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June 29, 2021

Peter and Paul: Made Great By Their Differences

Peter and Paul started their journey in radically different states of life, but they would...

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March 09, 2021

Lift Up The Voices Of Women

St. Hildegard of Bingen, even in her lifetime, was looked upon with amazement for her...

February 2021

February 15, 2021

Venerable Felix Maria Ghebreamlak And Ecumenism

From the very beginning of Christian history, there have been conflicts and divisions among Christians....

January 2021

January 11, 2021

After The Recent Coup Attempt, Christians Must Speak Up And Resist Evil Coming From Within The Church

Jesus, in the Sermon on the Mount, said it is better for the body to...

November 2020

November 12, 2020

The McCarrick Report And The Judgment Of The Church

The release of the McCarrick Report has revealed what has long been believed and understood:...

May 2020

May 26, 2020

Individualism Divides What Must Be United

S.L. Frank, writing about society, suggests individuals cannot exist independent from society as they are...

May 01, 2020

What Good Is There In Going To Church If We Do Not Love Our Neighbor?

When disease strikes, we deal with it as is needed. It affects our lives. We...

April 2020

April 29, 2020

Reopening Churches After The Lockdown

Trying to slow the spread of COVID-19 to manageable levels has brought much of the...

April 26, 2020

Women and the Resurrection

Time is important. What happens in time doesn’t merely have temporal significance, it has eternal...

February 2020

February 13, 2020

Querida Amazonia And The Mission of the Catholic Church

Lumen Gentium presented one of the most important statements of the Church offered at an...

December 2019

December 06, 2019

My Thoughts On The Halting of the Beatification of Fulton J. Sheen

The beatification process of Fulton J. Sheen has been brought to a halt. This is...

November 2019

November 14, 2019

Church of the Poor

In the ante-Nicene era, Christians and pagans both took notice of the words of Jesus...

July 2019

July 25, 2019

The Chinese Rites, The Amazon Synod, And The So-Called Traditionalists Attack On Catholic Tradition

When the Jesuits began their mission to China, they had to find a way to...

June 2019

June 30, 2019

Reform, Not Apologetics, Is Needed To Help People Return To The Faith

In dealing with the current crisis of the church, when we see many people lose...

June 04, 2019

Those Who Promote A Coup Against Pope Francis Must Face The Consequences Of Their Actions

St. Augustine, writing against the Manichaeans, explained how heretics often wanted to identify themselves as...

May 2019

May 08, 2019

The Relevance of Nicholas of Cusa’s Responses to the Bohemians and Amedeists to the Critics of Pope Francis Today

In the fifteenth century, Pope Eugene IV faced many similar complaints and criticisms of the...

February 2019

February 27, 2019

Work Together: Some Thoughts Going Forward Concerning The Sexual Abuse Crisis

The sexual abuse crisis affecting the Catholic Church, the sexual abuse crisis affecting society as...

February 20, 2019

Christians Must Be Honest With Themselves

Early Christians, writing with the vigor of a newfound faith which had yet to deal...

September 2018

September 26, 2018

Faith Without Works Produces Scandals

One of the appalling factors in modern Christian life, Catholic or otherwise, is the great...

September 11, 2018

Praxis Not Theoria

Since the sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church has once again made its way...

August 2018

August 30, 2018

Listen to the Victims

In the aftermath of the revelations of sexual abuse and its cover up by various...

August 21, 2018

Admit and Condemn

One of the earliest leaders of the church, Nicolaus, was called out in the Apocalypse...

April 2018

April 17, 2018

St. Athanasius?

Arians questioned the divinity of Jesus Christ. They said that the Son, by being begotten,...

November 2017

November 27, 2017

Christ, Birth-Mother Of Salvation

While we should not limit femininity so that we only think of child birth as...

November 01, 2017

Diversity in Unity

Some people want to reduce Catholicism into a monotonous, monotone belief system which has everyone...

July 2017

July 24, 2017

On The Eucharist: Conclusion

This is the fifth and final post on a series exploring the eucharist. Click here...

June 2017

June 06, 2017

On The Sacrament of Chrismation (Confirmation) Part Two

This is the second post of a series discussing the sacrament of confirmation. Click here...

June 02, 2017

Pentecost

We have come to the time of Pentecost, the time in which we remember Christ...

May 2017

May 26, 2017

Sunday of the Fathers of the First Ecumenical Council

The church is called to be universal. It is called to go forth across the...

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