There’s no such thing as a weak will

While “Homosexuality and the Catholic Church” by Father John Harvey, OSFS. In it, there is a section on St. Augustine’s confessions regarding his struggle for chastity.
According to St. Augustine, there’s no such thing as a “strong will” or “weak will”, only a united or divided will. He speaks of two kinds of inner battles - [...]

Are you a church-fan?

When I first read Father David Garcia’s article on The Difference Between A Church-fan And Belonging To The Church“, it hit me like a sledgehammer. It was very true. How often had I been a church-fan rather than a member of the church? In so many issues, I felt blows and triumphs to the church… [...]

Book Review: Homosexuality and the Catholic Church

I’ve just finished a most excellent book titled “Homosexuality and the Catholic Church” written by Father John Harvey, OSFS, the priest who started Courage - the only Catholic ministry dedicated to persons with same-sex attraction that completely embraces the Catholic teaching on homosexuality.
I bought this book on the third session of “A Christian Response To [...]

Visita Iglesia and Resurrection

I have been getting literally hundreds of hits views on this blog in recent days because when people Google for “Visita Iglesia“, which is the custom of visiting churches on Maundy Thursday, Catholic Writings shows up as first rank. This blog got 243 hits from this term alone, not counting other variations like “visita iglesia [...]

The New Marriage-Wrecker

Internet Pornography Burrows Deeper Into Culture
By Father John Flynn, LC
ROME, FEB. 24, 2008 (Zenit.org).- In Lent we should think of fasting not only in relation to food and drink, but also from images, recommended Benedict XVI. The Pope’s advice came during a question-and-answer session with Rome’s clergy, held Feb. [...]

It’s safer to download porn than to download anime?

Page 1 of the Home section of today’s Straits Times has an article titled “Anti-porn drive: 19 netted at Aussie airports”. (Click the picture for the full article.)
In the article, it writes that an 41-year-old SIA pilot Capt Ng (you can check his full name on the article) [...]

Let me have just this one vice!

In Spider-Man: House of M, a five-issue comic book limited series that ran throughout Marvel Comics’ House of M crossover in 2005, Spider-Man is famous for being an actor, superhero, wrestler, and businessman. The House of M is an alternate reality where Homo superior, instead of Homo sapiens, rule [...]

Friday, February 1 - Delete Cookies and Cache, Clear History

2 Samuel 11:1-10, 13-17
At the turn of the year, the time when kings go campaigning, David sent Joab and with his his own guards and the whole of Israel. They massacred the Ammonites and laid siege to Rabbah. David however remained in Jerusalem.
It happened towards evening when David had risen from [...]

Masturbation - Just a normal healthy release of sexual energy?

I chanced across this today in this website I found:
“Isn’t masturbation just a normal, healthy release of sexual energy and biological buildup?”
 No. Aside from the spiritual reasons we’ve cited on our masturbation page, there are some biological reasons for not masturbating.  Masturbation causes our bodies to become sexually responsive [...]

Pornographer’s Dream

This is a song in Suzanne Vega’s latest album “Beauty and Crime”. Clare wrote about how we are all searching for God, and for the secular it would be happiness, whether we realise it or not. Then I read the Catholic News article about Suzanne Vega, and came to the part [...]