Nearly sixteen hundred years after Augustine's meditation on his struggle for sexual purity and chastity, and in our similarly lust-saturated society where the spirit of feminism has duped women into imitating the worst of men's behaviors, it seems fitting that…

The New Year is a time for new beginnings.  Its significance goes beyond personal resolutions and is connected with the religious values of beginnings, of birth and renewal. 

As Christians, we look to Christ to make all things new.  But…

There are few things as malevolent as art that lies. This is especially true of film, which has such a forceful impact on the senses. The manipulation of our minds and emotions in a direction that is contrary to the…

In the famous Robert Frost poem, “The Road Not Taken,” a traveler comes to a fork in the road. He chooses a path, but knowing “how way leads on to way,” considers with some sadness the road not taken. Eros (sexual…

Of the The Da Vinci Code puzzles, the biggest enigma by far is its popularity. How does one explain the tremendous success of such a badly written, incoherent, and just plain silly book? It’s kind of scary really, to consider how…

Does the afterlife degrade and devalue this life? According to some critics of religion, it does indeed. If the real life of man lies on the other side of death, then how significant, how important can this earthly existence of…

Rational Conclusions?

Usually found in “freethinker” clubs, skeptic groups and organizations dedicated to secular humanism, they are the ones responsible for ridding the schools of prayer and getting Christian symbols banished from public places. They are often found in the middle…

Relating Correctly

There seems to be one point that many of these arguments hold in common: what really matters is sexual maturity, not orientation. Regarding maturity, the new document on the ordination of men to the priesthood says:

The candidate…must reach affective…