Purify Your Bride

I have decided to take a break from reading and writing blogs for lent. It is kind of strange to stop doing something spiritual at lent but it seems right. I did it last year and never put a note on my blog. The whole when you fast do it “so that it will not [...]

Yet those who wait for the LORD
Will gain new strength;
They will mount up with wings like eagles,
They will run and not get tired,
They will walk and not become weary.
I find that I keep looking for big events in my walk with God. Whether it is my struggle with some sin or contending for a [...]

Francis Beckwith has a post about the American Philosophical Association talking about discriminating against Christian philosophers. It is interesting how academic freedom is so important when we are talking about anti-Christian ideas but when a Christian point of view falls out of fashion it quickly becomes a thought crime. The reality is that the wisdom [...]

Fr Dwight has a good post about infallibility. It basically makes the point that every church need some form of de facto infallibility whether they admit it or not. I think that is true. You might think you don’t need it if you want to be like the Anglican church and simply accept every nutty [...]

I have been reading some more Theology of the Body stuff. It is such beautiful thinking. In reflecting on this I ran accross Peter Kreeft saying what I was thinking. He talks about how modern Reductionism tends to reduce things to try and understand them but then has trouble rebuilding them. So when we see [...]

I had a discussion with a protestant going by Grubb over on Dave Armstrong’s forum. It was quite interesting. I was trying to get across to him that we cannot avoid having tradition influence our thinking on a deep level. That we could not use scripture to judge a tradition because we were incapable of [...]

I have long believed that one of the driving forces behind the protestant reformation was the invention of the printing press. Before that it was very hard for a charismatic leader to get his ideas out to a large number of people. Everything had to be done by word of mouth or copied by hand. [...]

There seems to be a great attraction to keeping Christianity simple. Everywhere you look people are trying to reduce the faith to a few easy steps or one great maxim. People are scared of complexity. They want to communicate their creed in a sound-byte. This seems to be true of mature, evangelizing Christians and immature, [...]

Ran into this interesting post on Cardinal Castrillon Hoyos:
Can you believe it? A bishop dressed himself up as a milkman and somehow snuck into a drug lord’s abode and convinced him that he’d better go to confession? How cool is that? He’s gangsta! Makes you wonder what your bishop has done lately, eh? I should [...]

I wonder about Obama’s economic policies. I don’t doubt he has the right policy given his presuppositions. I just wonder if we need a much more major rethink of the way the world economy is moving. In particular, the west is losing its dominance. This is not terrible. The disparity between rich and poor has [...]

Hugh Heclo wrote a book called On Thinking Institutionally. David Brook wrote a column that kind of sums up what it says. The idea that unwritten rules associated with an institution can deeply effect how we think. It is found in bankers and baseball players. People think of themselves as filling the big shoes of [...]

I went to a men’s retreat this weekend. It was pretty awesome. There was a huge turnout and the speaker was excellent. The guys name was Fr Larry Richards. He is quite intense. He is crazy but it is a good kind of crazy.
I was thinking of the Liar, Lord, Lunatic trilemma. How would that [...]

This is a popular question for the press to ask religious people. I know Pope Benedict was asked this before he became pope in the book Salt and Light. He said, “As many as there are people.” It is not a wrong answer. In some ways every road to heaven is different. In some ways [...]

It seems all of it is bad.
There is the controversy over the SPXX bishops. A few things going on. One is that the press does not seem to realize that there are some major obstacles still outstanding. The largest one in the acceptance of the documents of Vatican II. One of those documents is [...]

As a protestant, it seemed that Catholics had a lot of doctrines about Mary. For me, it was not so much that they were wrong. I could accept that they were true. There was nothing in scripture or logic that made me think they were not. It was just that they seemed unnessecary. As a [...]