Our culture is deeply confused about what marriage is. Same-sex “marriage” is the latest manifestation of this problem, but the confusion is widespread about heterosexual marriage as well. What is marriage? What is it for? Why do we have it in the first place? You may have noticed that the...
Some might differentiate between a “parishioner in good standing” or not. I do not ascribe to such a notion. Parishioners must share in the responsibilities that are part and parcel of belonging to a parish. Why? Because the nature of a parish is that of a family and not a...
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Moralistic Therapeutic Deism. What is it? It is the message preached from so very many pulpits. It is the theological underpinning of universalism. It operates on five beliefs: 1) There is a God who created and ordered the earth and watches over human life on earth. Okay, we can agree...
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Every community, inevitably, has a value or set of values that it considers fundamental, some basic good which positions every other claim to goodness. For most of the modern liberal democracies, for example, freedom and equality play this determining role in the moral discourse. In Communist societies, economic justice, construed...
