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Apr 2021
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 and observed that first there was the right order of man beneath God, then the right order within the human soul, then the right order between man and woman (the first social relationship from which all others derive), and finally the right order between man and the physical world in which he lives, over which he had......
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January 01, 2021
The Common Good, Part I
Last year, I left off my treatment of the role of government in respect to social justice (the right order of human society) by affirming that “The first role of government then is to provide...
October 23, 2020
The Upcoming Elections
Last November I began writing on the subject of social justice, which I defined as the right order of society. When I did so I had neither politics nor the election in mind. I was...
October 09, 2020
The problem of climate change – not what you think
Last Sunday I wrote about the light and the dark in the ‘progress’ that the industrial revolution has brought us. I would say the balance came out rather on the dark side. This led me...
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....
September 29, 2017
Lucia dos Santos: Part II (Witness of Fatima)
Last week I provided EWTN’s short summary of the life of Lucia dos Santos, the eldest of the seers of Fatima and the only to live into adulthood, indeed she lived to be almost 98...
September 13, 2017
St. Francisco Marto of Fatima
The last two weeks I wrote about the youngest of the seers of Fatima, St. Jacinta Marto. This week I turn to her older brother St. Francisco Marto. He was born 11 June 1908, the...
August 11, 2017
The offenses of those who directly outrage the Virgin in her holy images -Part II
Today I continue on the theme of the offenses of those who directly outrage the Virgin in her holy images by considering a bit more in depth the culture of ugliness that surrounds us in...
July 30, 2017
Blasphemy of fostering contempt for the Virgin Mary in the hearts of children II
Last week I wrote about the blasphemy who seek openly to foster in the hearts of children indifference or contempt or even hatred for the Immaculate Mother and its origin. This week I will write...
July 06, 2017
Blasphemies against the Motherhood of Mary I
It seems that almost daily we encounter in the news many and varied symptoms of a widespread and unprecedented social breakdown that has been developing for some time now. Had we the vision of the...