Carly Fiorina was great but … was she “wrong?” During the CNN Republican presidential debate, Carly Fiorina accomplished what she set out to do. She stood out. Fiorina received the loudest applause of the night when she responded to comments Donald Trump made in Rolling Stone. Of Fiorina, Trump said: “Look at that face! Would…
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First they came for the kosher butchers
by Al Kresta •
On July 28, TIME recalled: “Denmark enacted a sweeping ban on the religious slaughter of animals in 2014, prompting a furious backlash from Jewish and Muslim community representatives.” The controversy is continuing throughout a half-dozen European nations that have already prohibited kosher and halal slaughtering of animals. In spite of the fact kosher and halal…
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Warning: Ignoring moral reality is hazardous to your health
by Al Kresta •
All modern popes have warned against it. Professional philosophers know it’s false. Yet 75 percent of Americans think “relativism” is true. “Relativism” teaches that nothing is true, good or beautiful for all people, at all times and in all places. There are no moral absolutes. “What’s good for you is good for you. But how…
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Federal prisons will now recognize humanism as a religion
by Al Kresta •
While a student at Michigan State University, I would daily walk past a church named “The People’s Church.” I never visited it, but that didn’t keep me from joking that this was the place where The People, rather than God, received worship. It was where the thoughts and feelings of The People trumped the revelation…
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Should a faithful Catholic love nature?
by Al Kresta •
A longtime listener phoned the other day with a concern that the Holy Father’s encyclical on ecology was being sold as a way to encourage us to love nature. She feared that this might lead to some kind of nature worship or pantheism. At first glance, her concern seemed wildly misplaced. What can be wrong…
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Marriage should amplify Christ as the divine spouse
by Al Kresta •
Patrick Anthony Bergquist, 35, director of children, youth and family ministries at St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church in Manhattan, and Dr. J. Patrick Hornbeck II, 33, chairman of the theology department and associate professor of medieval and reformation history at Catholic, Fordham University in the Bronx, got married last week. I don’t doubt the two men…
