This article by Peter Hitchens, on his conversion to Christianity and relationship with his brother, atheist author Christopher Hitchens, is a must read! A good bit: For a moral code to be effective, it must be attributed to, and vested in, a non-human source. It must be beyond the power of humanity to change it to suit itself. Its most … Read More
No Such Thing As Unwanted Human Life
Beautiful! No one is an “accident” and there is no such thing as an “unwanted child”. Every human being is the result of a deliberate, creative act on the part of Almighty God. It is by His will that each human life comes into being and though mother and father may not “want” the child, God does. Can a mother … Read More
TOB Tuesday (on Wed.): Crisis of Fatherhood
For God, we are children. We have a name. He loves us and wants to be near us. On my retreat two weekends ago, the priest told us: Whoever does not know that she/she is a child of God does not know THE MOST IMPORTANT THING about him/herself! Sadly, for so many of our young people today, God is a … Read More
“Every Life is Valuable, or No Life is Valuable”
Jenny Senour Uebbing hits a home run with this post on the Duggars, MTV, teenage pregnancy and the value of every human life! It’s too good to give a teaser, just go read the whole thing. Jenny blogs at A Great Deception and can be read at Catholic Exchange’s Theology of the Body Channel. P.S. CONGRATULATIONS, Jenny on the new … Read More
Sexual Health
On the radio yesterday I heard two commercials, back to back, for Planned Parenthood promoting “sexual health” by advertising their contraceptive services and the morning after pill. Health? Really? Ladies, a normally functioning reproductive cycle is not a health problem. If you have sex and get pregnant, it doesn’t mean that something went wrong; it means that something went beautifully … Read More
Marriage and Manhood
EXCELLENT! Msgr. Charles Pope from the Archdiocese of Washington talks about marriage – speaking specifically to men – on the Feast of the Holy Family (this is just an excerpt from his homily): See Msgr’s post Marriage and Manhood at the Washington Archdiocese’s blog.
Abortion is NOT Good or Loving
In a new ad campaign Northland Family Planning Centers of Michigan touts the “essential goodness of our work” and encourages women to feel good about choosing to end the life of their unborn child (h/t Creative Minority Report). This is diabolical: Despite abortion being a legal “procedure” for over 35 years and and relatively normalized in our society (based on … Read More
TOB Tuesday: Sex and Natural Law
JP II comments on Pope Paul VI’s encyclical Humanae Vitae and the nature of the marital act: “The Church…teaches that each and every marriage act must remain through itself open to the transmission of life. That teaching, often set forth by the magisterium, is founded upon the inseparable connection, willed by god and unable to be broken by man on … Read More
TOB Tuesday: Desire’s True Light
This is a really nice post from Brian Killian exploring the two different experiences of sexual desire: Sexual desire can propel us upward, or it can pull us down. When it ascends to heaven it is good and holy and fulfilling, but when it drags us down it is degrading and leads to a fall. This fall can be called … Read More
“We Didn’t Terminate Because He’s Our Son”
What did Tennyson write? “‘Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” T.K. and Deidrea Laux know that is true. Warning: tissues will be needed for this one (h/t Jill Stanek): “The only thing Thomas will ever know of this world is love” What a great gift these parents’ gave to little Thomas. And … Read More