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10 Fundamental Faith-Precepts of Catholicism
Everyone ultimately places faith in something, even if the object is self, as is the case of atheists. The following are ten (10) of the most basic fundamental faith-tenets of Catholicism. Without a long explanation of why, share which numbers diverge from your own personal faith: God exists, as Creator and Sustainer of the universe. […]... Read More
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
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
Rule of Thumb re: Good and Evil
Love is truthful and life-giving. This is because Truth (Jn 14:6) is eternally begotten of Love (1 Jn 4:8); and the giver of Life proceeds from both (Gn 2:7; Lk 1:35). Anything we do that counters truth or life cannot be love. It opposes God and His very nature. Avoid immorality at all costs (1 […]... Read More
God’s ‘Breath’ gives Form and Life
If the Son is God's Word, the Holy Spirit is His Breath – with which He forms and gives life.... Read More
Our Moral Inconsistency Guarantees More School Shootings
Hypocritical inconsistency in our respect for human life will virtually guarantee more school shootings. Explained in my latest Murano Minute.... Read More
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
Top 3 Reasons to be Thankful in Our Culture of Death
In the midst of the blanket of evil that has blinded the contemporary world, there are three unfathomable gifts for which to be grateful.... Read More
Celebrate Your Life, Not Just Your Birth!
Lifedays are more important than birthdays because coming into being is more profound than coming out of your mother. It's that simple. ... Read More
Is IVF Moral?
In-Vitro Fertilization has been in the news lately due to an Alabama Supreme Court ruling. Can one be Pro-IVF and Pro-Life?... Read More
Light and Love
Light is to truth what love is to life.... Read More
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
Truth about Sex as Seen Analogously through Food
Church doctrine is based on the two great God-given gifts of reason and Revelation. When passions and self-centered goals are put aside, one is able to clearly see the truth of our being.... Read More
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
Time to Celebrate Your Lifeday!
Every year people celebrate their birthday. It's great to be born, but what is more profound and awe-inspiring than coming into being — going from non-existence to existence, never again to not exist?... Read More
God and Vasectomies
A celebrity woman (whose name doesn’t matter), recently finding out she was pregnant with her fourth child, was quoted in the news as saying, “As you know, I had been telling [my husband] it was probably time to get a vasectomy because I felt like we were done. But I just feel like God always […]... Read More
Murano Minute: Time to Stand on Principle
It's both scientifically and morally illogical to be pro-life-ish. Either human life begins at conception or it does not. Either abortion is murder or it is not. There is no "ish" with abortion.... Read More
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
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
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
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
Which is Worse – Contraception or Abortion?
An important question that gets no attention. To appreciate it, one needs to believe what the Church teaches, AND be open-minded.... Read More