Pondering/Reflection
Ponder with Paul, beneath the surface.
Lament of St. Nicholas (poem)
Unforgettable Pro-life Poem
It will get you thinking.... Read More
Infinite-Eternal Ground of all Being
Intelligibility depends on an underlying Reality that upholds, sustains, and defines all things. The degree of truth, goodness, justice, and beauty in things are understood only by way of subconscious comparison to their Perfections.... Read More
Scandalous silence
Clergy will have to answer for their silence in the midst the moral chaos of the world destroying the souls of their flock.... Read More
A Day at the Museum
Yesterday, Columbus Day, I went to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston with my wife and a couple friends. I have good memories of it, but haven’t been there for about 20 years. This time it was different. The art and excavations were still awesome as usual, but the management of the museum, predictably, […]... Read More
Two Complementary Components of Being
In reflecting the infinite Love of God, every community of persons includes two groups of people: some whose primary concern is truth, justice, and excellence; and others whose focus is compassion, mercy, and equality. Some distinguish these mindsets as conservative and liberal, others masculine and feminine. They can be metaphorically referred to as the head […]... Read More
The Race between DJT and RGB
Since the Great Media Meltdown of election night 2016, the media & Democratic Party have unsuccessfully pounced on one topic after another to take down President Trump – hoping, spinning, and interpreting everything for this end. Will this latest one stick? I doubt it but we’ll see… Why is this happening? Let’s go beneath […]... Read More
The Two Kinds of Fear
There are two kinds of fear of God: one is healthy and essential to happiness, the other unhealthy and essential to unhappiness. Lack of the first leads to acquiring the second. The first kind of fear of God enables those with immature intellects, unable to understand the big picture (child, adolescent, young adult), to […]... Read More
A Very Brady Analysis
I am watching “A Very Brady Renovation” on HGTV and pondering why the ratings are so sky high – fifty years after Carol and Mike tied the knot. Many old Tv shows are repeated on MeTV and other oldies stations, but only a few rise to iconic status, remaining beloved throughout the decades. What […]... Read More
Not even loved ones
Love comes in different forms. With regard to sin, love must include admonishment or at least non-support of the moral wrong. What do you do when a loved one invites you to an invalid wedding? When a friend asks you to lie for him? Or when a child of yours tells you he/she has decided to act on his/her (disordered) homosexual desires with unnatural relationships? Does misplaced compassion or fear of being ostracized get the best of you? Or do you choose God's will, communicating it with clarity and charity, and then suffer the consequences?
These questions we all must ask ourselves.... Read More
Is it coincidence that all hurricanes look like fetuses?
The fetus Dorian... Read More
Pro-Life is Not Simply Pro-Baby
Let me express a pet peeve of mine I’ve had for a while. In my humble opinion, one of the biggest mistakes the pro-life movement in general has made over the past few decades has been to make their point with pictures of babies and toddlers. I understand the purpose is to get people to […]... Read More
More of Contraception’s Legacy
A new poll indicates many Catholics have lost faith in the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist. Contraception, which is the root of our culture of death, has claimed yet another victim: the death of faith.... Read More
Our Culture of Death
It's more like 65 million today - and that's only the surgical prenatal homicides. The prenatal homicides performed through hormone pills and the IUD (without the mother ever knowing) are MUCH greater numbers.... Read More
Love is also truth and justice
In our era that emphasizes love as mercy (at the expense of justice), let us not forget that love is also: comparing some people to a brood of vipers (Mt 12:34), knocking over tables of the greedy and whipping their animals (Jn 2:15), comparing your good friend to Satan (Mt 16:23), telling some people they’re […]... Read More
What’s Wrong with Designer Babies?
We are at a moment in time when the prospect of designer babies still seems horrid to many people. As genetic engineering gets closer to becoming mainstream, the prospect of designing one’s own babies – their sex, hair color, eye color, body type, etc. – is still met with moral indignation. My bioethics students confirm […]... Read More
Marriage and the Eucharist: Why are They so Challenging?
It’s unfortunate, but not surprising that believers have had problems accepting Christ’s teachings on Marriage and the Eucharist. Along with the obvious poor catechesis, here are 3 reasons that may shed a little light on this phenomenon: 1) These are the two teachings in the gospels that Christ’s disciples had problems accepting (Mt 19:10; Jn […]... Read More
Hypocrisy at its Worst
If the good people killed in El Paso were killed by a suction machine before their birth there would be NO outrage and NO calls for suction-control by the Media-Democratic Party Supremacists. In fact, they would support their deaths. It is clearly projection to claim Trump wants to exterminate Latinos while supporting the extermination of […]... Read More
Ethics and Reason – the Forgotten Bridge Between Politics and Religion
The following two questions are related – the first was priority for premodern philosophy, the second is for modern philosophy: How should people behave? What behaviors should people be allowed to do? The first question is ethical, or the science of self-governance. The second is political, i.e. the science of state governance. The first is […]... Read More
Sodom, the U.S., and Death by Association
Today’s OT reading was about Abraham “bargaining” with God about saving the city of Sodom from destruction via fire and brimstone. There are a number of themes one could take from this story, including the importance of intercessory prayer. My priest chose the notion of guilt by association. He had a heavy accent so I […]... Read More