Purify Your Bride

Two stories that I found encouraging. One was Bp Soto giving a speech at a LGBT event in California. The other is a letter from the Canadian Bishops Conference on the 40th aniversay of Humanae Vitae. They are significant because they are two very solid, orthodox teachings by bishops in places where historically the church [...]

This is a story that both sides of the abortion debate point to as proof of their position. On the one hand pro-life folks can look at her and see a brave young woman who made a positive choice for life when so many choose death. She and her boyfriend have decided to marry and [...]

This is an interesting effort asking Christians to focus their prayers on bringing an end to abortion in this world. It is one of the hard things about dealing with such a moral outrage as it continues year after year and decade after decade. How do you keep up your energy? The basic arguments remain [...]

The pro-life has devoted almost all its resources to repeating a charge that Obama voted for infanticide. The trouble is the charge is false. Here is a discussion of the issue which includes a letter from the bills co-sponsor saying “none of those who voted against SB-1082 favored infanticide”. This makes sense because infanticide was [...]

Reading CS Lewis’ Mere Christianity I was struck by his observations on theology:
God can show Himself as He really is only to real men. And that means not simply to men who are individually good, but to men who are united together in a body, loving one another, helping one another, showing Him to one [...]

In reflecting on my last post about fundamentalism and liberalism it is interesting to note that neither side is completely consistent. You can see that when you look at contraception, abortion, and infanticide. A truly consistent fundamentalist would oppose all three. A truly consistent liberal would accept all three. Yet we only fight about abortion. [...]

It occurs to me that the political climate reflects a basic problem with religion. That is that religion tends to push towards the extremes of fundamentalism or liberalism. That is, people either feel free to question traditional religion or they don’t. If they exercise that freedom it leads to liberalism. If they refuse to allow [...]

What we need in politics is what we need in every area of life -a few saints. The campaign is getting ugly again. Here is one recent example that disgusted me. Again the supposedly Christian conservatives are the worst offenders. Again you will have trouble finding a Christian anywhere who will say what they are [...]

There is a lot of talk about whether or not Catholics should vote solely based on the abortion issue. It makes sense. Certainly it is possible to arrive at the conclusion that the moral gravity of the evil of abortion overrides the moral gravity of all the other evils and therefore we should be one [...]

I have been feeling for a long time that western Christianity, both protestant and Catholic, is somewhat dysfunctional because they don’t talk about heaven and hell very much. I know growing up as an evangelical we believed in heaven and hell but we didn’t really see it as a motivator for our actions. Salvation was [...]