Statement of Purpose

Despite our nearly 30 years of gainful employment in computing, this is the first attempt at a blog, the intent of which is to hold the news of the day and selected personal experiences up to the Gospel and logic, and these are closer to the same than the atheist du jour or the tools of the zeitgeist would have us believe. This being our blog, we will make a few outrageous definitions here:
1) The Gospel, Christianity or similar terms refer to the teachings of Jesus as he intends. This means no one here has a perfect understanding of it, but we believe the closest is the teaching of the Catholic Church. Some qualifications must be made immediately. It does not mean the practices of the Church, including rules that can change, such as married priesthood. It does mean that we believe Jesus to be both True God and True Man. It also includes true Free Will, a resistance to determinism in all its forms, and the strongest affirmation of the primacy of Love, the definition of which will have to wait for a later post.
2) At the same time, we reject no one. Many non-Catholic Christians believe in and live the Gospel. Because protestants reject the notion of a central authority, we can scarcely say they are teaching wrong, and the label is not very useful. Instead, non-Catholic Christians are invited to question and explore points of Catholic teaching with which they agree or disagree, which they live or fail to live, what they find attractive or repulsive, easy or difficult. We reject no brother or sister in Christ, whatever the denomination, or even with no denomination. We reject no person who is created by God, either.
The purpose of this blog is not to judge who belongs to what, but rather which ideas and practices are consistent with the Gospel as preached by the Catholic Church, and secondly to examine which ideas and practices would seem to lead to a deeper relationship with God, within our own personal limits of understanding.