How often do you hear these misconceptions about the Catholic Church? On this week’s episode of The Catholic Talk Show, Ryan DellaCrosse, Ryan Scheel, and Fr. Rich Pagano discuss the misconceptions often believed about Catholic Church teaching. Scheel explains that many of these points result from indifference to faith...
It is said that for the Catholic Church to be renewed it will take the laity. This is absolutely true for 3 reasons. 1) The laity make up the overwhelming amount of the Church. They have strength in numbers. This doesn’t mean that the Church is a democracy. No,...
Take up your cross and follow me. Perhaps those words have been greatly tamed over the years. Perhaps we see them as taking up our burdens and following Christ. But the Cross wasn’t a mere burden. The cross was means of execution. Painful execution. It would be like Jesus...
Wow! The Holy Spirit moves through this Bishop! Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte stated that Catholic Church will eventually dissipate due to the clerical sexual abuse. According to an article in Philippine Daily Inquirer, the president said “people would eventually forget about the Catholic Church because of its alleged abuses.” Bishop...
This is such great advice for all Catholics! Fr. Goyo Hidalgo, an associate pastor at St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church in Simi Valley, Cali., posted some excellent advice for Catholics experiencing such terrible guilt that they feel it necessary to repeatedly confess the same sins. Here’s his post...
This article originally appeared on Fr Matthew P. Schneider’s blog, Through Catholic Lenses. A new bill was just presented in California that would force priests to reveal what is said in the confessional. The result of this law would be imprisoned, and possibly martyred priests. And it probably won’...
