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Dancing With Mr. D.: Sick Sexism

I n an article in the WallStreet Journal , Dr. Paul R. McHugh, distinguished professor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins and their chief psychiatrist for almost three decades, wrote about a medical fact: sex change,   or what is now routinely called " sexual reassignment surgery " is " biologically impossible ". He also referred to what is routinely called "transgenderism" as a mental disorder. He further opined that those who promote sex change operations are not helping but hurting people with this disorder. "This intensely felt sense of being transgendered constitutes a mental disorder in two respects. The first is that the idea of sex misalignment is simply mistaken - it does not correspond with physical reality. The second is that it can lead to grim psychological outcomes." McHugh says the transgendered person's disorder is in the person's "assumption" that they are different than the physical reality of their body, thei

A SHEPHERD SHEPHERDS

In a recent interview with Al Kresta, Archbishop Chaput offered the following take on our post-Christian society, discussed in his latest book: “I think there are a lot of clever people in the world who have values and a plan or program different from the Gospel who very actively trying to promote a different worldview . I think if we just look at basic causes…” One of his causes he sees as “….the contraceptive birth control pill. It separated procreation from love as a possibility in the sexual act. Once you separate procreation from the other aspects of sexual encounter, all kinds of things happen. The nature of the family changes. What it means to be a father and what it means to be a mother changes. It is what has opened so much of the Western world to much more premarital sex — much more divorce, homosexual marriage, transgenderism that we are talking about these days. Those changes all have a root I think in a practical sense in the contraceptive pill. It also has it

Who Do You Say That I Am?

A quick commentary on Fr. Longenecker’s latest, my observations in red . A Schism in the Catholic Church? March 5, 2017 by  Fr. Dwight Longenecker Headlines   last week were proclaiming that a group of cardinals believe Pope Francis should step down to avoid a catastrophic schism in the Catholic Church. Schism? What schism? In fact, the modern Catholic Church is already in schism, but it is an internal schism, hidden to most people. AS I noted in Smoke : It is clear that the Church is facing a grave crisis. Under the name of 'the new Church,' 'the post-conciliar Church,' a different Church from that of Jesus Christ is now trying to establish itself; an anthropocentric society threatened with immanentist apostasy which is allowing itself to be swept along in a movement of general abdication under the pretext of renewal, ecumenism, or adaptation.                                                 -Cardinal Henri de Lubac, S.J., Christian Witness (1967)

Hey, Hey, L.A., How Many Kids Did You Lead Astray?

In The Smoke of Satan , I penned the following: The neomodernist ideology remains alive and well in the various religious education conferences held annually, the largest and most notorious of which is the Los Angeles Religious Education Conference.    A quick foray via the Internet shows that many victims of such theories are featured at the conference today. The Congress originated in the 1950s to educate catechists to teach the Faith more effectively, but by 1987 the influence of neomodernism on presenters at the Congress had produced a creedless, experiential catechesis under the auspices of Sister Edith Prendergast, yet another of our influential circle of religious education experts. Perusal of both the Congress’s website and links to its speakers divulge ample evidence of the neomodemist opinion that catechesis no longer means passing on received doctrine because the Church can no longer say it possesses revealed “truth” from God. Thus participants were taught to discov

Dancing With Mr. D: Don't Shack Up

In my book I outlined the heresies embedded in the nouvelle theologie, masquerading neomodernism. It was "deja vu all overagain" when I read Michael Youssef's review of The Shack: SIX MAJOR PROBLEMS WITH THE SHACK Feb 24, 2017 FOR YOUR GIFT OF ANY AMOUNT The Shack Uncovered This Spring, the  New York Times  bestselling book  The Shack  by William P. Young will come to the big screen. The emotionally charged story seems to offer a resolution to the problem of pain—those who are struggling with the question, “Where is God when the world is full of brokenness?” Though many readers have labeled Young’s story a compelling work of Christian fiction, discerning believers must ask themselves: Are  The Shack ’s underlying teachings Biblically sound, or a far reach from the teachings of God’s Word? Though you might be swayed into thinking the god of  The Shack  is the same as the God of the Bible, there are several problems that arise if we take a close look at  Th

Mercy Me!

Recently Pope Francis used the Gospel of Mark10:1-12 as an opportunity to encourage his own view on divorce and remarriage. Condemning hypocrisy and the “logic of casuistry,” Francis said that Jesus rejects the approach of legal scholars. This is the case. But in his rebuke to the Pharisees, what exactly does Jesus say about marriage? “ So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder.” …and… Whoever divorces his wife and marries another, commits adultery against her; and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery. Denouncing “doctors of the law” and the “rigid” application of Catholic moral doctrine is a recurrent theme in the Holy Father's homilies at morning Mass in the Vatican. But in his homily on the Markan passage, the Pope amazingly twisted the Gospel reading, if the Vatican Radio account is to be believed. The account, by Vatican Radio’s Christopher Wells:   Pope Francis: In God