Of Atheists and Their Pretensions
The third atheist just doesn’t want to be told what to do… ever, much less by a book as ancient as the Bible. But of course none of these answers or objections have anything to do with whether God exists.
Author Archives: Omar F. A. Gutierrez
Work as a Triumph of the Cross: The 30th Anniversary of “On Human Work”
The glimmer of new life in labor is the great new good we have before us, the chance to make even the dreariest of tasks, and I’ve had a
few in my day, become moments of shook foil full of God’s grandeur.
Orthodoxy and Obedience, They’re Both Necessary
The right kind of teaching is not the sum total of Catholic authenticity. Indeed, crucial to that authenticity and it seems more important in this day and age is my obedience to the Church.
Justice vs. Charity from Pope St. Gregory the Great
Today the Feast of Pope St. Gregory the Great provides for the very important lesson that there is a grand difference between justice and charity and that what you might think is mercy is actually justice.
The Martyrs of the September Massacre
Imagine a slaughter of over 1,200 people in two days, almost 200 hundred of them Catholic priests. Imagine a slaughter …
How Binding is Catholic Social Teaching?
Catholic social doctrine does contain teaching that a Catholic is requred to hold. Refusing to accept it would constitute dissent from Catholic teaching, and I’m sure I do not need to tell my conservative friends the damage that cafeteria Catholicism does to the Church.
The Lost Generation
World Youth Day comes at an important time in the West as our societies seem to crumble around us with violence. It comes to show us that these young people are not entirely lost, this generation is not at sea bereft of hope.
St. John Marie Vianney and the Horror of Sin
Today is the feast of St. John Marie Baptist Vianney, and so I think it a very good time to …
Home is for Wild Hearts
The family is the fundamental cell of society because it reflects the raw, relational truth of the human person, a truth that points us back to God.
The Feeding of the 5,000, a Reflection on Social Justice
The efforts on behalf of the poor have to revolve around people and not populations, around personal needs and not issues, around an encounter with the living Christ and not around a hope for a utopian future where Jesus is reduced to the radical next door.
Why Beatrix Potter is Awesome
These stories of Beatrix Potter are very often morality tales, and just the sort of tales that our children ought to be hearing.
Eucharistic Solidarity: a Reflection on Corpus Christi
The Eucharist provides us with the opportunity for a solidarity with the world that is unmatched and unheard of.
The Heart of the World
This was a difficult Lent, and not just because of the impending birth of our third child, the stress that …
The Simple Formula of Love
One woman. One baby. One on one. It’s the beautiful calculus that Mother Teresa taught us.
Immigration…It’s About the Right to Life
Wherein I address the question of immigrant and ask why it is so very difficult for Catholics to understand why the bishops have the position they do on this issue.