Trinity 18, 2025

“Love is love” was the slogan that carried same-sex marriage across the goal-line. It meant that whatever love is, it’s the same regardless of subject and object. A husband’s love for his wife is the same as two members of a same-sex partnering.

The effect was to diminish love to lust. “Love is love” meant every kind of lust, every kind of desire is equally valid and beyond critique. The same arguments could—and indeed already are being made for pedophilia….

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Catechetical Sermon on the Second Article of the Creed

In the hour of darkness—when your career is collapsing; when your marriage is on the ropes; when you come face to face with the ugliness of your sin; when the stench of death cannot be sanitized by the wretched sterility of hospital antiseptic—when in the hour of darkness you despair, you don’t need a concept or a philosophy. A platitude won’t help. An ethic is worst of all, for the accuser gleefully reminds us that we have failed.

The supposed comfort of a nebulous better place I find revolting. Who are you to say there is a better place, and that my loved one is in it, or that I will go there? How do you know?

Leave me alone, incompetent comforter! I need a Lord, a real redeemer who is actually mine, who is coming for me!

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