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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

Advent Apologetics: What is Advent?(Post)

The word advent derives from a Latin word, adventus, that means “arrival” or “appearance.” The Directory on Popular Piety and the Liturgy, a document of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Dis

Rising Like Incense to Heaven(Post)

Sacraments of Grace and Strength In the weeks leading up to my reception into the Catholic Church, I prepared to not only to be baptized, but also to be confirmed. The sacrament of baptism uses wate

What is Baptism?(Post)

The Transformative Power of Baptism Baptism is the sacrament in which believers are “reborn as sons of God” (CCC 1213) by “water and Spirit” (John 3:5). It incorporates us into the Mystical Body

When God Becomes the "Divine Handyman"(Post)

Some time ago, a married couple with young children reached out and asked if they could come and meet with me. Although I didn’t recognize their names, and they weren’t in our parish database system,

Need Help Defending Christmas?(Post)

Christians Borrowed Christmas and Easter from Pagans Every spring just before Easter, major news organizations run stories “debunking” one of the central tenets of the Christian faith—Jesus’ resurrec

Who Is The Antichrist? (Post)

One of the most mysterious figures haunting the Christian imagination is the Antichrist. Innumerable works, both fiction and non-fiction, have been devoted to him. The concept is so compelling that e

How "God's Rottweiler" Ended Up in the Doghouse(Post)

Pope Benedict XVI shocked the Church and the world at the Consistory on February 11, 2013, when he told the assembled cardinals, “After having repeatedly examined my conscience before God, I have com

Finding Mary in the Old Testament(Post)

The most obvious references to the Virgin Mary are those that mention her explicitly. These may be few, but they are the most important. Literal references take priority in any doctrinal discussion a

The Great Disappointment(Post)

Murky origins and eccentric doctrines place group at fringes of Christianity. Most people know little about the Seventh-day Adventists beyond that they worship on Saturdays, not Sundays. But t

Advent Apologetics: How Can Words and Material Objects Give God’s Grace? (Post)

God is eternal: he is outside of time, he has no beginning and no end. As described in the very beginning of the Bible, he created the universe and everything in it by his word, by willing it all t

Mysteries of the Magi(Post)

“When Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men from the East came to Jerusalem” (Matt. 2:1).“Wise men” is a common translation in English Bibles, but it doe