When the Seers Are Blind

“In a series of cases beginning in 1957, the Court judged that obscenity and the representation of sexuality were not the same thing and that ‘material dealing with sex in a manner that advocates ideas . . . or has literary or scientific or artistic value or any other forms of social importance may not …

Find Out Who She Is And Marry Her

I am currently reading, and very much enjoying, Debbie Maken’s book, Getting Serious About Getting Married. My wife read it and reviewed it for Credenda a few months back. This is one of those “about time” books. My father, who has been counseling young people about affairs of the heart for half a century or …

What Huxley Called “The Feelies”

“[T]he court delineated between the transmission of culture and the provision of entertainment, and relegate movies to the fulfillment of the latter. This is most ironic, because the film that led to this case, Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation, had demonstrated the power and potential of film as an intellectual and artistic medium. Now, …

Eucharistic Dualism

An important part of our responsibility in coming to this Table is to reject all false contrasts and inconsistencies. We reject as unscriptural every attempt at eucharistic dualism, a process which tries to pit external against internal. The superstitious come to the Table in order to fool about with mere externals, considered as such. Their …