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Exchanging the Truth of God for a Lie: Rejecting Marriage and Gender Connected

By Deacon Keith Fournier | August 16, 2013

Western culture needs conversion, from the inside out. We need a Christian revolution of the heart. Christians need to once again take the eternal and timeless values of the classical and orthodox Christian worldview and knead them again into the loaf of western culture. They are the yeast which alone can revivify a western civilization which has lost it's soul. There is a clash of worldviews currently underway in the West. It involves competing definitions of human freedom, human dignity, and human flourishing. Both cannot be true. Classical, orthodox Christians are now contending with the hostility of a secularist relativism which claims there are no truths. That is what makes Christians so increasingly countercultural.

The 21st Century War Against Moral Discernment

By Deacon F. K. Bartels | August 16, 2013

Some think silence is best in the face of grave sin. But that is a serious error. We are not helping our brothers or sisters by withholding the truth. Souls can be lost by silence taken as approval. If we say we have not sinned, we make God a liar (1 Jn 1:10), which means we all need correction, admonishment and support. A dose of wisdom is light to the soul. The idea that we harm a friend by speaking the truth is perhaps one of the greatest errors of the age.

FRIDAY HOMILY: From the Beginning It Was Not So

By Fr. Randy Sly | August 16, 2013

In years past, I usually approached this text based on HOW one is to approach marriage and divorce. There is a new wrinkle now introduced into the general discussion of marriage - WHO is being married, particularly regarding the so-called union of same-sex couples.

The Plight of Coptic Christians: Egypt Engulfed in Violence, Christians in the Crosshairs

By Deacon Keith Fournier | August 16, 2013

The news coming out of Egypt is horrible. The flames of hatred and division are engulfing this ancient biblical land. Forces aligned with the current government and those aligned with the ousted Muslim brotherhood shoot at one another while paying no regard for anyone else, including those who have the most ancient claim to that beautiful land, the Christians of Egypt.Reliable reports from Fr. Rafic Greiche, a spokesman for the Egyptian Catholic Church, indicate that seven Catholic Churches and fifteen Coptic Orthodox and Protestant churches were attacked in Cairo and Upper Egypt.

The Assumption or Dormition of Mary Reveals the Meaning of the Christian Life

By Deacon Keith Fournier | August 16, 2013

What came about in bodily form in Mary, the fullness of the godhead shining through Christ in the Blessed Virgin, takes place in a similar way in every soul (Gregory of Nyssa) We are invited to empty ourselves and be filled with the very life of God. The Lord desires to come and take up residence within us and be borne into a world that hungers for His love. Mary shows us the way. She heard the promise, believed, was filled with grace, and conceived the Lord who is Love incarnate.

Gender Identity Madness as Law: Male and Female He Created Them - Unless You Live in California

By Deacon Keith Fournier | August 16, 2013

To the accolades of the leaders of a Cultural Revolution - and the shock and despair of most parents - Governor Jerry Brown signed California Assembly Bill 1266 into law. It mandates that restrooms in public schools, from kindergarten through the twelfth grade, no longer be limited to boys or girls, young men or young women. Students who self identify as transgendered will now be able to choose which restroom they use. This legislation is a part of a movement to discard the truth that gender is a given, a gift.

I Wish to Die for that Man! St. Maximilian Kolbe, Priest, Martyr

By Deacon F.K. Bartels | August 16, 2013

Maximilian Kolbe was born in Poland in 1894, became a Franciscan friar as a teenager, and was later ordained as a priest who served a small parish community. But when the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939, tragic events of human suffering where set into motion in which Kolbe's destiny would be sealed and his holiness revealed. It was hope in the love of Christ that compelled St. Maximilian Kolbe to confidently step forward and say, "I wish to die for that man."

'The Liberty Amendments' by Mark Levin Premieres at No. 1 on Amazon

By Terence P. Jeffrey | August 14, 2013

In the book, Levin, who served as chief of staff in the Justice Department during the Reagan Administration, argues that the states should take advantage of the power given to them in Article V of the Constitution to call a convention of the states to propose amendments to the Constitution.

Satan scores in California: law allows kids to pick their gender

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) | August 14, 2013

Liberal California Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a law forcing schools to classify students sexually however kids choose. The new law represents a kowtow to the extreme liberal left of the state which seeks to enshrine sexual deviance in law.

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