Purify Your Bride

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The problem is people believe things and refuse to question it. If Hitler was willing to consider he was wrong, he might not have gone on the killing spree.
This comes from Samuel Skinner’s comment on the last post. It says in a few words what Steve Palvina says in many. That is that there is […]

It has been noted many times how much Protestants and Catholics have in common. That is true. There is a lot. But lately I have been noticing how much protestants and atheists have in common. One key way I have seen is the tendency to decide moral questions by moral feelings rather than moral principles. […]

Carl Olson has a couple of posts. One on Cherie Blair’s comments and another one reacting to an article published in Austrailia.
Dave Armstrong has a post about abortion in which he talks about contraception a lot.
Also, Erik Twist has a couple more good posts plus his own conversion story.
Catholic Exchange has an article on the […]

A few days ago Pope Benedict delivered a reflection on Humanae Vitae. I saw the story on CNN and I wanted to get to see what he actually said without the MSM spin. It took a while but Amy Welborn posted the translation today. Interesting comments.
He certainly confirms the link between Humanae Vitae and […]

This was the reading at mass this morning. I found it quite interesting. When you look at it, it is about worship. As a protestant I always missed that. There is an assumption that how you worship is unimportant. What matters is what your heart is like. So we would always jump to the conclusion […]

The Ascension is one of the hard things to understand. It involves the removal from earth of the best evidence for the resurrection. That is the body of the risen Lord. Why just give people 40 days to see Him? Why not just go to the temple and show everyone? Why not let Jesus hang […]

I saw the movie Juno on Saturday. It was entertaining. Very crude but quite clever. Even though this movie has been hailed as a beckon of light for the culture of life I was struck by how lost it seemed. There was one running joke about teens being sexually active. The thing was she could not imagine […]

Preach the Gospel; when necessary, use words.
Has there ever been a saying more disastrous for the church than that one? St Francis of Assisi is often claimed to have said it but there is never a citation. There is a good reason. It is not in any of his writings. There is no evidence he […]

Fr Dwight has a great post on the church militant. One thing I would quibble with him on is where this idea of the pursuit of happiness comes from. He blames it on America. Americans do like that phrase but I hardly think they invented the idea of pursuing happiness. It has been around for […]

What I hate most about Christmas is not the materialism. Sure we need to be on guard against excess and trying to find our happiness in stuff. I think secular people are probably almost as aware of this danger. Christians should be less likely to fall into this problem but if they are it is […]

One of the main critiques we hear about Catholic sexual morality is that it is unrealistic. We even hear that from protestants. Our teachings on priestly celibacy, masturbation, and contraception are labeled too difficult. God gave us powerful hormones and does not want us to be fighting them all the time. The first problem you […]

One of the chief complaints about the Catholic church is that they hate sex. This is one of those charges that anyone who defends the Catholic church has refuted time and time again. But you can see where it comes from. Someone considering coming into the Catholic church, who has learned their sexual behaviour from […]