Rev. Gerard Lessard, OP | The Christian Review

From the Heights of the Last Century to the Present

Posted by Rev. Gerard Lessard, OP | Jan 7, 2019 | Culture, Featured, Humor, Manners, Media |

From Carol Burnett to Kathy Griffin, From Cecil B. DeMille to Michael Moore, From Walter Cronkite to Jim Acosta, From Johnny Carson to Jimmy Kimmel, From Dick Clark to Howard Stern…

Green Puritans

Posted by Rev. Gerard Lessard, OP | Nov 12, 2018 | Culture, Ethics, Science |

The planet exists for humanity, not humanity for the planet.

God is Straight

Posted by Rev. Gerard Lessard, OP | Jun 9, 2018 | Culture, Education, Family, Marriage, Science, Scripture, Theology |

Homosexuality is not a state of being because it is not inherent to created nature. It does not participate in the absolute Being of He-Who-Is. Rather, it is a state of privation or of the absence of something that should exist. Homosexuality is a shadow or cavity in the soul.

The Origin of Personhood

Posted by Rev. Gerard Lessard, OP | Mar 25, 2018 | Culture, Ethics, Family, Featured, Marriage, Science |

Supporters of abortion make one assertion for which they will be easily prosecuted and condemned: that human personhood begins at birth.

Can Culture Be Whatever?

Posted by Rev. Gerard Lessard, OP | Feb 12, 2018 | Culture, Ethics, Family, Manners |

Real culture does not incite the curiosity of the guilty, but the wonder of the innocent.

Please Consider the Morality of Your Memes

Posted by Rev. Gerard Lessard, OP | Aug 17, 2017 | 2016 Election, America, Ethics, Featured, Media, Politics |

The reason that memes came into existence is that we have become so bombarded with words from advertisements to propaganda that we need to filter the cacophony to garner the gold dust from the sand.

The False God of Diversity Versus Catholicity

Posted by Rev. Gerard Lessard, OP | Jul 5, 2017 | Catholic Church, Culture |

Diversity without morality, then, has become a false Catholicity promoted by the Devil who mocks the universality of the Church. As an end in itself, diversity is a false god that stretches ever outward to wider peripheries causing division, not unity.

It’s Opening Day! An Ode to America’s Pastime

Posted by Rev. Gerard Lessard, OP | Apr 3, 2017 | America, Culture, Family, Sports |

No graceful movement in ballet
Can equal a six-four-three double-play.

Deep as the Netherworld and High as the Sky

Posted by Rev. Gerard Lessard, OP | Mar 25, 2017 | Catholic Church, Faith, Featured, Liturgy, Saints, Spirituality, Theology |

By descending from Heaven to Earth, the Son of God earned the right for us to be assumed from Earth to Heaven. By descending upon the Church, the Holy Spirit gives us the ability to earn a place left vacant by the fallen angels in the sky.

Diversity with Patriotism

Posted by Rev. Gerard Lessard, OP | Jan 25, 2017 | 2016 Election, America, Culture, Ethics, Featured |

Patriotism is not merely a sentimental bond to a nation. It is a virtue in the spiritual will of the human soul. Without patriotism, our hearts would suffer an empty void. Patriotism is a kind of piety, which is a part of justice.