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by bcadmin | Nov 9, 2022 | Apologetics, Books, Catholicism, Features, Fr. Robert Spitzer, Homosexuality, Ignatius Press, interview, Moral Teaching, Morality, News, transgenderism | 0 |
Fr. Robert Spitzer, SJ is founder of Magis Center, a Southern California-based organization which offers resources to demonstrate the harmony between science and faith. A Jesuit since 1974 and ordained a priest in 1983, among […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 1, 2022 | "same-sex unions", Cardinal Jean-Claude Höllerich, Morality, News, The Dispatch | 0 |
The culture has “evolved” (read: degraded) to accept as normal much behavior overtly violating the Ten Commandments. But authentic Church teaching, rooted in the Gospel and all of Scripture, is usually out of step with […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 25, 2022 | development of doctrine, Father Benedict Ashley, moral theology, Morality, News, Pope St. John Paul II, The Dispatch, Theology of the Body, Truth | 0 |
Faith does not depend upon our own reasonings and feelings. It responds to the revelation of God, which exceeds all of our own capacities. On our own, we could not know God and could have […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 18, 2022 | Canada, Humanae Vitae, Morality, News, Pope Francis, synodality, The Dispatch, Theology | 0 |
by bcadmin | Aug 13, 2022 | Chapp's Schtick, Columns, Features, Gospels, Henri de Lubac, holiness, Jesus Christ, Morality, News, Saints, The Church: Paradox and Mystery | 0 |
Having reviewed the republication of Henri de Lubac’s book The Church: Paradox and Mystery, I had to accept that space constraints prevented me from discussing at more length a part of the text that moved […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 10, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Morality, News, Pew Research Center, Surveys | 0 |
With the issuance of two recent Gallup polls on Americans’ belief in God and their views on morality, one could come to the conclusion that the United States could be in a heap of trouble.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 6, 2022 | conscience, Legalism, Morality, News, Pope Saint John Paul II, The Dispatch, Veritatis Splendor | 0 |
When the Church speaks definitively on morality—says that without exception something is wrong—is it declaring a truth or laying down a law? Confusion about that is rampant today. Recently I came across this statement by […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 29, 2022 | Camille Paglia, cigarettes, Homosexuality, Morality, News, oscar wilde, smoking, sodomy, The Dispatch | 0 |
“You must have a cigarette.” wrote Oscar Wilde in The Picture of Dorian Gray. “A cigarette is a perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can […]
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As a classroom lesson in philosophy, I was fond of presenting to my students a pair of contradictory philosophies for them to scrutinize. It was my hope that they would recognize that both could not be true at the same time and then realize that one view must be wrong. The next step was to […]
by bcadmin | May 19, 2021 | cinema, Columns, Features, Hollywood, Morality, News, Protestantism, The Past Present | 0 |
On Sunday, April 25, the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences held its 93rd Academy Awards. Closing in on its 100th birthday, striving for contemporary relevance, it succeeded only in showing its age. Whereas […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 10, 2021 | Ethics, Faith & Spirituality, Featured, Morality, News, Philosophy | 0 |
I had just finished another day of teaching and was on my way home when I spotted a hitchhiker. He was a university student and, once he climbed into my car, we found ourselves engaged in a lively conversation. He eventually asked me what I taught, and I responded by informing him that I taught […]
by bcadmin | Apr 20, 2021 | cooperation, COVID-19, Ethics, Featured, In the Spotlight, Morality, News, Vaccines | 0 |
In recent weeks, I have encountered scores of people who are confused about Church teaching with regard to the morality of taking COVID-19 vaccines. This confusion comes not really because they have not heard that Pope Francis, two Vatican organs, and …
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