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Spinning Its Wheels: The Pro-life Movement Must Go Deeper

While watching the annual March for Life and its speeches, 53 years after the abortion age began with Roe v. Wade, I found it both encouraging and very frustrating. First, I heard nothing about the death toll accumulated each year from so-called “contraceptives” whose back-up mechanism kills countless embryos by rendering attachment to a mothers’ […]... Read More
Religion and politics

Never Make Politics Your Religion

Just a friendly reminder of the imperfection of political parties. While the Democratic Party has morphed into a movement of death-loving socialism, it can be argued that the Republican Party has been taken over by what may be called ‘the post-Christian right’. This ideology claims ethical monotheism as its foundation but disregards the principles that […]... Read More
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Masc. and Fem. Psychological Approaches to Love

More on the masc. and fem. psychological approaches to life and love. C.S. Lewis once captured its spirit in Screwtape Letters with the following quote: “To a woman, unselfishness means taking trouble for others; to a man it means not giving trouble to others… the woman thinks of doing good deeds and the man of […]... Read More
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Reflecting the Trinity

Love begets truth, which together produces life. Likewise, truth is the form of love, which is inherently life-giving. This eternal paradigm of the Blessed Trinity reflected in creation corresponds to the truth of our being, i.e. human nature. Acts that contradict the truth of human nature can never be love, despite any subjective desire or […]... Read More
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Salvation for the 3 Levels of Life

Water, blood, and spirit are the 3 sustaining elements for earth’s 3 levels of life – vegetative, animal, and rational – all of which are constituent of the human person. It is no mistake that the God-man gave His water, blood (Jn 19:34) and Spirit (Mt 27:50; Acts 2:3) on the cross in order to heal, […]... Read More
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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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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 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