The Christian Approach to Sports
For some, the state of modern sports is enough to write off the whole enterprise of sports as a waste of time or a conciliation with decadent modern culture. But I believe this is shortsighted.
For some, the state of modern sports is enough to write off the whole enterprise of sports as a waste of time or a conciliation with decadent modern culture. But I believe this is shortsighted.
From Paris to Wall Street to Milwaukee, the world is full of absurdities that defy common sense and reason.
The Neo-paganism evident in the expensive show put on for the opening of the Olympics was just another example in a long history of official French ultra-secularist de-Christianization.
To lefty Catholics, the great evil is “conservatism,” so they will support anything that opposes it, and criticize anything that advances it.
The tragedy was not the outrageous blasphemy. It was the absence of howling outrage.
The Olympic Drag Show was a validation of the beliefs of many wayward Christians who have long supported degenerate lifestyles.
Just before the 2016 Olympic Games began in Rio, Cardinal Orani Tempesta blessed the Olympic torch at the feet of the Statue of Christ the Redeemer. Images of Jesus with arms extended were beamed into homes around the world. This was not supposed to happen but there it was. Father Omar Raposo, rector at the … Read more
The much-awaited Olympics is now upon us in Rio, a city in a country in a continent mired in unmanageable debt and corruption. Surrounded by poverty-stricken favelas, the city has poured billions into Olympic venues, security, advertising, all to watch a few thousand overhyped young athletes strive to excel at their chosen sport. Don’t get me … Read more
When our Lord says turn the other cheek, He speaks of a spiritual strategy to humble the self and then perhaps, to win other souls to Him. Not all the proud are shamed by humility and it seems pretty clear that those who smote the One who offered them salvation did not turn their hearts … Read more