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 …
Category: Politics
A Cut and Paste World
I try not to get too involved in politics on this site but there are times it is hard not to. This is one of them. Currently, there has been a lot of attention focused on the detaining of children who have crossed the border. They have been herded into detention centers and have been …
Two Ways to Fight Planned Parenthood
I know I have been writing a lot about the latest Planned Parenthood butchery, but I feel it is important. I have been thinking a lot about abortion lately and how wrong it is. I admit at one time I considered myself Pro-Choice, although I never thought abortion was right, but I felt that a …
Global Warming and the Pope
Earlier today Pope Francis released a new encyclical "Laudato si'". Praise Be: On the Care for our Common Home. As with anything the Pope writes or says, there is sure to be a lot of misinterpretation, especially by the mainstream media. Some of the issues in the encyclical are climate change, global warming, fossil fuels and …
In God I trust, In Politicians I Don’t
I know it is hard to believe, but the silly season has begun again. Yes, it's true, we are already seeing the dawn of the 2016 Presidential Campaign. We already have about 1,000 republican candidates who have announced their candidacies and three Democrats. And as always that brings up the question: How is a Catholic supposed …
Judge Not
Warning: I am about to go political, There are so many things wrong with this whole Ferguson mess, I really don't know where to start. Here are just a few of them in no particular order. Justice Served (or not): I have to wonder why we even have a justice system in this country when …
A Revelation
I had a revelation this week. No, it isn't a revelation where God handed me some stone tablets, and it wasn't a revelation like God gave to the apostle John about the end times. No, it was a revelation about what is wrong with the world today About seven years ago I became interested in …
The Road to Extinction
For this post only, let's change the name of this blog to something other than the Wayward Catholic because for this post I want to keep all references to religion, God, Catholicism or the Bible. So pretend its something like the Wayward Atheist. Okay, then, let's talk about Gay Marriage and why it is wrong from a purely …
Evil and the Light
There are many people out there today, two days after the reelection of Barack Obama, who are wondering "What's next?' While this is true for many diverse groups, it is especially true for devout Catholics. We can argue over whether the "Five non-negotiables" are really negotiable, whether Mitt Romney being a Mormon hurt him with …
The Vine Dresser
It's the day after the election and a somewhat disappointing one at that. I have to question why is this? How could people be so ignorant as to re-elect the current president? But then I found the answer, or at least part of it. We live in country where the majority of people only care about themselves. …
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