Head & Heart in balance

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

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
The Sermon on the Mount

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

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
In vitro

What’s Wrong with In Vitro Fertilization?

     3 reasons in-vitro fertilization is intrinsically immoral and the matter of grave sin: a) It involves killing human beings. Offspring in their embryonic stage of maturity are created and destroyed (killed, or left frozen in suspended animation) as part of the process. At least 10 are killed in the attempt that one may […]... Read More