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Updated article on marital foreplay
I have now updated my article on marital foreplay: Unnatural sexual acts as marital foreplay Question — Are unnatural sexual acts moral to use as foreplay, prior to an act of natural marital relations...
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On Faithful Dissent (part 1)
The Church has two types of authority: 1. Spiritual authority, which is the teaching authority or Magisterium of the Church 2. Temporal authority, which includes the laws, rules, and rulings of the...
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Fr. Zlatko Sudac: the Angelic Shepherd
The following text is excerpted from my booklet: The Great Catholic Monarch and the Angelic Shepherd The great Pope is the Angelic Shepherd. He is called Angelic because he will take the name Pope...
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Is lying only immoral if you intend to deceive?
This is not an open question. The Magisterium has a definitive teaching on lying: 1753 A good intention (for example, that of helping one’s neighbor) does not make behavior that is intrinsically...
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Quiz on Catholicism 001
True or False? 1. In order to receive any grace at all from God, we must first turn to Him in a sincere search for goodness and truth. 2. We are unable pray to God for grace or to cooperate … Continue...
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A Moment of Silence for the Victims
Suppose that we were to observe a moment of silence for each person killed in a tragic event. To be specific, one second of silence for each victim. How long would the silence be, for various tragedies...
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Are Catholic businesses unwelcome in Boston?
… or in Chicago? The controversy started this way: Dan Cathy, the president and chief operating officer of Chick-fil-A, was invited to appear on the “The Ken Coleman Show,” during when he revealed that...
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The Portiuncula indulgence of Saint Francis
A plenary (full) indulgence is granted on August 2nd of each year: The Portiuncula (little portion) indulgence. This Thursday, August 2nd: To obtain the Portiuncula plenary indulgence, (1) a person...
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Faithful Dissent and Faithful Disobedience
The Church has two types of authority: 1. spiritual authority (the teaching authority, called the Magisterium) 2. temporal authority The doctrines of the Church are Her teachings. Infallible doctrines...
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Does a Catholic business owner sin by cooperating with the HHS Mandate?
The HHS Mandate of the Obama administration has gone into effect, as of August 1st, 2012. All businesses that provide health insurance must include contraception and abortifacients in that coverage....
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Is Jesus Locally Present in the Eucharist?
Saint Robert Bellarmine maintains that our Lord can be locally present here on earth, in the Eucharist, even though He is also present in Heaven. He teaches that a body can be in two places at once....
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Why liars don’t go to Heaven
Sin is nothing else but a knowingly chosen immoral act. Some sins are venial, having relatively light culpability. Other sins are mortal, having grave culpability. An actual mortal sin is a gravely...
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On Faithful Dissent (part 2)
In my previous article on this topic, I showed that the Magisterium does in fact teach, non-infallibly, that dissent from a non-infallible teaching can be legitimate, faithful, and not sinful. Of...
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The Tribulation: First Seal
From my translation (the CPDV) of the Latin Vulgate Bible: [Revelation 6] {6:1} And I saw that the Lamb had opened one of the seven seals. And I heard one of the four living creatures saying, in a...
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On Generational Curses
An idea is being spread among the faithful by the messages of some claimed private revelations and by various websites and authors, that there is such a thing as a generational curse. The claim is that...
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When does the Antichrist arrive?
Introduction This article will examine the teaching of some of the Saints and Blesseds about the timing of the arrival of the Antichrist, in order to explain the reasons why the Antichrist cannot...
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The Tribulation: Second Seal
From my translation (the CPDV) of the Latin Vulgate Bible: [Revelation 6] {6:3} And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature saying: “Draw near and see.” {6:4} And another...
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Commentary on TheWarningSecondComing messages
I have just completed the second part of my evaluation of the claimed private revelations called “TheWarningSecondComing” messages: Evaluation part 2 As I also said in the first part of my evaluation,...
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The Warning Second Coming: the Book of Truth
The messages of alleged visionary “Maria Divine Mercy”, referred to as “The Warning Second Coming”, make a series of false claims about these messages, as if they were equal to, or a part of, Sacred...
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The Tribulation: Third Seal
From my translation (the CPDV) of the Latin Vulgate Bible: [Revelation] {6:5} And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature saying: “Draw near and see.” And behold, a black...
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