“Evil comes from sin, not from income disparity or climate change”

May 13, 2016

It’s been 99 years today since Our Lady of Fatima appeared to three children in Portugal. See my previous post for background (“The Oddity of Fatima.”)

She revealed three secrets. The second warned of the risk Russia posed to the world and the Church if she was not converted to the faith. According to the ‘Lady’:

“… she [Russia] will spread her errors throughout the world, causing wars and persecutions of the Church.”

Read More

“Evolution is a beautiful example of God’s design”

May 12, 2016

We live in an era that leans on science alone to explain reality. And yet increasing numbers of scientists are being drawn to the notion of an Intelligent Designer due to the exquisite design of the universe.

Dr. Peter Kreeft explains that a scientist’s embrace of Intelligent Design depends upon the field the scientist is in:

Read More

“The signature of man”

May 9, 2016

What in the world was Luke thinking?

I refer to the writer of the third Gospel. In yesterday’s Gospel from the 24th chapter of Luke, one sentence leapt out at me:

“As he blessed them he parted from them and was taken up to heaven.”

Huh?

‘He was taken up to heaven?’

‘He parted from them?’

Good grief, Luke, this is big stuff! Doesn’t an event of this magnitude deserve a little punchier prose than you were able to muster? How ’bout something like this:

Read More

“Fly to the Angels”

May 5, 2016

This extraordinary event has been portrayed in art down through the ages. I dramatized it in my recent musical, THE FIRE AND THE MERCY, The Pentecost Musical. I chose to focus on an aspect of the event not spoken of in scripture: Jesus’ goodbye to his Mother, Mary.

Read More