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Troublesome thought

21 February 2015 · by  Fr. Ernesto Leave a Comment

This will be a very short post. But, it is something that has been on my mind lately. And, it has to do with both political parties. Both political parties are driving us into very dangerous ground. Why do I say so? Well, in the last few days, I have seen posts that are clear […]

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Saint Ambrose on temptation

20 February 2015 · by  Fr. Ernesto Leave a Comment

  The devil does not have only one weapon. He uses many different means to defeat human beings: now with bribery, now with boredom, now with greed he attacks, inflicting mental and physical wounds equally. The kind of temptation varies with the different kinds of victim. Avarice is the test of the rich, loss of […]

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Consent is not everything

13 February 2015 · by  Fr. Ernesto Leave a Comment

With the movie Fifty Shades of Grey coming out, everyone is talking about it. I have reached my ad nauseam point. So, why am I mentioning it? Well, over on Internetmonk.com, a wonderful article on consent was written by Damaris Zehner. She makes the following, quite trenchant, points about consent. Consent appears to be one […]

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Finding the balance, government and individual rights

12 February 2015 · by  Fr. Ernesto 1 Comment

  My wife tells me that in high school a teacher explained to their class the concept of individual rights and their limits. He would say that their individual rights ended at the end of his nose. He would explain that this meant that they could swing their arms as much as they wanted to […]

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The failure to support science and a perfect storm

11 February 2015 · by  Fr. Ernesto 8 Comments

‘s   I was thinking again about the vaccine issues and wondering how we arrived at this junction in which our vaccination rate is lower than many other nations, including Third World nations. Frankly, I have decided that it was a perfect storm. It was a mixture of misguided libertarianism (not all libertarianism is misguided, […]

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Science trumps false religious/secular beliefs

10 February 2015 · by  Fr. Ernesto 7 Comments

Several years ago, I joined the chorus of people who began to warn that as vaccination rates fell, we were setting ourselves up for a coming epidemic. In particular, measles, mumps, and whooping cough were pointed out as being the likely ones to first begin to spread. Meantime, we got carried away with diseases that […]

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