Crucial distinctions
Anticipating being asked to become involved in something I oppose, an opposition sourced in sound and firmly entrenched Catholic teaching. I recently sought the advice and wisdom of my …
Author: Rick
Ball bearings and why we shouldn’t be one
Leila Miller paints a vivid picture of what makes up a too large segment of society: If you are bewildered or even frightened about the lightning speed at which …
“Sex as mere recreation, as contact sport, as a source only of superficial pleasure has produced armies of the desperately sad and anxious”
Fr. Robert Barron, a most convincing voice of reason within the Church, takes on the hook up culture while extolling the virtues of God given sexuality: Throughout the history …
Strange indeed
“It is strange that some theologians have difficulty accepting the precise and limited doctrine of papal infallibility, but see no problem in granting de facto infallibility to everyone who …
Maybe Bruce should instead be called Carl Jung Jenner, or maybe even Sophia Jenner
Carl Jung is considered to be one of the founding fathers of psychology but he was also a huge fan of Gnosticism: Jung’s “first love” among esoteric systems was …
“The Church… becomes nothing more than a quaint organization that serves to sanction the views of secular society.”
“Is the purpose of the Church simply to draw in as many people as possible, at all costs? …If the Church changes to suit us, then it cannot change …
“That is the essential choice, God or autonomy.”
Excellent piece written some time ago by Sheldon Vanauken, not long before his death, on whether people lose their faith or simply choose to disbelieve: We live in a …
“What we will meet more and more of is the loss of an ability to even conceive of a common human nature and common moral vocabulary”
There’s been lots of keyboard pounding in reaction to Bruce Jenner’s sad and deluded decision to believe that despite DNA evidence to the contrary, he’s now a woman. I’ve …
Why am I not leaving the Catholic Church?
The Anchoress has asked pretty much every Catholic hooked up to the WWW to respond to the recent Pew survey chronicling how Christians are leaving Christianity, and particularly Catholicism, …
The new front line in the culture wars… Bruce or Caitlyn?
I got into a bit of a tussle on Facebook recently when I used the accompanying graphic in response to someone adamant that we call Bruce by his new …