Purify Your Bride

I was listening to Scott Hahn talk about Richard Dawkins on a YouTube from Catholic Audio.
What stuck me was how he saw Dawkins as being effective not because his arguments were good but because of his style. Something he described as a confidence and a swagger that you find in Fundamentalist pastors. They might not [...]

The two biggest threats to the church today are Atheism and Liberalism. They are really somewhat the same. Both see religion as a human invention that can be changed or discarded as humans become smarter. Liberals want to hold onto the story but only as a story. We should believe as much as is reasonable [...]

In reading through Pope Benedict’s WYD talks one thing really stood out for me:
Such attempts to construct unity in fact undermine it! To separate the Holy Spirit from Christ present in the Church’s institutional structure would compromise the unity of the Christian community, which is precisely the Spirit’s gift! It would betray the nature of [...]

“One of the most troubling aspects of the proposed rules is the overly-broad definition of ‘abortion,’” write Clinton and Murray. “This definition would allow health-care corporations or individuals to classify many common forms of contraception — including the birth control pill, emergency contraception and IUDs — ‘abortions’ and therefore to refuse to provide contraception to [...]

Protestants reject the notion of mortal sin and confession. Or do they? What happens when someone in a protestant church is caught in adultery? Does the church rally around him to assure him he can’t lose his salvation? Not likely. They might hear 1 Cor 6:9-10:
9Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit [...]

Now that I figured out how to do YouTube links I thought I would keep going.

Grubb over at Dave Armstrong’s blog recommended this talk. It is quite interesting. I have a few comments:
1. I was surprised at how Catholic he is. What he is essentially doing is critiquing Faith Alone without knowing it. The idea [...]

This seems to be a much viewed short answer by Richard Dawkins:

It seems many people see this idea that culture influences religion as somehow proving all religion wrong. The idea that there are many kinds of theism proves they cannot all be completely correct. The notion that culture and tradition influence people’s thinking on these [...]

We got some bad news about little John. He has Down’s Syndrome. That is a bit of a shock. Lots of my hopes and dreams for him revolved around some sort of academic achievement. I guess my ability to learn and analyze has been the source of much of my identity. It is one of [...]

This is such a typical protestant pattern. Every so often the church becomes liberal and a faithful remnant breaks off. That remnant normally does not even think of becoming Catholic. They want to remain as they were. Becoming Catholic is about major change. Why should the Anglicans be different? In many ways they won’t be. [...]

Colby Cosh, an atheist that I have not heard of before, argues that somehow because not all Catholics have returned their Order of Canada awards that somehow Catholic opposition to abortion is not serious. This is done with, as is often the case, by showing huge confidence in his understanding of the Catholic faith [...]

John Evert Gritter was born today. He is six weeks early. Only 3 lb 6 oz.

My son Peter is 5. He loves to watch Bibleman. That is a video series about a superhero who defeats evil by quoting bible verses. Bibleman talks about the importance of following Jesus. Now Peter asks me, “How does he know where Jesus is going?” It is a fair question. It is easy to imagine [...]

There is an article in Time about churches trying to spice up the sex lives of their members. This isn’t the first time. I heard about a book called Red Hot Monogamy being promoted on Dobson. Trying to convince people that a Christian sex life can be great. So what is wrong with that? The [...]

I don’t write about Canadian politics much. I do follow it but I know most of the folks at St Blogs are not Canadian so they would not care much. Still I think we have reached a new low in terms of the social conservative politic agenda. That is mostly the issues of abortion [...]