A friend of mine was a bit put off recently by a highly credentialed Catholic layman who declared that there were only two vocations open to ...
A single mother who works full time says that when she gets home from work and asks her 16- and 14-year-old daughters for ...
Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared in Mexico as the pregnant Mother of God to Blessed Juan Diego, an Aztec Indian, on December 9, 10, and 12, 1531. She left a Miraculous Image of her appearance on his ...
Dean Acheson, U.S. secretary of state from 1949 until 1953, is buried in Washington's Oak Hill Cemetery. When I read recently that Acheson's 20th successor, Antony Blinken, had sent a cable subtitled ...
That we might serve him, love him, and worship him in order to become eternally happy. Is God pleased when we meditate frequently on eternal happiness? It would very much displease God if we were to ...
What is the position of the Catholic Church on organ donation for the purpose of transplant? What moral principles are involved? What would motivate one to be an organ donor? What is the position of ...
The popes whose stories you'll read here show us how Christ kept his promise to his bride, the Church, not only in her health but also in her sickness. That's why, even in its darkest moments, the ...
To answer this question we must first be clear on how the Gospels were formed and what constitutes authorship. Citing Vatican II's Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation (Dei Verbum), the ...
What does it mean to have a Mass "offered" for someone? An individual may ask a priest to offer a Mass for several reasons: for example, in thanksgiving, for the intentions of another person (such as ...
An informed person, asked what lay at the root of Martin Luther's theology, immediately answers, "Justification by faith alone." Since the Second Vatican Council, the Reformation has been approached ...
How many times have your heard that "Our founding fathers were not Christians! They were deists!"? It is an absurd assertion. It conjures up images of clandestine gatherings in Philadelphia's ...
Should non-Catholics who are not practicing their faith receive Holy Communion? One of the great fruits of holy Communion, according to the Catechism (No.1396), is that the holy Eucharist makes the ...