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Operation Outcry Needs Your Help!
2008-02-29 18:13:00
The following is a must-read from Fr. Euteneuer of Human Life International. Please pass this along to everyone you know and post it on your blogs. The entire Catholic blogosphere needs to get behind this project.Pax Christi,phatcatholic - - - - - - - - - -Spirit & Life®"The words I spoke to you are spirit and life." (Jn 6:63)Human Life International e-NewsletterVolume 03, Number 09 Friday, February 29, 2008Operation OutcryIn every country where abortion is being promoted, the insistent mantra of the abortion promoters is the lie that "unsafe (i.e., illegal) abortion" is damaging women's lives and should be replaced by "safe and legal" abortion.The transformation of abortion from illegal to legal is supposed to make it - magically - safe for women. That was but one of the many lies about abortion that the US Supreme Court swallowed in 1973 when it legalized this killing procedure. While the abortion industry itself admitted that most of the illegal abortions were done by train...
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Daily Dose of Discernment: 2/29/08
2008-02-29 16:31:00
Note: There was no available quotation from G. K. Chesterton for Feb. 29, so today's "Daily Dose " is strictly from Catholic TraditionPrayer is the spiritual offering that has replaced the ancient sacrifices. What good do I receive from the multiplicity of your sacrifices? asks God. We learn from the gospel: The hour will come when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth. God is spirit, and so he looks for worshipers who are like himself.We are the true worshipers and the true priests. Praying in spirit we offer prayer to God as a sacrifice. Prayer is an appropriate and an acceptable sacrifice to God. It is the offering he has asked for and the offering he expects.We must make this offering with our whole heart. We must fatten it on faith, prepare it by truth, keep it unblemished by innocence, spotless by chastity, and we must crown it with love. We must escort it to the altar of God in a procession of good works to the sound of psalms and hymns. Then it will ...

Daily Dose of Discernment: 2/28/08
2008-02-29 05:59:00
The wise man will follow a star, low and large and fierce in the heavens, but the nearer he comes to it the smaller and smaller it will grow, till he finds it the humble lantern over some little inn or stable. Not till we know the high things shall we know how lovely they are.-- G. K. Chesterton, William Blake- - - - - - - - - -Make light of the world and of yourself and of all earthly pleasures. Hold your kingdom as something lent to you, not as if it were your own. For you know well that life, health, wealth, honor, status, dominion?none of these belongs to you. If they did, you could own them in your own way. But just when we want to be healthy we are sick; just when we want to be alive we die; just when we want to be rich we are poor; just when we want to be in power we are made servants. And all this because these things are not ours, and we can keep them only as much and as long as it pleases the One who has lent them to us. So it is really foolish to hold as if it were our ow...
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Oops! My Bad
2008-02-28 01:54:00
I just realized that my numbering is off for Poll-Release Monday. This week's poll should be #44, not #45. As a result, I need to go back through and renumber all of my previous polls. For those of you who read my blog via my blog feed or receive updates via email, I apologize.UPDATE (2/27/08, 8:20 PM): Fixed the numbering in the title of each "Poll-Release Monday" post, as well as the numbering for the "Poll-Release Monday" Archive.Pax Christi,phatcatholic

Scripture Passages for Anxiety and Depression
2008-02-28 00:46:00
Someone recently asked me for some Scripture verses that would be comforting in times of anxiety or depression. Here's what I found:Exo 14:14 The LORD will fight for you, and you have only to be still.Psa 4:8 In peace I will both lie down and sleep; for thou alone, O LORD, makest me dwell in safety.Psa 29:11 May the LORD give strength to his people! May the LORD bless his people with peace!Isa 9:6 For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government will be upon his shoulder, and his name will be called "Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace."Isa 32:2,17-18 Each will be like a hiding place from the wind, a covert from the tempest, like streams of water in a dry place, like the shade of a great rock in a weary land. 17 And the effect of righteousness will be peace, and the result of righteousness, quietness and trust for ever. 18 My people will abide in a peaceful habitation, in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting places.Isa 53:5 But ...
