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
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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
Rep. Kennedy, Bishop Tobin, and the Media
Rep. Patrick Kennedy is a pro-choice Catholic. He’s got a good bishop, Bp. Tobin, up there in Rhode Island, who’s been quietly trying to get Kennedy to either shape up or not show up for Communion. Bp. Tobin finally became much more vocal about his troubles with Kennedy after the latter attacked the importance of… Continue reading Rep. Kennedy, Bishop Tobin, and the Media
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
The Restoration Will Not Be Televised
Father David M. O’Connell has stepped down as president of D.C.’s own Catholic University of America. Under his twelve year watch, the school went from being a hotbed of dissent and heresy to one of all-too-few outstandingly Catholic universities, making the Cardinal Newman Society’s list of authentic Catholic colleges (sadly, only 21 US Catholic colleges… Continue reading The Restoration Will Not Be Televised
An Open Letter to Democrats for Life
A friend of mine sent this letter to Democrats for Life. He wrote and sent it while his blood was up, but I think he’s asking a pretty important question: are pro-life Democratic groups good or bad? Do they moderate the Democratic party, or defuse the pro-life movement? This is an increasingly urgent question due… Continue reading An Open Letter to Democrats for Life
18 U.S.C. 666: The Judas Statute
This is one of those moments where law and religion meet in an amusing way: One of the key federal laws forbidding bribery is section 666 of Title 18… which is pretty fitting if you think of how the betrayal of Jesus went down.
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