For the past couple of years, the COVID pandemic has taken away more human rights globally than any traditional war. Sure, there were times in WWII when people were rationed and subject to curfews and the like. People during the war were willing to participate as a part of working toward the common good with … Continue reading Liberty Lost
Month: September 2021
Silence of Christian Bioethics
For the past fifty years Christian Bioethics served as the counterbalance between the meteoric advances in medicine questioning whether the procedures are morally licit. It is the familiar adage, “it can be done, but ought it?”. A simple example of the relationship between medicine and Christian Bioethics can be seen with the advent of IVF … Continue reading Silence of Christian Bioethics
Funny thing about Control
The Gospel to Mark tells his disciples that he will “Whoever welcomes a child such as this for my sake welcomes me.” Jesus places a little child in front of him. In Jewish thinking, children were insignificant of little importance. To make his point he uses the child to illustrate to the Apostles what is … Continue reading Funny thing about Control
Medical ‘Best Practices’ Ditched for Money
During this mess we call the COVID pandemic, the medical establishment worldwide has abrogated their expertise and best practices following without questioning the apparent experts of medicine—totalitarian government leaders. With the exception of a very few, politicians have never attended medical school nor are they degreed in medicine. Credentials do not seem to matter; their … Continue reading Medical ‘Best Practices’ Ditched for Money
Who Can We Trust?
The past eighteen months have exposed the real pandemic - a pandemic of confidence. Covid-19 has lifted the veil on the inner workings of Marxists, our nation and the world. We were all taught and dutifully acknowledged the authority of our Institutions and later found out what we have trusted and depended on all of … Continue reading Who Can We Trust?
Suffer With Christ and Live
Readings: Is 50:5-9a Jas 2:14-18 Mk 8:27-35 I can remember as a little boy, my father took me to the cemetery for the very first time to visit the grave of my grandfather, a man I had never had a chance to meet. On that bright, sunny Saturday in the early part of June, I … Continue reading Suffer With Christ and Live
An Open Letter to Cardinal Cupich
We received the following open letter addressed to Cardinal Cupich from an employee of the Archdiocese of Chicago regarding the mandatory vaccination mandates the diocese has imposed on all clergy and lay employees. Dear Cardinal Cupich,I have been employed by the archdiocese of Chicago for over twenty years. In that time, I have served at … Continue reading An Open Letter to Cardinal Cupich
Prisons for the Old
Moral Evolution? In the mid-19th century Western European culture dealt with insolvent citizens in a draconian way by establishing what was known as debtors’ prisons. The individual who could not pay his debt was taken to a locked workhouse and incarcerated until it was deemed the debt owed was paid off. Societies have seemingly evolved … Continue reading Prisons for the Old
Concern for the Poor
Readings:Is 35: 4-7a Jas 2:1-5 Mk 7: 31-17 We love and worship a God who is a personal. He is alive in our lives and continues to be with us with the assurance He will never leave us. The belief is most acutely seen in our experiences as when we reflect on the plight of the poor. Vatican … Continue reading Concern for the Poor
The Truth Causes So Much Anger
Have you noticed lately how much anger there is in the progressive movement? The movement unabashedly claims the transformation of society is the only way to cleanse a culture which has always been tainted and immoral. Without a doubt, the culture is being transformed in the progressive image, from the rise in perverted sexual orientations … Continue reading The Truth Causes So Much Anger