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Phatcatholic Q&A Rampage
2008-02-27 23:11:00
WikiAnswers just had to tempt me. From midnight (EST) on Saturday (late Friday night), March 1, 2008 until midnight (EST) on Monday (late Sunday night) March 3, there will be a WikiAnswers AnswerThon. Whoever can answer the most questions wins a $500 Amazon gift certificate. I'm all about that! I'd sit and answer questions all day if I didn't have fifty-billion other things to do.I got excited and answered a few questions before the contest begins. Here's what I've answered so far (it took me about 30 minutes):Who is the patron saint of logan?While it is unclear who or what "logan" is, perhaps this will answer your question. There is a "Logan County" that is a part of the diocese of Peoria, Illinois, who's patron saint is Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception. There is a "Logan County" that is a part of the diocese of Grand Island, Nebraska, who's patron saint is the Blessed Virgin Mary. Finally, there is a "Logan County" that is a part of the diocese of Fargo, North Dakota, ...
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The Mass and the Forgiveness of Sins
2008-02-27 16:38:00
I had to blow the dust off of this question, it is so old! On 11/21/07, Christina emailed me the following question: There is an argument out there that since the mass is a representation of the cross of Christ and, as the Roman Catechism puts it, "is truly a propitiatory Sacrifice, by which God is appeased and rendered propitious to us", we have no need of confession. Further from the Roman Catechism on this point:"If, therefore, with a pure heart, a lively faith, and affected with an inward sorrow for our transgressions, we immolate and offer this most holy victim, we shall, without doubt, obtain mercy from the Lord, and grace in time of need; for SO delighted is the Lord with the door of this victim that, bestowing on us the gift of grace and repentance, He pardons our sins. Hence this usual prayer of the Church: As often as the commemoration of this victim is celebrated, so often is the work of our salvation being done; that is to say, through this unbloody Sacrifice flow to us ...
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Daily Dose of Discernment: 2/27/08
2008-02-27 16:30:00
Aman must be partly a one-idead man because he is a one-weaponed man -- and he is flung naked into the fight. In short, he must (as the books on Success say) give 'his best'; and what a small part of a man 'his best ' is! His second and third best are often much better. If he is the first violin he must fiddle for life; he must not remember that he is a fine fourth bagpipe, a fair fifteenth billiard-cue, a foil, a fountain-pen, a hand at whist, a gun, and an image of God.-- G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World- - - - - - - - - -If, having been made in the image of God, you wish to be like him, follow his example. Christians, whose very name is a profession of love for everyone, should imitate the love of Christ.Consider and wonder at the wealth of Christ's love for us. When he was about to show himself to us in our own nature, he sent John the Baptist to preach repentance by word and example. Before John he sent all the prophets. They too were to teach people to amend...
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Daily Dose of Discernment: 2/26/08
2008-02-26 17:31:00
It is neither blood nor rain that has made England, but hope -- the thing all those dead men have desired. France was not France because she was made to be by the skulls of the Celts or by the sun of Gaul. France was France because she chose.-- G. K. Chesterton, George Bernard Shaw- - - - - - - - - -Our Lord Jesus Christ nourishes us for eternal life both by his commands, which teach us how to live holy lives, and by the eucharist. He in himself therefore is truly the divine, life-giving manna. Anyone who eats it will be exempt from corruption and will escape death, unlike those who ate the material manna. That type had no power to save, but was merely an imitation of the reality.God sent down manna like rain from above, and ordered everyone to gather as much as necessary, those who shared a tent gathering together if they wished. Gather it, each of you, he said, with those who share your tent. Let none of it be left over till the morning. That is to say, we must fill ourselves with...
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Poll-Release Monday #45
2008-02-25 21:50:00
It has certainly been a long time coming, but here is your new poll for the week:True or False?: "A repentance motivated by a love of God above all else obtains forgiveness of mortal sin."TrueFalseIn RCIA, we recently discussed the Sacrament of Reconciliation more in depth, and this is one of the issues that came up. What do you say? Vote in the poll in the sidebar and let me know.That said, here are the results from the previous poll, which is now 3 weeks old, but only ran for a week and a half:"What do you think of the new topical index at the top of my blog?"Yay: 27 (84%)Nay: 5 (16%)Most of you all liked the index where it was, before I even made it so that you could hide or reveal it (by clicking on the button at the top of my blog). So, I'm guessing it's a hit now, and I hope that you all are using it.Finally, nominations end this Friday (the 29th) for the 2008 Catholic Blog Awards, so make sure you nominate me before it's too late! Remember, I'm shooting for two awards thi...
