preborn life

Which Would You Choose?

In conversing with pro-lifers, I notice a stubborn strain of gradualism in their thinking. Not gradualism with legislation, but with recognizing the equal dignity of all human beings. A hypothetical test-example: Two candidates are running for president, one promising to outlaw abortion only from five months post-conception to birth and the other promises to outlaw […]... Read More

You Don’t Always Understand from the Outside Looking In

Sometimes you have to be part of the family in order to properly interpret what goes on within. . For example, every night neighbors would hear females voices screaming from a nearby house. They all interpreted it as spousal and/or child abuse, and after a week finally called the authorities. Turns out, a woman and […]... Read More

The Shocking Beatitudes

Today’s Gospel focuses on the 8 beatitudes (Mt 5:1-10). It’s the roadmap to attaining true happiness. “Blessed be” is another way of saying ‘objectively happy’, since happiness and holiness are the flip sides of human fulfillment. This understanding of happiness, which begins in this life and is completed in the next, comes from the inside […]... 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
ICE

Fallen Humanity and the ICE Tragedy

If you want to see one of the greatest weaknesses in fallen humanity, just observe social media and the talking heads describe the ice-shooting tragedy in Minnesota. It’s a Rorschach test, in that virtually everyone who votes Democrat sees it one way and those who vote Republican see it the other. People are making judgments […]... Read More

Her ‘Wife’?? The Vital Importance of Truth in Language

Truth in language is important when discussing issues, even in the peripheral points. Similar to using false pronouns to refer to those with dysphoria, using “wife” to identify the female companion of the victim in the MN ICE tragedy is an attack on language and on truth. The fact that we see so many falling […]... Read More
Mamdani swearing in

Radical Individualism Turns Into Socialism

“We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.” ~~ NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani at his swearing-in ceremony . What is missing in this statement? What is the forgotten basic middle unit of society between the individual and state collectivism that progressive ideology ignores? . Socialist collectivism is offered as the […]... Read More
Wonderful life

It’s a Wonderful Life — Never Lived Out

The theme to the movie “It’s a Wonderful Life” with Jimmy Stewart can be applied to each of the 100 million+ aborted babies in modern America. But we never get to see the world as it should have been had each of them lived out their lives. Nonetheless, the loss of each one deeply affects […]... 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
Thieves on crosses

Christ the King and the Two Thieves at Calgary

Today is the feast of Christ the King; the antithesis of a ‘No-Kings’ rally. . At today’s royal banquet (the Eucharist), we reflect on the first time Jesus admitted His Kingship – when, from the throne of His cross and wearing a crown of thorns, He responded to the ‘good thief’s words, “remember me when […]... Read More
Scientism

Scientism is Not Science

Many people today cling to scientism, which holds that nothing exists beyond what the senses can detect, either alone or with the aid of machines (telescopes, microscopes, x-ray, MRI, etc.). The claim of scientism is not scientific. It’s philosophical. Science is limited to discovering things of the spatial-temporal realm (i.e., matter and energy), whereas philosophy […]... 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