When disedifying and disheartening bad news abounds, as it has abounded lately, the obligation incumbent upon us to elevate our minds above the mundane and evil becomes all the more pressing. So it was with joy and relief that I … Continue reading
Category: Morals
Candid Testimony of German Theologian on His Own Conversion: A Call for Bishops to Convert
LifeSiteNews, Maike Hickson: Dr. Markus Büning, a German lawyer, theologian and book author, has published a very personal account of his own past as a homosexually active seminarian. He did so in order to show how true happiness can only be … Continue reading
Viganò, the Homoheresy, and Spiritual Blindness
Not long ago, I was in an online controversy with a young woman who objected to something I wrote. We went back and forth a bit, but the discussion went nowhere fast. She was defending positions diametrically opposed to the … Continue reading
Catholic Faithful Refuse to Let San Diego Bishop Dismiss the Homosexual Problem in Clergy Abuse
California Catholic Daily; On October 4th, San Diego’s Bishop Robert McElroy held the third in a series of eight “listening sessions” that he said would “focus on seeking input from people in the pews” regarding the sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church … Continue reading
Why Ecclesiastical Homosexualism is Such an Issue
The upcoming Synod on Youth is perceived my many, and with good reason, to be an instrument for promoting the homosexual agenda inside the Church. This — unbelievably! — at a time when that agenda is doing untold harm to … Continue reading
Cardinal Mueller Says Corruption of Doctrine Leads to Corruption of Morals
LifeSiteNews, Maike Hickson: In a homily during of priestly ordination of Michael Sulzenbacher, SJM in Rome, the Cardinal touched upon the current situation in the Church, pointing to the Church’s “deep crisis of credibility caused by men.” He sees, as a potential … Continue reading
War and the Rumors of War
Introduction It has been twenty years since I stopped going to the Novus Ordo Mass and returned to the immutable Faith and the traditional Catholic Latin Mass. Like other cohorts of my generation, returning to Traditional Catholicism was a search … Continue reading
The Summer of Our Discontent
Doubtless it is because summer means vacation time for most Americans and Europeans that there is always a feeling not much happens – there is no big news – during June, July and August. The feeling is probably due to … Continue reading
A Brief Primer on the Virtue of Justice
Justice, in its most foundational meaning, is “rendering to the other what is his due.” When the “other” is a fellow man or the State, there are three specific parts of justice that pertain: commutative justice, distributive justice, and legal … Continue reading
In the Current Crisis, Beware of False Solutions; Pursue Real Ones
In a time of crisis, in panic mode, it is easy to jettison prudence and rush to the quickest solution that comes to mind, or one that results from a consensus of interested parties who are louder than all the … Continue reading
Josh Shapiro’s Grand Kangaroo Court Has Not Served Justice in Pennsylvania
A civilization that has little regard to the cardinal virtue of justice is a civilization in trouble. Of all the natural, acquired moral virtues, this one is the most foundational in the governing of any society. American jurisprudence has noble … Continue reading
Bishop Morlino’s Scathing Pastoral on the Crisis of Sexual Deviance of Clergy and Bishops
LieSiteNews, Patrick B. Craine: Bishop Morlino: “If you’ll permit me, what the Church needs now is more hatred! As I have said previously, St. Thomas Aquinas said that hatred of wickedness actually belongs to the virtue of charity. As the … Continue reading
Changing Church Teaching
However readers of the present lines first read or heard the news on August 2, the report included the words. “Pope Changes Church Teaching”. The full headline in the Washington Post was, “Pope Francis changes Catholic Church teaching to say … Continue reading
Moral Theologian Says ‘The Homosexual Network’ in the Church Is Top Issue
LifeSiteNews, Lisa Bourne: Professor Janet Smith, a moral theologian at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit, addressed the subject of homosexual networks in the Church on Facebook this week, saying that doing away with them is necessary to restore the priesthood. “Many … Continue reading
Ignoring Church Teaching
Here is a question for any reader who is a lifelong Catholic younger than 50: Have you ever heard a homily preached against the evil of contraception? My guess is that you have not. I know that I never have … Continue reading
