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Mar 2020
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 life itself that is generated. Already, with contraception, man begins an attempt to wrest the springs of life from the hands of God, but with the crimes that follow man truly begins to take the place of God. The first, best known, and most obvious, is what very often takes place when contraception fails – and it......
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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...
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...
February 14, 2020
Catholic Social Order: The Foundational Order of the Family
I have now written about how the Mass, and the Lord’s Day centered upon the Mass, gives order to the life of a monastery and how it is capable of ordering all of human life,...
February 07, 2020
Catholic Social Order: What has been can be
Last Sunday I wrote about the typical life of a Benedictine monastery as an example of human community life ordered around the Lord’s Day. Since the subject is social justice it is worth noting that...
January 31, 2020
Social Justice in Miniature: The Life of a Benedictine Monastery
Last week, I returned to the Lord’s Day, which celebrates the beginning of the new creation in the resurrection of Jesus Christ and the inbreaking of his grace and salvation into this world of time,...
November 08, 2019
From the Lord’s Day to Social Teaching
Last Sunday I brought my considerations of the Lord’s Day to a conclusion by noting that Sunday observance is not just a religious issue, but a social justice issue, indeed the key issue for true...
November 01, 2019
The Demise of the Lord’s Day
Last week I wrote that we will learn better to keep the Lord’s day if we think of it more as a day dedicated to God’s work, to doing his will, rather than to our...