Author Archives: Ron Conte

Catholic hospital forbids contraception for a medical purpose to avoid grave consequences

Posted on 7 June 2011 by Ron Conte

A Catholic hospital in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, is prohibiting physicians from dispensing contraception or even advising patients to use contraception, regardless of the purpose or circumstances. CANCER doctors are on a collision course with a Catholic health organisation … Continue reading →

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Can an adult be validly baptized against his will?

Posted on 6 June 2011 by Ron Conte

An infant can be baptized, even though any express willing, one way or the other, by the infant is lacking. Original sin is contracted without consent and so it can be remitted without consent. It is not contrary to the … Continue reading →

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The miraculous virgin birth of the Virgin Mary

Posted on 5 June 2011 by Ron Conte

From the visions of Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich: Several days previously, Anne informed Joachim that the time of her delivery was at hand. She sent messengers to her sister Maraha, at Sephoris, also to the widow Enue, Elizabeth’s sister, in … Continue reading →

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In Roman Catholic moral theology, what is a moral object?

Posted on 5 June 2011 by Ron Conte

Morality concerns acts (also called ‘human acts), which are the knowing choices of a human person. In moral theology, an act is an exercise of intellect and free will. The mind understands, and the will freely chooses. All such knowing … Continue reading →

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On praying for sinners who died unrepentant from grave sin

Posted on 4 June 2011 by Ron Conte

It never fails. As soon as some wicked person, some person who is famous for committing many grave sins, dies — apparently unrepentant — there are calls by Catholic commentators to pray for their souls. There is, at the very … Continue reading →

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On the death of Jack Kevorkian and the teaching of the Gospel

Posted on 3 June 2011 by Ron Conte

[Matthew] {25:31} “But when the Son of man will have arrived in his majesty, and all the Angels with him, then he will sit upon the seat of his majesty. {25:32} And all the nations shall be gathered together before … Continue reading →

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Theology Q and A (2 June 2011)

Posted on 2 June 2011 by Ron Conte

Q: Is Baptism by sprinkling valid? A: Only if the water both touches the skin and flows across the skin. Pouring the water is preferred, since sprinkled water might only touch the clothing or might touch the skin without flowing; … Continue reading →

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Mary is not the Mediatrix of All graces

Posted on 1 June 2011 by Ron Conte

The Virgin Mary is Mediatrix of Grace. Pope Pius XI even calls her “Mediatrix of all graces.” However, this phrasing is inexact. The Pope was not referring to all graces without exception, but to all graces to us, to fallen … Continue reading →

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Saint Thomas on Heresy

Posted on 30 May 2011 by Ron Conte

Saint Thomas Aquinas in the Summa Theologica: On the contrary, Augustine says against the Manichees [Cf. De Civ. Dei xviii, 1]: “In Christ’s Church, those are heretics, who hold mischievous and erroneous opinions, and when rebuked that they may think … Continue reading →

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Excommunication and Voting for Abortion

Posted on 30 May 2011 by Ron Conte

There is a debate about whether or not those legislators vote for the Filipino Reproductive Health Bill are excommunicated. Most Canon Lawyers say they are not. But Pope John Paul II decided, in Evangelium Vitae: “The 1917 Code of Canon … Continue reading →

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The Arab Spring as a preparation for the Tribulation

Posted on 29 May 2011 by Ron Conte

Eschatology and provability Most questions in eschatology, asked at most times throughout Church history, are somewhat academic. If you lived any time from the second century to the early 20th century, the question (we now know) as to when the … Continue reading →

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Inequality within the Trinity

Posted on 28 May 2011 by Ron Conte

In my book, New Insights into the Deposit of Faith, I discuss the speculative theological question as to whether or not the Three Persons of the Trinity are equal as concerns their Personhood. “God is One Being, and the One … Continue reading →

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