Free-will cannot will good and of necessity serves sin.

For what is idolatry if not this: to worship the gifts in place of the Giver himself?

How can it be said that the weakness of the human will is aided so as to enable it to aspire effectually to the choice of good, when the fact is, that it must be wholly transformed and renewed?

Involvement in public life provides the opportunity to shape our manners in accordance with civil justice.

The very word baptizé, however, signifies to immerse; and it is certain that immersion was the practice of the ancient Church.

Original sin, therefore, appears to be a hereditary, depravity and corruption of our nature, diffused through all the parts of the soul, rendering us obnoxious to the divine wrath and producing in us those works which the scripture calls 'works of.

When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.