Note: I’m re-publishing this because it didn’t come through in its entirely the first time I put it up. I hope it makes more sense this time around. I wrote this a few months ago for the National Catholic Register. I think it’s worth publishing again at this time when we have been so deeply damaged and degraded as a nation and a people by the amoral cruelty of the election just past, and when our Church, which should be the lodestone... Read more
I wrote this post for the National Catholic Register. As soon as it went up, there was a comment saying that there were actually two Judgements, not one, and another attacking someone besides themselves — in this case, the Jesuits — for not following Church teaching. One of the commenters remarked that there was “nothing new” in this particular post. All I can say about that is I should hope not. What I am saying here is old. It’s is 2,000... Read more
It’s Advent! Time to prepare for the coming of the Lord. Read more
The Vatican is launching a sex education program based on family and led by parents. This is very different from the secular notion of sex education which involves classes taught by Planned Parenthood, which is the nation’s number one abortion provider, in schools. This program, which is developing organically with input from parents, is based on Catholic teaching and is grounded in morality. Sex education, Catholic style, sounds like a great new-old idea. Read more
To get back to. Read more
Today is Thanksgiving Eve. It’s time to count our blessings and pause in gratitude. I look back over the past year on this Thanksgiving eve and I am grateful that I was born an American. I am grateful that God placed me in the adoring hands of two parents who never placed limits on me because I was female, who didn’t try to form me into a half-person who knew her “place” at the back of the bus. I... Read more
The simplest things, teach us the most powerful lessons. The tortoise always wins. No matter how long it takes, we should raise the banner. Follow the banner. Follow Christ. Teach Christ. Preach Christ. Christ and Him crucified. That is the message, the answer, the all in all. Read more
If you love me you will obey my commandments. We don’t prove out love with obedience. Obedience is proof our love. We must always be known as sinners in great need whom God has graciously redeemed. Good doctrine is no excuse for disobedience. It is disobedience not to teach obedience. Read more
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