love
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
Love is also truth and justice
In our era that emphasizes love as mercy (at the expense of justice), let us not forget that love is also: comparing some people to a brood of vipers (Mt 12:34), knocking over tables of the greedy and whipping their animals (Jn 2:15), comparing your good friend to Satan (Mt 16:23), telling some people they’re […]... Read More
Marriage and the Eucharist: Why are They so Challenging?
It’s unfortunate, but not surprising that believers have had problems accepting Christ’s teachings on Marriage and the Eucharist. Along with the obvious poor catechesis, here are 3 reasons that may shed a little light on this phenomenon: 1) These are the two teachings in the gospels that Christ’s disciples had problems accepting (Mt 19:10; Jn […]... Read More
The Paradox of Love
This week’s mass readings have been focusing on the Sermon on the Mount, where Jesus shocks the world with His wisdom, as He continues to do today. Anger, lust, greed, dishonesty, and ultimately idolatry, are condemned as violating the natural moral law and causing barriers to happiness and union with God. There’s much to ponder […]... Read More
“Love” Isn’t Love
We are reminded by secular progressives during their pride month that “love is love.” This of course is kept vague and ambiguous as a bumper-sticker slogan, to avoid the scrutiny of reason. Without further definition, one must presume it means that sexual expression may be perverted in any way desirable as long as there is […]... Read More
What would it take to be an abortion advocate?
Being a student of human nature I continuously seek to understand why people think the way they do. My primary means is to ask them, but I also imagine what it would be like to believe what they believe and what it would take for me to do so. I often ponder what it would […]... Read More
Word, Meaning, and Interpretation
Words without interpretation are meaningless. Words with improper interpretation become subjective falsehoods. The only foolproof way of knowing the right interpretation of words is to be informed by the one who has spoken them. This is an important principle. So too, the divine Word without proper interpretation becomes something false in the subjective minds of […]... Read More
Nature vs. Ideology: Revulsion can be good as the soul’s warning to avoid evil
NATURE. Human beings have a natural adversity to unnatural behaviors, usually taking the form of disgust or anger. This is normal and healthy. Disgust recognizes perversion and anger seeks to right an injustice. How one chooses to respond to this natural interior reaction is the ethical question, i.e. productively or destructively. Every child and every […]... Read More
Relationships in the 21st Century
Question to ponder, taken from the general theme of my May 2018 VP COLUMN: “How many people have poor self esteem due to feeling used, being dumped, or feeling they have wasted prime time in their lives waiting for a ‘commitment-phobe’? Too many to imagine. There may be number of reasons, but the important question […]... Read More