thoughts in and out of season
Another book finished: Michael Rose’s Goodbye, Good Men. It’s not a must-read, and I didn’t read the whole thing. It’s an accumulation of horror stories tending to show that many Catholic seminaries in recent decades have been dominated by homosexual cliques, heretics or both, that responsible officials have been disinclined to do much about … More ...
I just finished Ralph Wiltgen’s The Rhine flows into the Tiber. There was nothing very surprising in the book—to my mind it reaffirmed what I’ve thought before, that it’s an odd idea to call an ecumenical council to have open-ended discussions on what to do in general and make universally binding decisions. It’s … More ...
Writing in U.S.Catholic, Notre Dame theology professor Lawrence Cunningham has some problems with the way the word “dissent” is used today. He points out that it can be OK for a Catholic to discuss doctrinal or a moral issues with the intent of clarifying them, as in the case of certain novel reproductive … More ...
A few stirrings of opposition to the new sexual order:
Some comments on random news stories related to sex:
Justice Kennedy is no genius, but in Lawrence v. Texas he did make some interesting conceptual moves:
Looks like patriarchal structures have more of a future than WomanChurch: The Importance of Fathers to Churchgoing. A Swiss survey shows that if both father and mother attend church regularly 33 percent of their children will become regular churchgoers. If the father attends irregularly and the mother is non-practicing 25 percent will become regular … More ...
More on on sex and the death of the West: Young men are running from marriage. They’re sleeping around while waiting for that soulmate who never comes, and view pregnancy and children as a trap.
The article, written by a female columnist for a newspaper’s “Lifestyle” section, naturally pins the blame on men: “If … More ...
There’s new hope for Europeans worried about vanishing pensions, a problem we just commented on: they can go to Switzerland and get humanely put down. From a recent survey it appears that 51% of all deaths in the country result from “end-of-life” decisions. A few old fogies are concerned about “suicide tourists” who want … More ...
In Europe they believe that everything can be administered, but even so some bugs have to be worked out. The abolition of the family is proceeding nicely, with parental authority giving way to that of the state (no spanking!) and marriage becoming equivalent to a temporary partnership between any two persons for whatever … More ...