Articles

Is Masturbation Okay?

By Saint Gabriels Newsroom / November 24, 2012

Although, you won’t hear many sermons condemning the practice, the Catholic Church still officially teaches that masturbation is sinful. In spite of all the pro-masturbation propaganda in our culture, “self abuse” is one of the most frequently confessed sins in the confessional.

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Is It Right To Kill Those Who Are Suffering?

By Saint Gabriels Newsroom / November 17, 2012

I hate pain and suffering. A few years ago, I had an intestinal problem that never seemed to get better.

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Is Conservative Strength Declining In America?

By Saint Gabriels Newsroom / November 10, 2012

Does Obama’s election and re-election signify an historic ideological shift in America? My sense is that for the first time in the nation’s history, “the left” now constitute a majority, if only barely so.

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Candy Coated Catholicism

By Saint Gabriels Newsroom / November 4, 2012

Did you know that when Jesus’ condemned divorce (Mark 10:2-12), that He wasn’t really talking about divorce? He was talking about gender equality!

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“Taking a Toke” is No Joke

By Saint Gabriels Newsroom / October 27, 2012

My 21-year-old nephew recently said, “Come on, Tom, taking a toke is no different than drinking a beer!”

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The Politics of Homeschooling – Part IV

By Saint Gabriels Newsroom / October 20, 2012

Part IV: Sweden, a Case Study, Cont.

In this fourth part of our inquiry dealing with the politics of homeschooling, we continue our review of Sweden’s educational policies as an illustration of what one can expect when socialist principles run amuck in the land of the free. In the last article, we pointed out Sweden’s socio-democratic political bias, and drew attention to the reality that in a political system that has socialist dispositions, uniformity is a preferred model, even when it comes to the behavioural traits of its citizens. Key words that are repeated consistently on Sweden’s official web site are equal, equity, and egalitarian. Note that although we are “equal” in the eyes of God, He created us as “individuals.” One must draw a distinction between this sense of “equal” and “equal” in the “collectivist” sense.

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Do You Sting Like A Scorpion?

By Saint Gabriels Newsroom / October 20, 2012

Once there was a scorpion who wanted to cross a lake. Since scorpions don’t swim, he had a problem.

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The Danger of “Big Government”

By Saint Gabriels Newsroom / October 13, 2012

We have reached the point in some nations where “government spending” has become unsustainable at current levels.

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Hildegard von Bingen: O pastor animarum (plainchant)

By Saint Gabriels Newsroom / October 6, 2012
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Are You Sure You Know What I Mean?

By Saint Gabriels Newsroom / October 6, 2012

Back in the mid-1960s, Bob Dylan was a tough guy to interview. Once, a reporter asked him, “Do you care about people?” Dylan replied, “Yes, but we all have our own definitions of those words, ‘care,’ ‘people.’”

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