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God? No Ruprecht That’s Not Our Mother

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Twelve Reasons Why You Can’t Call God “Mother”

The feminist Anglicans have unveiled their latest campaign. Now that they’ve succeeded in getting women ordained as priests and bishops they’re pushing for the language of the liturgy to be changed to call God “Mother.” Here are twelve reasons why you can’t call God “Mother” 1. Jesus tells us to call God “Father” - The really big reason [Read More...]

Anglicans Push to Call God “Mother”

  This article in the Daily Telegraph is old news. It tells us how the feminists in the Church of England want to get rid of the patriarchal language in the Church and call God “Mother.” It is sort of a news item because it comes hard on the heels of the first ordinations of [Read More...]

American Atheistic Materialism

This week’s article at The Imaginative Conservative reveals how our materialistic habits are actually (beneath the surface) a form of atheistic ideology. At depth, materialism is that philosophy that assumes and asserts that there is nothing more than the material world. “What you see is what you get.” The true materialist does not believe in [Read More...]

The Holy Trinity, Feminists and a Nice Cuppa Tea

I’m living in England and the parish priest asks me to take a confirmation class. In the group of eighth graders preparing for confirmation, Jimmy was a not one of the brightest stars. He was a bit like vanilla pudding, sweet but thick. So when it came to discussion of the Holy Trinity I wasn’t [Read More...]

What’s Your Happiness Level?

Fr Robert Spitzer’s new volume Finding True Happiness: Satisfying Our Restless Hearts (Happiness, Suffering, and Transcendence) is excellent. I get umpteen books for review and my policy is, “If the book sits there and I have a desire (not a duty) to read it, then it makes the cut and I’ll read and review it) This [Read More...]

Big Hearted Francis

My article for Aleteia this week focusses on Pope Francis’ heart of compassion, and how this attractive trait can be both a strength and a seeming weakness. Sick children also draw his compassion, “This breaks my heart.” The pope said, “When I see those creatures I say to the Lord, ‘Why them and not me?’” [Read More...]

More on the Benedict Option

  My latest article for the National Catholic Register explores how the Benedict Option I discussed here might be employed at parish level. A “Benedict Option” would undermine clericalism in a positive and creative way. There would be natural renewal of worship, religious education and service based on the needs of the local community rather [Read More...]

All Are Welcome….To What Exactly?

If you want to understand how the liberal Catholic views the world you can do no better than to take a moment to read this piece by Patrick Reardon at the National Catholic Reporter. It’s called “A Church Refreshed: A dispatch from an American Catholic Future.” The adolescent naivety (combined with graying hippie philosophy) of this [Read More...]

The Rise of Militant Catholic Men

Go here for my latest article for CRUX which highlights the rise of men’s conferences, seminars and parish groups in the American Catholic Church. Catholic men are arming themselves for battle. Spiritual battle. Behind the headlines and beneath the radar, a grassroots movement is growing among Catholic men in the United States. Spurred on by [Read More...]