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May 2020
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. In answer to the Pharisees’ question about divorce, which was tolerated by the law of Moses, Jesus replied: Have you not read that he who made man from the beginning, made them male and female? And he said, ‘For this reason shall a man leave father and mother and cleave to his wife, and the two shall......
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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 10, 2020
Social Justice and Gender Ideology: Part II (The Transgender Movement)
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...
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 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...
March 06, 2020
The Order of the Intimacy of Love in Marriage
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...
February 28, 2020
The Order of the Family Subject to “Industrial Strength” Solvents
Last week I wrote about the objective order of marriage in relation to procreation, starting from the words of Genesis: God created man in his image; in the divine image he created him; male and...