Religion
Faithful voters
Yesterday, Catholics voted Republican 53 to 45% according to exit polling conducted by Edison Research. Protestants were even more supportive of Republican candidates, 60 to 38%.
Read MoreWhere in the heck did Catholics come up with purgatory?
As a convert to Catholicism, I once embraced a Protestant theology that suggested a ‘once-for-all atonement.’ I certainly am no theologian, but my understanding of Catholic teaching on purgatory is, in fact, based on sacred scripture, which I will touch on momentarily.
Read More“If there was no purgatory, man would invent it”
By Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI “I would go so far as to say that if there was no purgatory, then we would have to invent it, for who would dare say of himself that he was able to stand directly before God. And, yet we don’t want to be, to use an image from Scripture,…
Read MoreRedemptive suffering
Why does God allow suffering?
This is the question men of faith and faithless men have asked down through the ages. A Quiner’s Diner reader wrote and told me she is going through the Catholic Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA).
She was trying to come to grips with this question. Some non-Catholic Christian evangelists promote a philosophy that financial well-being is the will of God for man. This is known as the prosperity gospel.
Catholic thinking, on the other hand, embraces the notion that suffering can be redemptive, that it is even sometimes necessary for the salvation of souls…
Read More“It’s not in the Koran”
“How do you respond when someone says, “It’s not in the Koran” (implying that if it isn’t in the Koran it is not a part of Islam)? Usually the conversation ends.”
Read MoreThe contagious mass psychosis of October 13th, 1917
“The universe is governed by scientific laws. These laws must hold without exception.”
So what are we to make of this miracle of the sun?
The phenomenon was first observed on October 13th, 1917 in Fatima, Portugal. According to published reports, somewhere from 30,000 to 100,00 were present to witness this event.
Read MoreFake Muslims?
A Muslim is mad.
She didn’t like the cartoon I posted on this blog.
“Yes, there are bad Muslims.
Yes, there are also bad Christians.
Yes, there are also bad Jews.”
You see the direction this is going in. Moral equivalency. Muslims, Christians, and Jews are all bad…
Read MorePorn vs faith-based art: which will you support?
Let me direct: I need your help.
Will you support my Kickstarter crowd-funding campaign? I am trying to raise $15,000 by October 26th to fund my new musical, “The Wedding at Cana.” There are only 19 days left to hit our goal.
Read MoreWhat is the sex act?
Flannery O’Connor was a great American writer and essayist who died 50 years ago.images
The never-married Ms. O’Connor was also a staunch Catholic…
Would you chop off a head over a football penalty?
“I’m a Catholic; I know that islam is not the way, but when you can get an apparent muslim to tell you that his religion fosters raving, homicidal lunatics — at the drop of a hat, or a penalty flag — that’s quite a thing.”
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