Sep
5
Health reform: Kennedy brain cancer, funerals, and change
September 5, 2009 | 2 Comments
Senator Ted Kennedy – he died of brain cancer – glioblastoma multiforme – a cancer for which there is no cure, for which the 5 year survival is 3%, with median survival at 15 months even with surgery, chemo and radiation. The treatments are expensive and 50 percent of those treated will be dead within [...]
Jun
7
When does human life begin: asking the wrong question
June 7, 2009 | 3 Comments
A frequent question in the pro-life rhetoric is to challenge the opposition, the pro-abortion/pro-choice camp, with the question of “when does human life begin”. I will say this is entirely the wrong question and one which has no answer except to say that it is based a fallacy, the wrong premise that somehow in this [...]
Jun
2
Holiness: Catholic and Sacred
June 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Holiness: we are thus commanded to be Holy, but what does it mean?
Saint Athanasius wrote: ”For the Son of God became man so that we might become God.”
St. Thomas Aquinas wrote: ”The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in his divinity, assumed our nature, so that he, made man, might make men gods.” CCC 460
This is [...]
May
27
The American Constitution and Dissident Catholics
May 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Over at the Kabuki Theater of Dissident Catholic Outrage the question was asked “What’s so magical about the US Constitution?”
The author expressed the opinion that “Even more confusing…is what I owe the US constitution as a Catholic. I feel that there is such a treasure trove of Catholic thought out there that, comparatively, renders the [...]
May
20
But this kind is not cast out but by prayer and fasting. Mt. 17:21
All too often we assume that by our efforts we can secure the salvation of ourselves and others, this is the Pelagian infection which persists in the post-modern world and the idea that by asserting our rights and our wills we can [...]
May
19
Pro-Life as Caricature: Rebranding the movement
May 19, 2009 | 2 Comments
The cultural Visigoths have established strongholds in our Catholic Universities and their leader of moment, President Barack Obama, has given his speeches from the podiums of Georgetown and Notre Dame undermining the public perception of American Catholic leadership and their moral authority to lead the faithful. Conversely, for the first time the Gallup poll shows [...]
May
16
Make no mistake, the commencement speech at Notre Dame and reception of degree Doctor of Laws Honoris Causa by President Barack Obama is a calculated move to further divide the Catholic Church in America and thus secure the Catholic left to further the agenda of the Democratic Party. The Fabian socialist agenda of the Democratic [...]
May
13
It is undeniable now that the press has become a tool of hate useful to the powerful liberals in this nation, liberals who are tolerant of every aberrant behavior and social deviancy but despise what was once the civility that governed normal discourse and debate in America.
Pornography is protected free speech, but having an outspoken opinion [...]
May
8
Phil Lawler at Catholic Culture dot Org has co-authored a series of analytic editorials with Dr. Jeff Mirus on the pro-life movement and the need to revisit strategies in the face of the disaster of the 2008 Presidential Elections in the USA.
Lawler wrote:
Abortion is just one manifestation of the “culture of death,” and the struggle to [...]
May
6
Argument: the recent New York Times article by Stanley Fish is Statist propaganda which proclaims that individual members of society, through social contract theory, must assent and consent to the proposition that the State should form the personal conscience by its Sovereign determination of what is meet and just in society. the foundational document of this premise [...]
