Purify Your Bride

I was reading an interesting article on the Theology of the Body channel of the Catholic Exchange website. Fr Farfaglia said this:
Deep contemplative prayer has the amazing power to transform our inner sexual energy into spiritual energy and direct that spiritual energy to God and our neighbor. Through contemplative prayer, the Holy Spirit is able [...]

Mark Shea has a good article about our endless search for the “real” Jesus that that terrible church keeps refusing to let us see. I find it interesting because it shows the strong connection between protestantism, secularism, and finally atheism. It has as its root a distrust in what people are telling you about God. [...]

Some interesting talks from Cardinal DiNardo on the Church Fathers. There is a second talk focusing just on St Augustine that I havn’t listen to yet but the first one was excellent. Cardinal DiNardo is a patristics scholar and Archbishop of the Galveston-Houston diocese. He is quite a good speaker. He addresses many of [...]

Today is the feast day of the conversion of Paul. It is a highly significant even in the history of the church. Paul, a zealous pharisee, encountered the risen Lord Jesus and his life was transformed. That story and that transformation helped convince many in the first centruy and beyond that the gospel was really [...]

This comment came from an Anglican site:
That’s the best she can do? Parrot statements which real scholars such as Dr Robert Gagnon have totally refuted dozens and dozens of times. At the same time, she uses what the Rev. Dr. Kendall Harmon calls “the Silly Shellfish Argument,” where she tries to equate the sexual purity [...]

The discussion of the Eucharist is getting long. I thought I would continue it on a new post.
The Eucharist and the Incarnation are connected. Scott Hahn talks about how the teaching on the Eucharist prolongs the scandal of the incarnation. The idea of Jesus being God would have seemed crazy to someone who saw him [...]

Carl Olson linked an article about dating in todays world. I am amazed at how lost it is. Women still seem to feel they should end up in a marriage with children. Men are pretty much jaded and confused by women and seem to give up. It seems like the system is seriously broken. That [...]

This week is National Vocation Awareness Week in the US. I thought it might be a good time to reflect on vocations. There are two vocations, marriage and religious life. Protestants recognize marriage as a complete irrevocable gift of self. But they don’t see the same in religious life. They certainly are willing to make [...]

I don’t write much about the Eucharist. Some have said that the two key topics Catholics should focus on are authority and the Eucharist. I know I talk about authority a lot. I think it needs to be discussed a lot. There are many flaws in the protestant thinking on authority. They can slowly be [...]

Are we really trying to be Christlike? I wonder sometimes. Do we just get to a point where we feel comfortable with our holiness and just kind of cruise from there? I know I can do that for long periods of time. It is only through God’s amazing grace that I am not still stuck [...]

Fr Neuhaus has died. I loved reading his stuff. My favorite quote of his
To those of you with whom I have traveled in the past, know that we travel together still. In the mystery of Christ and his Church nothing is lost, and the broken will be mended. If, as I am persuaded, my communion [...]

There is another spat of comment around the blog world comparing Pope John Paul and Pope Benedict. This was triggered by the news that Pope Benedict’s audiences have declined in 2008. They are still quite large as 2.2 million people saw him live in Italy in 2008. There is nobody else who can draw those [...]

As many of you know, the abortion debate is pretty difficult in Canada but there are glimmers of hope. Lately we had one member of our parliment, Rod Bruinooge, admit to being pro-life. Colby Cosh is a pro-choice, atheist. He writes a response which mostly target Christians. I found that interesting because Mr Bruinooge is [...]

Rod Dreher writes a post on heresy and schism. He tries to frame the liberal/conservative rift in many churches as a choice between heresy and schism:
The question ultimately is this: Are there matters over which there can be no compromise, and in which a compromise would destroy the essence of the institution? If there are, [...]

I have been having a long discussion with Chris is the comments under the Unam Sanctum post here. I thought I would move my latest response to a new post just because it was getting very long and some folks might miss it down there. His words are in green. Mine are in black but [...]