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Lest there be some confusion concerning my latest article concerning porn, I should make a brief clarification. In discussing the deleterious effects which porn has on the love and fidelity between souses necessary for a marriage to be lasting and joyful, I took at times a quasi-consequentialist approach to my arguments against porn. To wit, I noted that porn... Read More
O clemens, O pia, O dulcis Virgo Maria: ora pro nobis sancta Dei Genetrix. This is the immediate response I have to our culture, such as it is. In today's "culture gone mad" files, I give you an experience the shock of which I am still recovering from. Without going into the graphic details, I just stepped off the elevator at the university where I work feeling a mixture of shock, shame, and sadness (to say nothing of outrage). What set's me off here is that a woman got on the elevat... Read More
A couple of days ago I briefly discussed the complaint against the Church's sexual morality and the authority of "a few celibate Old Men in Rome." Today, I'd like to return to that topic. To be fair, it is not merely the morality of a few "Old Men in Rome," as indeed there have been times--and they are fairly rare--when... Read More
A couple of days ago, I wrote a somewhat rambling piece about Voice of the "Faithful" (VOT"F") Chicagoland's open letter to the Holy Father*. I focused on one passage in particular, namely the one in which VOT"F"C attempts to rebut the "metaphor argument" (e.g. the "sexual symbolism" argument) against ordaining women to the Catholic priesthood**. However, I had time only to consider the first half of that passage, which concerns their mistaken view as to the role of a priest. Today, I'd like to... Read More
Note: this post was originally published on my Equus nom Veritas blog. It can be read in its original format, with all relevant links and a prefatory rant there. The recently written letter by VOT"F"C to the Holy Father is smarmy, arrogant, and filled with distortions, half-truths, and outright heresies. However, the p... Read More
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