By Rupturing Faith and Reason, You End Up with Neither
The full integration of reason and faith, the head and the heart, are necessary for happiness. Why, then, does it seem that so many people are hellbent on being unhappy?... Read More
Tri-Fold Temptations, Conquered by Christ
Today’s gospel has Jesus overcoming the tri-fold temptations relating to the body, the world, and the soul (Lk 4:3-13), which, as the new Adam, canceled out the tri-fold temptations leading to original sin: “The woman saw it “was good for food [the body], pleasing to the eyes [the world], and desirable for gaining wisdom [the […]... Read More
What’s the Deal with the Lack of ‘Real Men’?
Women are publicly complaining that there aren’t enough “real men” today. A real man controls himself and his environment according to the true and good. This means taking responsibility and providing reliable leadership. . If men cannot control themselves they will never lead well. Yet, for 50 years men have been given little motivation to […]... Read More
The Ethics of IVF, in a Nutshell
This is my first criticism of Trump’s presidency, but it’s a big one. . He signed an order expanding IVF. His spiritual life is a journey, as is all of ours, and I greatly appreciate his presidency beginning to reverse our age of insanity on the political level. Nonetheless, In Vitro Fertilization is a grave […]... Read More
Imaginative Insights: Noah, the Dove, and Jesus
Today’s first reading has Noah sending forth a dove after God ‘baptized the earth’ with the great flood. It didn’t return (Gn 8:12). The next time we see a dove in Scripture is at Jesus’ baptism by John (Lk 3:22). . Noah sent the dove to find dry land, for their salvation. If you look […]... Read More
Executive Orders and Our Culture of Death
By reversing the government’s involvement in sex-change mutilation, Trump is able to address by executive order the tail end of our culture of insanity. It’s a good sign, of course, but we still live in a society that murders half its babies before birth, kills ten preborn children for every one brought to term in […]... Read More
Truth is Often Simple
Reason sees the simple truth. Emotions chaotically obsess over secondary considerations.... Read More
Greatest Insult to a Pregnant Woman
Common Sense vs. Common Ignorance... Read More
Is Communion in the Hand the Main Cause of the Problem?
Many believe faith in the Eucharist, or more specifically in the real presence, has waned in recent decades due to Communion in the hand and the Novus ordo. I tend to think a greater factor has been the desecration of marriage. The sacraments of Marriage and the Eucharist are inextricably linked as the sacraments of […]... Read More
MM41: Big-Bang Cosmology and the Logos (vid)
The big-bang points to a beginning of the universe, as does Genesis, but leaves some pretty basic questions to resolve.... Read More
Logic and Big-Bang Cosmology
The current scientific standard of big-bang cosmology is fascinating, but it raises some very basic questions that must eventually be answered. If the universe began with a big bang from an infinitesimal point of singularity that contains all matter, time, and space, and continues to expand exponentially, then: How did the original material that ‘banged’ […]... Read More
An ‘Invalid Marriage’ is a Non-Marriage
Between natural law and the law of the Church for Catholics, there are certain objective criteria, internal and external, that are essential for being married.... Read More
Encouragement from His Father and His Mother
With Jesus' baptism and visit to Cana, which reflect Baptism and Eucharist, He is given encouragement to begin His three-year mission that ends on the cross.... Read More
Eucharistic Communion: Christ and His Bride become One Flesh
Baptized Christians who do not celebrate the Eucharist are in a friendship-marriage, or a 'Josephite marriage' with Christ the bridegroom.... Read More
Appropriate Shame?
Appropriate guilt is the soul’s natural response to choosing to do something wrong. Shame is humiliation due to the effects of bad acts inflicted on the self either from oneself or others, which diminishes, even slightly, the fullness of personal integrity and dignity. There are those who claim that redemption in Christ eradicates any and […]... Read More
Hearts Unopened to God in the Bread and in the Wind
In today’s gospel, after the multiplication of the loaves, Jesus has His disciples get on a boat toward Bethsaida while He remained on shore to pray. The disciples eventually were tossed around on the sea due to the wind before Jesus walked on the water and came aboard, stilling the wind for them. What might […]... Read More
Big Difference between Not Knowing and Rejecting
Natural law morality is universally accessible through human reason alone. In theory, no religious faith is necessary to grasp and accept it. Natural law is the moral code that corresponds to the ends and goods of human nature, for optimal human fulfillment. Although the pre-Christian pagan world that never knew Truth incarnate was primitive and […]... Read More
The Noah’s Ark of the New Covenant
What is meant by the ancient mantra of Church fathers that the Church is the Noah’s Ark of the New Covenant? Noah is an OT typological prefigurement of Christ, and his Ark is of the Church. To be saved from the deluge, species had to follow Noah aboard his ark. Likewise, to be saved from […]... Read More
All Matter Has Meaning
All things are composed of matter and form. Matter is the expression of being and form is its essence/meaning. Matter without form is unintelligible. Words are simply sounds or scribbles without interpretating and extracting meaning from them. This is a reflection of Christ as God’s Word and the Spirit as He who makes Him intelligible […]... Read More
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Lament of St. Nicholas
What might a conversation on Christmas week look like between Jesus and Santa today?
(a take-off on 'Twas the Night Before Christmas)... Read More