Fr. Larry

All truth is true, but all truth is not equal. It’s true that eating fast food, or whatever that stuff is, and ingesting copious amounts of alcohol on a daily basis are both bad for your health, but their consequences are not equally immediate or deadly. The same sort of thing applies, of course, in the realm of mendacity. All falsehoods are false, but all falsehoods are not equal. Continue reading

Fr. Larry

Members of any particular group, whether the faithful of a church, adherents of a political party, or the citizens of a nation need an agreed upon set of values and principles, even if that agreement is assumed rather than stated formally, which have the power to hold them together, and to keep them from ripping their church, their party, or their nation apart. In 1762, Jean-Jacques Rousseau coined the term “Civil Religion” to describe what he saw as the moral and spiritual foundations essential for emerging modern governments and societies. Continue reading

Fr. Larry

I never cared for Hillary, and was never enthused about her candidacy. She is the sort of insipid Democrat that creates the illusion that change is coming for the sick, the hungry, and dispossessed, but an illusion is all it it is – it’s not real change you can count on. She said it herself, she is “a proud moderate.” And Bill is not only a sex addict, Continue reading