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, citing Romans 8:28-29, I wrote: “The whole reason why God created this world of time, from the most distant galaxy to the tiniest microbe, has been to lead men to share in the...
A couple weeks ago I raised the question as to whether or not the pandemic was a “divine punishment”. Immediately I turned to St. Augustine’s “City of God” for insight into the way in which...
Last Sunday I wrote about how St Augustine teaches that temporal goods and evils are enjoyed or suffered by both the good and the wicked, lest anyone think that these goods are the ultimate reward...
I have not yet finished my series on social justice, there remain many matters that need to be addressed, but the present pandemic calls for us to turn our attention to the question of God’s...
In addressing the social injustice of the contemporary societal (and governmental) attack on the family I began writing last Sunday of the gender ideology and the transgender movement. By way of preliminary I pointed out...
Today I resume my series on social justice, the right order of human society. I have argued that there are two basic pillars of all human social order, right worship, which is the holy sacrifice...
As I continue writing about the sins against marriage, true violations of social justice, it is time to turn from the disordered sexual actions to the disorders, the grave injustices that bear on the human...
Last Sunday I began cataloguing sins against marriage in light of the transmission of human life and the intimacy of self-giving marital love. I finished by noting that because marriage is the first and most...
On the basis of the first chapters of Genesis, following the lead given by our Lord in his words on divorce, I have written about marriage from the perspective of the objective order of the...
I have been writing about the right order of marriage in relation to social justice, the right order of human society. Following the lead of Jesus in his words about divorce, I have gone back...