Pertinent Aspects of the ICE Tragedies Ignored
My take on today's violence and the media madness... Read More
Articles
Delve beneath the surface on any of the topics featured in Paul’s op-ed columns.
Feel free to take any one of them as a discussion point to begin a dialogue.
Spinning Its Wheels: The Pro-life Movement Must Go Deeper
While watching the annual March for Life and its speeches, 53 years after the abortion age began with Roe v. Wade, I found it both encouraging and very frustrating. First, I heard nothing about the death toll accumulated each year from so-called “contraceptives” whose back-up mechanism kills countless embryos by rendering attachment to a mothers’ […]... Read More
The Material Cause and Lynchpin of Our Culture of Death and Age of Insanity
It can be argued that contraception has been the greatest evil in the history of man – at least consequentially. Why? Among the damage, its popularization with ‘the pill’ from the 1960s has separated sex from babies, sex from marriage, babies from life (demanding an abortion culture); wife from husband (weakening the bond and contributing […]... Read More
Christmas and the Kingdom
Sometimes we ignore the kingly theme that permeates Christmas. King Herod ordered the massacre of innocents because he feared the birth of a mighty king would challenge his authority. The three kings followed the star from the east to do homage to this baby-king. The OT prophesied a messiah-king would be born in Bethlehem from the descendancy of King David, and His kingdom will have no […]... Read More
Is the Spirit Moving from the Bottom Up?
Catholics live in interesting times: Young people are fervently converting to Catholicism while the hierarchy has become weak in faith. It reminds me of the contemporary model of family in which children lead their parents back to the faith. It’s upside-down, but sometimes necessary. Hell threw the equivalent of a nuclear bomb at the world […]... Read More
Never Make Politics Your Religion
Just a friendly reminder of the imperfection of political parties. While the Democratic Party has morphed into a movement of death-loving socialism, it can be argued that the Republican Party has been taken over by what may be called ‘the post-Christian right’. This ideology claims ethical monotheism as its foundation but disregards the principles that […]... Read More
Erika Kirk and Forgiveness of Evil-Doers
Many people are confused about what it means to forgive someone who has gravely harmed you. And this is understandable, for two reasons: 1) people see anger as a feeling rather than a choice, and 2) there are two basic concepts that share the word “forgiveness”: a) absolution or remission of guilt, and b) letting […]... Read More
Revisiting the Death Penalty
With the election of Leo XIV, we may soon hear where St. Peter’s new successor stands on the question of the death penalty. Two of the last three of his immediate predecessors have caused a bit of stir on the matter, raising concerns that the Church may have changed her moral doctrine. But has she? […]... Read More
The Most Consequential Papacy in Modern Times
Today (May 29) is the optional memorial for Pope St. Paul VI. Although he wasn’t charismatic like John Paul II, brilliant like Benedict XVI, or vociferous and a bit contentious like Francis, his papacy may be the most consequential in centuries—for two reasons: the Novus Ordo and Humanae Vitae. These were explosions in worship and morality that led to polemical […]... Read More
Why the Luminous Mysteries?
Some Catholics may be a bit leery of the Luminous mysteries, since they were promulgated late in history (by Pope St. JPII), and that their addition causes a symbolic disparity with the ‘150’ psalms. Nonetheless, there are many riches that can be mined by meditating on the Luminous mysteries. Here are just a few examples […]... Read More
The Underutilized Gift That Would End Abortion
There are three levels of horror with regard to abortion, the first two are the most common: Sensual. You see a baby in latter stages of gestation and recoil at the idea of abortion. Religious. Your faith holds that abortion is wrong, and you horror at so many violations of the fifth Commandment killing little […]... Read More
Worship and Sex are Fundamentally Linked
Today’s first reading in Acts 15 was on the council of Jerusalem, where Church authority declared Gentile converts must follow four fundamental ordinances. Three were about idolatry and one about marriage. Their exhortation concludes: “If you keep free of these you will do what is right” (Acts 15:29). I find it interesting that they mention […]... 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
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
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
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
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
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
There Can Be No MAGA without MACA
The culture war today largely consists of the essential need for the wise to convince the masses that there can be no MAGA without MACA.... Read More
Religious obligations, while not an end, are not optional
You can't build a beautiful skyscraper without a foundation. The spiritual life begins with religious obligation – to God and neighbor.... Read More
New Oxford Book Review
A review of my book "The Devil-ution of Society" – a fun, easy, must-read for those seeking to understand the rapid downfall of our nation.
You can find it at www.amazon.com/Devil-ution-Society-Civilization-Culture-Insanity/dp/B0CR8V5BTM... Read More
What’s Wrong with IVF – In a Nutshell
Want to know what's morally wrong with IVF with a minimal amount of words?... Read More