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Jun 2021
The supernatural life begins with faith because faith is the door to the unseen world. Today we live in and have been formed by the world of anti-faith. It is important to recognize that reality of the contemporary world because it means that to live by faith in this world, we must be vigilant and even militant (at least spiritually). Be sober and vigilant because your adversary the devil goes around like a roaring lion looking for whom he might devour; resist him, steadfast in faith. (1 Pe 5:8-9) We could say......
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May 07, 2021
Justification of the soul – the key to justice
I have spent more than a year writing about social justice or the right order of human society based upon the order revealed in Eden: the right order of man beneath God, the right order...
April 23, 2021
The Common Good: a shared life of worship and contemplation
Last week I began to enter into more detail on the subject of the common good as ‘living well together’ where ‘living well’ is defined by the Ten Commandments. After reviewing the ‘second table’, the...
April 16, 2021
The Common Good: a shared life of virtue
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,...
April 09, 2021
Social justice resumed: 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...
March 26, 2021
Evangelization in a Hostile Culture
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...
March 19, 2021
The Message to the Powerful and Prayer
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...
March 12, 2021
Living as a Christian in the midst of the new totalitarianism, Part II
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...
March 05, 2021
Living as a Christian in the new totalitarianism, Part I
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...
February 26, 2021
Is it really that bad?
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...