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We must become a people who are in submission, that is, submitted completely to the mission of the Church, 'in statu missionis.' Thus, living... →
Imagination is a screen onto which the evil spirits can 'project' images, temptations presented as stimulating entertainments, offering us... →
Whether one is Marian or Charismatic or both, or prays in one or more of the many other ways open to us, it is all a flow of love, if the heart is... →
It goes without saying that a good Catholic novel should be good craftsmanship, good writing skills. The creative person must always be engaged in... →
There are indeed 'values' in the Harry Potter series, but they're confused with anti-values. Potterworld is a scrambled moral universe.... →
Genuine freedom is possible only where there is genuine love. And genuine love is not possible without truth.
If creators of Christian culture hope to produce work that will bear good fruit, we must draw our life from the true source - our living Savior. He... →
Love cannot long survive without truth. Nor is truth really truth unless it is integrated with love.
My Catholic faith is my life. Any artist, if he is to be faithful to how he perceives the world and to the nature of his creative gifts, cannot... →
Healthy fiction, no matter how wildly it may depart from the material order, teaches us to love ourselves in a wholesome manner by loving our... →
The Natural Law which God has written into our beings cannot be entirely eradicated, but it can be gravely deformed, leading to distortion of... →
Corrupt fantasy points us, or forms us, in a consciousness that can lead to thinking that evil is good and good is evil. In the worst case, this may... →
Harry Potter represents a much larger wave of cultural revolution that we're all immersed in, and I believe it's a spiritual revolution as... →