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Medicine for the Soul(Post)

When people ask me why they need to go to see a priest in confession instead of going “directly to God,” I remind them that they already believe that you can’t “go directly to God” when it comes to a

Tell Me Brother, Are You Saved?(Post)

There are many books on the subject of salvation, and many of them share certain characteristics: 1. They focus exclusively on the subject of eternal salvation.2. They focus in particular on the doct

How to Respond When the World Tells Us We Can "Build Our Own Deity"(Post)

Cultural Resistance to Revelation The necessity of revelation and of knowing God on his terms is not accepted in our culture today. A story can help illustrate this tension. In our society, for de

Getting Kids To Heaven(Post)

There’s an old joke that fits me well: Before I got married, I had eight theories about raising kids; now I have eight kids and no theories.When I enrolled my first child in a wonderful Catholic eleme

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 collection

If We Reject God, We Will Never Truly Understand Ourselves(Post)

People lament that there is no longer a Christendom, but, you know, Christendom wasn’t exactly heaven on Earth. The Church doesn’t have worldly power any longer, and I don’t think that’s a bad thing.S

Out of the Darkness and Into the Light(Post)

"Although the world of today has a very vivid awareness of its unity and of how one man depends on another in needful solidarity, it is most grievously torn into opposing camps by conflicting forces.

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

Tradition in the Early Church(Post)

At first, the apostles conducted their teaching mission in a purely oral form. Peter preached a sermon on Pentecost.He did not issue a pamphlet.By teaching orally, the apostles followed the example of

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

Salvation Through Suffering(Post)

Earlier in my priesthood, I pastorally ministered to a man who had cared for his adult son during his son’s battle with cancer. As I came to know the man, he shared with me the account of his son’s l

How Can I Believe In God When So Many Reasonable People Don't?(Post)

If most intelligent people you know believed something, would you believe it?For many people who don’t believe God exists, this is one reason why: the smart people they know and respect, such as scien

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