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December 2025

December 17, 2025

Why Some People Refuse To Believe in Forever

Do you believe in forever? Do you know some people who don’t? I’m not talking...

December 10, 2025

Can Religion Help You Find the Meaning of Life?

I feel sad whenever I hear young people treat religion nonchalantly, as though it is...

October 2025

October 22, 2025

7 Ways We Excuse Ourselves From Sin

“Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously...

October 08, 2025

Are Digital Devices Corrupting Children’s Hearts?

“With all vigilance guard your heart, for in it are the sources of life.” -...

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...

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...

July 2024

July 31, 2024

Why Are Many Christians Silent About the Olympics Issue?

The Christian world is still left shocked after the unthinkable mockery of the Last Supper...

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...

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...

January 2024

January 24, 2024

4 Reasons Why We May Feel So Lonely Today

Sometimes I feel as though loneliness is a kind of sickness that has spread in...

December 2023

December 29, 2023

Can Christian Writers Evangelize Artificial Intelligence?

I think it is safe to say that we can no longer go back to...

November 2023

November 29, 2023

Why Money Is Not the Only Measure of Your Success in Life

Most of us Christians won’t ever think of money as the only measure of success...

November 06, 2023

Is It a Sin Even if You Don’t Hurt Anyone?

I think one reason why there is so much confusion in the world today is...

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 30, 2023

The Age of Distraction and Finding Stillness In Prayer

I have been away from mental prayer for some time, and I wanted to start...

October 23, 2023

Was It Foolish for the Rich Man To Think About Retirement?

If I were to be honest with myself, I can see that I'm often no...

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...

September 2023

September 27, 2023

Where Is God in Disaster Movies?

When was the last time you heard God’s name in a disaster movie? Have you...

September 23, 2023

Is Catholicism Too Complicated?

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

September 20, 2023

What Does Our Social Media Addiction Show About Our Spiritual Life?

Have you ever left your mobile phone at home and felt something like the dread...

September 13, 2023

What if You’re Married to a Non-Catholic?

As we live more and more in a Non-Catholic and secular world, we may be...

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...

July 2023

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 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 04, 2023

Can the World Ever Be Right Again?

“It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of...

April 2023

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 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...