DEATH WISH!

THE IMPENDING SUICIDE OF A ONCE GREAT NATION
©2008 REV. JOHN A. CORAPI, SOLT, STD
www.fathercorapi.com
A large number of endangered, unwanted, and unborn children held a town hall meeting
on the 4th of July–alarmed at the brutal and untimely killing of millions of their brothers
and sisters in recent years. That the murderous war waged on them had the [...]

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Major U.S. city officially condemns Catholic Church

A San Francisco city and county board resolution that officially labeled the Catholic church’s moral teachings on homosexuality as “insulting to all San Franciscans,” “hateful,” “defamatory,” “insensitive” and “ignorant” will be challenged tomorrow in court for violating the Constitution’s prohibition of government hostility toward religion.
Resolution 168-08, passed unanimously by the City and County of San Francisco Board [...]

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Quote of the Day

“Far too many Catholic bishops and priests– perhaps even a majority– are doing a lousy job of shepherding their flocks and saving souls.”  Judie Brown
http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=58188
 

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RESPECT FOR THE DEAD?

I guess these guys never heard that the saying….”Respect the dead”…
 
The Kingwood teenager’s story of decapitating a corpse and using the head to smoke marijuana was so outlandish that at first Houston Police Department senior officer Jim Adkins did not believe it.
Yet, Kevin Wade Jones Jr., 17, appeared almost indifferent as he relayed the bizarre [...]

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Just for Faith: BEGETTING VS. MAKING BABIES

You can read the WHOLE article here 
1. The Difference Between “Making” and “Doing
            Long ago Aristotle clearly distinguished between “making” and “doing,” and St. Thomas Aquinas, following the “Philosopher,” commented on the significance of this difference.[1] In making, the action proceeds from an agent or agents to something in the external world, to a product. Autoworkers, [...]

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BEGETTING VS. MAKING BABIES

You can read the WHOLE article here 
1. The Difference Between “Making” and “Doing
            Long ago Aristotle clearly distinguished between “making” and “doing,” and St. Thomas Aquinas, following the “Philosopher,” commented on the significance of this difference.[1] In making, the action proceeds from an agent or agents to something in the external world, to a product. Autoworkers, for [...]

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Happy Valentine’s Day

The origin of St. Valentine, and how many St. Valentines there were, remains a mystery. One opinion is that he was a Roman martyred for refusing to give up his Christian faith. Other historians hold that St. Valentine was a temple priest jailed for defiance during the reign of Claudius. Whoever he was, Valentine really [...]

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Calling Men Father

OK. I have been having a debate (of sorts) with another blogger. He is neither Catholic or Protestant or anything else but a “Christian”.Anyway he made the following comment:
Catholics regularly call their priests and the pope Father:Matthew 23:9 “Call no one on earth your father; you have but one Father in heaven.”Since the priest is [...]

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The Catholic position on salvation can be summed up thus: We are saved by Christ’s grace alone, through faith and works done in charity inspired by the Holy Spirit.
Sola gratia! Grace alone — but a grace we have to co-operate with. Thinking that all one has to do is pray the “Sinner’s Prayer” once to [...]

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Profession of Converts

The Tridentine Creed
The “Professio fidei Tridentina”, also known as the “Creed of Pope Pius IV”, is one of the four authoritative Creeds of the Catholic Church. It was issued on November 13, 1565 by Pope Pius IV in his bull “Iniunctum nobis” under the auspices of the Council of Trent (1545 – 1563). It was [...]

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Iranian film about Jesus invites Christians to accept Islam

TEHRAN (AFP) — A director who shares the ideas of Iran’s hardline president has produced what he says is the first film giving an Islamic view of Jesus Christ, in a bid to show the “common ground” between Muslims and Christians.
Nader Talebzadeh sees his movie, “Jesus, the Spirit of God,” as an Islamic answer to Western [...]

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The Church and Divine Revelation

Did Christ intend the Gospel to be proclaimed by the circulation of the Bible? — No; it was mainly by preaching that He intended to convert the nations.
Our Lord said: “Go, make disciples of all nations.” “Preach the Gospel to every creature.” “He that heareth you heareth me.” Christ did not say: “Go and make [...]

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Divine Tradition

What is `Tradition’?
What Catholics mean by Tradition is not the same that Jesus complains about when he says, “So, for the sake of your tradition, you have made void the word of God.” (Mt 15:6) and “You leave the commandment of God, and hold fast the tradition of men.” (Mk 7:8). Jesus here means human traditions, [...]

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If Homosexuality Excused Why Not Also Pedophilia?

Metropolitan Kirill, Head of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations, has made a strong statement condemning societal acceptance of homosexuality and reaffirming the task of the Church to proclaim the truth, in an interview published on Thursday by the German magazine Spiegel.Metropolitan Kirill said that if society stops considering homosexuality a sin, the [...]

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I do it because the [Catholic Church] has not merely told this truth or that truth, but has revealed itself as a truth-telling thing. All other philosophies say the things that plainly seem to be true; only this philosophy has again and again said the thing that does not seem to be true, but is [...]

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Birth Control

In 1968, Pope Paul VI issued his landmark encyclical letter Humanae Vitae (Latin, “Human Life”), which reemphasized the Church’s constant teaching that it is always intrinsically wrong to use contraception to prevent new human beings from coming into existence. 

Contraception is “any action which, either in anticipation of the conjugal act [sexual intercourse], or in its [...]

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Contraception is Anti-Self

By our nature we have an inescapable love of ourselves. But because God is love and we are conceived in and for love, God has decreed that true love of self cannot exist without love of others. So we have the paradox that the more we love God and others, to that degree do we [...]

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Contraception is Anti-Spousal

The Catechism of the Catholic Church tells us that marriage is “by its very nature ordered to the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of offspring” (n. 1601). Since it is ordered to the good of the spouses, it can and should be a means to help them pursue together their glorious [...]

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Contraception is Anti-God

God had not called to immorality, but to holiness.– St. Paul to the Thessalonians

Father John Hardon, S.J., was surely one of the greatest theologians of the last century. Toward the end of his life, he gave a lecture entitled, “Our greatest moral responsibility: to convert the contraceptive mentality.” There are great evils in the world [...]

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Spe Salvi

“SPE SALVI facti sumus”—in hope we were saved, says Saint Paul to the Romans, and likewise to us (Rom 8:24). According to the Christian faith, “redemption”—salvation—is not simply a given. Redemption is offered to us in the sense that we have been given hope, trustworthy hope, by virtue of which we can face our present: [...]

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