Essentialism only means what I say it means |
There's a saying that goes something like, "I don't have a dog in that fight," which indicates the speaker is distancing himself from a particular conflict in which he has no stake. Well, in the fight...
Posted by on Fri, 12 Dec 2008 03:22:00 GMT |
Family values. We needs them. |
They are habits and attitudes that maintain a society in which people's most basic loyalties, and the relationships upon which they rely most fundamentally, are relationships to particular persons rat...
Posted by on Sun, 16 Nov 2008 03:22:00 GMT |
"The Church has always changed and she’ll change again" |
There's a certain epistemic oddity that exists among many Catholics which could be called Ultramontane Moral Relativism. UMR is essentially wishful thinking that the Church will change her mind on som...
Posted by on Fri, 14 Nov 2008 03:43:00 GMT |
Who is to say...? |
Who are other people to say what is normal sexual conduct?Who are other people to say what is polite, what honesty requires, what constitutes slander, harassment or betrayal of trust, or how much you ...
Posted by on Sat, 08 Nov 2008 01:01:00 GMT |
Don’t forget to vote tomorrow! |
I'll say Barack Obama with 55% of the popular vote and at least 310 electoral votes.I have no idea whether Proposition 8 will pass or not. Last night was the last night of our novena to St. Jude, who ...
Posted by on Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:26:00 GMT |
Taken from several comments elsewhere |
If there's one chestnut I'd like to see put to rest forever, it's the notion that "private, consensual sex between two adults" is nobody else's business.Private conduct doesn't stay private, especiall...
Posted by on Tue, 04 Nov 2008 05:38:00 GMT |
The audacity of a contradiction |
"It's not just absolute power that the Founders sought to prevent. Implicit in its structure, in the very idea of ordered liberty, was a rejection of absolute truth, the infallibility of any idea or i...
Posted by on Mon, 03 Nov 2008 01:38:00 GMT |
The anti-skeptic |
Religion is inevitable. A religion is an understanding of what is real, together with conclusions for the basic principles of morality. Any such understanding can reasonably be called a religion, si...
Posted by on Sun, 02 Nov 2008 05:16:00 GMT |
What we have here is a failure to communicate |
I guess my problem is I just don't understand what the word "equal" means. Equal is one of those words everyone thinks they understand but really don't: that is, just about everyone who uses it means...
Posted by on Fri, 31 Oct 2008 22:02:00 GMT |
In case you were wondering about what I have to write about in the seminary |
What is reason? That question has acquired some practical implications for our cultural and political life today. Judges, for example, feel free to toss out the established definition of m...
Posted by on Fri, 31 Oct 2008 03:40:00 GMT |
