Can a Catholic Attend an Invalid Wedding?
What's a Catholic to do when invited to an invalid wedding that begins a life of objective perpetual adultery? ... Read More
Articles
Delve beneath the surface on any of the topics featured in Paul’s op-ed columns.
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7 Things Women Don’t Understand About Men (the article)
Helpful things for women to better understand men, and men to better understand themselves.... Read More
What Are We?
What are we as human beings? There have been three general models of the human being that have popular in the world throughout history. But only one affords human dignity and true fulfillment. The other two were popular in ancient times, and again in modern times. What are we? Read my article HERE... Read More
How Our “Relationship” Culture is Practice for Divorce
Do our premarital dating rituals groom people for shattered hearts? Read how our embedded post-1970s "relationship culture" is practice for divorce.... Read More
The Devil’s Playbook for the End Times
Many Catholics are familiar with the story of Pope Leo XIII falling into some kind of trance after Mass one day in the 19th century and having a vision of Jesus and Satan conversing. The devil allegedly said he could destroy Christ’s Church if allowed to cause havoc for the following hundred years. Jesus granted […]... Read More
Halloween and Obsession with Death
I went to get my hair cut today, and walked into a shop filled with skeletons, ghosts, spiders, bats, disembodied skulls, and cemetery grave stones. When I was a kid, Halloween seemed less morbid. Do kids dress up anymore as clowns, pirates, princesses, hobos, and Superman? It got me pondering. Humanity reacts to morbidity in […]... Read More
The Age of Insanity
There was the ancient world, the Classical age, the Dark ages, the Medieval ages, the Renaissance period, the Enlightenment Age, and the Modern age. We have now entered the AGE of INSANITY. This is what the history books will eventually label our era. Read more here.... Read More
More thoughts on …. Is Heaven ‘Up’?
More on my obsession with the mystery of ‘up’ness. Click HERE.... Read More
Shifting Politics, Unchanging Truth
Before the 1970s, Democrats were pro-life and championed family values while Republicans were the party of the rich and powerful establishment. Today they’re completely flipped. Read about it HERE.... Read More
The Anti-Trinity of Our Time: You can’t defeat abortion by focusing on abortion
Click here on key insight on how to defeat abortion. Hint: It relates to the nature of the Trinity, which, of course, is the nature of Reality. My latest article. https://www.catholic365.com/article/19337/the-anti-trinity-of-our-time-you-cant-defeat-abortion-by-focusing-on-abortion.html... Read More
The Roe Leak, and Its Response
Mulling over the responses to a possible overturning of Roe vs. Wade... Read More
Was barring Pelosi from Communion right?
'Catholic' politicians for far too long have taken anti-Catholic stands while touting themselves as Catholics. One archbishop has finally done something about this. But is there a moral difference between support for abortion and support for other so-called life issues? Let's go beneath the surface.... Read More
What is a Person and Why is Abortion Murder?
What is a person? 1) Basic personal attributes include reason, free will, and self-consciousness. 2) Human beings are living organisms that possess these three superbiological powers. 3) These capacities can be rendered inoperative in humans by two conditions: disability or immaturity. – Disability (disease, deformity, etc.) can hinder operation of these personal powers permanently. […]... Read More
The Roe Leak and Its Response
The Roe Leak and Its Response There seems to be two basic reasons for the hysteria now being witnessed in Leftist women over the potential overturn of Roe vs. Wade: fear and anger. Fear reigns in those who can’t imagine not being part of a fornication culture with abortion as a way out of being […]... Read More
What and Why?
What and Why? By PAUL MURANO, published in Valley Patriot on September 5, 2021. Babies illustrate for us what it means to be fundamentally human. Anthropologists tell us that the first word a baby speaks, ‘mama’, is based on the mother representing food. It’s the sound they make with their mouth when wanting milk. It’s related to the […]... Read More
Marriage, an Icon of the Trinity
The Blessed trinity is infinite Being of three divine Persons in eternal relationship of life-giving love. With the Holy Spirit proceeding from the Father and the Son, there are no impediments or barriers to this divine Personal Love – which is inherently exclusive, life-giving, and permanent. Marriage/family is meant to be an icon of the […]... Read More
Language Manipulation and the Control of Culture
To change a culture, first alter the language. This has been the grand evil plan of the Left, and they’ve pulled it off masterfully. *** Check out my latest VP article HERE ***... Read More
Identity Language
It is imperative we begin distinguishing being and becoming in our language; that is, what is permanent and what is changeable.... Read More
Most People Decrease in Intelligence After Childhood
A recent interview with a Catholic bishop by a mainstream media TV reporter went something like this: “How can you say you welcome gay people if you call them ‘intrinsically disordered’?” “I don’t call them intrinsically disordered.” “But your Church does; it’s in the Catechism.” It’s amazing how many liberals have the intellectual capacity of […]... Read More
Anti-Trump Jubilation
Some will be offended by this post. There are two reasons: a) it’s a generality, and b) it’s true. We’ve been taught by the Left to hate both. By all objective measures (pre-covid economy, foreign entanglements, minority opportunities, fair trade, freedom of speech, conscience and religion, not laying down to China or the elite swamp, […]... Read More
Through Which Lens Do You See the World?
Want to know your ideology, and understand your psyche? Here’s a good test. Which of these events gives you MORE of an adverse internal reaction: 1) The summer riots, where churches, holy statues, small businesses, personal homes, and individuals (like Jay Danielson) were destroyed, or …. 2) the capitol building riot (yes, one), where a […]... Read More
Christmas brings not peace, but the sword:
My monthly BTS column on Page 20: There can NEVER be peace without the acceptance of truth. Objective truth. Ultimately, Truth Personified and incarnated.
https://ia601503.us.archive.org/28/items/vp-1220-final-2/VP1220-FINAL2.pdf... Read More
Election Integrity
We live in a fallen world where cultivating good takes time, effort, and discipline while evil is quick and easy. A beautiful piece of art may take years to create, but a fire or act of vandalism destroys it in seconds. Doing the right thing takes integrity, discipline, and perseverance while giving in to selfish […]... Read More
Irrationality on Display
Now that the networks have declared the Communist Chinese the winners of the election, it’s fascinating to observe some of the celebration inside the Luciferian media and outside with all the “gay” flags. One talking head spoke of the “great relief” many are feeling, but never gave a reason for it. It’s similar to how […]... Read More
Law and Order
Donald trump is calling himself the Law and Order president. What exactly is law and order, and why is it important? Let’s go beneath the surface, HERE.... Read More