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The Eucharist is at the Heart of Divine Revelation

A proper interpretation of the word of God sees the Eucharist at the very center of man’s creation and redemption: ⦁ It is the new fruit of the tree of life (Gn 2:9) that was rejected by Adam and reoffered by the new Adam (Christ) on the cross. ⦁ It is the new Passover meal […]... Read More
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Thinking Like Animals

Philosophers agree that a basic difference between humans and other animals is that we experience time and space much differently. Animals live in the here and now, with no conceptual understanding that there is a future and past; nor any concept that places exist other than their present environment. Being human, on the other hand, […]... Read More
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Pro-life Necessarily Means Anti-Contraception

Being pro-life necessarily means being anti-contraception. History and psychology demonstrate moral acceptance of killing the baby-making act precedes moral acceptance of killing babies. It’s often the case with individuals and invariably with nations. It’s no coincidence Griswold v. Connecticut was decided just 7 ½ years before Roe v. Wade. In many nations the birth control […]... Read More
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The Bottom Line Commandment

In today’s gospel, Jesus separates the sheep from the goats – in principle – with one simple line: “If you love me you will keep my commandments” (Jn 14:15). We can infer that those who don’t, won’t. Since this fundamental precept is the difference in one’s eternal destiny between Heaven from Hell, it’s imperative that […]... Read More
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The Sacrilege of Consummation without Covenant

With regard to covenants, it’s an essential and moral imperative that full and irrevocable consent precedes real union of the parties involved. For example: Jesus consented to the Father in the garden of Gethsemane (Lk 22:42) before He gave Himself completely on the cross; Christians give their total consent (sometimes through parents & godparents) to […]... Read More
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The Sad 5-Step Process of Our Day

Too many people today are fed with physical food but not spiritual food; formed in the mundane sciences but not the sacred sciences. The result is a post-Christian era in which, sadly, most people are forced to endure a trying five-step process: 1) Being raised by agnostic parents and/or receiving abysmal catechesis from the church […]... Read More
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Pope Francis?

John Paul II and Benedict XVI represented Catholicism unusually well. Nevertheless, bad popes are still popes, just like a bad father remains your father, regardless. Jesus as Head of His body the Church is ultimately in control, not the one to whom He gives the keys as successor of St. Peter. The prime minister can […]... Read More

2 Kinds of Anti-Christian Humanism

There are two kinds of anti-Christian humanists today: those who hate the truth, and those who like it in theory but think it’s too difficult to live. The first kind rejects the natural order created by the Father; the second kind rejects the supernatural order won by the Son. The first kind is angry and […]... Read More

Separating ‘human being’ from ‘person’

When someone offers the foolish “It’s a human but not a person” argument to support abortion – remind them that the three personal characteristics that separate us from other animals are reason, free will (both of which begin to operate at 7, the ‘age of reason’), and self-consciousness (which kicks in at around 3). Inform […]... Read More
St. Peter

Peter’s Response

Valuing the gifts over the gift-Giver and His will is a serious, common problem. “I didn’t have time to think about these things, with work, family, and electronic media all vying for my attention” is the mantra of so many souls in hell. Response from St. Peter at Heaven’s gate? “You erroneously substituted “have” for […]... Read More

3 Levels of Human Life

The 3 levels of human life – vegetative, animal, and rational – are sustained by water, blood, and spirit respectively. Given on the cross from the human nature of Jesus, the conduit of divine life, is water and blood (Jn 19:34) and Spirit (Jn 19:30), to sacramentally nourish us in Baptism (water), Eucharist (blood), and […]... Read More
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The Era of Unreason

Other than the point that they’ve chosen the never-ending misery of hell as their eternal destiny, the problem with post-Christian “progressives” is that while they crown humanity its own god, they must reject not only faith, but reason. There’s no way to reasonably claim human beings don’t begin at conception, that marriage is meant to […]... Read More
Christ and bride

The Mass: the Nuptial Celebration of the Eternal Marriage

The Mass is the nuptial celebration between Christ and His bride the Church.  As with all marital love, there is first intimacy of words before intimacy of bodies. Christ tells His bride how much He loves her in the liturgy of the word. She then gives herself to Him in the offertory; and He enters […]... Read More
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Late-night pondering, out loud…..

A little late-night pondering out loud….. Most Asian nations are shame-societies, because, for the most part, they’re pre-Christian. It makes sense they’re still living Genesis 3:7-8 as their psycho-social norm. Christian nations are joy-societies, especially the poor ones, now mainly found in Africa and Latin America. They’re Acts chapter 2 societies, that know God redeemed […]... Read More
My body my choice

Why the Kansas abortion vote wasn’t shocking

The Kansas referendum on abortion (Aug. 2, 2022) shouldn’t be surprising. In the dawn of our post-Roe era, we’ve had 50 years of brainwashing and social reconstruction that has desecrated marriage, broken down the family, and left society utterly confused about what it means to be human as male and female. In such a unique […]... Read More