The trauma of moral injury

April 9, 2015

“A moral injury tortures the conscience; symptoms include deep shame, guilt and rage. It’s not a medical problem, and it’s unclear how to treat it, says retired Col. Elspeth Ritchie, former psychiatry consultant to the Army surgeon general.”

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Catholic high school in Des Moines chooses to honor its faith

April 8, 2015

“A Des Moines Catholic high school was within its rights when it decided not to hire a substitute teacher full time once it found out he was gay — because Iowa’s civil rights law allows religious institutions to discriminate based on sexual orientation.”

Note the slant to the reporting: “discriminate based on sexual orientation.” I prefer my headline above…

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Reject the Left’s lie

April 7, 2015

Either/or.

‘Either you agree with me or you hate me.’ That’s the way liberals think.

Pastor Rick Warren, author of the watershed book, “The Purpose Drive Life,” says it’s all a bunch of lies:

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An iconic homosexual Catholic filmmaker

April 3, 2015

Here is an unusual description for a man: homosexual (his word) Roman Catholic film director, opera director, conservative politician who publicly supports the Church’s positions on issues related to homosexuality.

Whew!

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The Miracle Maker

April 3, 2015

I believe in the power of entertainment as a tool to evangelize an easily distracted world. A priest at one of our recent performances marveled at the size of the crowd for The Wedding at Cana. He said, “we’d never be able to pull 150 parishioners for a Bible study.”

And yet entertainment can, and does, teach. It can also distort our Christian faith, and that is where things get interesting…

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“Atheism is the opiate of the masses”

April 3, 2015

Fr. Robert Barron discusses the intellectual vacuity of the modern atheist movement in the video commentary above. Karl Marx famously said that religion is the “opiate of the masses.” Fr. Barron says he got it backwards, that atheism is the opiate of the masses, that it attempts, much like a drug, to mask our deepest longing. And what is that longing?

It is our longing for God, our desire for something beyond the abilities of this world to satisfy…

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My top ten religious movies for Lent

April 3, 2015

We’re in the midst of the awe and majesty of the Easter Triduum. When you get home from church and look for good religious entertainment, consider one of these ten movies. These are my favorite religious movies for the Lent/Easter season.

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The Indiana smokescreen

April 2, 2015

The game has changed.

Why is the Left so infuriated by Indiana’s passage of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act? After all, a liberal Democrat, President Bill Clinton, signed a very similar bill into law at the federal level back in 1993.

After all, left-wing Democrat, Barack Obama, supported a similar law in Illinois when he was a State Senator.

And after all, 20 states already have similar laws on the books, and a dozen more states have similar legislation pending.

So why the outrage now?

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