“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.” – G.K.Chesterton
The majority of songs these days deal with love in some way but more often than not they are about breakups, or relationships which are not geared toward lifelong commitment. Here's five great songs on love and marriage that you may not have heard; 1.Give You the World - Kyle Kupecky https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6wnk-O9fNk 2. This Is [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBIHVmIcM80 2357 Homosexuality refers to relations between men or between women who experience an exclusive or predominant sexual attraction toward persons of the same sex. It has taken a great variety of forms through the centuries and in different cultures. Its psychological genesis remains largely unexplained. Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual [...]
We here a lot about tolerance these days, but what does tolerance really look like? I believe this is a very important question for our society right now, a questioned well answered by Chris Stefanick of reallifecatholic.com; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqmTM-mNBL0
If you have not already gathered it from the posts on this site, you will soon discover (from future posts I intend to write), that I am a Catholic. As one of my favourite writers once wrote; “It is impossible, I hope, for any Catholic to write any book on any subject…without showing that he [...]
I am very excited to announce the publication of my first ever novel, Kingstone, a short fantasy story in the style of J.R.R.Tolkien's The Hobbit. It has been some time in the making, and I am very proud to say that it is now available for purchase on Amazon, worldwide as a paperback or eBook. Please [...]
Some brilliant quotes on love & friendship from C. S. Lewis, the author of The Chronicles of Narnia (and many other books). “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .” ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves “To [...]
Here’s an article I had published on the online Seton Magazine in December as The Greatest Christmas Gift in a Most Unexpected Place. Christmas in our culture today is commonly associated with the giving and receiving of gifts. I’m sure we can all think of some particular gift we received one year which stands out from all [...]
Here's an article I had published on the online Seton Magazine in October as Going Against the Current and Other Lessons from the Salmon. If I asked you to pick an animal with a “characteristic” that you would like to imitate, which animal would you choose? An owl for its wisdom? A bear for its [...]
This article is an edited version of one which was originally published on the online Seton Magazine as The Silent, Christmas God; Hiding in Stables & Tabernacles. If we were to journey back almost 2000 years to the city of David, to the small town of Bethlehem on the eve of the first Christmas, we would find a town busier than usual, because many had come to be enrolled for the census of Caesar Augustus. Somewhere in that [...]
"To a great extent, the level of any civilization is the level of its womanhood. When a man loves a woman, he has to become worthy of her. The higher her virtue, the more noble her character, the more devoted she is to truth, justice, goodness, the more a man has to aspire to be [...]