the press conference? Tom Metz, with whom I played football at the Prep School.

Except for the 3 star who worked with Wes Clark, I haven't seen any of these people for years.

My high school has had 25 students who later became generals, and another, not a general, who just died and flew the SR 71.

From my high school class, 6 of us had appointments to West Point--I was the only one to turn it down. In the same graduating class, however, was a good friend who went to KU with me and majored in Biochemistry--he became a JAG BG. About a week after 9-11 I called him about the health of his wife (an old friend). The talk turned to the attack. I asked him whether the US had any high tech gadgets that can see inside caves. He said: This is not going to be a high tech war. It will be a slit their throats in the middle of the night war.

Basta'

Rommel's tactics are considered sound. I have a good friend who's a retired 3 Star (formerly Deputy Commander of all US forces in Europe) who has quoted Rommel to me.

On the other hand, Kant gave us the idea of synthetic a priori. He cooked that up because he realized that science needs the principle of Causality even though it's not a first principle. IMHO, it's the philosophical version of toxic asset.

Have you read Maritain's Intro to Philosophy?

So with the Church finally getting rid of deontological morals, why would a Catholic recommend Kant?

I prefer St Thomas.