The Spirit and the Assumption: Deification and Vatican II

The Second Vatican Council only promulgated two dogmatic constitutions: Dei Verbum (Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation) and Lumen Gentium (Dogmatic Constitution on the Church). Stating this is not meant to downplay the other constitutions and documents of the council. Rather,… Read More

“Is Man to Become God?”

Only a New Age heretic would attempt to pervert Christianity with such a question, right?  After all, was not the sin of Adam and Eve that they wanted to become God or gods? For Christoph Cardinal Schonborn, editor of the… Read More

“Pharmaceutatics”: 21st Century Morality

I’ve never heard the word before either, but if someone asked me to explain how it could ever come about that legislators in the US would demand the outlawing of reproductive cloning but simultaneously justify therapeutic cloning, I would have… Read More

The Trinity and the Vocation to Love

What made John Paul “the Great” great is not a secret. It was something he publicly proclaimed and about which he frequently wrote, even long before becoming pope. It was a message as early as his penetrating study on human… Read More

Earth Day 2005: Is the Cross Green?

On March, 2 1994, Mikhail Gorbachev addressed the 2nd World Peace Conference in Seoul, Korea. His message: “The future improvement in regulating world processes and the transition to a new world order is closely connected with the assertion of a… Read More

Deification and the New Evangelization

Saint John tell us “Perfect love casts out fear” (1 Jn 4:18). Commenting on the passage in his Birth Control and Christian Discipleship booklet (2nd ed, p. 33), John Kippley quips that we can invert the quote to remind people… Read More

Discipleship in Mary

War Begins in Eden; Victory Declared in Revelation
To know and love Jesus better now as beloved disciples, we must know Mary as our loving Mother, the fulfillment of the promised “woman,” not only the one Isaiah spoke of, but… Read More

Year of the Rosary Over: Fatima Third Secret Continues

Lest some readers get reactionary and lump this article in the “kooks and nuts file,” it is important to state from the beginning that in the mind of this author there is no doubt — and never has been —… Read More

Satisfying Justice The Other Lesson Geoghan Taught Us

In her autobiography entitled, I Will Never Forget You, Joan Andrews — who spent several years in prison for non-violent protests in front of abortion mills — makes astute observations about her many experiences within today’s legal system.
Note: Quotes… Read More

Coffin Nail in the Death of the West

In boot camp, young men are drilled to be more attached to their military fraternity than their family bonds. Such a bond is absolutely important during combat where mom and dad won’t be able to help and all they have… Read More

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