The Church's role in World War One

 

 

In July, 1914, the shots were fired that began World War One. Gavrilo Princip, the nineteen-year-old Serbian who fired the fatal shots at Archduke Ferdinand of Austria, may have been the bullet but the Vatican was the gunpowder.

Evils of religion Part 8: The scam that became Mormonism

 

There is no perfect church. While I believe in the Christianity Jesus started, even a religion that has hewed as closely as possible to Christ’s teachings will be populated by imperfect people. Every religion has embarrassments both in their past and their present. How can a reasonable person decide which of these embarrassments is forgivable, and which is a deal breaker?

Is birth control a sin? Part 1

 

With the advent of Obamacare, some employers objected to having to pay for birth control. My first reaction was, What a silly thing to be arguing about; a tempest in a teapot. I'm not going to let it distract me from the theme of my previous articles: churches following - or failing to follow - the Bible.

But as time passed, and it blew up into more tempest and less teapot, I've had to revise my view.

Catholics return fire in abuse scandal

In my previous column I naively asked, in light of all the pedophile scandals, why Catholics remain Catholics. The answers I got from Catholics really put me in my place.

My city in Arizona is more a Mormon town than a Catholic one. Still, there is enough of a presence here for them to make their feelings known, and they did. I had no business, I was told, assuming that people would turn their backs on a set of beliefs due to the behavior of some individuals within their church. There have been scandals in all religions. Never should we expect or encourage a person to turn their back on God because of the actions of an individual, or even a group of individuals.

 

All True. 

Abuse charges mount against the Catholic Church

If you’re a Catholic, I’m telling you right now you are not going to like this article. I apologize in advance. 

 

But, if you are a Catholic, I have to ask: Why?