Catholic, Gay, and Feeling Fine, Thanks
Eyyyy, I jumped on the Quick Takes bandwagon! Great idea, really, because some days I really just can’t organize my thoughts more than a paragraph at a time. Let’s see, how’s this thing work? There we go. 1: Passive Purification I finally had my approximately-bi-weekly conversation with Father T. I was all “It’s awful, everything’s…
Some people think Christians are in love with suffering. Not true: it’s just that we don’t see it as something to be categorically avoided. My heart hurts right now. It just does, and none of your business why, dear readers, although you’d understand it well enough. I know myself well enough to know that it’ll…
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From my pastor’s sermon today: “Human beings are made in such a way that we can’t think ourselves into acting a certain way. We have to act ourselves into thinking a certain way.” Which, incidentally, is how obedience to the Magisterium works. I don’t think you can understand Church teaching without living it first. Which…
This excellent article by Michael Baruzzini, titled Walker Percy, Bourbon, and the Holy Spirit. Excerpt: “Affection is made concrete with actions. Handshakes between colleagues, hugs and kisses between friends not only display, but actually create or make real the respect and affection between people. The true value of a family dinner lies at this level:…
Occasionally I do pull out the gay card. The gay card, of course, is a conversational trump, as in: “You say homosexual acts are wrong? Well, I have a gay cousin!” This is exactly as logical as saying: “You think Cheetos aren’t nutritious? Well, I love Cheetos!” Probably true, but totally irrelevant — unless you…
When I was ten or eleven, I somehow1 came across a letter to my mother, written by a psychologist, I think Joseph Nicolosi — anyway if not him, somebody else in the field. She was worried about me and had found his name, and he’d been gracious enough to reply with advice: try to get…
[Discussion with an reader on mono- vs. polygenism] + [Adam & Eve] + [facebook queries] + [helpful friends] leads me to a fascinating post by Michael Flynn on the whole question. Excerpt: …[They] appear to hold that the statement: A: “There is one man from whom all humans are descended” is equivalent to the statement:…
Thanks for prayers, everyone! The interview went very well, and I somehow wasn’t even nervous. It will air around Thanksgiving — I’ll let you know when I find out the exact time, and will try to have the audio file available on the site. Got to run now. I took the day off because Rivka…
Been meaning to tell you, but my server decided now would be a good time to go down. Anyway, it turns out I got a little overexcited. My interview on Catholic Answers Live is being recorded this Wednesday, but it won’t air till November some time. Sorry for the false alarm! I’ll keep you posted….
