Hope for the Papal Conclave
Pre-conclave thoughts... Read More
Author: Paul Murano
Resurrected Body or Disembodied Soul?
A most popular heresy about life after death continues to persist , even among the faithful. ... Read More
Eternity Enters Time to Restore Justice
The Foundational Christian Claim, Made Simple... Read More
Avoiding Divorce through Faith and the Word
Divorce is often the result of a constant battle of the wills. What might be the remedy to this ailment? Scripture speaks of two important acts of faith, which can greatly impact one’s worldview and stave off marital rupture: 1. God’s will must always be top priority over one’s desires in all decision-making (Mt 6:33). […]... Read More
E.T. Life and Christian Faith
There’s been a lot of chatter lately about whether there’s extra-terrestrial life in the universe. . Here are a few data points to consider: . • This question has never been divinely revealed, since God revealed only what is necessary for salvation. Nor can reason conclude definitively. • While the vastness of the universe is […]... Read More
Is the Tide Finally Turning?
If you were the devil and sought the destruction of humanity, wouldn’t your goal be to create a culture of death world wide? As the demonic community of fallen angels has figured out, this can be accomplished in modern times through a simple three-step process. First, let’s look at it backwards. You cannot create an […]... Read More
The True Double Standard
Is there a double standard between the sexes? Of course there is, as there should be. But it’s not in what the world means by ‘double-standard’. What the world means is that it’s more acceptable for one sex to sin than the other (as if that’s advantageous); and that’s ‘not fair’. The double-standard that is […]... Read More
Masc. and Fem. Psychological Approaches to Love
More on the masc. and fem. psychological approaches to life and love. C.S. Lewis once captured its spirit in Screwtape Letters with the following quote: “To a woman, unselfishness means taking trouble for others; to a man it means not giving trouble to others… the woman thinks of doing good deeds and the man of […]... Read More
Will the Secular Media Try to Make a Monster of Leo XIV?
The Luciferian media was able to create a false caricature of Benedict XVI due to his good pre-papal work as CDF director, and could magnify Francis’ ambiguous paradoxical messages into Leftist ideological dogma. Interestingly, however, they found it more difficult to create a monster out of John Paul II. My hope is that the legacy […]... Read More
The Senses, Heart, and Mind
The senses perceive what is temporal and transient. The heart is unsatisfied with this because it’s oriented to the eternal and unchanging. The mind can follow logical principles from the physical to the metaphysical, knowing all things temporary and transient are grounded in the eternal and unchanging. Faith bridges the divine and human, enabling the […]... 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