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Daily Dose of Discernment: 2/25/08
2008-02-25 21:11:00
Nothing is important except the fate of the soul; and literature is only redeemed from an utter triviality, surpassing that of naughts and crosses, by the fact that it describes not the world around us, or the things on the retina of the eye, or the enormous irrelevancy of encyclopaedias, but some condition to which the human spirit can come.-- G. K. Chesterton, Introduction to "The Old Curiosity Shop"- - - - - - - - - -We might suppose a path pointed out by God would be a smooth and pleasant one, free of obstacles and requiring no effort from the traveler, but in fact God's way is an ascent, a tortuous and rugged climb. There can be no downhill road to virtue?it is uphill all the way, and the path is narrow and arduous. Listen also to the Lord's warning in the gospel: The way that leads to life, he says, is narrow and hard. Notice how close the agreement is between the gospel and the law. In the law the way of virtue is shown to be a tortuous climb; the gospels speak of the way t...
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Daily Dose of Discernment: 2/24/08
2008-02-25 05:59:00
It is constantly assumed, especially in our Tolstoian tendencies, that when the lion lies down with the lamb the lion becomes lamb-like. But that is brutal annexation and imperialism on the part of the lamb. That is simply the lamb absorbing the lion instead of the lion eating the lamb. The real problem is -- Can the lion lie down with the lamb and still retain his royal ferocity? That is the problem the Church attempted; that is the miracle she achieved.-- G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy- - - - - - - - - -For us who have been called to live a life of holiness through faith the true lamb has been sacrificed, the lamb that takes away the sin of the world. To this sacrifice we must add a food that is spiritual, wholly good, and truly sacred, a food typified in the law by the unleavened bread, which we now understand in a spiritual way.In the divinely inspired scriptures yeast always signifies wickedness and sin. Our Lord Jesus Christ, warning his holy disciples to be on their guard, said:...
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Daily Dose of Discernment: 2/23/08
2008-02-24 05:59:00
The artistic temperament is a disease that afflicts amateurs.-- G. K. Chesterton, Heretics- - - - - - - - - -Perseverance in faith, devotion, and virtue is assured by three things: prayer, fasting, and mercy. Prayer knocks at the door, fasting gains entrance, mercy receives. These three things, prayer, fasting, and mercy, are all one and they give life to each other.Fasting is the soul of prayer, mercy is the lifeblood of fasting. Let no one try to separate them, for this is impossible. If we have only one of them, if we have not all three together, we have nothing. Whoever prays, then, must also fast; whoever fasts must also show mercy. If we want our own petitions heard we must hear the petitions of others. God's ear will be open to us if we do not turn a deaf ear to other people.When we fast we should understand what it means to be really hungry. If we want God to take account of our hunger we must feel for the hunger of others. If we hope for mercy we must show mercy. If we loo...
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For the Feast of the Chair of St. Peter, Apostle
2008-02-22 20:15:00
It may seem odd to celebrate an inanimate object, but there is in fact a very good reason for today's feast day. The phrase ex cathedra, which we use in reference to the pope's infallible prerogative, means "from the chair." So, the chair of St. Peter represents the authority given to him and to his successors by Jesus Christ. It is also a symbol of unity and orthodoxy, since it is in communion with the pope that Christians are united in faith and practice.Finally, supposing that we have the actual chair that St. Peter used, we are no longer talking about some ordinary piece of furniture. We're talking about a relic from a saint, an object that mysteriously mediates his continued presence among us. So, when we celebrate this feast day we are showing our veneration for Peter, the Rock and Vicar of Christ.For more on the Chair of St. Peter and papal authority, see the following links:Liturgical Calendar: Feast of the Chair of St. Peter, Apostle New Advent: Chair of PeterModern Catho...
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Daily Dose of Discernment: 2/22/08
2008-02-22 16:18:00
Of a sane man there is only one safe delinition: he is a man who can have tragedy in his heart and comedy in his head-- G. K. Chesterton, Tremenlous Trifles- - - - - - - - - -Now that divine power has been made manifest in the assumption of human weakness, there must be no sadness among the faithful to cast a shadow upon the paschal solemnity, no sorrow in recalling the events of the past, since our Lord could so use the malice of his enemies that their evil intentions served the purpose of his mercy. At the time of the exodus, Israel's freedom was restored through the blood of a lamb and the wrath of the destroying angel was averted through the sacrifice of a beast. And if this deliverance was marked by the institution of a solemn festival, how great should be the joy of Christian people, for whose sake the almighty Father spared not his only Son! He delivered him up for us all, so that the death of Christ might become the true passover and unique sacrifice, no longer saving a sin...
