Pre-nups Can Invalidate
If a prenuptial agreement signifies the denial of indissolubility, the marriage is null and void. A valid marriage cannot be founded on the denial of one of its essential properties. As with contraception, this withholds the total the gift of self and is a direct attack on the nature and covenantal meaning of the one-flesh […]... Read More
Mass Confusion Created by the Word ‘Divorce’
The word ‘divorce’ has caused mass confusion among Catholics. The civil meaning of the word includes the freedom to remarry. The Church by the authority of Christ teaches marriage is indissoluble. Even the Catechism confuses people by condemning divorce as a “grave offense” and “immoral” in #s 2384 and 2385, and saying in 2383 that […]... Read More
Head and Body
It’s innate to human nature that in seeking a spouse, women care more about a man’s future while men care about a woman’s past. Via the head-body analogy preached by St. Paul (Eph 5; Col 3), it’s reasonable that the body’s chief concern is about where its head will lead her, whereas the head’s primary […]... Read More
“Body Count”? The Hidden Truth ‘Feminism’ Has Obscured
There’s been a lot of social media coverage lately with single people discussing each other’s “body count”. It often comes in the form of a man-on-the-street interview, with the very first question being “what’s your body count?” Of course, this is a euphemism for how many people someone has had sexual intercourse with. Such a […]... Read More
Why not just go directly to God? He doesn’t always go directly to us!
Why not just go directly to God? He doesn't always go directly to us!... Read More
Recent History on Abortion
It is no coincidence that when Pope Pius IX in 1869 changed canon law to eradicate the discrepancy in gravity of sin and canonical penalties between killing an unborn baby before, and after, quickening, abortion laws in America changed as well. At that point in history, when Pius IX added automatic excommunication for any Catholic […]... Read More
The Tragic Move that Has Debilitated Humanity
Medical technology has always been used to heal a malady or fix what is broken – to bring people back to optimal human functioning as before the illness or injury. That is, until the birth control pill. ‘The pill’ was the first use of technology designed and approved for rendering the body incapable of doing […]... Read More
Three new episodes to my ‘Aquinas Made Simple’ series – 7, 8, and 9
Can we know God exists without any religious faith? Aquinas says so. We just need to follow reason to the Source.... Read More
A Variety of Perspectives
Descartes: I think, therefore I am. Aquinas: I am, therefore I think. St. John: I’m loved, therefore I am. Marx: I am, therefore I consume. Kant: I am because I perceive it to be so. Nietzsche: I am, therefore I despair. Buddhist: I am not. Freud: You think, therefore you’re perverted. Today’s liberal: I feel, […]... Read More
We Can’t Be That Stupid of a Species!
Environment and dependency are unrelated to a human being's intrinsic value.... Read More
Abortion Up To Birth and Beyond is Inevitable, Unless . . .
There's only one real way to end abortion in our nation, and no one's talking about it... Read More
The Next Shoe to Drop: Post-Birth Abortion
This is what is clear to me. Without special divine intervention, abortion up until birth will become the norm in all liberal (blue) states, and that’s not where it ends. The clear pattern of our post-Christian culture is that people gradually resign themselves to accept the latest grave evil introduced by the atheist Left and […]... Read More
What Does it Mean to ‘Support’ Someone?
What does it mean to support someone, especially in the world of politics and to a lesser degree religion, but also in daily life? I’m serious. You can support a person’s actions, ideas, candidacy, values, and policies. But Jesus never commanded us to support our neighbor as ourself, or to support our enemies. We’re commanded […]... Read More
The Age of Insanity
Entering the post-modern ‘Age of Insanity’ is marked by former Christian nations rejecting Reason incarnate – to the degree that fundamental points of common sense are lost to the mind, such as: it’s never right to kill the innocent, men can never be women (and vice-versa) it’s called the reproductive system for a reason marriage […]... Read More
What is the Future and Why this Question Matters
How do you think about the future? I don’t mean whether it will be bright or dark. But What IS the future to you, philosophically? Is it something real, that just needs to be played out, or is it something non-existent, until it becomes present? Think about it. The ramifications are great. And I don’t […]... Read More
3 Days to Celebrate You!
Yesterday was my birthday. I’m grateful for all the well wishes I received. Not that one should be overly-focused on oneself, but it’s reasonable that Christians celebrate three ‘birth days’, so-to-speak, not just one. Three great milestones in every person’s life are the day they came coming into existence, natural birth, and supernatural birth. In […]... Read More
Rules of Thumb on the Universal Call to Agape
Just a reminder to all, including myself, of a few simple rules of thumb regarding the universal call to agape: . – Use things and love persons, never vice-versa. – Hate the sin and love the sinner, never hating or loving both. – Love your friend, and your enemy. – Be loyal to the Truth, […]... Read More
Today’s Gospel: What Does St. Mary Magdalene Say to Us Today?
Today's Gospel on the feast of St. Mary Magdalene is rich in meaning.... Read More
AMS 6: The Nature of God
Although, technically, God is one being, it may be misleading to refer to Him 'a' being .... rather than Being itself.
AMS tackles what it means from a creature's perspective, for God to have no limitations and no definition..... Read More
