death
Announcement: My new book!
Do you feel like you live in an age of insanity? All of a sudden? What happened!? This easy-to-read book explores the mystery from a Catholic, and common sense, perspective – how almost overnight we went from a civilization of life to a culture of death, to an age of insanity. As Dr. Peter Kreeft […]... Read More
A Better Response than ‘a Better Place’
x: I’m so sorry about your cousin. He’s in a better place now. y: Thank you. How do you know? x: How do I know what? y: How do you know that he’s in a better place? Why do you assume this? x: Well…. aren’t you Christian? y: Yes. x: Then you believe that when […]... Read More
Humans Never Become Angels
One sorrowful night at the local funeral home…….. x: He was so young. I’m sorry for your loss. Now you have an angel in heaven. y: I do? x: Yes, isn’t that comforting? y: But I’ve known that my whole life. My guardian angel was assigned to me at my conception. x: No, I mean […]... Read More
The Importance of Hell
Hearing about Hell is important on many levels. Read why people are much worse off for denying it. ... Read More
Halloween and Obsession with Death
I went to get my hair cut today, and walked into a shop filled with skeletons, ghosts, spiders, bats, disembodied skulls, and cemetery grave stones. When I was a kid, Halloween seemed less morbid. Do kids dress up anymore as clowns, pirates, princesses, hobos, and Superman? It got me pondering. Humanity reacts to morbidity in […]... Read More
Is it less grievous to abort in the first few weeks?
a) He wants to legalize abortion – up to nine months! b) Terrible. But why are you mentioning the gestation age and maturity of the child? a) That’s all the way to birth. A baby is able to do so much by then! b) Do we value human beings on how much they can do? […]... Read More
54th Anniversary: Most Important Document of Our Times
July 25, 1968 Today is the 53rd anniversary of Humanae Vitae, the Church’s official response to the invention of the birth control pill. It gave a personalist touch to her constant unbroken 2000 yr. teaching on the moral status of contraception; which had been confirmed 38 yrs. earlier in Pius XI’s Casti Connubii. It was […]... Read More
Ultimate Age Discrimination
Injustice is not measured by how it affects us, but how it affects the victims.... Read More
The Creed: Beneath the Surface, #12
Delve bts with Paul and Bob about the meaning of Jesus' suffering, death, and burial.... Read More
The Devil’s Playbook for Contemporary Times
Hell’s 7-Step Plan to Weaken the Church and Attack the World in the 20th and 21st Centuries 1) Inspire the creation of the birth control pill, knowing it will cause a sexual revolution and culture of death, gravely violating human nature and God’s law. 2) Inspire the media and academia — the two culture molding […]... Read More
Catholic college to host culture-of-death debate
Should a Catholic college host a presidential debate where every candidate supports prenatal murder, “same-sex marriage”, and reduced religious freedom? Is it good to give such anti-human ideas a nationally televised forum? Check out my CM article on this subject, here.... Read More
The Meaning of Death
Why do we die? Are we simply creatures of nature with a beginning and an end? What is the biblical message about man's gift of immortality and how it was squandered? How ought we now look at human suffering and death?
Let's go beneath the surface.... 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
Death, Burial, and Resurrection
“By burying the bodies of the faithful, the Church confirms her faith in the resurrection of the body, and intends to show the great dignity of the human body as an integral part of the human person whose body forms part of their identity… She cannot, therefore, condone attitudes or permit rites that involve erroneous […]... Read More
Reflection: Sexual Confusion – in Eden, and the United States
Why did the serpent in Eden set his sights on the woman instead of the man? Nothing in this Genesis story is pure happenstance. Let us reflect, beneath the surface. In being formed from man’s side, the serpent knew the woman was the heart of humanity, Adam being its head. He sensed her gift of […]... Read More
Are you Pro-life or Anti-abortion?
Being pro-life means more than being anti-abortion – although the terms are often used interchangeably. All human beings possess human life and are designed by God and nature to pass it on, imaging He Who Is life-giving Love. Being pro-life, therefore, means opposing all actions that intentionally vitiate life and its propagation in the natural […]... Read More
