Preaching the Gospel in Season and Out
If you’re unborn and an inconvenience, then you don’t have any “right” to exist any longer. If you’re old and too much of a burden, you become dispensable.
In essence, we live in a culture where certain people can decide certain other people’s lives are expendable.
[click to continue...]Finally, I imagine most every priest and deacon who preaches from the pulpit wants to be well-received. The consolation that comes from a pat on the back after a good sermon feels good. Thus, to broach on subjects that make people squirm in their seats means risking to be disliked.
Pope Saint John Paul II foresaw this and has an exhortation for those facing this human frailty.
[click to continue...]Just as children are so often deemed ‘burdensome’ with no value to contribute, the same can be said of those being euthanized, the elderly and handicapped. Rather than humans having intrinsic value, contraception asks its users to adopt a utilitarian valuation of human life. Only those determined to be contributing an arbitrarily-allotted impact on society are worth keeping around. Babies can’t work and don’t pay taxes—and neither do the very elderly or the handicapped. Together, they become disposable.
[click to continue...]“Hospice programs are independent from one another and the services provided are not the same. It is essential you interview a hospice prior to signing on for care and allowing them into your home. When seeking hospice care, keep in mind your values should come first and must never be compromised.”
[click to continue...]Do you have a living will? Do you know what it says about “extraordinary care?”
If not, re-read that section of your living will. If your document says something to the effect that “no extraordinary care shall be taken” to extend your life, shred your document and get something else.
Why?
The medical community and Catholic moral teaching have differing definitions of “extraordinary care.”
Pickering, Sr. brought a gun with him to the hospital and barricaded himself inside his son’s room, inducing a three-hour standoff. This illegal maneuver actually ended up saving his son’s life.
He felt his son just needed a little more time to prove he had not passed away. Three hours was all it took.
[click to continue...]Ask yourself, why does euthanasia bother our consciences?
After all, we have already codified into law that a mother may see to it her own child be murdered (through abortion). Thus, we have accepted the legal and immoral precedent that someone may murder someone else.
[click to continue...]The Second Law of Thermodynamics is the Law of Entropy. The law says that things denigrate over time, they do not become more complex.
Yet, the entire theory of macroevolution rests on bucking a known scientific law of nature. Ironic, is it not?
[click to continue...]The US Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage last week supposedly legalized pseudo marriage for all 50 states. Unless you have lived under a rock recently, you already know this.
But what you may not realize is that this makes the following statement undeniable at this point: the USA is guilty of all four sins that cry out to Heaven for vengeance.
Traditionally in the Church four sins have been recognized as so egregious they demand retribution from God.
What are those four sins? How is America guilty of all four? Let us see.
[click to continue...]Whereas, moral relativism says that morality is relative, by definition. The theory of moral relativism teaches people can define for themselves their own ethics, as there are no absolute truths. Every man is an island unto himself. No one can tell another what to do.
It sounds like a decent proposition, but it has a fatal flaw that must be exposed.
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