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  • Alzheimer’s Keeps Reminding Me Why I Love being Catholic

    IT MAKES SENSE TO ME By Larry Peterson I have written about my wife, Marty’s, Alzheimer’s Disease several times. This is another. It was unplanned and spontaneous, triggered by the unique world she and I have come to share together. pineterest.com I was trying to write something but I was stuck in “neutral”. No pencil…

  • Two Teenagers, A Child and Christmas–a Perfect Mix

    IT MAKES SENSE TO ME By Larry Peterson If it were two thousand years ago and you lived in Nazareth you might notice a young man packing items on a donkey in preparation for a trip. Early the next morning you see this fellow, with his pregnant teenage wife sitting on the back of the…

  • The World; Yesterday and Today–The Bible Covers It All

    IT MAKES SENSE TO ME By Larry Peterson As a cradle Catholic who went to twelve years of Catholic school “waaaaay” back in the ’50s and ’60s, I can say without hesitation that my education in the Bible and about the Bible and of the Bible was almost non-existent. The Catechism with its nays &…

  • The Supreme Court on Stage: The Fate of the American Family Waits in the Wings

    IT MAKES SENSE TO MEBy Larry Peterson G. K. Chesterton said, “This triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it.”June is upon us and so is the decision by the United States Supreme Court as to whether or not “same-sex marriage” is  allowed…

  • "Same-Sex "Marriage"; The Great Illusion of the Modern, Secularist Era:

    IT MAKES SENSE TO MEby Larry Peterson The United States Supreme Court has now heard the arguments for and against “gay- marriage”. Now we wait to see what the almighty Justices have decided. We will not hear the decision until sometime during the early days of summer. As for me, I do not get it.…

  • Marriage & Family~~Pre and Post Woodstock

    IT MAKES SENSE TO MEBy Larry Peterson This  opening paragraph quotes from the Catechism of the Catholic Church; #1603: “The intimate community of life and love which constitutes the married state has been established by the Creator and endowed by him with its own proper laws….God Himself is the author of marriage.”Last October there was quite…

  • The Catholic Church is the "Bride" of Christ and the Holy Spirit has Her Back: NO Problem

    IT MAKES SENSE TO MEby Larry Peterson It is quite apparent to me that the 2014 Vatican Synod on the Family has been hijacked by the mainstream media and press. (Maybe we should call it the Secular Media Synod). Reports of Synod actions are flying out from the keyboards about all sorts of things and…

  • Pope Francis: "…Marriage is about a Man and a Woman Walking Together…"

    IT MAKES SENSE TO MEby Larry Peterson Way way back in ancient times, like around 1950, about 22% of American adults were single.  Since the population ‘way back then’ was about 152.3 million that would mean that about 33.5 million Americans were unattached.  In 2013 the population was almost double, coming in at about 316…

  • Pinning on the Marriage Label Changes Nothing

    Charles Cooper, the attorney defending Proposition 8 supporters, was prodded in the court  as to what makes marriage between a man and a woman unique? Cooper responded that a man and a woman could procreate. Why the court room “chuckle, chuckle”.  If I am not mistaken, the whole concept goes back to Adam and Eve.…