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December 2025

December 24, 2025

Do Reborn Babies Reveal Our Longing for the Baby Jesus?

When I first heard about reborn babies, I thought they were real infants who had...

November 2025

November 26, 2025

What Religion Gives Us a God Who Suffers With Us?

Why is there suffering? What can we do about suffering? Will there ever be an...

July 2025

July 23, 2025

What Should We Wear To Church?

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

July 09, 2025

What Is the Remedy for Our Struggle Between Good and Evil?

I would like to think that every person wants to do what is right. Created...

April 2025

April 16, 2025

Lent Reflections on the Seven Last Words of Christ

The seven last words of Jesus as he hung on the cross reveal the depths...

March 2025

March 05, 2025

Too Sinful For God’s Love? 3 Bible Verses To Keep In Mind

Have you ever experienced a time when you felt you were too sinful to be...

December 2024

December 25, 2024

10 Bible Verses Announcing the Birth of Jesus Christ

There is no better time than the Christmas season to familiarize ourselves with the Bible...

October 2024

October 23, 2024

Have You Ever Imagined the View From the Cross?

As Christians, we often contemplate upon the passion and death of Jesus Christ. While I...

October 16, 2024

Why Can’t Jesus Always Perform His Miracles?

Have you ever wondered if there were times when Jesus couldn’t perform His miracles? If...

June 2024

June 26, 2024

Are We Humanizing Jesus Too Much?

When I was a child, there was an old movie about Jesus we often watched...

April 2024

April 17, 2024

Have You Ever Wanted to Hear Jesus Talk?

Have you ever experienced those days when you just wanted to hear Jesus talk? You...

February 2024

February 14, 2024

Is God’s Forgiveness Conditional?

I can't remember how many articles I have written so far about forgiveness. But I...

January 2024

January 10, 2024

What the Eight Beatitudes Mean for Our World Today

The Eight Beatitudes preached by Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount probably contain some...

December 2023

December 20, 2023

Can Poor People Still Be Happy?

Have you ever seen poor people who are happy? I see them every day in...

December 13, 2023

Why It Makes Sense To Give Until It Hurts

“I must be willing to give whatever it takes to do good to others. This...

November 2023

November 22, 2023

Does God Appreciate What We Do?

Too often, people are not ashamed to say unkind words to others. More and more...

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 09, 2023

Why God Did Not Choose To Love Us From Afar

Many times, as we watch television or look at our computer screens, we watch suffering...

July 2023

July 19, 2023

A Bad Christian or a Good Unbeliever: Who Will Be Saved?

My nephew once asked me this very interesting question: “Who has the greater chance of...

July 05, 2023

Do You Need To Be Poor To Follow Jesus?

There seems to be the idea that one needs to be poor to be a...

May 2023

May 11, 2023

Have You Ever Wondered How Happy You Could Be in Heaven?

Sometimes, we can have all the wrong ideas about heaven. We visualize a stereotypical image...

May 01, 2023

How Do You Bear Your Most Painful Sufferings in Life?

Have you ever felt so much pain that you wondered how you'd ever make it...

April 2023

April 29, 2023

Are You Ready for the Hour of Your Death?

With the current progress in science and artificial intelligence, I often read about predictions that...

April 21, 2023

Is Christianity All About Suffering?

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

April 17, 2023

When You Can’t Go to Confession, How Do You Obtain God’s Mercy?

Why is it so hard to receive God’s forgiveness? Have you ever felt yourself asking...

April 14, 2023

The Problem With Mortal Sin

When someone commits a murder, one instantly know that one has done something wrong. To...

April 12, 2023

What Did Jesus Do When He Met a Sinner Condemned To Die?

Jesus mingled with sinners throughout His earthly life. He ate with prostitutes and tax collectors....

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...