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Jun 2020
Last Sunday I insisted on the need to set aside political correctness and the fear of offending so as to be clear about the evil of divorce. Unless we learn to speak clearly and objectively of the evils involved we will never get out of the mess we have fashioned for ourselves. If we recall that the first purpose of marriage is the procreation and education of children, then we can grasp that the first and most obvious evil is the incalculable harm done to children. Divorce is also a betrayal of......
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May 29, 2020
Social justice and divorce – Clarity and truth are needed, not political correctness.
Last Sunday, I introduced the subject of divorce as a sin against social justice. Divorce goes directly against the explicit teaching of Jesus Christ, rooted in the original creation of man, male and female....
May 15, 2020
Providence, pandemic, and an examination of conscience
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...
May 08, 2020
Temporal Punishment and The Goal of Divine Providence
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...
May 01, 2020
Divine providence in punishment of general catastropes
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...
April 24, 2020
Divine providence working through temporal punishments
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...
April 03, 2020
Social Justice and Gender Ideology: Part I (Radical Feminism)
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...
March 27, 2020
Social Justice and Sins against the Beginning of Human Life
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...
March 20, 2020
Social Justice and Sexual Sins, Part II
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...
March 13, 2020
Social Justice and Sexual Sins, Part I
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...