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2018-03-10T20:34:03-04:00

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Marriage is Defined by God. To Accept Same-Sex Marriage is Heresy.

Last updated on: March 10, 2018 at 8:34 pm By Scott Eric Alt

To begin, I should state how the Catholic Church defines heresy. You can find the definition in Canon 751 as well as the Catechism of the Catholic Church §2089. So here it is: Heresy is the obstinate denial or obstinate doubt after the reception of baptism of some truth which is to be believed by divine and Catholic faith. Not just “Catholic” faith, but “divine” faith too. Canon 750 tells us what sorts of things constitute “divine and Catholic faith.”... Read more

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Edward N. Peters

Heresy

2018-03-10T22:45:47-04:00

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Bishop DiLorenzo Responds to Tim Kaine on Same-Sex Marriage

Last updated on: March 10, 2018 at 10:45 pm By Scott Eric Alt

In spite of prophesies that he would stay mum, Tim Kaine’s bishop has responded to the senator’s weird and dissident mumblings that the Catholic Church would one day approve same-sex marriage. More than a year after the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on marriage, and despite recent statements from the campaign trail, the Catholic Church’s 2000-year-old teaching to the truth about what constitutes marriage remains unchanged and resolute. The Church has taught this for 2000 years, and it’s not going to... Read more

2018-03-10T22:53:59-04:00

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It Is Time for “Devout Catholic” Tim Kaine to Be Publicly Corrected

Last updated on: March 10, 2018 at 10:53 pm By Scott Eric Alt

And by his bishop, Francis Xavier DiLorenzo. Here is the long and short of it. The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith published this document, called “Considerations Regarding Proposals to Give Legal Recognition to Unions Between Homosexual Persons.” Section 10 has to do with the “positions of Catholic politians.” That’s the part that applies to Sen. Kaine. Let’s look at what the CDF says. (The bolding is my own.) If it is true that all Catholics are obliged to... Read more

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Same-Sex "Marriage"

Tim Kaine

2018-03-10T23:03:05-04:00

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Muslims are “Brothers and Sisters in the Faith of Abraham”

Last updated on: March 10, 2018 at 11:03 pm By Scott Eric Alt

This is not, or need not be, complicated: Catholics, Protestants, the Eastern Orthodox, Jews, and Muslims all worship the same god. The difference is in what they believe about him. But regardless of what they believe about him, the god they worship is the god of Abraham. Dr. Shabir Ally (he’s a Muslim scholar and apologist) does not worship some different divine figure than Pope Francis does. Now, the Church affirms all this in Nostra Aetate. The Church regards with... Read more

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Cardinal Raymond Burke

Pope St. John Paul II

2018-03-10T23:18:10-04:00

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Yes, Virginia, Catholics Can Say Abortion Should Be Legal

Last updated on: March 10, 2018 at 11:18 pm By Scott Eric Alt

Or that is what Fr. Matt Malone, S.J., claims, in an article at America. It is the kind of article that makes one say: “Yes, Fr. But.” (Leila Miller at Little Catholic Bubble had so many buts she wrote a full rebuttal; hie you to her blog and read it.) I want to stress one of her points. Before I do that, however, I should first say that I sympathize with Fr. Malone’s main concern, which was the presence of... Read more

2018-03-11T14:32:35-04:00

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On the Seamless Garment, and Catholics Writing About Politics

Last updated on: March 11, 2018 at 2:32 pm By Scott Eric Alt

There is a species of reader who always seems to know better than you what ought to interest you and what you ought to say. Just as often, this reader (or Facebook denizen) knows all the things a writer like you should not bother with. I get e-mails with the instructions, “Hey, Alt! You should write a post about the Johannine comma!” or “Hey, Alt! Did you see this stupid thing that Mr. Y posted at the-pope-is-the-antichrist.com? You ought to... Read more

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Cardinal Joseph Bernardin

Seamless Garment

2018-03-11T14:56:53-04:00

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In Election, Protecting Conscience as Important as Ending Abortion

Last updated on: March 11, 2018 at 2:56 pm By Scott Eric Alt

In reference to my post yesterday, a reader writes (with my emphases): In my opinion, a better question is whether abortion is really the end-all election issue many conservative Catholics make it out to be. What if there were an issue as important as abortion that Catholics need to consider? I think there is. And I think it is conscience rights. Since at least 2009, when the debate surrounding the Affordable Care Act was swirling, I have been appalled by... Read more

2018-03-11T15:02:54-04:00

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Here’s Your Chance to Convince Me to Vote Trump

Last updated on: March 11, 2018 at 3:02 pm By Scott Eric Alt

If you can convince me that Donald Trump will be better than Hillary Clinton on abortion, then I will vote for him. But here are the arguments you can not use: You cannot make “Trump has promised” appeals. If all you have is what Trump has “promised” to do, you have nothing. Trump claims to have changed his position. How do I know this is not mere expediency as he trumps for votes? Why are Trump’s mere promises enough to... Read more

2018-03-11T15:15:56-04:00

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Gendering God to Suit an Agenda: A Response to Mark Sameth

Last updated on: March 11, 2018 at 3:15 pm By Scott Eric Alt

At the New York Times, Rabbi Mark Sameth asks pertly: “Is God Transgender?” Here’s the short answer: No. God has neither sex nor gender. The former is a biological construct, created by God; and the latter is a linguistic construct, created by man. (See what I did there?) God, being transcendent, is outside both. You can’t gender God. But Sameth attempts to do just that, which is why a longer answer is required here. After some introductory paragraphs involving a... Read more

2018-03-11T19:21:07-04:00

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LGBT Groups Lament Pope’s “Dangerous Ignorance” on Gender Identity. Pope Francis Derangement Syndrome Vol. XVIII.

Last updated on: March 11, 2018 at 7:21 pm By Scott Eric Alt

On August 2, Pope Francis said a few words about gender identity—words that are not at all new with him. In a meeting with bishops that day, he observed: In Europe, America, Latin America, Africa, and in some countries of Asia, there are genuine forms of ideological colonization taking place. And one of these—I will call it clearly by its name—is [the ideology of] “gender.” [Which is, in fact, an artificial construct. The academics and ideologues have co-opted a word... Read more

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