February 2022

Here at the beginning of our Lenten journey, Holy Mother Church pulls no punches.

The rejection by many, including priests and bishops, of the Church’s teaching that the use of contraception is gravely immoral, prepared the way for the rejection of other teachings that go against the sexual revolution.

While we mustn’t ignore the importance of the individual, the truth is that reducing society to a collection of unattached individuals would be like trying to reduce nature to a collection of unattached atoms. It doesn’t get us very far. Sure, we’d have gold and nitrogen and even diamonds (which are just well-organized carbon). But we wouldn’t have water or sugars or proteins, all of which are essential to life, and all of which are molecules—combinations of atoms. Even oxygen gas is a mash-up of two oxygen atoms, not individual particles floating in space.