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My Apologies
2008-02-21 19:33:00
I feel like I should apologize to my readers for the lack of original content on this blog over the past two weeks. I really feel a sense of responsibility to you all, to make this blog as helpful and beneficial as it can possibly be. But, I guess I've been feeling a little burnt out here recently, b/c the "Daily Dose of Discernment" has been coming late and I don't even have a poll for this week!Hopefully you all will hang with me through this down time. The spark of creativity and inspiration is never fully extinguished within me.Pax Christi,phatcatholic
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Daily Dose of Discernment: 2/21/08
2008-02-21 19:25:00
If Americans can be divorced for 'incompatibility of temper,' I cannot conceive why they are not all divorced. I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.-- G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World- - - - - - - - - -If those who believe in Christ are one, then through the mystery of the sacrament the entire body is present where bodily eyes see but a single member. Solitude prevents no one from speaking in the plural; nor is it inappropriate for the multitude of believers to speak in the singular, for through the power of the Holy Spirit, who is present in each and fills all, it is clear that the solitude is full of people and the multitude forms a unity.Our holy Fathers regarded this intimate relationship and communion of believers in Christ as so certain that they included it in the creed sta...
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Dailly Dose of Discernment: 2/20/08
2008-02-21 05:59:00
Now the reason why our fathers did not make marriage, in the middle-aged and static sense, the subject of their plays was a very simple one; it was that a play is a very bad place for discussing that topic. You cannot easily make a good drama out of the success or failure of a marriage, just as you could not make a good drama out of the growth of an oak-tree or the decay of an empire. As Polonius very reasonably observed, it is too long. A happy love-affair will make a drama simply because it is dramatic; it depends on an ultimate yes or no. But a happy marriage is not dramatic; perhaps it would be less happy if it were. The essence of a romantic heroine is that she asks herself an intense question; but the essence of a sensible wife is that she is much too sensible to ask herself any questions at all. All the things that make monogamy a success are in their nature undramatic things, the silent growth of an instinctive confidence, the common wounds and victories, the accumulation of...
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Daily Dose of Discernment: 2/19/08
2008-02-20 02:17:00
There are two rooted spiritual realities out of which grow all kinds of democratic conception or sentiment of human equality. There are two things in which all men are manifestly and unmistakably equal. They are not equally clever or equally muscular or equally fat, as the sages of the modern reaction (with piercing insight) perceive. But this is a spiritual certainty, that all men are tragic. And this, again, is an equally sublime spiritual certainty, that all men are comic. No special and private sorrow can be so dreadful as the fact of having to die. And no freak or deformity can be so funny as the mere fact of having two legs. Every man is important if he loses his life; and every man is funny if he loses his hat, and has to run after it. And the universal test everywhere of whether a thing is popular, of the people, is whether it employs vigorously these extremes of the tragic and the comic.-- G. K. Chesterton, Charles Dickens- - - - - - - - - -To preserve men and women from si...
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More on Clinton in Steubenville
2008-02-18 19:14:00
To my great surprise, when I made this post, I was one of the first (if not the first) blog to break the story of Bill Clinton 's visit to Steubenville and the protest that was organized by FUS students. For that, I received an "AmP Shout-Out" from the American Papist! Thanks Tom!This story is actually receiving some pretty good coverage from major news sources and throughout the blogosphere. Apparently Bill, like John Kerry, couldn't take the heat. Here are several videos that provide all or part of Clinton's outburst. First, from YouTube:Three different videos of the local news coverage all add a little bit more than what you see in the YouTube video. The first one shows the number of students protesting outside of the event (b/c they weren't allowed in). The second video shows a large sweep of the audience, and, at the end, two students praying the rosary with their back to the former president.The third video gives reaction from Hillary supporters at the event. It also report...

Daily Dose of Discernment: 2/18/08
2008-02-18 08:47:00
There are some people who state that the exterior, sex, or physique of another person is indifferent to them, that they care only for the communion of mind with mind; but these people need not detain us. There are some statements that no one ever thinks of believing, however often they are made.-- G. K. Chesterton, The Defendant- - - - - - - - - -God's will is to save us, and nothing pleases him more than our coming back to him with true repentance. The heralds of truth and the ministers of divine grace have told us this from the beginning, repeating it in every age. Indeed, God's desire for our salvation is the primary and preeminent sign of his infinite goodness, and it was precisely in order to show that there is nothing closer to God's heart that the divine Word of God the Father, with untold condescension, lived among us in the flesh, and that he died, suffered, and said all that was necessary to reconcile us to God the Father when we were at enmity with him, and to restore ...
