earth

We’re Part of the 4 Percent

If you guesstimate the number of human beings who ever existed, including those who have been born, who died in childbirth or as infants; who naturally miscarried, were intentionally aborted, and who died through the abortion pill, chemical abortifacient “contraception”, and IUDs; those who have died or been discarded through the IVF process, and those […]... Read More

Passover, the Eucharist, and Typology

Today is Holy Thursday, when Jesus took the Passover meal and transformed it into the Eucharist at the last supper. God gives the Israelites in Exodus 12 the following commands: . 1) Procure lambs, male without blemish, in their prime. 2) Smear its blood on the doorposts and lintels of each Israelite house so that […]... Read More
Bomb

Is Going to War with Iran Justified?

I’ve always been cognizant of how little we really know with regard to national and international affairs, not being privy to what goes on beneath the radar and getting our information from 2nd, 3rd, and 4th hand media outlets – many of which have ideological slants. Hence, when it comes to geopolitical events like the […]... Read More
Church inside

10 Fundamental Faith-Precepts of Catholicism

Everyone ultimately places faith in something, even if the object is self, as is the case of atheists. The following are ten (10) of the most basic fundamental faith-tenets of Catholicism. Without a long explanation of why, share which numbers diverge from your own personal faith: God exists, as Creator and Sustainer of the universe. […]... Read More
mourners

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
King-sized bed

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
Hierarchy

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
Religion and politics

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

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
Pope Paul VI

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
Luminous Mysteries

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

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
galaxy

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
culture of death

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-fem balance

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
Popes (last four)

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
Begotten, Not Made

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