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4 Halloween Mistakes for Catholics to Avoid
It's that time of year again - time for the secular world to entirely miss the point of (and forget the Catholic origins of) another holiday - Halloween. As faithful Catholics we know (or should know)...
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Earlier today we saw one of the motivations behind the tradition ghouls, ghosts, and skeletons we associate with Halloween is an expression of our new found freedom in Christ - a freedom even from...
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Can We Only Know Truth Via the Scientific Method?
Often in online and face-to-face discussions, especially with atheists, Catholics encounter a basic objection to the existence of God - that all real knowledge is gained through empirical...
View ArticleTerminally Ill 29 Year Old to Commit Suicide - UPDATE (the power of prayer)
You'll remember the 29 year old woman who had resolved to commit suicide from a couple of posts earlier this month here (Terminally Ill 29 year old to Commit Suicide. What will Become of her Soul?) and...
View ArticleTerminally Ill 29 Yr Old, Brittany Maynard, Kills Herself
Readers of the blog (and people who have been following the news at all) will be well familiar with Brittany Maynard, a terminally ill young woman who vowed to kill herself this weekend past to have,...
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Why Bad Popes Don't Disprove Catholicism
Last week I was sent this meme and wanted to take a moment to share my response (and elaborate on it) here for others who might be presented with this line of attack. It is the old "hey, look this pope...
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Relativism Leads to Slavery
Just last month, in a rare post retirement appearance, Pope Benedict XVI firmly declared "relativism is lethal to faith." This echoes his papal and pre-papal warnings about the deadly drift of our...
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The Last Judgement as seen in The Chronicles of Narnia
Yesterday, we took a brief look at a passage in CS Lewis' great Chronicles of Narnia series, one in which the author predicted perfectly the coming "dictatorship of relativism" and the necessary...
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Sin Motivates Disbelief - 5 Points to Share
Point 1 - God Can be Known Through Reason AloneDoes God exist? Where is the proof? So demands the modern atheist, and well enough. As we recently saw our knowledge of God's existence isn't a matter of...
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4 Reasons Every Christian Should Pray to the Saints
November, for the Catholic Church, is a time to especially reflect upon our relationship with those who have "run the race" (cf. 2 Tim 4:7) before us. Whether that be the Church Suffering, those being...
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Ratzinger on Scientism
A few weeks ago we saw how the Catholic Church values science and how it opposes the science destroying ideology of "scientism" (the belief that all knowledge comes from science). This basic critique...
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5 Reasons Every Christian Should Be Praying the Rosary!
Yesterday, we looked at four reasons every Christian (not just Catholics!) should ask the saints for their prayers. With that established, I'd like to look at a specific prayer every Christian (not...
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"Remarkable Consensus" at Synod on the Family for Affirming Church Teachings
For those who are frequent readers of this blog you'll remember that we covered the Synod on the Family quite a bit.- What is a Synod and Why is it So Much in the News?- Why do Some Catholics Choose...
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What Was God Doing Before the Big Bang?
I've been going back and forth with several atheists this week and one quote had been continually popping into my mind,Which of course is a play on (and a refutation of) some of the weak arguments...
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Pope Benedict XVI - "A Man at Peace"
Great news out of Rome! Our beloved Pope Emeritus, Benedict XVI, is doing very well and continues to be in good health, according to a report from CNA/EWTN.Monsignor Anthony Figueiredo recently met...
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All Christians (not just Catholics!) Should Call Mary the Mother of God (8...
Last week we saw why Every Christian (not just Catholics!) Should Be Praying the Rosary. Some non-Catholic Christians who might have followed the argument and be tempted to pick up their beads might...
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8 Reasons to Use the Word "Sex" Instead of "Gender"
In any conversation involving men and women, boys and girls, human males and females, we are bound to run into the nearly ubiquitous term "gender." Entire theories have been dedicated to describing it,...
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Cardinal George Retires Leaves Us Words of Wisdom
His Eminence, Francis Cardinal George, prince of the Roman Catholic Church, archbishop of Chicago has retired, but does so with some words of wisdom for all Catholics everywhere, (from CNA)“The faith,...
View ArticleThe Meaning of Marriage
What is marriage? Why does it have to be between a man and a woman? Does it really matter "what we have between our legs (and is that really the only difference between men and women?) These questions...
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Understanding Man, Woman, and the Power of Marriage
Earlier today, I posted a couple videos that were produced to help explain the important differences and indeed the complimentarity of man and woman and the logical implications these differences have...
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