Purify Your Bride

The problem is people believe things and refuse to question it. If Hitler was willing to consider he was wrong, he might not have gone on the killing spree.
This comes from Samuel Skinner’s comment on the last post. It says in a few words what Steve Palvina says in many. That is that there is […]

It has been noted many times how much Protestants and Catholics have in common. That is true. There is a lot. But lately I have been noticing how much protestants and atheists have in common. One key way I have seen is the tendency to decide moral questions by moral feelings rather than moral principles. […]

Carl Olson has a couple of posts. One on Cherie Blair’s comments and another one reacting to an article published in Austrailia.
Dave Armstrong has a post about abortion in which he talks about contraception a lot.
Also, Erik Twist has a couple more good posts plus his own conversion story.
Catholic Exchange has an article on the […]

The same sex marriage “debate” on Ellen shows exactly what frustrates me most about Republicans and social issues. They often get the answers right (or at least closer to the right answers than the Democrats do) but they do a really lousy job of articulating why they think that is the right answer. Basically they […]

Does Prince Caspian contain Christian values? Is Barak Obama a Christian? These are some questions I have seen debated recently that made clear how confused people are about what it means to be Christian. Certainly it must include more than just saying some nice words about Jesus? It needs to involve the radical world-changing message […]

A few days ago Pope Benedict delivered a reflection on Humanae Vitae. I saw the story on CNN and I wanted to get to see what he actually said without the MSM spin. It took a while but Amy Welborn posted the translation today. Interesting comments.
He certainly confirms the link between Humanae Vitae and […]

I have always known about the two natures of Christ. I learned in catechism class that Jesus is full God and fully man. Not half God and half man but totally and completely God and totally and completely man. Something that does not seem possible but that is what scripture says. That is an interesting […]

This was the reading at mass this morning. I found it quite interesting. When you look at it, it is about worship. As a protestant I always missed that. There is an assumption that how you worship is unimportant. What matters is what your heart is like. So we would always jump to the conclusion […]

Someone pointed me to this article. It is quite useful to look at what passed for deep thinking these days. He mostly takes as obvious that evolution implies there is no God. So most of what he says is true and good insight into evolution. Then he just kind of jumps to his conclusion like […]

The Ascension is one of the hard things to understand. It involves the removal from earth of the best evidence for the resurrection. That is the body of the risen Lord. Why just give people 40 days to see Him? Why not just go to the temple and show everyone? Why not let Jesus hang […]

Mary seems like the topic that draws the strongest emotional response from Protestants. It seems to go beyond logic. Sure there has been a deepening of our understanding of Mary that goes a few levels beyond what has happened in other areas. We arrived at the truth that Jesus is fully human and fully divine. […]