Pondering/Reflection
Ponder with Paul, beneath the surface.
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
Christ and Diversity
While God created a diversity of species, ‘diversity’ as the liberal elite define it never seemed to concern Christ. While He taught the inherent dignity of all human beings, He chose twelve white Jewish males to be the pillars of authority in His Church, one of whom he commissioned to lead it. There have been […]... Read More
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
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
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
Progressive Privilege
I have already seen some people claim that Trump’s recent twitter storm against the female congresswomen is a sign of White Privilege. Here is my question: Isn’t it obvious that Progressive Privilege is much more prevalent today? When one mentions natural law or the moral teachings of the Church for example, which I think need […]... Read More
Moral evil in the public sphere
There are basically three kinds of denial when it comes to sin: 1) denial of doing it, 2) denial of responsibility for it, and 3) denial that it is wrong. The first two are as old as mankind, illustrated in Gn 3:8-13. The third, which is gravest of all (cf. Is 5:20), not only leads […]... Read More
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