Dear Discerning Young Catholic, Underachieving in the realm of morality has become so commonplace in our world that we have begun to pretend that sin is transcendent behavior just to make ourselves feel better. There is nothing transcendent about sleeping with someone on the first date, but these days an astounding number of romance movies [...]
One thing that Hollywood is good at is broadcasting falsehood in bits and pieces over a long period of time like a drip being administered to a patient in a hospital. It was successful using this strategy for the promotion of “the pills” in the c. 1950s. Hollywood also pushed the sex outside marriage propaganda, [...]
We’ve all heard the new modern meme*: You’re just a mom? or You are just a mom! or Are you just a mom? or Oh, you are just a mom. I put a question mark at the end of that first iteration for a reason. Today, more than ever, women — mothers in particular — [...]
Aside from the good stuff like Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, a lot of questionable things came out of the 80s. Perms, spandex, Rick Astley…if there’s a kernel of truth from that decade, though, it’s this: love is a battlefield. Thanks, Pat Benatar. Seriously, during my engagement, I became more aware of spiritual warfare than I ever had before, [...]
We pray with our children before bed each night. John was getting a bit distracted during the Hail Mary, so I thought I would try something new. I thought, what could be better for a little boy than praying to St. Michael the Archangel? I enthusiastically asked John if he knew who Saint Michael was, [...]
A male reader of my post “This Modern Love” wrote an aside of how “man conquers woman” in the courtship process. He gave a personal example and said that though he did all the right things (e.g. gave her flowers, wrote her letters), he did not win her heart. He also wrote that, at one [...]
I used to have a big yellow bumper sticker stuck to my car’s rear windshield. In red letters, it said CHASTITY IS FOR LOVERS. I’m fairly certain our culture begs to differ, as evidenced by various statistics (88 percent of unmarried people between the ages 18 and 29 are sexually active*) and by a reader who [...]
The day after Thanksgiving our neighbor had her Christmas wreath hanging on her front door. Before New Year’s the Christmas wreath had been exchanged for a generic winter one, which was up for a few weeks before making way for a Valentine decoration. By February 16th that red heart was gone for a shamrock and [...]
Love. What does it mean to love someone or something? How are we called to love? What does today, Good Friday teach us about love? With the events of this past week weighing on my heart and the unbearable division of Christians I have witnessed all around me (most notably in new Facebook profile pictures [...]
Happy Holy Week everybody! In this edition of The Warrior Catholic Show, we take a look at Christ’s Passion. In the overwhelming commercialism of the holidays, it can be hard to keep a true perspective of the religious aspect and the true meaning of what we are actually celebrating. Christ’s Passion was the fulfillment of [...]
Modesty gives no quarter to our fallen nature, and it brings the full splendor of the other person into sharp relief.
Self esteem. A modern essential. Self esteem was a term invented by Sigmund Freud. The concept has taken wings since then, enhancing other modern philosophies. In the modern world, ever increasing affirmation of self esteem is key through political correctness (not offending anyone), relativism (everyone is right in whatever they think) as well as in [...]
My friend Jon and I came up with a crazy idea: what if everyone around the world took pictures of Holy Week and the beauty of God, made a #hashtag (#CaptureEaster) and posted them all up on one website? Starting this Palm Sunday, join us in our attempt to flood the internet with pics [...]
So I am pleased as punch to tell you that I just had a baby! My sweet little girl came crashing into the world exactly two weeks ago today, after eight hours of the hardest natural labor I’ve had yet. When it was over, my OB told me I made it look easy, but I’m pretty sure [...]
When I think of grandmothers, I think of fingers. My 96 year old maternal grandmother hardly remembers my name, but I still remember the years I watched her fingers plying the rosary beads one by one for each of her grandchildren. Around her twisty bed post, she’d drape her rose-scented brown rosary, marked with a [...]
The blogosphere has been abuzz about all the sex The Bachelor isn’t having. It’ll be abuzz again now that his engagement is public. This started when America discovered that Sean Lowe, this season’s star of ABC’s The Bachelor, is a “born again virgin” – somebody who is saving sex from now on for marriage. And [...]
As human beings we are an emotionally fragile bunch. That however is not a bad thing. Indeed, it is our emotional state that most readily separates us from the animal kingdom. We perceive love, joy, surprise, anger, sadness and fear, and we can deliver those positive or negative emotions to others in the way we [...]
To pursue, or to be pursued? That is the question. ‘Tis nobler in the mind to date until your breath is taken, or heart is broken… Dating – in the man-meets-woman, man-asks-woman-out way**- may sound outdated to those more liberated in their feelings. Instead, people get to know each other by hanging out and never [...]
Imagine my surprise when a friend who works with the parish youth group asked me to give a chastity talk to the middle and high school aged girls. “Who, me?” I said, raising an eyebrow suspiciously. I thought, Why not someone who has actually lived chastely her whole life? Me? I did it all wrong. [...]
“I am troubled now. Yet what should I say? ’Father, save me from this hour’? But it was for this purpose that I came to this hour. Father, glorify your name.” - John 12:27-28 A few weeks ago I read over these verses in the Catechism. I’ve always loved these verses because they showcase Jesus’ humanity [...]
(This post is Ink speaking, writing solo.) Disclaimer: I don’t like writing about love in a public forum. It makes me feel vulnerable to public opinion. Some time ago, I attended a conference in my home diocese. Having connections with the organizers, I ended up attending the after-party as well, and had an absolute blast [...]
I’ve grown quite weary of listening to Cecile Richards and Kathleen Sebelius drone on about their supposed concern for my “reproductive choices” and my “health care”. Haven’t you? They remind me of those little dolls I used to play with as a child–the dolls that came with a string attached that, when pulled, would play a [...]
She is not sick. Stop jacking your wife up on hormones. Freedom. It is dumb to let a little pill control your wife. All. Nothing says “I love you” better than actions that say “I desire your complete goodness, fertility included.” Counter-culture. Planned Parenthood will think you are crazy; this is a good thing. [...]
Q. How do you pronounce “ignitum”? A. Well, you have some options. The Romans would have said ig-NEE-toom. In church, we’d say “in-YEE-toom.”
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