Truth & Justice or Compassion & Mercy?
What's more important, truth and justice or compassion and mercy?... Read More
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More thoughts on …. Is Heaven ‘Up’?
More on my obsession with the mystery of ‘up’ness. Click HERE.... Read More
The Father is greater than Jesus??
Today’s gospel reading at Mass is a little mysterious. In the Gospel of John, after Jesus reassures His disciples that He and the Father are One (Jn 10:30), that when you see Him you see the Father (Jn 14:9), and that He is in the Father and the Father is in Him (Jn 14:11), Jesus […]... Read More
Jesus and the Final Judgment
Merciful Jesus as Judge? To some, this sounds like blasphemy. Yet, it's dogma and biblical. Fr. Tony speaks of what it means to be judged by God's infinite Love.... Read More
Is ‘Sexual Preference’ Outdated?!
In the Senate Judiciary hearings last week, Sen. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii scolded Amy Coney Barrett – not for her judicial philosophy, but for using the term “sexual preference.” Hirono argued the term is outdated and offensive, since no one chooses homosexuality or transgenderism. This illustrates two common disingenuous tactics that characterize the progressive Left: […]... Read More
You don’t love me.
A dialogue between a young guy and his wise girlfriend... Read More
Primary Object of Love
"For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, but loses his soul?"
-- Mt 16:6... Read More
Horizontal without the Vertical
There can be no true and sustaining love of neighbor without love of God. ... Read More
“He breathed on them…”
A reflection on the 'breath of God'... Read More
Does God show “wrath”? Is the pandemic a “chastisement”?
Is the Wuhan virus a chastisement? What might we really mean by terms like ‘chastisement’ and ‘wrath’ when we apply such words to God? Good food for thought: READ HERE... Read More
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
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 contraception bomb
The demographic winter of the western world is not the result of splitting the smallest element of matter (atom), but rather the largest element of spirit (love).... Read More
Love invites, necessitating a response
God is Love (1 Jn 4:8). That's His unchanging nature. Salvation depends on our choice to cooperate with grace to align our will with His.... Read More
Two Complementary Components of Being
In reflecting the infinite Love of God, every community of persons includes two groups of people: some whose primary concern is truth, justice, and excellence; and others whose focus is compassion, mercy, and equality. Some distinguish these mindsets as conservative and liberal, others masculine and feminine. They can be metaphorically referred to as the head […]... 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