The New York Times has taken an interesting direction in the last year or so. Before you could count on the Times to offer what they felt was the whole spectrum: commentators who were anti-Catholic specifically, commentators who were anti-religion of all sorts, and commentators who didn’t care about religion or find it relevant. If… Continue reading Great New York Times Article on the Glories of the Old Mass
Tag: apologetics
Garbage In, Garbage Out
Former Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius, now Secretary of Health and Human Services, has rightly come under a lot of fire for her views on abortion and her seeming friendship with the now-murdered abortionist George Tiller, and it’s particularly depressing that a self-proclaimed “personally opposed” Catholic heads the HHS, the government agency most naturally connected to… Continue reading Garbage In, Garbage Out
The Euthyphro Dilemma, Part 2
Kerath25‘s comment on my post The Euthyphro Dilemma, Part 1, was too good to pass up. Without further ado: This question (nice to finally have a name to associate it with) is a particular one that seems to come up a lot in my discussions with those who do not want to believe. They first… Continue reading The Euthyphro Dilemma, Part 2
Pilate’s Epilogue
The Gospel for this upcoming Sunday is John 18:33b-37, part of the fascinating dialogue between Pilate and Jesus. During Wednesday’s Men’s Prayer Group, Fr. De Celles noted that there are two contradictory legends about what happened to Pilate: one story is that he converted and became a great saint; the other is that he threw… Continue reading Pilate’s Epilogue
Our Common Goal.
“If sinners will be damned, at least let them leap to hell over our bodies. And if they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees, imploring them to stay. If hell must be filled, at least let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let no one go… Continue reading Our Common Goal.
Purgatory Thought Experiments, pt. 2: A Response
TurretinFan has published a “Response to Heschmeyer’s Purgatory Thought Experiments.” The original “Heschmeyer’s Purgatory Thought Experiments” can be found here. I’ll post his comments in red, and my responses in black; when I quote from the original post, I’ll put that in blue. First of all, let me just say that he provides some really… Continue reading Purgatory Thought Experiments, pt. 2: A Response
The Two Views of Church
I. The Two Ways of Viewing the ChurchThere are two ways of looking at the Church. I don’t mean here “visible v. invisible,” but rather the fundamental way that orthodox and heterodox Christians differ in their conception of the Church. They are, broadly: As a divinely-ordained body created by Christ, entrusted with a sacred and… Continue reading The Two Views of Church
Fr. De Celles on the Rapture
As promised, here’s Fr. De Celles’ homily from last Sunday on the topic of the Rapture and the End Times – it’s nice to see a Catholic perspective on these things, although I acknowledge that a limited diversity of belief is permitted on a number of the subjects he addresses here. The first reading was… Continue reading Fr. De Celles on the Rapture
Why Would an All-Knowing God Test Us?
Hmyer asks, at the end of my last post, The story of Abraham and Issac is difficult, but not so much ( for me) because God has the right to “kill” Isaac and take him to heaven. The difficulty for me is that God would accomplish this by asking Abraham to do the killing. It’s… Continue reading Why Would an All-Knowing God Test Us?
The Euthyphro Dilemma, Part 1
Is Good “Good” Because God Commands it? Or Does God Command it Because it is Good? That’s the crux of the Euthyphro dilemma, so-named because it derives from Socrates’ question in Plato’s Euthyphro, “Is the pious loved by the gods because it is pious, or is it pious because it is loved by the gods?”… Continue reading The Euthyphro Dilemma, Part 1