The so-called "European Union" or EU is failing because it is not based on the one and only thing that could possibly hold it together -- Catholicism. By ditching its Christian heritage, the EU was doomed to failure before it ever really began. A union based on Secularism is doomed to fail. Such will be... Continue Reading →
Many Catholics, God knows how many, have signed on to the #CatholicMeToo movement. Many more will in the days ahead. What is it? Simply put, it is a twofold effort to bring pressure on the US Catholic bishops, so that true and genuine reform will take place in the US Catholic Church on the issue... Continue Reading →
Your Holiness, I entered the Catholic Church in the year 2000 as an Evangelical convert through Anglicanism, and I come from a family line of Protestants that stretches back 500 years to the days of Martin Luther and Henry VIII. Words cannot describe the joy I felt on the Easter Vigil of 2000, upon being... Continue Reading →
In a previous essay I relayed the personal difficulty the 2002 homosexual-abuse and paedophilia scandal brought upon my wife and I just a few years after our conversion to the Catholic Church. We nearly lost our Catholic faith over it, but we managed to survive. Others weren't so lucky. Here in the Bible Belt, I hear... Continue Reading →
Lamento que mi español sea pobre. Soy un hablante de inglés y este es un blog en inglés. Hoy les escribo en español para llamar a todos mis hermanos y hermanas católicos, no solo a mi familia de habla inglesa. Confío en que me disculparán por mi mala traducción al español y relacionaran el espíritu... Continue Reading →
It's a popular narrative from the eighth chapter of John's gospel (John 8:1-11). A woman is caught in the very act of adultery. She is dragged before Jesus by the scribes and Pharisees, so as to put Jesus to a test. They wanted to see what he would do with her. The Torah (Law of... Continue Reading →
In sharing the Gospel with the world, the Catholic Church has adopted a process called inculturation. This can basically be summed up as follows. The traditions of the Gospel have a central doctrinal core, which are based in Mosaic Judaism, but redefined according to Christ and his Apostles. Some traditions are essential and cannot be... Continue Reading →
This time may well go down as the saddest generation of Catholic history. Circumstances have grown so bad that there is no choice left but for the laity to revolt, and so revolt is happening. It's not a revolutionary kind of revolt. Revolutions call for change and innovation that break with history and tradition. No.... Continue Reading →
I always get into trouble when I start up a topic like this, but the reason why I keep doing it is because I think its important. The topic is Hebrew Catholicism. Within the Catholic Church there appears to be two extremes of thought. The first extreme is the older one, which holds to the... Continue Reading →
