I Love Traditional Gender Roles“While attention is usually drawn to the blessing of God 'Be fruitful and multiply', as the basis for the procreation of children, it is striking that these same words are used of other animals (Gen. 1:22) even though they are not said to be 'male...See More »
I Am Roman CatholicSt. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church in Casa Grande, Arizona refurbished the small original Spanish-style Church and then infused it with the Spirit of Vatican II. Re-baptized the “Divine Mercy Chapel” it was filled with a hundred conference room cha...See More »
I Think There Are Some Truly Disgusting Groups On HereFor some reason there more perverts on SW than any social media platform I have encountered.
I Like Quotes and Sayings“Flannery O'Connor saw that, for all its vaunted materialism, modernity is a grotesquely gnostic age in its profound hostility to corporeal existence. The nihilism which she detected as the Zyklon B of our time regards the body as a terrible...See More »
I Like Quotes and Sayings“One of the occupational hazards of being an atheist and secular humanist who hangs around on discussion boards is to encounter a staggering level of historical illiteracy. I like to console myself that many of the people on such boards have come to...See More »
What do you think of the victory of the National Front in France? The problem with Madame Le Pen is that she is just as much a product of the French Revolution as the rest of them. They think they can mold the Muslims into good little secular Frenchmen. Madame Le Pen, who joined her family's National Front because...See More »
I Am Roman Catholic “Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not; for of such is the kingdom of God.” ~ Matthew Chapter 10:14 (Douay-Rheims) Here is a treasure from Christendom – a portion of an article by a woman in Camden, New Jersey reflecting...See More »
I Am Roman Catholic “The new Catholics comprise a movement that is still young and small, and which faces many pitfalls. It is still, sociologically, an elite movement. It might be lured by the temptations of politicization. It might still frizzle out. But I don’t thi...See More »
I wonder how society would change if it becomes unlikely life is anywhere but earth and unlikely scientists will ever be able to create life.
I Like Quotes and Sayings “There is a principle laid down, much in line with common sense and with the original American ideal, that governments should never do what small bodies can accomplish.... Our anarchism is on one level based on this principle of subsidiarity, and o...See More »
I Respect Mothers That Stay Home And Raise Their Kids “The Council on Contemporary Families at the University of Texas-Austin recently released the results of some studies that indicate young people's views on gender roles in marriage are trending towards the traditional 'male as breadwinner and...See More »
I Like Quotes and Sayings“Amidst the satisfaction people feel with their material progress, there is a spirit of unhappiness and depression haunting advanced market democracies throughout the world, a spirit that mocks the idea that markets maximize well-being and the...See More »
Is there really a widescale movement of conversions from Islam to Christianity? [Spirituality & Religion] It seems there is actually evidence of it: http://bit.ly/2j6nG59 , http://bit.ly/2oi9FDE Last week the New York Times ran a story about an al-Nusra jihadist and his wife who have converted to Christianity : “For Mr Mohammad and Ms Rashid,...See More »
What will save the world? The beauty of women will save the world: “There is a well-known Dostoevsky trope that says, 'beauty will save the world.' The famous Russian is usually taken to mean the beauty found in the material arts...... But there is one stone that has yet t...See More »
Did the beheading of Thomas More make him a martyr for religious liberty? If not – is he relevant today? [Spirituality & Religion] “Thomas More was not a martyr for religious liberty, at least in the modern sense. What, then, was he a martyr for? What all martyrs die for: Truth. More refused to support Henry’s actions, not because they offended his freedom of conscience, but...See More »
I Am A Strict Mom The other day I mentioned that I was considering letting my thirteen year old get a cell phone. After reading Ross Douthat's recent column on the need for a temperance movement to resist the “tyrant in our pocket” I have changed my mind, and for...See More »
So Obama did investigate Trump?“Straining at the tweet and swallowing the camel has become Washington’s favorite pursuit, and it was on tiresome display at Monday’s Congressional hearing with Jim Comey. Out of it came two clashing headlines: 'Comey Denies Obama Ordered...See More »
If you didn't like the Christian Right, what are you really not going to like?The Post-Christian Right – which is what we have now: “When cultural conservatives disengage from organized religion, they tend to redraw the boundaries of identity, de-emphasizing morality and religion and emphasizing race and nation. Trump is...See More »
I Love St Patricks Day “Under the rubric of multiculturalism all cultures are being reduced to an absurdity. Our age of immanence and political correctness enforced by the media compels everyone to be as alike as everyone else. This reduction of people’s and their...See More »
Why do liberals/leftists have a visceral hatred of Christianity even though it has almost no influence today ?The core liberal belief is that the human person is the ultimate source of freedom and goodness, and so must be emancipated not only from restrictive political and social systems but from the Church, religion and even God Himself. Thus liberalism is...See More »
What's so great about Arizona? That today the problem is our high is expected to be 91 F, and the average high on this day is only 76
Why was Pope Benedict XVI replaced as “acting pope” by Pope Francis?According to Italian journalist Antonio Socci : “The [American] empire wants the Church to be a ‘social worker’ who comforts the losers in the field hospital of the strong powers, but does not disturb the handlers.” http://bit.ly/2nxKf3o
I Am Roman Catholic“There are nearly as many definitions of Liberalism and Modernism as there are forms of propaganda in the wide world. As the Church uses these terms, however, they may be roughly defined as follows: Liberalism: The belief that the human person is t...See More »
I Am Christian (roman Catholic)“And a great sign appeared in heaven – a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. She was with child.....Then another sign appeared in the sky; it was a huge red dragon....Its tail swept away...See More »