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Same-Sex Marriage: Every Cake You Bake
We read, see, and hear a growing accumulation of stories in the news of small businesses being persecuted for not providing services to celebrate a same-sex marriage. Photographers, restaurants, inns,...
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Marriage: The Enigma in the Room
We are indeed a peculiar lot. We evolve and change, push and pull, vote then cheer or sulk. Often the powerful just invent some feature of life that they think would be cool then force the compliance...
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The Grocery Line Love Story
The grocery store line was long. Really long. “What is wrong with you idiots? Get another checker! This isn’t rocket science,” the young woman called out loud enough to be heard by everyone. “I have...
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Spiritual Friendship—Some Observations
Lately, within the last 2-3 years especially, a grassroots movement has been quietly taking hold within certain circles of Catholicism. There is a group of people who, like me, have same-sex...
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How to Talk to LGBTQ Supporters
The terrain upon which a well-formed Catholic can comfortably discuss the LGBTQ issues in today’s intellectual and moral climate is almost non-existent. The faithful Catholic has a very narrow road...
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Trump is the Better Moral Choice
By the time you read my next article, either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump will be elected to the office of President of the United States. That is a fact. Barring a major catastrophe, one of those...
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Faith, Reason, and the Transgender Movement
The transgender movement is wholly incompatible with faith and reason. Even though God wants us all to achieve salvation, He gives us the unbearable compliment of a free will. Our freedom to choose...
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McVatican Detractors Are Missing the Point
Apparently, the Vatican’s Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See (APSA) thinks business is business. I sure hope that’s not the case. A plan to open a McDonald’s restaurant in a...
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The Real Fundamental Option: Living as a Child of God
The False Fundamental Option In his landmark encyclical Veritatis Splendor (“The Splendor of Truth”) St. John Paul II condemned the erroneous moral doctrine of the fundamental option. Some falsely...
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A Catholic Often Gets the Short End of the Stick on Both Sides of Academia
Paul Griffiths is an expert on Catholic thought, holding the Warren Professor of Catholic thought at Duke Divinity School but this past month he was forced to resign for questioning liberal orthodoxy....
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Some Thoughts on the Holiness of Matrimony
While I’m neither a theologian nor a Bible Scholar, I’ve always thought that the Bible is really very clear and straightforward in regard to both marriage and homosexuality. In Matthew 19:16, Jesus...
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Same-Sex Marriage: Every Cake You Bake
We read, see, and hear a growing accumulation of stories in the news of small businesses being persecuted for not providing services to celebrate a same-sex marriage. Photographers, restaurants, inns,...
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PFLAG ‘T.H.AW.’- A Program to Make Homosexual Behavior ‘Okay’
The announcement in our parish bulletin last spring seemed innocuous enough. A program entitled Transgender Homosexual Awareness (T.H.AW.) was being held to give parishioners “an opportunity . . . to...
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Ryan Anderson Razes the Transgender Movement’s Arguments in New Book
One of the greatest compliments of Thomas Aquinas was that he was often better and more persuasively able to explain his opponents’ arguments than the opponents themselves. In his new book, When Harry...
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Bullied for Adhering to the Faith in a Catholic High School
Over the past few months, ‘bullying’ has become a recurring topic of discussion among the members of Fusion, our youth ministry at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church. For professing his faith one of our...
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A Win for Morality But the Fight Goes On
According to SCOTUS, an individual’s religious beliefs are equally as important as another person’s objectively disordered sexual proclivity. Or to say it another way, Christian beliefs in regard to...
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The Death Penalty, the McCarrick Scandal, and a Grand Jury Report
Some Catholics are pretty worked up over the news about the recent change to paragraph 2267 (the death penalty) in the Catechism. But many more are angered by the McCarrick scandal and the revelations...
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Does God Love You Just As You Are?
The next time someone says, “God loves you just as you are,” or the next time you begin to say or think to yourself, “God loves me just as I am,” please call to mind (former Cardinal) Theodore...
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I am only speaking out now about the scandals in the Church because I remained silent before and contributed to the growth of the pernicious poison that will choke the life out of the Church if it is...
View ArticleA Foolish Dreamer Awakens in the Church at Last
Many of you reading this are familiar with much of my journey and story. If you are, you likely know that I have had more than my share of struggles in my pursuit of Catholicism at her core. That core...
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