For two years, I’ve been a member of Girls Ask Guys, or GAG for short, a website on which guys and girls ask questions about dating and relationships. I’m starting a sub-series here based on discussions I’ve had and ideas I’ve seen there. This new series shall be entitled (drumroll, please)…The GAG Files. I recently asked why […]
Archives for 2013
The (Fake) War On Women: Taking Cecile Richards To Task
June 17, 2013 by
In March, Cecile Richards told the Huffington Post that there are some states where “it’s not safe to be a woman”, citing laws recently passed in North Dakota. “It’s almost like the November elections didn’t happen”, she claimed. I said in my previous post that Planned Parenthood is unique because their business drives the need. For other businesses, the reverse […]
Cecile Richards and Planned Parenthood Do NOT Have A Say
June 13, 2013 by
“The Soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the Soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war” – General Douglas MacArthur After the Obama Administration issued the unconstitutional and unjust HHS mandate forcing all employers to cover and provide contraception, sterilization, and abortion-inducing drugs in employee health plans, five […]
Why Contraception Is Not Justified By “Unwanted Pregnancies”
June 10, 2013 by
As the Conclave was preparing to meet to elect our new pope, the news and Facebook were naturally full of all sorts of challenges and messages. One stood out in particular to me: A hope that the new pope would teach that contraception is acceptable in order to prevent “unwanted pregnancies”. I’ll briefly re-cap an […]
Book Review: Made For More
June 8, 2013 by
Let’s face it: There is A LOT to the Roman Catholic Church. It’s good that we have a lot at our disposal, but there’s a downside. Many Catholics don’t understand the faith. Jeff Cavins made this precise observation once, noting that he had left the Catholic Church because he felt like what he had was essentially a […]
Evolution As It Relates To Human Sexuality
May 20, 2013 by
One common objection to religious belief is that science can explain everything. Perhaps the most intense discourse today is between evolution and creation. Many militant atheists assume that we do not accept the facts of history and science, but this is false. The Church simply states that everything did not happen by accident; we are made in […]
Why I Am Pro-Life: My Mothers’ Day Gift
May 12, 2013 by
With today being Mothers’ Day, I think it’s only appropriate that I thank my mother by offering insight as to why I am so firmly pro-life. I’ve been a Catholic my whole life and have always accepted the Church’s teachings on abortion, but it’s only within the last few years that I really understood how […]
True Lies and Beautiful [False] Attributions
April 30, 2013 by
“Preach the Gospel Always, And Put Words Into The Mouths Of Saints When Applicable.” One of my favorite quotes by St. Francis of Assisi is probably the only one you know. “Preach the gospel always, use words [only] when necessary.” I think it sums up a lot of the Christian ideal in many ways, particularly […]
The Flaws of “Sexual Compatibility”
April 29, 2013 by
With today’s divorce rate, no one who wants marriage wants any shadow of doubt. It’s easy to understand a couple wanting to know each other as much as possible before marrying. Around this time last year, I published a non-religious defense of saving sex for marriage on Girls Ask Guys (I’ve talked about this […]
Charismatic Gifts and Spiritual Maturity
April 27, 2013 by
Patrick shared an encounter that he had with a retreat group purporting to be a charismatic group, and the leader of which insinuated that to not pray “in the spirit” is to not pray at all. Naturally, Pat was offended. We went back and fourth discussing his piece, and I encouraged him to do his […]