I should have done this, I could have done that, I would have done the other thing. We have all said one, or all, of these at some point in our lives. For example, in my case, it would be "I should have never strayed from the church"; "I could have listened to my father …
Category: morality
To Live or Not Live
I often talk about cafeteria Catholics, those who call themselves Catholics and then proceed to pick and choose what parts of the faith they will follow. "Let's see, I'll go to Mass every Sunday but it is okay if I have an extra-marital affair." "I can take communion but I don't feel I need to …
A Case of Twisted Logic
We're better off dead, or so thinks at least one pro-abortion advocate. After the Alabama State Senate passed a very restrictive abortion law this week, Jameel Jamil an actress who of course knows what is best for all of us sent out a tweet expressing her anger. She has had an abortion and said it …
Eyes that do not see
It was either this week or last week at the RCIA program we were discussing how things were in the "old days". I used to call them "the good old days" but now I question just exactly how good they were. We talked about how when I started school we began every day with the …
Whose Side Are You On
It's time for the Catholic Church to reunite. As St. Paul asked the Corinthians "Is Christ divided?"
Morals Really are this Simple
Anyone who has read any of my ramblings on this blog can attest that I am always talking about morality and the lack of the same in our culture. We are always hearing about moral relativism and how people consider morals to be relative to what is best for them. Different circumstances mean different morals. …
The Truth Will Set Us Free
Every once in a while I will come across something that just strikes me in a certain way. Whether it is a passage from Scripture or a line from one of the thousand other things I seem to always be reading. Today it is a line from the Book of Proverbs. The justice of the …
To whom shall we go
This clergy abuse scandal rearing its ugly head again is really messing me up. I have finally become somewhat comfortable with being Catholic again, one of the reasons I left the church was the Boston scandal, and now we have another one. In my last post, I talked about how I am going to deal …
God Bless America
Happy Independence Day! Today is the 242nd anniversary of this great country of ours. It's sad to think of how many of our fellow Americans have forgotten some of the principles this country was founded on. I am going to share some of them today. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men …
Catholicism Crisis: The Immigration Debate
I'm having a Catholicism Crisis. What is a Catholicism Crisis? I define it as being torn between what the Catholic Church teaches and what I believe. At one time my whole life was a Catholicism Crisis, after all, I came from that post-Vatican II era when catechizing was almost non-existent and attitudes about many Catholic …
The Wayward Catholic 