The story's latent metaphysical aspects are at last pushed to the foreground in a climactic stretch that is simple, quiet and touching. (hollywoodreporter.com)
If, however, we examine the condemnations with an eye to the pattern of two Modernisms and two Thomisms, much comes clear — for Pius X had gone back into the mode of making lists of errors, but he focused his attention not on social modernity but on the doctrinal and metaphysical aspects of modern thought. (firstthings.com)
Whether you belief the church's views on the metaphysical aspects of the rite is irrelevant — the rites do exist. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)