The Catholic Church in this country is on fire and has been for decades. Did we not see that when people started bolting for the doors, leaving confessionals in cobwebs, Masses empty, and once thriving parishes mere shells of themselves. Did we not see that when seminaries, religious houses of...
When I was going through school, the devil was presented to us as a myth, a literary device, a symbolic manner of signaling the presence of evil in the world. I will admit to internalizing this view and largely losing my sense of the devil as a real spiritual person....
This is so funny – but also makes a great point! God is not just for “religious” things, God is the Creator and King of the Universe! Everything in the world, every part of our lives and of human society, should be consecrated and offered back to Him. That’s why...
This is so interesting! “Catholic” means universal. The Catholic Church gets its name from the fact that it is the universal Church, made up of many different local churches, traditions, and liturgical rites. Wait, what is a “rite” again? The Church defines it thusly: a rite is “the liturgical, theological,...
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Pope Francis has officially changed the text of the Catechism, saying that the use of the death penalty in today’s world is now “inadmissible.’ The previous teaching, given by Pope St. John Paul II, had said situations in which the death penalty was necessary were “very rare, if not...
