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Whatever Happened To Penance And Mortification? Could we imagine what it would be like if athletes stopped training their bodies? It would be unthinkable. Without training they would never have the strength and stamina required to perform. They also would lose their fans, since we respect athletes because of the great feats their training allows them to perform. The same can be said of the saints, the champion athletes of the Faith. They are exemplars not of physical training but of the …

Catholic Answers...Catholic Answers Live...Catholic.com...Catholicism and Fundamentalism...And so much more. More than anyone else, Karl Keating is responsible for bringing Catholic Apologetics to a world hungry for truth. Here's a glimpse at how it all started.... I was twelve when my maternal grandmother came to visit, the second-longest trip of her life. We moved to Southern California when I was six, so my childhood memories of her are few, but I have a photograph from her only …

Here at Catholic Answers one of the questions we get again and again is one that could have eternal consequences: "How can I grow in holiness?" Most Catholics want to grow in holiness, but they don't know where to start. They don’t know where to look for spiritual direction, for examples of how others have answered this question for themselves. The answer to the question is surprisingly simple. Look to the Saints – the holy men and women of God who came before us, and lived …

Today is October 31st - Commonly referred to as Reformation Day by Protestants and it marks the 500th anniversary of the beginning of the Protestant Reformation, when, as the story goes, Martin Luther nailed a list of his grievances with the Catholic Church (commonly called "The 95 Theses") to the door of All Saints’ Church in Wittenberg, Germany. But that's not the whole story....In the documentary-style film The Protestant Revolution, written and narrated by Trent Horn, you will be …

One evening I had the sad duty of attending my neighbor’s funeral. My neighbors were not religious, but apparently a local “mega-church” offered to conduct the eulogy for them. The assistant pastor from the church stood up and after a few short remarks about the deceased began to give a lengthy sermon. The first ten minutes was dedicated to how he knew that my neighbor believed in Jesus and was in heaven, so there was no need to pray for her or offer Masses or any …