11 11, 2025

“Not My Fault If He Looks At Me Lustfully.”

By |2025-11-09T12:22:11+00:00November 11th, 2025|Theology|

Catholic men and women frequently debate modesty both online and in real life. Inevitably, a woman will chime in and say: “It’s not my fault if a man looks at me lustfully.” Well, sometimes it is and sometimes it's not.  The fact is that this is based much more on what you are wearing than how much beauty God has given you.  Thus, I have written here and podcasted here on pre-Vatican II parameters of modesty. I still hold to those. But today we're going to look Scripturally at the ancient-wound from the Fall in the Garden from a more philosophical than practical point of view. I’m sure some readers [...]

18 10, 2022

The Evil of Feminism in Moral Theology

By |2022-10-18T16:05:20+00:00October 18th, 2022|Theology|

While it's true that this blog post is about the evil of feminism in moral theology, it's not about women, nor does it refer to sixth-commandment violations (except two passing examples.) Also, most of my readers would hopefully not conflate traditional Catholicism's rejection of feminism with an acceptance of violent misogyny or an arrogant machismo. Obviously, one evil does not balance out another evil.  But feminism attempts to overturn a hierarchy that God has given to creation and to the family. The first aspect of hierarchy that is theologically rejected by feminism (implicitly, not explicitly) is that the Creator comes before the creature, in eternity and importance. That is, God is [...]

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