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October 2025

October 01, 2025

Should the Catholic Church Be Involved in Politics?

In today’s secular world, we often hear people say that the Church should stay out...

November 2024

November 13, 2024

Reflections for Our Time on the 7 Sorrows of Mary

Devotion to the Seven Sorrows of Our Blessed Mother allows us to share in the...

August 2024

August 07, 2024

Divorce & the Last Battleground for the Sanctity of Marriage

There are only two places left in the world where there is no divorce: the...

February 2024

February 21, 2024

Are Christians Supposed To Be Powerless?

Have you ever wondered whether Christians were supposed to be powerless? Unlike other people, we...

November 2023

November 10, 2023

Why Is There So Much Hatred for Evil and So Little Love for Good?

Have you ever wondered why many people today don’t listen to Christians who want to...

November 01, 2023

If People Are Searching for God, Why Couldn’t They Find Him?

Why are so many people doubting the existence of God today? Why couldn’t they find...

October 2023

October 20, 2023

How Do We Let The Children Come To Jesus?

When the disciples tried to keep the little children away from Jesus, He forbade them...

October 13, 2023

Is It the End Times but We Just Don’t Know It Yet?

I wrote this article right after I felt an earthquake during my morning reflection. I...

September 2023

September 29, 2023

How Can We Preach Faith In a World of Artificial Intelligence?

Think about the way people currently search for information on the internet They usually go...

September 23, 2023

Is Catholicism Too Complicated?

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

September 02, 2023

Are We Living in an Age of Rudeness?

Have you ever noticed how rudeness seems to be so common these days? We see...

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 17, 2023

When Will The World End?

Many attempts have been made trying to predict the end of the world. When will...

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...

April 01, 2023

What Science and Technology Can’t Help You Become

This is an age when we are made to believe that we can be anyone...

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 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...

February 2023

February 27, 2023

Why You Shouldn’t Leave the Catholic Church

If you are one of those people who is seriously thinking about leaving the Church,...

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...