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Daily Dose of Discernment: 2/17/08
2008-02-18 05:59:00
Some people do not like the word "dogma." Fortunately they are free, and there is an alternative for them. There are two things, and two things only, for the human mind -- a dogma and a prejudice. The Middle Ages were a rational epoch, an age of doctrine. Our age is, at its best, a poetical epoch, an age of prejudice. A doctrine is a definite point; a prejudice is a direction. That an ox may be eaten, while a man should not be eaten, is a doctrine. That as little as possible of anything should be eaten is a prejudice; which is also sometimes called an ideal.-- G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World- - - - - - - - - -The paschal celebration is especially characterized by the rejoicing of the whole Church in the forgiveness of sins. This forgiveness is given not only to those then reborn in holy baptism but also to those already numbered among God's adopted children.Although we receive new life in the first place by our rebirth in baptism, we all need a daily renewal to make ...
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Daily Dose of Discernment: 2/16/08
2008-02-17 05:59:00
Our fathers had a plain sort of pity: if you will, a gross and coarse pity. They had their own sort of sentimentalism. They were quite willing to weep over Smike. But it certainly never occurred to them to weep over Squeers. No doubt they were often narrow and often visionary. No doubt they often looked at a political formula when they should have looked at an elemental fact. No doubt they were pedantic in some of their principles and clumsy in some of their solutions. No doubt, in short, they were all very wrong, and no doubt we are the people and wisdom shall die with us. But when they saw something that in their eyes, such as they were, really violated their morality, such as it was, then they did not cry "Investigate!" They did not cry "Educate!" They did not cry "Improve!" They did not cry "Evolve!" Like Nicholas Nickleby, they cried "Stop!" And it did stop.-- G. K. Chesterton, Introduction to "Nicholas Nickleby"- - - - - - - - - -While Jesus was surrounded by a large crowd bec...
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Clinton in Steubenville?
2008-02-15 16:58:00
Usually I don't make posts about politics, but I just had to mention this. Check out this little item from the Wheeling News-Register: STEUBENVILLE ? The Ohio For Hillary Clinton campaign announced Thursday that President Bill Clinton will campaign for Hillary in Steubenville on Sunday.John Abdalla, Jefferson County Democratic Party chairman, said former President Clinton could make a stop in the city Sunday evening to campaign for his wife, U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., a candidate for the Democratic nomination for president.Abdalla said he was awaiting word from state Democratic party leaders.Jefferson County Sheriff Fred Abdalla said he has been contacted by the Secret Service concerning a possible appearance by President Clinton around 5-9 p.m. Sunday. The sheriff said the Secret Service may be in the city Saturday to confirm a location and work on security issues.According to the Ohio for Hillary campaign officals, the former president will campaign in Steubenville as wel...

Daily Dose of Discernment: 2/15/08
2008-02-15 16:24:00
London is the largest of the bloated modern cities; London is the smokiest; London is the dirtiest; London is, if you will, the most sombre; London is, if you will, the most miserable. But London is certainly the most amusing and the most amused. You may prove that we have the most tragedy; the fact remains that we have the most comedy, that we have the most farce.-- G. K. Chesterton, All Things Considered- - - - - - - - - -We have only to recall past generations to see that the Lord has always offered the opportunity of repentance to those willing to return to him. This was the burden of Noah's preaching, and all who listened to him were saved. Jonah told the Ninevites they were going to be destroyed; they repented and their pleas for mercy placated God's anger and saved them, even though they were not of his chosen people.The ministers of God's grace have all been inspired by the Holy Spirit to speak of repentance. The Lord of the universe himself has spoken of it with an oath....
