Purify Your Bride

Delight yourself in the LORD
and he will give you the desires of your heart.
Ps 37:4
This verse is often quoted by people who believe some form of a ‘health and wealth’ gospel. If you do the right thing the desires of your heart will be granted. That makes God a great tool for getting a job [...]

One thing I have noticed about the society is the lack of deep thinking about the big questions of life. People jump on things like The DiVinci Code and The God Delusion and they just buy it all. I mean bright guys who in every other area of life are great critical thinkers. Somehow when [...]

We had first communions in our parish last Sunday. Our priest, as he often does, made a comment to the boys that they should pray that God might lead them to the priesthood. That got a big laugh. It occurred to me that the vocations crisis will be over when Catholics stop laughing at comments [...]

If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me and for the gospel will save it. Mk 8:34-35
These words are in today’s gospel. There is just such a contrast between [...]

Submitting is one of the most difficult things we are called to do as Christians. It runs counter to our pride. We don’t think we should be put lower than anyone. It, also, runs counter to our culture. Certainly the idea of submitting based on gender is seen as just crazy. Even in christian culture we see [...]

I sent this letter to CBC news after a story they did on ESCR: 
I saw a story on Embryonic Stem Cell Research last night. I was disappointed with a few things. First of all, there was no mention of the central ethical question around ESCR. That is, how does our respect for human life translate into respect for [...]

Pope Benedict said a while ago that being agnostic was impractical. If God is real then He belongs in the very center of our lives. He can we live life with a question mark in the center? We end up making an assumption about God’s existence and ordering our affairs accordingly. Pascal’s wager is essentially an argument [...]

Growing up you often heard people say ‘church does not need to be boring’. There was a move in the 70’s to make things more interesting. To get rid of repetitive litugy. To update the music. To be creative with preaching. This effected me as a protestant and from what I hear it was evident [...]

There has been much discussion about a story a reporter wrote about the sacrament of confession. He went to 24 priests and gave a fake confession of some made up sin. He was trying to show that contradictory advice was being given out and that some of it was not orthodox. There was much shock [...]

A while ago, around the time John Paul died, I posted something on a debate between protestants on how the late pope should be seen. There were objections to the glowing tributes based on the idea that the man “falsely” claimed to be the vicar of Christ. Plus he had a devotion to Mary and [...]

We hear a lot about freedom in the debate over gay “marriage”. The idea is that if somebody wants to do something, it is their business. They should be free to do it. The government should not stop them just because it is distasteful to some other group not directly involved. This sounds reasonable on the surface. Certainly [...]