Culture
Did celibacy cause the priest abuse scandal?
“It seems to me that there would be fewer problems if Catholic priests were allowed to marry, as they would have a legitimate venue for sexual release. Humans ARE sexual creatures. God made us this way so that we could “go forth and multiply”, but also told us the proper avenue for those desires.”
Read MoreWhat will happen to my aborted child? "She will be burned."
The Mainstream media gave the Gosnell trial scant coverage. This movie will shine a light on a terrible evil which silently continues in other clinics in our country. In the video above, one of the producers, Ann McElhinney, simply reads an excerpt from the trial transcript. It reveals how traumatized a woman was who went to Gosnell. Ms. McElhinney can’t read through it all the way without choking up.
Read More"Pro choicers are our allies"
By Tom Quiner What an outlandish claim. Right? How could people who are ‘pro choice’ be allies to those of us who are ‘pro life?’ The quote above comes from none other than the Priest for Life himself, Fr. Frank Pavone. Fr. Pavone was in Des Moines last Saturday night as the keynote speaker at…
Read MoreFatherhood matters
By Tom Quiner “Race matters because of persistent racial inequality that cannot be ignored and that has produced stark socioeconomic disparities.” This quote comes from Supreme Court Justice, Sandra Sotomayor. In essence, she suggests that persistent racial discrimination is the root cause of poverty. She wielded this opinion as a club to voice her opposition…
Read MoreThe dignity of women
I heard a different kind of story at a Catholic Men’s Conference a month ago. The speaker, Matt Fradd, told about a guy, let’s call him the Stranger, who lived half way across the world from him.
The speaker didn’t know the guy, and yet this Stranger would have a profound effect on the speaker’s life …
"Love God, and then do whatever you please"
True love, by its nature, is uncompromising; it is the freeing of self from selfishness and egotism.
Real love uses freedom to attach itself unchangeably to another. St. Augustine has said: “Love God, and then do whatever you please.”
Words are not necessary
My typical seat assignment
Confusing 'freedom' with 'license'
“The beauty of this universe is that practically all gifts are conditioned by freedom …”
Read MoreQuiner talks to the late, great Archbishop Fulton Sheen about freedom
By Tom Quiner QUINER: Archbishop Sheen, as the cause for your canonization moves forward, I’d like to chat with you for a few minutes about freedom. I’m sure you’re busy. Just because you now dwell in heaven doesn’t mean that you’re sitting around twiddling your thumbs. I’d like for you to help us understand the…
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