Life in a World Without God

How are we faring mentally in a world without God?

In the face of this social disintegration, we have essentially hired an army of replacement confidants, an entire class of professional carers. As Ronald Dworkin pointed out in a 2010 paper for the Hoover Institution, in the late ’40s, the United States was home to 2,500 clinical psychologists, 30,000 social workers, and fewer than 500 marriage and family therapists. As of 2010, the country had 77,000 clinical psychologists, 192,000 clinical social workers, 400,000 nonclinical social workers, 50,000 marriage and family therapists, 105,000 mental-health counselors, 220,000 substance-abuse counselors, 17,000 nurse psychotherapists, and 30,000 life coaches. The majority of patients in therapy do not warrant a psychiatric diagnosis. This raft of psychic servants is helping us through what used to be called regular problems. We have outsourced the work of everyday caring.

Protest: Our Lord Again Blasphemed In The Play Corpus Christi

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The blasphemous theater play Corpus Christi will show at two venues in San Francisco, California, at the end of April.

(Our Lord Scourged: During His Passion he foresaw all of these sins and suffered terribly because of them. Let’s offer Him a fitting reparation.)

And worse, the play is now accompanied by a documentary film called Corpus Christi: Playing With Redemption.

(Please read with caution. This is very disturbing.)

The trailer for the film is shocking and gross. It previews scenes from the play and shows “Our Lord” viciously striking a female actress, and two homosexual men getting “married” by “Our Lord.”

Interspersed is the usual attempt to portray protestors in the way you have come to expect while portraying the blasphemous play itself as all about “love and compassion”.

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The venues are in San Francisco: the play will be shown at the Southside Theater at Fort Mason Center, and The First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco; the film will be shown at the Castro Theatre. We will send your polite but firm protest message to all three in the hope that they will cancel the showings.

To show Our Lord and His apostles as homosexuals is an abomination that must not go unanswered. Again, we are called to defend Jesus’ honor by peacefully and prayerfully, but loudly raising our voices against this outrageous blasphemy.

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Then let’s offer fervent prayers and ardent sacrifices in reparation. Here’s a beautiful reparation prayer to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.

The Real St. Gemma

“If you really want to love Jesus, first learn to suffer,

because suffering teaches you to love.” Saint Gemma

Written by Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira

This photograph is of St. Gemma Galgani (1878-1903), a famous mystic who lived in the enchanting town of Lucca, Italy.

Her countenance is impressive for several reasons. First, we note her profound reflection and the harmony of her traits. Second, the saint’s gaze has something elevated and sublime about it. Her thoughts are not of this earth: her countenance displays a supernatural aura.

Her dignity and angelic purity are striking. This is seen by the way her head rests on her shoulders: straight and unpretentious.

She wears no adornment at all. Her hair is simply combed and arranged. Her face is very clean and reveals nothing of a desire for embellishment.

Her dress is black and simple. Yet, St. Gemma combines an extraordinary dignity with a virginal purity which is impalpably reflected in the luminous splendor of her skin. One could say that her skin is as luminous as her gaze. Moreover, her gaze reflects total uprightness. It is that of a mystic immersed in that which she sees. Even we discern something of what she perceives.

The virtue of fortitude also shines forth in her countenance. When the Faith commands her to do something, her will is unbending.

What does she desire? She wants to serve God, Our Lady and the Catholic Church. She forges ahead on this road regardless of the obstacles. She represents the strong woman of incomparable values referred to in Holy Scriptures. Like a rare stone, one readily walks to the ends of the earth to find her.

(Published in the August 1999 issue of Catolicismo)

The Need for Parental Wisdom in Video Games

Elizabeth Woolley is the founder of the Online Gamers Anonymous organization and is an outspoken opponent of addictive video games. Mrs. Woolley has been interviewed by the Catholic Herald Citizen, CBC, CBS, and the BBC. She has travelled internationally to speak at conferences on the dangers of gaming. In 2002, she started a website to warn society about the “dark” side of gaming and to provide help and counseling for those who are already addicted to video games.


Crusade: Could you please explain why you founded Online Gamers Anonymous?

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The Profile of Today's New Nuns -- Traditional

The typical woman religious who professed perpetual vows in 2011 is a 39-year-old cradle Catholic who prayed the Rosary and participated in retreats and Eucharistic adoration before entering religious life. She comes from a large family...

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