763 results for 'hard sayings'

Ten Aids to Mental Prayer(Post)

Ten Aids to Mental PrayerMental prayer is a furnace, in which the watch fires of vigilance are constantly rekindled. Fidelity to mental prayer gives life to all our other pious exercises. By it, t ...

Is There Any Evidence That Jesus Really Existed?(Post)

To judge by some very recent controversies, you might think that scholars are bitterly divided over this question. But in reality, that Jesus really existed is a mundane and rarely contested fact o ...

Should We Expect a Rapture at Any Moment?(Post)

The end time prophecies contained in Scripture have led Christians in every age to wondered whether they will be the ones to face such tribulations. The historic answer is yes. Jesus warned us that ...

How Demons Deceive Us(Post)

Be sober, be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. Resist him, firm in your faith. 1 Peter 5:8–9“‘Spiritual combat’ is another element of li ...

The Advocatus Diaboli and the Catholic Church(Post)

There was one book C.S. Lewis said he didn’t enjoy writing. I know how he felt. In 1942, Lewis published The Screwtape Letters, which consists of a series of letters from Screwtape, an experienced de ...

Are We Superior to the Early Christians? (Post)

The Argument for the Great Apostasy If the early Church was the Catholic Church, why can’t we say that Christians just lost their way early on? That’s the argument many Mormon and Protestant the ...

Is It Irrational to Believe Without Evidence?(Post)

A conflict between faith and reason arises only when people use incorrect definitions of these terms. It is true that reason involves the use of the mind to make sense of the world and justify the b ...

A Big Church(Post)

In 1986, Peter Gabriel had a hit with the song “Big Time,” in which a man with an inflated self-worth declares his liberation from the provincial values of his community of origin. He as ...

What is a Sacramental?(Post)

The 1983 Code of Canon Law (CIC) defines sacramentals as “sacred signs by which effects, especially spiritual effects, are signified in some imitation of the sacraments and are obtained through the i ...

Three Joyful Truths About Purgatory(Post)

In a tiny little church on the banks of the Tiber, called the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Patri (also known as the Church of the Sacred Heart of Suffrage), there’s a most curious collectio ...

What is the Immaculate Conception?(Post)

The Immaculate Conception refers to Mary’s preservation from original sin from the very moment of her conception. The formal definition of this dogma was given to the Church by Pope St. P ...

Worshipping God as the True Creator Rather Than Our Own Creation(Post)

When I was in the seminary at the Pontifical North American College in Rome, one of my apostolates was to give English-speaking tours of St. Peter’s Basilica. In such a role, I encountered people of ...