This goes far to bridge the ridiculous divide between those Catholics who focus on the prolife issue alone and those who focus on the rest of the Church’s social teaching. There *is* no divide in the mind of Christ and the cannot be one in ours: As the 45th anniversary of the Roe v Wade decision and the annual March for Life in Washington approach this week, the Jesuit Conference of the United States and Canada issued an updated statement... Read more
…according to Baby Boomers. I was born at the tail end of the Boom in 1958. All the time I was growing up, I heard Boomers announcing that they were the Voices of a New Generation and that you should not trust anybody over 30. Our parents, who had done nothing except overcome the Depression, defeat Hitler, defy Stalin and Mao, and provide for us the strongest economy in the history of the planet were the worst. The worst. They... Read more
The fruit of our civilizing mission to New Zealand is abundant and glorious! Read more
Let the working man and the employer make free agreements, and in particular let them agree freely as to the wages; nevertheless, there underlies a dictate of natural justice more imperious and ancient than any bargain between man and man, namely, that wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner. If through necessity or fear of a worse evil the workman accept harder conditions because an employer or contractor will afford him no better, he... Read more
Check them out here. Discipleship is a call to go inward, to experience an ever-deepening encounter with Jesus Christ, and a call to go outward, to witness the good news to others. The church is missionary by its very nature, bearing witness to the kingdom of God and carrying on the mission of Jesus. A church that always looks inwardly, to its own internal issues and struggles, is a church that has forsaken its missionary vocation. Explore how the call... Read more
Matthew Walther talks sense about a Christianist Panic du Jour that has long ago passed its sell-by date: “It does not occur to them that the causes they defend, such as the belief that marriage is an indissoluble sacramental union between a man and a woman, are just as threatened by the bourgeois TLC reality show commodification of marriage represented by these ‘artisanal’ cake shops as they are by Chuck and Larry’s impending nuptials. How many of these stalwart defenders... Read more
…via G.K. Chesterton. What’s not to love? I first learned of G.K. Chesterton in 2007, while contemplating whether I should be baptized as a Christian. My year between leaving Islam and being baptized as a Christian had rendered me spiritually rudderless. I had subscribed to the view that all religions were equally useless. At the time I was working in a marketing company, under a boss who helped me to realize that evil really does, in fact, exist. There are... Read more
Seeing as how it is Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Day, this seems like a good time for a quick refresher on the distinction between Christian and Christianist. King got a lot of flack from the Christianists of his day. Sent to jail for upholding Christian teaching in a land teeming with Good White Christianists, he too found it necessary to make clear the distinction between the two subcultures in his Letter from a Birmingham Jail. It spelled out the difference... Read more
…about the Golden Globes, #metoo, Oprah, structures of sin, The Last Jedi, War of the Planet of the Apes, Dunkirk, and his picks for the Best Film and Second Best Film of 2017. Here’s Steve’s complete list of the top films of 2017. Read more
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