Resurrected Body or Disembodied Soul?
Why is it that cultural Christians persist in this heresy relating to life after death?... Read More
What Does Emmaus Have to Do with Eden?
Today’s Gospel on the road to Emmaus makes me recall the two trees specifically named in the garden of Eden (Gn 2:9): by consuming their fruit one produced life, the other death. In the Emmaus story, as soon as the risen Jesus took bread, blessed it, and gave it to his followers – a la […]... Read More
RIP Pope Francis
Being is primary; doing secondary. As an unrepeatable image of God, it’s fitting to pray for the soul of one who has died, leaving judgment to God. This is the time to pay respects to Pope Francis. As 265th successor of St. Peter, his pontificate can be scrutinized later. Requiem aeternam dona ei, Domine. Et […]... Read More
Eternity Enters Time to Restore Justice
The Most Fundamental Claim of Christianity, Made Simple... Read More
Double-Vision
The man born blind in John's Gospel represents all sons of fallen Adam. By responding to the grace won by the second Adam, our spiritual sight can be restored.... Read More
Happy Annunciation/Incarnation Day! The universe will never be the same
Happy Feast of the Annunciation, when the eternal second Person of the Trinity entered His creation as a tiny human embryo. A spiritual ‘earthquake’ has ensued throughout the universe... Read More
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