Fr. Joseph Levine graduated from Thomas Aquinas College and after a long journey was ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of Baker, Oregon. He currently serves as pastor of St. Peter Catholic Church in The Dalles on the Columbia River.
Last Sunday I resumed my series of reflections on ‘social justice’, the right order of human society, resuming again the theme of the ‘common good’. I spoke of the common good as ‘living well’ together,...
Last year I had been writing a series of reflections on ‘social justice’ as ‘the right order of human society’. I took as my starting point the harmonious order that existed in Eden before sin...
We were buried with Christ in baptism into death, so that as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in the newness of life. (Rm 6:4)...
During the course of the past three months, I have been analyzing and commenting on the gravity of the situation in this country, the mass of lies, the deep divisions arising from radically opposed world...
In the wake of the Capitol riot on January 6 I have sought to provide a sort of analysis of the political and cultural situation in this country, based on a recognition of the very...
Last Sunday I wrote about a whole group of people (namely those who have bought into the pro-abortion, pro-LGBT ideology) as inherently untrustworthy because of a radically distorted view of reality. In contemporary parlance this...
For the past couple of months, I have embarked on a series of personal observations and reflections in the wake of the riot that broke into the Capitol on January 6. This led to a...
Last week I argued that we must begin to face the scary reality that American institutions have become so corrupted by questionable influences that they can no longer be trusted. While we must avoid real...
Last week, I brought to a conclusion some reflections on the reality, gravity, and depth of the matters that divide Americans. I spoke about abortion, ‘LGBT’ issues, race (or more exactly ‘critical race theory’ or...
Last Sunday I wrote that through all the issues of abortion, the LGBT alphabet soup, and racism we are actually divided by what is called a Marxist ‘dialectic’, an irreconcilable division between oppressor and oppressed...