Purify Your Bride

One great thing about atheists is their love of truth. It is so frustrating to deal with people who are sort of christian but not really. They might go to church or not but they self identify as christian or catholic. Still it does not really make a difference in their lives. They say it [...]

I like James Dobson. I have since high school. We still listen to focus on the family as my kids are nearly in high school. I have to say I was disappointed at his response to Obama’s speech on religion. It is not that I disagree with him. I think he is basically right. I [...]

I knew when I brought up politics I would get the typical partisan rant as a response. Devin Rose is a good guy. We are both converts and programmers and bloggers. I have read his blog and seen his comments on other blogs so I know he is quite bright and a very serious Catholic. [...]

Interesting quote from what is known as the most liberal denomination in Canada:
“Shouldn’t the United Church Just Throw in the Towel?” is the opening event of a four-day Church-sponsored conference that will look at the future of the country’s largest Protestant denomination.
“If the people who are allegedly in a position of leadership, vision and inspiration [...]

Lately, I have been following US presidential politics quite closely. I don’t blog about it much because everyone at St Blogs is pretty much in awe of George Bush and I am not. In fact, I am not impressed by many politicians in either party. I do see Obama as being a game changer. That [...]

I wonder what the dissent of Roberts on the Gitmo decision means for Roe v Wade. Here is one place he had the chance to think with the church and he didn’t do it. The idea that at least the most basic rights belong to all humans rather than just US citizens is pretty fundamental [...]

Up here in Canada there is big news about the government making an official apology to natives in residential schools. What happened is that in 1870 the Government of Canada, in association with the Catholic, Anglican, United, and Presbyterian churches, had a policy of removing Indian children from their homes and forcibly putting them into [...]

The Catholic Theological Society of America is meeting again. They seem to be trying to figure out what John Paul’s Theology of the Body means. It is interesting because at the outset they assume it cannot means what it actually says. That is that as men and women our bodies are created in harmony with [...]

One of the most powerful ways tradition works is that it causes us to be suspicious of certain arguments. I had that as a protestant reading Catholic arguments. I was so sure the Catholic position had to be irrational in some way. I didn’t know how but it was a strong assumption I had going [...]

I listen to a fair bit of Christian radio. One think I notice as a Catholic that I never paid much attention to as a protestant is how they constantly use phrases like “scripture tells us”, “we know from the bible”, “the bible clearly teaches”, etc. Often the show itself is called something like Let [...]