I Have Nothing To Add To This

Simply a brilliant analysis.

HT - Curt Jester

Get Married And Call Me In The Morning.

A Reuters story out today reports on a study done at The Ohio State University in Columbus, OH that found marriage is a benefit to mood.

"Researchers found that the participants who married within the five-year period scored an average of about 3.5 points less on the depression test than those who remained single."

So God knows what he is doing after all. I think he told us this a long time ago with all that "It isn't good for man to be alone stuff" Study after study concludes what most of us already know, giving yourself to another in marriage is beneficial to you. Married people live longer, are healthier, and are more financially secure, but it still gets a bad rap in the secular world.

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Why The Pill is an Abortifacient

The Intellectual Foundation of Catholocism

Jimmy Akin has a great post on an interview with Frank Beckwith at the National Catholic Register. In the interview he discusses the intellectual foundation of the faith and the misrepresentation of Catholic teaching by protestants and evangelicals.

I think GK Chesterton said this, although I could be wrong so please correct me if I am. Of course I'm paraphrasing from memory:

"There are many people who hate what they think is the Catholic Church, but few who actually hate the Church"

Organist Fired for Selling for Pure Romance

I would like to applaud the priest in this story. It is not easy to do the right thing. People always perceive the actions of the church as discriminatory. The priest did not say this woman had to quite her job selling sex toys. He simply said it was inconsistent with Catholic teaching, and that she would have to choose whether to continue her duties with the Church or Pure Romance, but she could not do both. It was her choice. She exercised her free will, and the Church did not interfere.

The tone of the story is slightly derogatory to the Church and the priest involved. The priest doesn't even condemn all of the products Pure Romance sells. He says some of the products are inconsistent with church teaching, and he's right. He handled it in a very restrained and loving way. Why do people constantly want the Church to bend to their ideas? One of the things that is great about the Catholic Church is the consistency of the teachings. I can understand acting out of ignorance, and sinning because of the human condition. However, once you are aware of the teaching, to act willfully and consistently in opposition to it is to choose not to be Catholic.

That's up to the individual, but don't ask the Church to change teaching just so you can remain Catholic and continue sinful behavior.