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To many, the Catholic doctrine of purgatory is one of the Church’s most mysterious and confounding teachings. Fortunately, there are many Bible verses and catechetical lessons that can help us understand better and explain to our non-Catholic...

For a long time, Christopher Columbus enjoyed a positive—if slightly simplistic—reputation in our national culture. Even if he didn’t exactly “discover America,” we still revered him as a key figure in a critical period of...

St. Paul said that God has given assurance to all men by raising Christ from the dead (Acts 17:31). This assurance is at the heart of our Christian faith—for without Jesus’ resurrection, Paul adds, our faith is in vain (1 Cor. 15:14)...

Making Sense of Divine Hiddenness We believe that God exists and that he loves us, yet he can feel distant and hidden from our perceptions. Why doesn’t God make himself visible to us? Or at least make his presence undeniable through signs and...

Be honest: even with all the wonderful communications innovations in the last decade—smartphones and endless apps that make your life “better”—you’ve found yourself struggling to make sense of it all, questioning what is...

Raised by a Jewish father and an ex-Catholic mother, Trent Horn was adrift in skepticism in his teenage years and believed religion was “a crutch for the simple-minded.” At the time, Trent: Thought that Christians were...

Given how often the Galileo situation is used as a stick to beat the Church and charge it with being “anti-science,” one might wonder whether it represents the greatest blunder in Catholic history. Certainly you could think that if all you...

Today’s popular champions of atheism are often called New Atheists. But there’s nothing really “new” about their arguments. They’re the same basic objections to God that mankind has wrestled with for centuries. We...

Is belief in the devil a relic of a superstitious past? Has science made the devil obsolete? Is Satan merely a metaphor in the Bible for the mystery of evil? Nothing could be farther from the truth. In What You Need to Know About Exorcism: The Devil,...

Reformation or Revolution? There’s a popular version of the Protestant Reformation that goes something like this: By the sixteenth century, the Catholic Church had become thoroughly corrupted. Its doctrines were tainted by superstitions and false...

Nobody talks about the Inquisition—unless the Catholic Church is being bashed. After all, images of religious oppression, gruesome torture, and burning heretics fit so perfectly with the modern world’s preconceived idea (unwittingly...

Have you heard the story about the Crusades? You know, the one about how medieval Europe’s greedy kings and intolerant popes launched bloody wars of conquest on the peaceful and enlightened Muslims? Of course you have. Today’s media,...