Spirit & Life Blog
Tomorrow is June 24th. Does that mean anything to you? If it doesn’t, I humbly suggest that it should! And hopefully after reading this column, you will never again forget the importance of June 24th. Just as January 22nd is a date of immense significance to the pro-life movement, so too is June 24th. The…
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“As experience teaches, the absence of a father causes psychological and moral imbalance and notable difficulties in family relationships, as does, in contrary circumstances, the oppressive presence of a father, especially where there still prevails the phenomenon of “machismo,” or a wrong superiority of male prerogatives which humiliates women and inhibits the development of healthy…
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“We have the family, the ‘society’ of a man’s house — a society very small, one must admit, but none the less a true society, and one older than any State. Consequently, it has rights and duties peculiar to itself which are quite independent of the State.” ― Pope Leo XIII, Rerum novarum It has…
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It’s June. You know what that means, right? It means it’s the month of the Sacred Heart, of course! Unfortunately, some of my readers will have thought to themselves, with sorrow, “It’s Pride month.” I don’t blame those who did. That’s how effective the architects of the culture of death are. You have to hand…
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“When a society moves towards the denial or suppression of life, it ends up no longer finding the necessary motivation and energy to strive for man’s true good. If personal and social sensitivity towards the acceptance of a new life is lost, then other forms of acceptance that are valuable for society also wither away.…
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“Even when not motivated by a selfish refusal to be burdened with the life of someone who is suffering, euthanasia must be called a false mercy, and indeed a disturbing ‘perversion’ of mercy. True ‘compassion’ leads to sharing another’s pain; it does not kill the person whose suffering we cannot bear. Moreover, the act of euthanasia…
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Well, that was fast! The conclave, I mean. What a joy to see that white smoke this past Thursday, and a short while later to see the nervous, but smiling face of our new Holy Father emerge onto the center loggia of St. Peter’s Basilica. The swiftness with which the cardinals came to the required…
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“To redefine the definition of sex to include a person’s subjective, sexual behavioral predilection is so fundamentally flawed, it will undoubtedly lead to further confusion regarding the definitions of marriage and family, undermining the very foundation of civil society.” ― Dr. Steven White, Chair of CMA’s Health Policy Committee Although it sometimes seems difficult to…
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The loss of a pope is always a moment of enormous significance for Catholics. In the brief period in between the death of one pope, and the election of his successor, there is a sense of an absence. We have lost our spiritual father. It is in these moments of mourning that we recall the…
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Breaking the Chains of Pornography
“Parents and guardians, protect your home! Be vigilant about the technology you allow into your home and be sensitive to the prevalence of sexual content in even mainstream television and film and the ease by which it comes through the Internet and mobile devices. Educate yourselves about filtering software that can assist in protecting your…
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