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The Doctrine Nobody Wants to Talk About – Brian Holdsworth

“I meet my obligations as a parent in order to show my love for them. The exact same thing should be the case in marriage.” Support the channel by visiting: https://brianholdsworth.ca/help A teaching once commonly called the marital debt has nearly vanished from ordinary Catholic conversation. What did the Church mean by it and how

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When Liberalism Eats Itself – Brian Holdsworth

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“If others can’t restrict what you wear, than you can’t restrict what others say.” A controversy over comedian Shane Gillis’s joke about women’s gym attire raises a bigger question: can freedom really serve as the highest moral standard? If people have the freedom to dress as they choose, does that same principle protect other people’s

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The Problem With Modern Ecumenism – Brian Holdsworth

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Did the Catholic Church really discover dialogue, tolerance, and ecumenism in the modern era? One of the most persistent myths about Church history is that Catholics once relied primarily on coercion and condemnation, only to finally discover friendship and dialogue in the 20th century. But the historical record tells a different story. From St. Jean

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I Warned Canada This Would Happen – Brian Holdsworth

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“Christian civilization has had that rare gift of holding together two difficult truths – that suffering can be both undesirable and redemptive. But a culture that loses that moral framework is increasingly tempted to eliminate the sufferer instead of the suffering.” Canada introduced Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) as a compassionate option for people facing

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Why Conservatives Keep Losing the Culture War – Brian Holdsworth

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“Creed is to intellect what culture is to the heart.” Why should Christians care when Hollywood changes a beloved story like The Chronicles of Narnia? The answer goes far beyond casting. Culture isn’t merely entertainment layered on top of our beliefs. Culture is how beliefs become embodied in stories, songs, customs, rituals, art, and shared

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When Christianity’s Critics Accidentally Prove It – Brian Holdsworth

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When Christianity is repeatedly condemned for opposite and mutually exclusive faults, that tells us something about the criticism itself. Christianity is too violent but also too pacifist. Too obsessed with sin and judgment but also far too eager to forgive. It hates pleasure and the body, but somehow also surrounds itself with cathedrals, beauty, art,

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The Sydney Sweeney Controversy Exposes Everyone – Brian Holdsworth

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“The solution is, nobody should be taking their clothes off to sell gambling apps.” Another culture-war controversy involving Sydney Sweeney has exposed something deeper than disagreement over one advertisement: both sides of the political spectrum seem increasingly willing to abandon coherent principles whenever doing so helps them attack the other side. In this video, I

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The Problem With Blaming Mental Illness – Brian Holdsworth

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“To claim that a person doesn’t deserve punishment because they weren’t capable of choosing is dehumanizing and ultimately self-refuting.” The Lindsay Clancy trial has revived an uncomfortable question: when someone commits a horrifying act, where does mental illness end and moral evil begin? Modern psychology often approaches human behavior through the categories of physical science

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Modern Society Is Designed to Make You Lonely – Brian Holdsworth

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“We embrace individualism and are then mystified by how we all became a solitary individuals.” Why does it seem like so many normal, functional young people have no friends? The usual answer is smartphones and social media, and they haven’t helped. But I think the loneliness epidemic points to something deeper. Friendship has always depended

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William Lane Craig Vs. The Nicene Creed – Brian Holdsworth

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“The more you accurately know someone, the more capable you are of actually loving them.” William Lane Craig has been one of Christianity’s most formidable public defenders for decades. But his rejection of the Nicene doctrine that the Son is eternally begotten of the Father raises some surprisingly serious questions about the Trinity and about

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Pagans Hated Christians for Doing This – Brian Holdsworth

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“When Protestants today decry Catholics for what they claim is paganism… they actually sound exactly like ancient pagans who denounced the ancient Christians for the same thing.” Support the channel by visiting: https://brianholdsworth.ca/help Catholics venerate the bones and belongings of saints—and to many Protestants, that looks unmistakably pagan. But there’s a problem with that accusation:

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The Theology that Allows for This – Brian Holdsworth

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“The externals shape the internals and vice versa.” Support the channel by visiting: https://brianholdsworth.ca/help Canterbury Cathedral recently hosted a disco-style dance party in the nave and Christians weren’t the only ones who found it disturbing. But why, exactly, is dancing in a cathedral wrong if dancing itself isn’t sinful? The answer exposes a much deeper

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What I Saw in Steubenville Shocked Me – Brian Holdsworth

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I recently returned from the Defending the Faith Conference at Franciscan University of Steubenville (@FranciscanU) and what I encountered there surprised me. Steubenville is a struggling Rust Belt town marked by decades of economic and demographic decline. And yet, in the middle of it, something remarkably Catholic is taking shape: families, schools, apostolates, businesses, friendships,

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No, Getting Married Doesn’t Make Lust Go Away – Brian Holdsworth

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“If you’re single and struggle with lust, you need to get married.” It sounds biblical. St. Paul does say that it is better to marry than to burn with passion, and the Christian tradition has long described marriage as a remedy for concupiscence. But does that mean marriage actually cures the vice of lust? In

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Why Be Catholic and Not Just Christian? – Brian Holdsworth

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“How do you know what the Christian faith is? How do you know what doctrines and practices are admissible and which should be excluded? Did Jesus appoint you with the authority needed to make those kinds of decisions? Or did he set you under a particular authority to reveal that to you? Almost all Christians

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Catholics Are Finding Out Too Late – Brian Holdsworth

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Catholics often complain that homilies and catechesis avoid difficult subjects: sin, judgment, hell, marriage, and the moral demands of the faith. But refusing to teach these doctrines does not protect people from pain. It merely ensures that they encounter the truth later—often after making life-altering decisions they might have made differently had the Church properly

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If I Were the Devil, Here’s What I’d Do – Brian Holdsworth

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If I were the Devil, how would I corrupt the world, and each person in it? The answer sounds surprisingly familiar. The surest way to destroy a person is not to begin by corrupting his actions, but by weakening his mind. Once he loses the habits of attention, reason, self-criticism, and conformity to truth, he

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