Some Thoughts on the Boy Scouts Decision
The Boy Scouts announced this evening that they are permitting youth – but not adults – with same-sex attraction: Today, following this review, the most comprehensive listening exercise in Scouting’s history the approximate 1,400 voting members of the Boy Scouts of America’s National Council approved a resolution to remove the restriction denying membership to youth on the...
read moreContraception Mandate: Landrieu’s Religious Dishonesty Bears Rotten Fruit
What do Republicans have in common with Democrats? If Louisana State Senator Peacock and US Senator Landrieu (from Louisiana) are our samples, the answer is religious dishonesty that seeks ultimately to remove Christianity from the political equation in America. I wrote last week about the moral stupidity of a local Louisiana politician, State Sen. Barrow Peacock, a Republican, who replied to...
read moreSandy Hook: Find Real Closure in Jesus Christ
I watched in horror with countless others across America as the events of Sandy Hook unfolded. Though I can’t understand first hand what they are going through, I can relate to the students who must return to or attend Sandy Hook for the first time this fall. A year before I graduated high school, the location of my college seminary, Conception Abbey in northwest Missouri, was shot up by a...
read moreMillennials, or Why TIME’s Subscriptions are Falling
The Millennial Generation has lately come to be much more frequently discussed. As a Millennial myself and a teacher of Millennials, I have a great personal interest in the discussion. About the Millennials, there is no shortage of observations coming from the Baby Boomers. Joel Stein of TIME Magazine, himself hailing from the margins between Gen X and Gen Y, penned TIME’s most recent cover...
read morePearls before Swine and the New Evangelization
“Do not give what is holy to dogs, or throw your pearls before swine, lest they trample them underfoot, and turn and tear you to pieces.” -Matthew 7:6 I got my start in the online Catholic world when I was 15, learning and applying apologetics on a very secular forum. As a trial by fire, it was was extremely beneficial in teaching me the various attacks that most often come against...
read moreAbout the Author
Micah Murphy, a cradle-Catholic from Omaha, Nebraska, has been active in online apologetics since his coming of age discovery of the faith. Having graduated from Franciscan University of Steubenville in 2007 with his BA in Theology and Catechetics, Micah became a youth minister and then a teacher of Sacred Scripture at Loyola College Prep in the mission Diocese of Shreveport, where he now lives with his wife, Jennie, and their three children. A man of concrete thinking, Micah prefers scriptural to scholastic theology, in addition to catechetics, canon law, Latin grammar, Catholic facts both trivial and muy importante, and anything else that requires great precision.
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