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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Children, Race, and Deception

Nobody believes the far left cares about children. They wouldn’t vehemently support the daily wholesale slaughter of preborn children if they did. They also would have criticized Obama when he placed children of illegal immigrants in “cages” while processing adults, instead of waiting for the next president to display outrage. When Gov. Cuomo declared pro-lifers […]... Read More
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Bachelorette Sends Contestant Home After Premarital Sex Talk

I don’t watch these foolish Bachelorette shows, but an article from foxnews.com today writes of an interchange on a recent episode between two self-proclaimed Christians. In the process it speaks rather loudly about the female psyche.  (www.foxnews.com/entertainment/bachelorette-hannah-luke-sex-twitter-instagram-home) While discerning marriage (sic), the man admits of his discomfort with the young woman’s moral beliefs on premarital […]... Read More
Romney

Headline: “Trump’s ‘Go Back’ comments Are ‘Destructive’ [and he Has] ‘Failed Badly’ at Uniting the U.S.”

The above headline is from a Breitbart article  (www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/07/15/mitt-romney-trumps-go-back-comments-destructive-has-failed-badly-at-uniting-u-s/).   As a former Romney supporter, it has become clear to me he just doesn’t get it when it comes to uniting the country. Only a person without deep principles would say what he said.  Why is this?   First, no president in my lifetime has […]... Read More
The Sermon on the Mount

The Paradox of Love

This week’s mass readings have been focusing on the Sermon on the Mount, where Jesus shocks the world with His wisdom, as He continues to do today. Anger, lust, greed, dishonesty, and ultimately idolatry, are condemned as violating the natural moral law and causing barriers to happiness and union with God. There’s much to ponder […]... Read More

“Love” Isn’t Love

We are reminded by secular progressives during their pride month that “love is love.” This of course is kept vague and ambiguous as a bumper-sticker slogan, to avoid the scrutiny of reason. Without further definition, one must presume it means that sexual expression may be perverted in any way desirable as long as there is […]... Read More