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Helping Children Navigate Our Brave New World(Post)

A major new book from Catholic Answers Press promises to help parents address the challenging sexual subjects that modern society forces on kids. Made This Way: How To Prepare Kids To Face Today’s Tou

Explaining The Unexplainable To Young Children(Post)

      Transgender Advice For Your Younger Children One day, I took some of the younger boys to get haircuts (yes, another lesson at the salon), and the stylist who took the boys

Do the Infancy Narratives Contain Contradictions or Historical Errors?(Post)

Sometimes skeptics have claimed that the infancy narratives found in Matthew 1–2 and Luke 1–2 contradict each other. For example, it is pointed out that Luke has Mary living in Nazareth before going

Does the Number of Books in Your Bible Really Matter?(Post)

One evening I had the sad duty of attending my neighbor’s funeral. The assistant pastor from the church stood up and after a few remarks about the deceased began to give a sermon. The first ten minut

Answering Questions About the Immaculate Conception(Post)

Immaculate Conception and God’s Election The Immaculate Conception. For non-Catholics, this dogma of the Church may be one of the most misunderstood doctrines there is. Here are some common q

How Can Mary Be Without Sin?(Post)

In Romans 3:23, St. Paul famously declared, “All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” 1 John 1:8 says, “If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us,” and Ro

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 sin

The Fisher Pope(Post)

What is a miracle, and how does it differ from magic? Both “miracle” and “magic” are notoriously hard concepts to define, and differing religions demarcate their respective limits differently. The clo

Why Are There Eight Beatitudes in Matthew and Only Four in Luke?(Post)

The Sermon on the Mount related in Matthew 5-7 has much in common with the teaching of Jesus related in Luke 6. It is widely recognized that Luke 6 teaches in an abbreviated form what Matthew 5-7 tea

Hostile Witness to the Gospel - King Herod and the Promised Messiah(Post)

We’ve seen this movie a hundred times.The man in power feels threatened and uses any means necessary to wipe out those who threaten his power.It’s a story of power, deception, subterfuge, and bloods

Satan Demanded to Have You, That He Might Sift You Like Wheat(Post)

“Simon, Simon, behold, Satan demanded to have you, that he might sift you like wheat, but I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail; and when you have turned again, strengthen your brethren”

The Counterfeit Christ of Modern Sexual Ethics(Post)

In his book Radical Love: Introduction to Queer Theology, Patrick Cheng claims, “Radical love is ultimately about love [emphasis in original], which, as St. Paul teaches us, is patient and kind, and n