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Why Same Sex Marriage Is Impossible for Catholics

My article this week at the National Catholic Register explains the Catholic reasons why same sex marriage is an impossibility. This is the main reason why the Catholic Church will never allow same sex weddings — because we believe that marriage is a sacrament, and we can’t change the content of the sacrament. A sacramental marriage is [Read More...]

Sixteen Signs of True Authority Every Catholic Should Learn

When faced with the multiplicity of religions its easy to think that they are all the same Its easy to think they are all either man made religions or that they are simply the accident of certain historical and cultural conditions. The question to ask when considering the validity of a religion is where its [Read More...]

Income Inequality is Not the Real Problem

A reader has asked me why I don’t write more on subjects like the environment and income inequality. I’m as shocked as the next ordinary person to see the vast inequality of income in the United States. I’m even more shocked to see the vast inequality of income between a “poor” American and someone in [Read More...]

Why Hillary Will Win

Readers may have picked up that I am not particularly delighted by the prospect of a Hillary Clinton presidency. No matter how much publicity there is for her record of scandals, incompetence, manipulation and lies, no matter how much publicity there is for her husbands slime ball behavior, abuse of women and louche lifestyle, no [Read More...]

The Quick C.S.Lewis List

Someone once asked my why I went to live in England for twenty five years and I answered. “It was C.S.Lewis’ fault. I discovered C.S.Lewis while at college and from his writings and the life of T.S.Eliot I became an avowed Anglophile. When I had the chance to study at Oxford for three years it [Read More...]

Peter and the Empty Promises of Progressives

Today’s Mass readings include the story from the Acts of the Apostles chapter 10 in which St Peter has a vision of a sheet full of unclean animals lowered from heaven. He is told to “Take and eat.” At first he refuses because to do so would be to break the Jewish law. However, the [Read More...]

Christian Bakers Fined $135,000

The Klein family in Oregon have already had their family business destroyed by the State of Oregon. Now they are being fined $135,000 in damages to the lesbians who were denied a wedding cake. Go here to read this shocking story. Image via Bing

How Fantasy Films Kill Fantasy

My article this week at Imaginative Conservative explains how fantasy films stifle the imagination and therefore kill the golden gooses of fantasy. With their special effects and computer generated wizardry, the film maker magicians can now do anything. It is possible to whizz through the wardrobe with Lucy, fall down the rabbit hole with Alice, [Read More...]

How Feminism Kills Women

Feminism kills women. Here’s how: The logic isn’t too difficult: 1. Feminists support unrestricted abortion 2. Feminists push the abortion agenda especially in the developing world 3. When abortion is permitted in major parts of the developing world they choose gender selective abortion 4. Gender selection abortion always eliminates females NOT males. 5. Check out the [Read More...]

Hillary Clinton is Making Richard Nixon Look Like Snow White

Geesh! the Bill and Hillary Corruption show opens with another show stopper. New York Times reports here Mark Shea summarizes: In September 2005, Bill Clinton traveled to Kazakhstan and met his friend Frank Giustra (pronounced joo-strah), who wanted to buy uranium mines there. Clinton gave a press conference with Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev, in which he [Read More...]