I spoke in my previous entry about Pope Francis’ enthusiasm for the Sacrament of Confession. According to Catholic Radio, he decided to pursue his vocation to the priesthood while attending Confession. The majority of Catholics rarely, if ever attend Confession, a sacrament about which I am very passionate. In a shared objection with non-Catholics, many disagree […]
Hanukkah: It’s a Catholic Thing!?
November 28, 2013 by
A few words up front: This is in no way an attempt to hijack a religious holiday from our spiritual elder brothers and sisters; far from it. But the simple fact is: It’s in the Bible. More to the point, it’s in the part of the Bible that Catholics accept as canonical (i.e.: infallibly part […]
Catholic Q&A: Why Bother Being Catholic
November 14, 2013 by
The following question was forwarded to me by a priest friend of mine. Q: Obviously, Catholics believe it to turn to body and blood. . . . However . . . what difference does it make? . . . If non-Catholics can make it to heaven without eating the bread of life [which we believe], then […]
“Hallowed Be Thy Name”: Reverence and Respect for God’s Name
October 19, 2013 by
I’ll establish some light-hearted context by noting a few of my pet peeves with grammar and punctuation. 1) I can’t stand when people mix “your” and “you’re” up. 2) If you want to make something plural, even if it’s an acronym, you DON’T put an apostrophe, i.e., you wouldn’t write “We should go get a few beer’s tonight.” […]
Old Testament Proscriptions, The Levitical Law, and the New Covenant
July 17, 2013 by
I was reading a piece over at the Friendly Atheist, written by the daughter of prominent Christian evangelist Matt Slick, founder of CARM.org, a christian (but not Catholic, and at times Anti-Catholic apologetic website – I could write a whole web-site dedicated to refuting that stuff, but others already have.). The author of the piece, […]
Q: Does God Want Only A Contrite Heart?
March 8, 2013 by
A reader asks: I . . . came across the daily readings. They seem to contradict themselves. . . . Hosea 6:1-6: The last couple versus are, “what am I to do with you, Ephraim? What am I to do with you, Judah? For your love is like morning mist, like the dew the quickly […]
The History Of Christianity In One Comic (and a bunch of text)
February 25, 2013 by
In the last 500 years in particular, however, what Christianity is has gotten…”muddy.” Cloudy. Hazy. It’s hard to tell what is what, because by modest estimates, there are between 3,000 and 30,000 different Christian denominations in the world today. Some teach that there are no sacraments, some that there are 7. Some teach that Jesus was God […]