God
The Creed, beneath the surface: Episode 2 – “One God”
How can God be one and three? What does it mean that Love is Trinitarian? The wonderful doctrine of God as one Being and three Persons.... 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
God and Neighbor
Loving God and neighbor sums up the moral law. The mark of the Left is to attempt love of neighbor without love of God; always and inevitably failing miserably.... 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
Mary and the Feminine Dimension of Humanity
Delve beneath the surface with Paul and his guest John Tuturice to uncover mysteries relating to the masculine and feminine dynamic, found throughout the cosmos and originating in the eternal Essence of God. Mary’s role as the mother Jesus and icon of the Church is the feminine principle through whom God became human to redeem […]... 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
To impede life-giving love is an act of death.
Too many people do not make the connection between God Who Is Life-giving Love and how humanity is meant to image Him on earth. Contraception is a grave insult to the Creator and a severe attack on His image, human nature. As the root of our culture of death, it has far-reaching deleterious effects that most people choose not to think about. Hence, Christ through His Church officially teaches it is intrinsically evil and can never be chosen in good conscience.... Read More
In God We Trust
Why is this phrase placed on our money, and what does it really mean? Can we rightly say that a nation that aborts its children, erodes the family, is confused about what it means to be male and female, and values pets over humans a nation that is trusting God?... 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
Making sense of The Trinity – the central Christian mystery
How can God be both One and Three – without contradiction? Some insightful dialogue between Paul Murano and his guest Bob Leblanc on the foundational Christian mystery – One God revealed as three Persons, consubstantial and co-eternal. Beneath the surface… where faith and reason meet Give it a listen, here: https://archive.org/details/BTS253... Read More
