Seeking Perfect Justice in an Imperfect World
Thirty-two States currently support the death penalty as a punishment for heinous crimes. Although this is cited as a deterrent to such behavior, even the threat of death would not prevent many morally...
View ArticleReflections on the Power of Islam
It was on April 1, 2013 (April Fool’s Day) that the following headline appeared on MSN News: Lego scraps Star Wars toy Jabba after ‘anti-Muslim’ complaints. A group called the Turkish Cultural...
View ArticleWhy Hell Needs to Be Preached from the Housetops
Over the last fifty years, the Catholic faithful have become increasingly more presumptuous, believing that if one is judged to be a “good person” by his fellow human beings, his soul would immediately...
View ArticleAct of Evil: A Psychologist on the Newtown Massacre
It has been over six months since the Newtown, Connecticut massacre took place. It was on December 14, 2012 that Adam Lanza, a twenty year old disgruntled and deeply troubled young man, shot and...
View ArticleChronic Pain
Chronic Pain: ‘They Also Serve Who Only Stand And Wait’ Part I This article is about chronic pain — pain that hangs around the sufferer like an obnoxious intruder that doesn’t know when he is not...
View ArticleJust Being a Good Sport? Or Blasphemy? You Decide
We are now entering the 2013 football season. During the games of this season two seemingly innocuous, but nevertheless sacrilegious, puns are directed toward our Blessed Mother, the “heart” of the...
View ArticleDebating With Liberals: Why This Is Often A Treadmill To Nowhere
Debating with liberals can be an intense experience and most frustrating indeed. We might turn red-faced, increase the tone of our voice, and repeat or rephrase a point in order to make evident that...
View ArticleReflections On “Slithering Into Undisclosed Locations”
I have always enjoyed reading Sr. Marie Therese’s articles in the “Convent Corner” section of Mancipia. Her writing is concise, clearly presented, and filled with nuggets of wisdom, which are both...
View ArticleFalse Prophets
In the Gospel of Saint Matthew (7, 15-26), Our Lord presented this warning to His disciples: “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves.” In short,...
View ArticleA Diabolical Harvest
Video-tapes released by The Center for Medical Progress, an anti-abortion non-profit group, caught Planned Parenthood with their hands in the cookie jar. The tapes clearly and blatantly revealed that...
View ArticleThe Way We Were…
It has been fifty years since the closing of the second Vatican Council on December 8, 1965 ( The Feast of the Immaculate Conception ). I was 26 years old when the Council terminated. I had just...
View ArticleHonor thy Father and Mother
Living Up to the Fourth Commandment — Honor thy Father and Mother The Antidote in Correcting the Behavior of Unruly Children As a practicing psychologist for over forty years, I have worked with more...
View ArticleTeaching Your Unruly Child to Think Straight
Children who violate the fourth commandment — honor thy father and mother — think differently than those who are well-behaved. Recalcitrant children believe that the fulfillment of their needs should...
View ArticleThe Election of Donald Trump: Could This Be Our Last Chance?
On November 8, 2016, much to the surprise of the politicians and those who support them, Donald Trump was elected to be the next president of the United States. Throughout the presidential campaign,...
View ArticleReflections on the Year to Come
Time is a most important gift given to us by Our Lord. The use of time, in the way that Our Lord intended, will lead to eternal happiness with Him in Heaven. This, He has promised to us on numerous …...
View ArticlePentecost: Releasing the Power of the Holy Spirit
Our Lord, Jesus Christ, knew that His disciples would experience great sorrow — “Amen, amen, I say to you, that you shall weep and lament…” — when He ascended into heaven, leaving them behind to “Go...
View ArticleFollowing Louis XVI King of France into Annihilation
It was on October 13, 1917, one hundred years ago, that the Miracle of the Sun was witnessed by 70,000 people at Fatima. Many of these witnesses were naysayers, atheists, and Catholic haters. They had...
View ArticleBeware of Ravenous Wolves
Preface The Election of Donald Trump: Could This Be Our Last Chance? This article was published on December 23, 2016 (Saint Benedict Center; On-line Journal; Richmond, N.H.), shortly after Donald Trump...
View ArticlePresumption: The ‘I Am a Good Person’ Sin
The Way We Were Presumption is a sin that has become increasingly more common over the past fifty years. Before Vatican II, Catholics were taught to have a healthy fear of God and being judged by Him....
View ArticleWar and the Rumors of War
Introduction It has been twenty years since I stopped going to the Novus Ordo Mass and returned to the immutable Faith and the traditional Catholic Latin Mass. Like other cohorts of my generation,...
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