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Resources for St. Valentine's Day
2008-02-15 04:00:00
Articles: Deus Caritas Est (On Christian Love)Reflections on the Holy Father's Encyclical Letter Deus Caritas EstLiturgical Calendar: St. Valentine (scroll down to the bottom)Valentine's Day: Love It or Hate It?New Advent: St. ValentineThe Elusive St. ValentineSt. Valentine of RomeThe Origins of St. Valentine's DaySt. Valentine is More than Cards and Candy HeartsWho Was St. Valentine?Wikipedia: St. ValentineWikipedia: Valentine's DayImages of St. ValentineTrue Love and PearlDoes Anyone Really Enjoy Valentine's Day?Song of Songs"I Wuv You"How to Prevent the St. Valentine's Day BluesOf Valentines and Guardian AngelsActivities: St. Valentine Cookies RecipeValentine GameValentine-Making IdeasHeart Cake RecipeSt. Valentine's Day Saint ExchangeSt. Valentine's Day ActivityValentine Ginger Bread RecipePeppermint Mousse RecipeHeart Cakes RecipeThe Sacred Heart of JesusEnthronement of the Sacred Heart of Jesus: Sacred ScriptureDoctrinal Foundation of Devotion to the Sacred HeartCarita...
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Daily Dose of Discernment: 2/14/08
2008-02-15 03:31:00
The revolt against vows has been carried in our day even to the extent of a revolt against the typical vow of marriage. It is most amusing to listen to the opponents of marriage on this subject. They appear to imagine that the ideal of constancy was a joke mysteriously imposed on mankind by the devil, instead of being as it is a yoke consistently imposed on all lovers by themselves. They have invented a phrase, a phrase that is a black v. white contradiction in two words -- 'free love' -- as if a lover ever had been or ever could be free. It is the nature of love to bind itself, and the institution of marriage merely paid the average man the compliment of taking him at his word. Modern sages offer to the lover with an ill-favoured grin the largest liberties and the fullest irresponsibility; but they do not respect him as the old Church respected him; they do not write his oath upon the heavens as the record of his highest moment. They give him every liberty except the liberty to s...
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The Highs and the Lows of Christology
2008-02-14 01:09:00
Christina recently left the following comment:I have a question about low vs high Christology. I was once in a debate with someone where I mentioned that Jesus was a man as well as God and was accused of low Christology. In his response I got the impression that high Christology was, in essence, the belief that Jesus was not man (or ignoring that part of him). I've since been under the impression that low Christology was a focus on Christ's humanity and high Christology a focus on Christ's divinity, at the expense of the other. I've asked if there was an orthodox middle Christology, but was told that high Christology is the orthodox one and I'm most puzzled. Can you shed some light on this?First of all, here is what an orthodox Christology must declare:Jesus is fully manJesus is fully GodThe human and the divine nature of Jesus Christ are united in the Second Person of the Holy TrinityBoth natures co-exist without confusion, admixture, separation or the creation of a tertium qu...

New Look for the Topical Index
2008-02-13 22:40:00
I probably should have waited until the week was up and the voting was finished on the current layout, but I was just too excited :D So, I decided to make a slight change to the Topical Index chart and put it in a button, like I did with the links in my sidebar.Now, if you want to see the Topical Index, just click the button at the top of my blog. If you don't want to see it, you don't have to. I think doing it this way makes my blog look a little cleaner and less cluttered up top. It also keeps you from having to scroll down to read the first post. I also like it b/c I now have more room at the top for special reminders, such as my link to the Resources for Lent 2008.Overall, I think it's a good change. I hope you all like it too. Leave a comment and let me know. I closed the current poll.Pax Christi,phatcatholic

Nominate Phatcat in the 2008 Catholic Blog Awards
2008-02-13 21:48:00
It is that time of year again: time to vote for your favorite Catholic blog in this year's Catholic Blog Awards . Last year I did rather well, with 2 top-10 finishes and 5 top-25 finishes:Best Apologetics Blog: 6th placeBest Designed Blog: 8th placeSmartest Blog: 13th placeBest New Blog: 13th placeBest Overall Blog: 17th placeBest Individual Blog: 18th placeBest Written Blog: 22nd placeThis year, I want to do better, particularly in the "Best Designed Blog" and "Best Apologetics Blog" categories. I'll give you my sales pitch later. For now, all I need is your nomination.Nominations for the 2008 Catholic Blog Awards will open this year at 12:00 Noon CST on Friday, February 15, 2008 and close on Friday, February 29, 2008 at 12:00 Noon CST. Voting will begin on Monday, March 3, 2008 at 12:00 Noon CST and end on Monday, March 17, 2008 at Noon.I think we surprised a lot of people last year, particularly when I tied with Mark Shea in the "Best Apologetics Blog" category, and beat blogs l...