Catholic Unbelief in the Eucharist
A new Pew Research Center Survey was published this week that says that only 1 third of Catholics believe the Church’s teaching about the real presence of Jesus in Holy Communion.
Liturgy: Your Taste Doesn’t Matter.
We’re avoiding the difficult yet necessary duty of conforming ourselves to what God requires of us and, instead, trying to conform our religion to our pre-existing preferences.
Defeating Pro-Life Arguments
Notre Dame, and other buildings like it, are left over from an age that believed something fundamentally different about art and design.
How Christianity Led to Science
There’s this narrative out there that says that science arose in Christian Europe in spite of the antagonism of the religious authorities against reason. It portrays the scientific revolution as the inevitable triumph of reason over superstition.
Basing Identity on Our Desires
If we all have the desire to do the right thing, but aren’t necessarily always willing to, does that mean that our desires to do the right thing translate into high moral inventory?
Notre Dame vs. Modern Architects
Notre Dame, and other buildings like it, are left over from an age that believed something fundamentally different about art and design.
Does Clericalism Explain Corruption?
At every turn of scandal, authorities, including the Pope, continue to tell us that these are symptoms of clericalism.
Lent: Why We Fast
We don’t do it because we think that some good thing like food or technology are bad. We do it because we recognize that we are bad and need to overcompensate to become good.
The Liberal Hypocrisy On Sex
Prior to the sexual revolution, our society had a certain legal and moral consensus on sexual behaviour. Then certain factions in society started pushing for a cultural shift that produced the sexual revolution based on a desire to liberalize sexuality in western society.
Traditional Catholic Grievance Fatigue & Protesting Corruption
There are more constructive ways to address the crisis than the cycle of blame we seem to be caught in.
