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Lunch With An Atheist
I was sitting in a booth at a restaurant in San Diego waiting for the religious equivalent of a “blind date” to begin. A few weeks earlier, some Catholic friends of mine asked me to meet with their son while he was home from college. They wanted me to speak to him because he told his parents he wasn’t going to church with them anymore because he was now an atheist. They asked me, “Can you help him see he needs to start going back to church? Can you help him get over all this atheist stuff?” Then
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Dec 4th 2019
Did Jesus Really Rise From the Dead? Are Alternate Theories Put Forth By Non-Believers Plausible?
The Bible says that if Jesus did not rise from the dead then the Christian faith is worthless (1 Cor. 15:17). However, if Jesus did rise from the dead then we know Jesus can keep his promise to give everyone who follows him eternal life (1 John 2:25). But how can we know that Jesus really rose from the dead and that the Bible’s description of this miracle wasn’t just a story someone made up? One way is by showing that the Resurrection is the only explanation for the events surrounding Jesus’ dea
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Apr 16th 2019
Of First Ladies And Test Tube Babies
In recent days, former First Lady Michelle Obama admitted in an interview that she had her daughters through in vitro fertilization (IVF). In this excerpt from her new book Made This Way: How to Prepare Kids to Face Tough Moral Issues, co-author Leila Miller looks at what the Church teaches about IVF.In Vitro Fertilization (IVF)Years ago, I was listening to Ron Reagan, Jr. advocate on television for embryonic stem cell research. He was strongly in support of using "excess" human embryos from IVF
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Nov 20th 2018
Infallibility 101: Sometimes Only A Single Sentence In A Document Is Infallible
Identifying Infallible Teachings Sometimes people ask, “Is this document infallible?”
The question is problematic because the Magisterium doesn’t issue
documents whose teaching is infallible from beginning to end. Instead,
it issues documents that contain individual propositions that are
infallible. In Ineffabilis Deus (1854) and Munificentissimus Deus (1950)—the documents that defined the Immaculate Conception and Assumption of Mary—only a single sentence in each document was infal
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Nov 14th 2018