The Terror of Tenderness
Kindness, American style, detached from the Man upon the cross, has turned sour and sickly. It can justify anything.
Kindness, American style, detached from the Man upon the cross, has turned sour and sickly. It can justify anything.
We sometimes do not love those people or those things we think we love. We may also love and not be aware of it. But the human heart, without grace, hardly beats at all. It is a tangle of vipers, and when it beats, it squeezes out its poison.
As the November USCCB meeting demonstrated, the bishops find themselves in a bind as they strive to foster a coherent Gospel witness among Catholics.
Not only has denying the full humanity of all biological human beings always been a mistake, it has shown itself repeatedly to be one of the worst mistakes we ever make.
Most regular visitors to this site would probably agree that our culture is broken.
Indefinite lockdowns violate the natural human right to labor in order to provide for oneself and one's family, and thus are deeply contrary to social justice.
The work to make people aware that Marxist communism not only was but still is a really nasty piece of work continues, but with many challenges.
If the most recent terrorist attack in London had been an episode in a novel by a social satirist, it would have been dismissed as too crude or absurd to be plausible.
The stepbrother of William the Conqueror, Bishop Odo, was meticulous in observing canon law.