"Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow." Saint...

Someone who was defending celibacy in the priesthood said that it is not necessary to the priesthood, but that it is always preferable. I...

Do you read the Scriptures enough to be able to need to figure out how to interpret them? Certainly, the Church is the divinely...

Biblical interpretation is quite difficult. I want to show you an exercise in how right the Pharisees were (yes you read that correctly)...

When we read the Bible, there are certain presuppositions that we need to have in order to ensure that we stay on the "narrow path" that...

"Catholics never read the Bible" (said to me by a Presbyterian friend a few months before I converted). "Protestants spend way too much...

Have you ever been to Mass and not heard if the homily was speaking directly to something you were dealing with? Obviously, if you had,...

"He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist." St. Augustine of Hippo (ca. A.D. 400)

I once had a Catholic ask me not to use certain readings for a funeral Mass because all those references to "judgment" might offend...

Somehow, someway, a few years back, the devil deceived vast numbers of American people (including many Catholics) on one particular...

Once upon a time, in a small rural town, I was a Baptist pastor. In the congregation that I served, we had a meeting for the entire...

"Everything is a grace, everything is the direct effect of our Father's love - difficulties, contradictions, humiliations, all the soul's...

How old is a child on the day he is born? Most would quickly say "one day old", but is that really correct? Consider another aspect of...

We are told: "Regulation of the sacred liturgy depends solely on the authority of the Church, that is, on the Apostolic See and, as laws...

There was a day when the priest was merely trusted by the laity; and 99% of the time when it came to the liturgy you were safe to do so....

Let us move on from the previous post and ask the question I was asked the other day, "How can a Catholic layman be certain that his...

Would you trust a mechanic to repair your car who believed that cars were grown on bushes that grew on the far side of the moon? After...

Picture this family scenario: It is time for dinner. The family gathers around the table, gives thanks in prayer, and then eats a meal...

I (somewhat) watched a video of something that happened (I would be afraid of divine judgment if I tried to call it a Mass) at a Catholic...

The Church no longer requires women to veil in the presence of the Sacrament as it once did, but it does still encourage it. Many women...