The Church is not simply Anti-Abortion
Being against something is ambiguous, it lacks context. We don’t really know what a person is for just by knowing what he is against. On the other hand, tell me what you are for and I can tell a...
Author: Brian Killian
But not a Christian
“Some Catholics consider it [migrants] a secondary issue compared to the ‘grave’ bioethical questions. That a politician looking for votes might say such a thing is understandable, but not a Christian…” ~ Pope Francis Deal Hudson doesn’t think Pope Francis...
Practical Pelagianism: 5 signs of the heresy in action
Pope Francis has warned of the resurgence of a Pelagian mentality ever since his election. But the new spirit of Pelagianism so decried by Pope Francis is not a formal Pelagianism. It doesn’t show itself in the denial of defined...
Misunderstanding Veritatis Splendor: A reply to E. Christian Brugger
Veritatis Splendor has always been the favorite encyclical of those who are unhappy with the theological direction of Pope Francis. It is their source of authority for their condemnations of Amoris Laetitia especially. In one recent example, E. Christian Brugger pits...
Responsible parenthood as a corporal work of mercy
A few years ago Pope Francis made headlines by saying that Catholics did not have to ‘be like rabbits’. “That example I mentioned shortly before about that woman who was expecting her eighth child and already had seven who were...
Three Popes, Two Conclaves, One Church
For a long time, Pope John Paull II was the only pope I knew. He was the pope of my childhood, and I was married with four kids by the time he died. But his death, the funeral, and the...
The Mustard Seed and a New Pastoral Paradigm
In a previous post I mentioned that the law of gradualism was not like Jack’s Magic Beanstalk that springs up to the sky over night, but more like the mustard seed that is the smallest of all seeds but eventually...
Reality is Greater than Ideas
Pharisees: “That man cannot be from God: he does not keep the Sabbath.” Blind Man: “Ever since the world began it is unheard of for anyone to open the eyes of someone born blind; if this man were not from...
With Man All Things Are Possible
Some Catholics wield Trent like a baseball bat. In their hands, Canon XVIII is a blunt instrument to beat the weak over the head with. Early in his pontificate Pope Francis criticized these Catholics for being what he called “self-absorbed...
Thomas Aquinas: Ghostwriter of Amoris Laetitia
Pope Francis has stated multiple times that Amoris Laetitia is rooted in the moral theology of St. Thomas Aquinas. The citations to Aquinas in chapter eight of the exhortation have been commented on by others, but specific quotations from the...
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