Hoisted by his own agenda
Was this a wave election?
BEFORE AFTER Yes.
Read MoreThe Republicans’ triumph is even more amazing when you look at this map
By Tom Quiner Counties that voted Republican are represented in red; Democratic parties are blue. What do you think is the significance of this map? Maybe liberals have it all wrong. It’s not the Republicans who are “radical” and out of touch, at least according to this map. What do you think?
Read MoreFaithful 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 MoreObama’s foreign policy
Will the “Take-Away Party” lose their power today?
By Tom Quiner I call the Democratic Party the “Take-Away Party.” Every position they stake out will take something critical from someone else, whether it is life, liberty, or the pursuit of happiness. Take their proclamation for women’s reproductive ‘health.’ This phrase is code for human abortion and contraception. Human abortion takes away something precious…
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 MoreAll Saints Day
“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…
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