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November 2023

November 12, 2023

Why Resurrection?

Among the world’s religions, Catholicism is unique for its profession in that God became a...

November 05, 2023

The Threefold Significance Of The Eucharist

Among the seven sacraments of the Catholic Church, the Eucharist stands as “The fount and...

October 2023

October 29, 2023

Did Mary Have A Choice?

The Immaculate Conception is one of the most controversial doctrines of the Church. Rejected by...

October 22, 2023

Why Was Jesus Baptized?

It has been said that humor is the coming together of two incongruous things. In...

October 15, 2023

Religious Orders Within Catholicism

Within the Catholic Church, there are some two-thousand-five hundred religious orders. The existence of these...

October 08, 2023

Be At Peace

"In His will, our peace." - Dante Alighieri. Perhaps one of life's most paradoxical aspects...

October 01, 2023

Fear Of God

It is estimated that the word fear appears over five hundred times in the Bible....

September 2023

September 24, 2023

Free Will And The Content Of Faith

Theological virtues are those virtues that are infused into the soul by God. Among the...

September 17, 2023

The Seeds Of The Church

“The blood of martyrs is the seed of the Church,” Tertullian famously remarked. Tertullian recognized...

September 10, 2023

The Transfiguration; Significance and Meaning

One of the consequences of the Enlightenment was an effort to reduce religion to a...

September 03, 2023

Are Human Beings Good?

"The world is a fine place and worth fighting for." - Ernest Hemmingway. Are people...

August 2023

August 27, 2023

Do We Really Want God?

In his prologue to metaphysics, Aristotle wrote that all men, by nature, seek to know....

August 20, 2023

The Attitude Of Trust

“The graces of My mercy are drawn by means of one vessel only, and that...

August 13, 2023

On Suffering, Meaning, And Virtue

Benjamin Franklin once observed that death and taxes are the only two certainties in this...

August 06, 2023

Does The Bible Contain Contradictions?

The Bible contradicts itself. So is the claim of many atheists and agnostics. While most...

July 2023

July 30, 2023

The Four Pillars Of Catholicism

The process of studying a particular thing often entails analysis. To correctly analyze a thing,...

July 23, 2023

Of Crutches And Opioids

Is religion the refuge of the weak? Friedrich Nietzsche thought so. Is faith a crutch...

July 16, 2023

The Heart Of Catholicism

“The prayer of the Church venerates and honors the Heart of Jesus just as it...

July 09, 2023

On The Dignity Of The Human Person

“Man alone is called to share, by knowledge and love, in God’s own life ....

July 02, 2023

Is Forgiveness Possible?

“God forgives somehow; we have yet to learn the same.” - Mary Chapin Carpenter. A...

June 2023

June 25, 2023

The Mystical Body

When one considers or refers to the Catholic Church, one often intends to connote the...

June 18, 2023

The War Within

It can be tempting to think of saints as people with such an intimate relationship...

June 11, 2023

Is Existentialism Compatible With Catholicism?

Philosophy is one of mankind’s oldest pursuits, dating some six hundred years before the birth...

June 04, 2023

The Need For Humility

“God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” - James 4:6. It is...

May 2023

May 28, 2023

The Seven Seals

The apocalypse, also known as the end of the world, has been the object of...

May 21, 2023

The Evangelical Counsels

To the uninitiated, it is easy to view religion in general and Catholicism in particular...

May 14, 2023

How Does Sin Affect The Soul?

Terms like sin and the soul are both old and familiar to most people of...

May 07, 2023

The Seven Last Words

The title of this article may be misleading. A more accurate rendition would be “The...

April 2023

April 30, 2023

Have We Lost What Is Sacred?

“Ain't there nothing sacred no more, lord, ain't there nothing sacred no more?” - David...

April 23, 2023

The Problem Of Impassibility

The Gospels tell us that Jesus suffered greatly in His earthly life, and Jesus Himself...