Filed under: Books and Movies, Culture and Catholicism | Tags: Catholic, Catholic church, Catholic values, grace, marriage, morality, polyamory, Sigrid Undset, slave marriage
Mercatornet has an article today on Boston’s ‘new thing’: “polyamory.” It means a ‘committed relationship’ among a group of people rather than one man and one woman. It’s not that new, actually. About as old as sin. (more…)
Filed under: Culture and Catholicism | Tags: Catholic faith, charity, heaven, holy souls, purgatory, Seven Helpers of the Holy Souls
Liberalism hesitates to pronounce the words hell or purgatory in pulpit or in publication, but it is the ancient teaching of the Church, still and always in force, that even when we aim for heaven, live lives of piety, and die in a state of grace, we are lucky to reach purgatory. Almost everyone must go there for a period of purification before we may enter heaven. What is purgatory? Where is it? Does it hurt?
You betcha! (more…)
Filed under: Culture and Catholicism, Green Catholics, abortion | Tags: abortion, Benedict XVI, Capitalism: A Love Story, Catholic, Catholic church, Catholic values, Christianity, health care debate, Islam, Michael Moore, Nancy Pelosi, pornography, secularism, separation of Church and state, SSPX, third party, Vatican II
It certainly seems that we are at the end of the world. (more…)
Filed under: Catholic Liturgy, Culture and Catholicism, abortion | Tags: abortion, Angelus Press, Benedict XVI, Catholic church, dignitatis humanae, Edward Kennedy funeral, John Kerry, Nancy Pelosi, nostra aetate, novus ordo, Patrick Leahy, pro-abort Catholics, pro-choice, pro-choice Catholics, pro-life, SSPX, the Council, traditional mass, Vatican II
Pro-life Catholics usually take the attitude toward pro-choice Catholic politicians that they are ‘renegade Catholics,’ acting outside the teaching of the Church regarding the definition of human life. We marvel that ‘dissidents’ continue to function within Catholic circles, unchallenged, receiving communion, teaching at Catholic schools, and even living in Catholic seminaries and convents.
Why is error so persistent? Isn’t Catholicism clear? (more…)
Filed under: Culture and Catholicism, Green Catholics, abortion | Tags: abortion, birth rate, Catholic, Catholic values, Christianity, feminism, freedom, negative population growth, Planned Parenthood
History is going to overtake our discussion of abortion. It’s already begun, you can hear the distant bells. (more…)
Filed under: Catholic Liturgy, Culture and Catholicism, Muslim feminism | Tags: Catholic values, culture, feminism, freedom, Islam, Latin mass, liturgy, SSPX, traditional mass, Vatican II, veil, what to wear at mass
“I really love that dress,” one handsome senior citizen comments to another as they sit, sorting baby clothes at the local crisis pregnancy center. “It looks so comfortable!” (more…)
Filed under: Culture and Catholicism, Green Catholics, abortion | Tags: breast cancer, Catholic values, contraception, economics, feminism, morality, National Public Radio, Talk of the Nation
The July 13 edition of NPR’s Talk of the Nation almost asked one of health care reform’s most important questions: Are patients at least part of the problem in the explosion of health care costs?
Unfortunately, the show left the question unanswered.
Lynn Neary knew what she didn’t want, but not what she wanted. (more…)
Filed under: Culture and Catholicism, Green Catholics, abortion, depopulation | Tags: abortion, Catholic, Catholic values, Christianity, demographics, economics, feminism, liberal fascism, negative population growth, Obama, Planned Parenthood, Wall Street
In the astonishingly frank interview linked here, the head of Korean Planned Parenthood , Mr. Choi Seon-jeony, details the depth of Korea’s depopulation crisis and the transformation it has wreaked upon Planned Parenthood itself. Go read it, but if you don’t have time, you will find a short summary below. The reader may notice inconsistencies in the summary; they are present in the original.
