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What Should We Wear To Church?

Does God care what we wear when we go to Church? Or does God look...

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May 21, 2025

What Beautiful Churches Reveal About Heaven

Many people fail to understand why churches are designed elaborately or why the many things...

February 2025

February 05, 2025

Which Religion Is About Relationships?

Relationship is not something that may first come to mind when we speak about religion....

November 2024

November 06, 2024

What The Carthusians Can Teach Us About Life

The Carthusians, an enclosed religious order founded by St. Bruno of Cologne in 1084 have...

September 2023

September 23, 2023

Is Catholicism Too Complicated?

One of the most common arguments against Catholicism is that it’s just too complicated. There...

August 2023

August 30, 2023

Blessings You’re Not Receiving If You’re a Christian But Not Catholic

Have you ever wondered why you need to be Catholic when you’re already a Christian?...

August 02, 2023

Why Confessing to a Priest Is a Blessing

I once had a dream that I was inside a Church filled with so many...

May 2023

May 31, 2023

When Do People Stop Believing in God?

Not everyone who disbelieves in God have always lacked faith. Many people who grew up...

May 09, 2023

When Will the Church Recognize the Vocation of Single People?

It used to be so simple to be a single Christian. St. Paul even had...

April 2023

April 21, 2023

Is Christianity All About Suffering?

If there is anything wrong with how Christianity is sometimes preached today, perhaps it is...

March 2023

March 22, 2023

What Do You Do When You’re a Catholic Parent With a Transgender Child?

Everything seems to be as clear as black and white when you’re reading a book...

March 14, 2023

Are Aborted Children Much Happier in Heaven?

As a Catholic who believes that life begins at conception, I can’t help but be...

March 10, 2023

Pope Francis and a Decade of God’s Bountiful Mercy

“...the mercy of God is not an abstract idea, but a concrete reality with which...

March 06, 2023

Can AIs Like ChatGPT Pose a Threat to the Catholic Faith?

What happens when you ask an AI like ChatGPT how it can possibly pose a...

March 02, 2023

How Do You Live as a Catholic in a Godless World?

If you look at the declining number of Catholics in the Western world, you’d realize...

January 2023

January 31, 2023

Why Must the Church Become Small?

In a 1969 radio broadcast, Father Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) made the following prediction...