On October 28, 2011, Daniel Avila, an attorney who served as a policy advisory for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishop’s (USSCB) Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defense of Marriage, published the article below, which linked Satan with the origins of same-sex attraction. On November 2, 2011 he agreed retracted the article, and on [...]
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Catholic Tonight: The Two Swinging Senators of New York (Grisanti and Alesi)
Open Letter to Bishops Kmiec and Clark: Bishop of the Diocese of Buffalo, Most Reverend Edward U. Kmiec, meet Mark J. Grisanti, a Republican State Senator in your Diocese that was a swing vote for the so-called Gay Marriage Legislation in New York on June 24th. Read this statement he made after his vote to [...]
The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity
Today is The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity on the liturgical calendar, and really special day this year because it falls on Father’s Day in the United States. I find myself in deep contemplation about the mystery of the Holy Trinity this morning, because today is the first day in seven years that I [...]
Why Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley is Dead Wrong
In the wake of the controversy that surrounded St. Cecilia Catholic Church deciding to host a Mass in commemoration of Boston Pride 2011, an annual month long pageantry and celebration of all that is lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender, Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley wrote a blog yesterday (June 17, 2011) in which he attempted to [...]
Jesus & the Holy Spirit – the Magnanimous Dynamic Duo
Jesus said to his disciples: “If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate to be with you always, the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot accept, because it neither sees nor knows him. But you know him, because he remains [...]
Catholic Tonight, May 21st, 2011
Father Pfleger Returns Cardinal Francis George of the Arch Diocese of Chicago reinstated Father Michael Pfleger as St. Sabina pastor Friday, after suspending him on April 27, 2011, citing Pfleger’s statement on the ‘Tavis and West’ NPR Radio Show that he would ‘look to work outside the church’ if he were transferred to nearby Leo [...]
On Prudence (Reflection Readings at Mass)
The Readings at Today’s Mass (Philippians 3:17—4:1; Psalms 122:1-2, 3-4ab, 4cd-5; and Luke 16:1-8) all have something to say about how we ought to rightly discern the hour and act prudently in regards to it. We don’t hear a whole lot about the Cardinal Virtue of Prudence in this secular society, where the only absolute [...]
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