“… one draught of that living water…”
“I may, I suppose, regard myself, or pass for being, as a relatively successful man. People occasionally stare at me in the streets–that’s fame. I can fairly easily earn …
Category: Catholic Thought
“We desperately need the next Fr. Capodanno”
Chris Stefanick with yet another must see video: Excellent. Pass this on. Crossposted at Brutally Honest.
“People only find real friendship, life-changing friendship, by facing and working through their differences — un-nicely.”
David Mills with some seriously counterintuitive wisdom here: Don’t be nice to other Christians — specifically those in other churches than yours. God doesn’t want you to be nice …
Progress… how’s that working out for us?
“The superstition of progress asserts itself in some such fashion as this in our class rooms, best-sellers and high-class journals: Man is naturally good and indefinitely perfectible, and thanks …
“Hell is not some arbitrary punishment that God sticks on us like postage stamps…”
Mark Shea with a much needed primer on what Catholicism does (and does not) teach about salvation: Sometime back, the media got itself all in a tizzy about “the Vatican” …
“Liberty is no heirloom”
“A river must be happier than a swamp because it has banks and boundaries; a swamp is a valley of liberty that lost its shores and became liberal. Liberty …
“So I wonder…”
August 24, 2015
Catholic Thought, Culture, Domestic Terrorism, Evil, Personal, Philosophy, Planned Parenthood
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I have continued to struggle with the idea that there are so many people out there remaining silent, remaining indifferent, to the horror taking place at Planned Parenthood. The …
“Religious indifference… is usually rooted in either: the desire to appear open-minded; or outright laziness.”
I had the privilege a week ago of sitting through a talk given by Bishop Elect Robert Barron. It was an outstanding lecture that left the roughly 2,000 of …
“The pill is the only drug that was developed to be given to a woman who was healthy to create a diseased state.”
August 16, 2015
Catholic Thought, Feminism, Planned Parenthood, Rosie O'Donnell, Science, Women
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In the wake of the fallout produced by the release of multiple Planned Parenthood videos proving that the organization is profiting from the sale of aborted baby bodies and …
Why I am now and will ever be… Catholic
Gospel Reading Twentieth Sunday in Ordinary Time John 6:51-58 Jesus said to the crowds:“I am the living bread that came down from heaven;whoever eats this bread will live …