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Just How Evil is Sodomy? The Saints Weigh In.
In light of recent events, a theological concept that I’ve seen dusted off and put back into use with increasing frequency is that of a “sin that cries out to heaven for vengeance.” There are four such sins – murder, sodomy, oppression of the poor, and defrauding a worker of his wages. Each of these is considered especially…
No Third Way: The Fundamentals of Rationality
It did seem as though many of the Synod fathers were proposing something that is logically impossible. It was not said out loud, but the implication was that they were asking, “Between yes and no, being and not being, sin and not sin, death and life, can we have a ‘third’ option? And if so,…
More on the Benedict Option: Not Perfect, But Better Than Acquiescence
Over at the LMS Chairman blog, Joseph Shaw (whom I have great respect for and typically agree with) takes issue with a few points from my post yesterday about the “Gay Marriage” decision from the U.S. Supreme Court: Skojek [sic] talks moving out of the cities and about living off the land. I can understand the…
St. Pelagius of Córdoba: A Martyr for our Times
“Because every one that exalteth himself, shall be humbled; and he that humbleth himself, shall be exalted.” (Luke 14:11) In one of his parables, Our Lord Jesus Christ tells of the great feast and of the guests assembled for the banquet. One man, thinking himself of some importance, took his seat among the higher places.…
Gay Marriage: Brought to you by Contraception
Editor’s Note: This is a reprint of a 2013 article anticipating the trend toward today’s Supreme Court decision. We present it for your consideration as discussion of this issue continues. Again and again, gay marriage advocates come to the debate insisting that marriage is a fundamental civil right, which begs the question. This assumption would…
Some Thoughts on Today’s Events
“If, even as the price to be paid for a fifth vote, I ever joined an opinion for the Court that began: “The Constitution promises liberty to all within its reach, a liberty that includes certain specific rights that allow persons, within a lawful realm, to define and express their identity,” I would hide my…
A Preliminary Analysis of the Instrumentum Laboris
At Rorate Caeli, Augustinus has a partial translation and analysis of the Instrumentum Laboris for the coming Synod, with a particular focus on identifying those areas where the Kasper Agenda could take a foothold: No. 115 claims that there is a widespread agreement in favor of dispensing with the “second instance” or the confirming sentence in…
One Hundred and Seventy-Eight Thousand
When I got our website hosting bill this month, I was a little surprised. Our current plan will accommodate up to 100,000 visitors a month, but we were charged nearly double the usual amount. When I looked at our stats, I saw why: we had 178,577 people visit 1P5 during the past 30 days. To put that…
Alice von Hildebrand on Church Conspiracies
There is a very good interview with Dr. Alice von Hildebrand, re-published last Friday an Rorate Caeli by our own Peter Kwasniewski. It’s an old one — from 2001 — but I found that reading it again brought new points to light, and it was very worthwhile. Not least among the considerations she brings forward…
Instrumentum Laboris Released; Communion for Divorced Still on the Table
Today at noon, Rome time, the Instrumentum Laboris – the text that will guide the second half of the Synod this October – was released in Italian. Some highlights, courtesy of Whispers in the Loggia: Stacking out at 147 paragraphs – some 20,000 words – the text is arranged around three pillars: the challenges families face,…
