530 results for 'why we're catohlic'

The Messiah in the Dead Sea Scrolls(Post)

The Dead Sea Scrolls are a collection of documents discovered at the archaeological site Qumran, by the Dead Sea, in the 1940s. Most scholars hold that they were written by the Essenes, who appear t ...

Mary's Rapture(Post)

Roots of Mary’s Assumption Some are surprised that the doctrine of Mary’s bodily assumption was not defined until 1950, using little biblical support. The pope decreed that all Catholics must ...

Aren't All Sins the Same?(Post)

There is an idea among some Protestants that all sin is equal. Although tacitly recognizing that certain sinful actions are morally worse than others, they seem to get hung up on the idea that any si ...

Jesus and the Woman at the Well(Post)

The parables Jesus told aren’t just quaint stories. They’re filled with powerful secrets that reveal the mysteries of God’s kingdom.In this excerpt, Fr. Walshe takes a look at the Gospel reading from ...

The Serpent's Lie in Genesis 3(Post)

FAKE NEWS Fake news, digital noise, and constant connectivity promise to keep us informed and connected. But what if they are doing the opposite? This excerpt from Revolt Against Reality explores ho ...

Getting Personal When Talking About Jesus(Post)

Stop waiting for the perfect moment. Souls are perishing now, so now is the moment.​​​​​ In sharing Jesus with others, we are far more likely to succeed if we first take the time to craft our own me ...

"I Go to Mass Because it's What Men Do"(Post)

Earlier in my priesthood, I served as the vicar of vocations for my diocese, working extensively with young adults. In this way, I came to have a deep appreciation for the younger generation. Even as ...

What Pope Leo the Thirteenth Thought About "Fake News"(Post)

Misconceptions about the past can persist for centuries, despite the diligent work of historians, either because vested interests benefit from the distortions or because the fanciful version is more ...

Margaret Sanger, Eugenics, and the Nazis(Post)

In the early 1900s, eugenics is seen as cutting-edge thought in human health and development. It pushes back against Darwin’s noble instinct and uses the coercive power of the State to limit undesira ...

The Servant of the Servants of God(Post)

Perhaps the clearest teaching on the papacy is at the Last Supper. That may surprise some readers. After all, there’s an all too common misconception that the Catholic claim for the papacy boils down ...

If Everything Has a Cause, Then What Caused God?(Post)

Often this slogan is wielded after a theist uses a cosmological argument. The skeptic points out that God is made an arbitrary exception to the causal principle. Surprisingly, both philosophically en ...

Helping Young People Navigate the Cultural Minefield(Post)

The Rise of Gender Fluidity and the Need for Truth At my son’s large public high school it is not uncommon to see kids in various states of  “gender fluidity,” but not simply in the sense o ...