Michael Davies

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Does anyone have any links to any more of Michael Davies’ talks?? I’ve been listening to him on the iPod: he’s fantastic.

There’s a couple of his talks on youtube too, for anyone interested. Just do a search on his name.

Davies is my new Scott Hahn.

Apologetics gets stale. I mean, how many times can you read about proving Peter was the Rock on which Christ built his church? It’s good foundational knowledge, but it only takes you so far.

After being inspired by the doctrinal traditions of the Church, I turned to the liturgical traditions of the Church. My discoveries there have led me straight to the Traditional Latin Mass movement, which has helped me understand the liturgical heritage that has been denied to me. Davies, more than any other speaker or writer, has helped me understand why things have happened as they have. This has helped me understand the chaos surrounding us.

As I have grown in my knowledge of the Catholic faith and liturgy throughout the ages (not just post-concilliar), I have turned my focus more toward spirituality. But I count my time with Davies as key in helping me make sense of things that don’t square with the documents of the Council or the greater Tradition of the Church. I urge anyone who wants to learn more to go to www.keepthefaith.org or to buy books from this link:

Michael Davies books

Some free talks by Davies are here:

Michael Davies Catechetical Revolution talk_MDCatchRev.mp3 Michael Davies The Eternal Sacrifice talk_MDEternalSacrif.mp3 Michael Davies Modernism talk_MDModernism.mp3 Michael Davies Vatican II talk_MDVatican2.mp3 Michael Davies ARCIC talk_MDARCIC.mp3 Michael Davies Catholic Education talk_MDCathEd.mp3 Michael Davies Liturgy Divided talk_MDLitDiv.mp3 Michael Davies Original Sin talk_MDOrigSin.mp3

 

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St. Thomas Aquinas did not believe that life began at conception. That’s a pretty big error, and he is one of the greatest Catholic intellectuals in history (if not the greatest).

Not saying you’re wrong, just that you can hold some pretty big errors and still be a great thinker.

Think for a minute. St. Thomas Aquinas opposed abortion. However, the scientific knowledge was not available to him to understand conception as we now know it. The uniting of sperm and egg! If he had such knowledge, I believe he would have affirmed it in his theological teachings.