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Inequality and CEO Pay
Should we care about income or wealth inequality? Plenty of economists and plenty of Christians think we should. Catholics (should) have the default position that all people have equal human dignity,...
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They incested, er, insisted there is no slippery slope.
Supporters of traditional marriage occasionally suggest that, once the green light is/was given for same-sex marriage on the principle that marriage is for two consenting adults who love each other,...
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Watch these before quoting me a social encyclical
I’ve been largely absent from blogging the past few weeks (you’re welcome!) due to work. Weren’t all-nighters supposed to end in grad school? Anyway, I stumbled across a series of four videos that...
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Conservatives and the Culture of Death
Some of my best friends are conservatives. Okay, since I’d probably consider myself a Catholic classical liberal, I line up with conservatives far more often than progressives. At one point I...
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Good Friday morning read
This is probably the third year in a row that I’ve recommended Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman’s Discourse 16. Mental Sufferings of Our Lord in His Passion as a must-read for Good Friday. The...
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Ordinations in Dachau
Our department’s administrative assistant knows that I’ve traveled to Germany in the past as faculty advisor for our study abroad trip to Luneburg. While there, we visit the Neuengamme concentration...
View ArticleLittle pro-life victories
About a year ago, I was prompted to write this post when I discovered a little bit of anti-child internet technology that catered to the opinion that kids are ridiculously expensive buzzkills. There is...
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Lenten Practices: Almsgiving
I’ve looked at resources on prayer and fasting the last two weeks, so we’ll round out our trio of Lenten practices by discussing almsgiving today. There is obviously an aspect of almsgiving that...
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Lenten practices: fasting
I mentioned some thoughts/resources on prayer last week; this week, we’ll discuss some for fasting and next week for almsgiving, to cover the three traditional Lenten practices. Bridget mentioned this...
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Lenten Practices: Prayer
There are more than three weeks in Lent, but there are traditionally three things that Christians commit to during Lent: prayer, fasting, and almsgiving. If I tried to do a series of posts that...
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BREAKING NEWS: HUMANS BORN WITH CONSCIENCE, CONCUPISCENCE
Sorry for yelling, but it seems the folks at CNN are thusly surprised at research demonstrating the existence of a “moral core” and a “sense of justice” that is albeit “tragically limited.” How do they...
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Demonic Obsession
There are at least three ways that evil spirits can influence human beings: demonic obsession, oppression, or possession. (I say “at least” because I just now found this interview with Fr. Gabriele...
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Arrogance or Authority?
If pride is strong enough to bring down a third of the angels, what chance do we lowly mortals have against it? Every Christian knows that pride sits at the head of the deadly sins, the fount from...
View ArticleFulton Sheen on the Devil’s Non-existence
In Life of Christ, while discussing the temptation in the desert, Sheen writes: Very few people believe in the devil these days, which suits the devil very well. He is always helping to circulate the...
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LOLcat evangelism
One of the more common complaints about the Catholic Church is its supposed out-of-touchedness. Our morality is too old-fashioned, too outdated, and becoming increasingly irrelevant to moderns, even to...
View ArticleRhi-no More
Call me late to the party, but I ran across a meme on facebook about the extinction of the Western Black Rhino. I presumed that this declaration was pretty recent, though it turns out it happened a...
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Immi-great!
Readers of mine (both here and at CatholicVote) probably realize that I try my best to be a faithful Catholic, to follow the teaching of our Pope and Bishops, but that I’ve occasionally disagreed with...
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The easy and hard path to sanctity
…are, it appears, the same path. We are familiar both with Christ saying to “Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the road broad that leads to destruction, and those who enter...
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Lame Duck
I don’t know anything about the Phil Robertson situation other than what shows up in my facebook newsfeed, which I am too lazy to read. Apparently, he is a star of A&E’s “Duck Dynasty,” and got...
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Picking a Saint
My current RCIA sponsee (I’m the sponsor; ergo, he is the sponsee) asked about choosing a patron saint, since most candidates/catechumens do so before entering the Church. So, at the risk of making...
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