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We have no choice
Planned Parenthood (you know, the group that gets $542 million from taxpayers) wants to stop using the word “choice” when referring to abortion: After polling Americans on how they feel about abortion...
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A phrase to be banished
In my home state of Michigan, Lake Superior State University maintains the “List of Banished Words,” those words or phrases that we all wish we would all stop using. I know, right? While “fiscal cliff”...
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Statute of limitations on respect for life
How long are we supposed to respect the dead? In our secular culture, which has abandoned belief in the afterlife, there doesn’t seem to be much need to do so unless we need inspiration. You still see...
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Catholic: “It isn’t a life.” Pro-Choicer: “Yes it is.”
Two articles to ponder on this March for Life day (I intended to hyperlink “March for Life,” but the site is down as of 11:30pm Thursday. Hope it didn’t get hacked). Life size 8 week fetus–wikimedia...
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Hearing God in the liturgy
The Pope’s Jan. 27th Angelus address reminds us why Sunday rest, and the liturgy celebrated thereon, is so important: “Before we can speak of God and with God, we need to listen, and the liturgy of the...
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The best way to learn about Catholicism?
I’ve had a few opportunities to introduce folks to the Catholic Church, and it always seemed a bit of a dicey procedure. If you’re thinking of doing something similar to some unsuspecting (or...
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Two pro-life thoughts
Allow me to interrupt what is likely the post-Superbowl barrage of handegg stories with two pro-life thoughts 1. Catholic Answers Live recently (Jan 28) ran two hours of Q&A from only pro-choice...
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“Death Panels” suggested by the Conscience of a Liberal
Paul Krugman, winner of a Nobel Prize in economics and writer of the popular New York Times blog “Conscience of a Liberal,” during a speech was asked about how to curb our national debt: [W]e’re also...
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Resignation of the post-media Pope
Take the following comments with however many grains of salt you feel are necessary given that I’m not a theologian, philosopher, Church historian, or anything else marginally relevant to opining about...
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Rolling the Dice
I do not yet have an extensive network of Catholic friends scattered hither and yon on which I can call when I’m searching for an out-of-town Mass to attend. My wife and I attend St. John Berchmans‘...
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Why economics matters to morality
I think a lot of Christians tend to view economics either with a sense of indifference or repellance. Economics studies how individuals make choices among alternatives under the constraint of scarcity;...
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Dalton Gossett has bachelor and associate degrees in biology and a Ph.D. in plant physiology, and has lived in the Shreveport, Louisiana area for over 25 years. He has taught undergraduate courses in...
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The humility of the Emeritus Pope
It’s Day One of Interregnum, and you may have noticed that the Church hasn’t fallen apart yet. As it happens, my weekly scheduled adoration hour is on Thursdays so I was able to reflect somewhat on LBB...
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Deciding whether to abort
LifeSiteNews has an interesting review of a study by the Vitae Foundation on what drives women to abort, place for adoption, or keep their children. First, despite efforts to sugar-coat abortion as an...
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Who’s teaching who?
Today’s Gospel reading presents one of those quirky little stories that I’m sure have pretty deep theological meaning, but to me just seems kind of funny. One of the scribes came to Jesus and asked...
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The size of our sins
On a recent Catholic Answers Live, Mother Miriam responded to a caller asking about forgiveness, and mentioned that the degree of sin doesn’t have as much to do with the sin itself (i.e., how serious...
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76 is the new 50
I expressed my concern recently that “Pope Benedict’s announcement [to abdicate] will be twisted by enemies of the Church to downplay the dignity of the elderly or sick. ‘See, even the Pope realizes...
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Pope Francis to Media Representatives
One thing that the election of a new Pope does is turn anyone who is publicly known to be Catholic into the public relations spokesperson for the Church. We get asked how many Cardinals there are, how...
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Jesus is a slippery little devil
Kids: much easier to apprehend than the Son of God. Pic by Lester Public Library Hopefully you don’t think the title is irreverent or sacriligious; it’s just the reaction I usually get when I read a...
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Moral Relativism: absolutely immoral
In an audience with the Vatican’s diplomatic corps, Pope Francis had some words related to Pope Benedict’s “dictatorship of relativism.” After addressing St. Francis of Assisi’s love for the poor and...
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