Was the crucifixion of Christ a failure? During his 2015 apostolic journey to the U.S., Pope Francis gave a homily at a vespers Mass at
If you hang around Catholic mommy blogs and spend time and women’s retreats, you’ll notice a familiar tone towards the wife extoled at the end
By Dr. John Larrinaga One of the greatest challenges facing the Church today is the ongoing exodus of members who seek to satisfy their religious
Last month, I concluded an article by asking how we can know for sure that Catholicism, in particular, is God introducing Himself to the human
Are the Gospels trustworthy as history? Did the stories they tell about Jesus really happen? Christianity is a historical religion, a faith that’s based on allegedly historical
In Homer’s Odyssey, Odysseus recounts all of his exploits to the Phaeacians before his final journey home. One of the more memorable moments from this
Once a month I have the privilege of visiting men at our local prison for two hours. I go by myself and have free reign
Common Protestant objections to Catholicism are presented as scriptural, when in fact they are misinterpretations, which render scripture inconsistent. The beauty of Catholicism lies not
We find priests in the Old Testament and in the Catholic Church. Do we find priests in the New Testament? One of the main differences
I grew up in a nominally Catholic home; one in which I was forced to go to church about 49 or 50 Sundays of every
How many times have we all been in conversation with a person, when, out of the blue, he makes a popular“Gotcha” Statement (PGS) that is
To my mind, the hardest evangelical question to answer is, “Why should I join the Catholic Church?” This question would not be quite as difficult
The greatest stumbling block to following Christ is found in the Gospel of John, Chapter 6. The central matter of this chapter is “The Bread
When we Catholics talk about Mary the mother of Jesus, we often insert the word “virgin” somewhere into her name. For example, two of her most
A few months ago I was following a discussion on social media about how people of faith would respond if faced with martyrdom. It generated
Many atheists and agnostics are fond of asking for scientific proof of God’s existence. They say that if science can’t show that he exists, we
The Gospel of John recounts a clandestine meeting, under the cover of darkness, between Jesus and a ruler of the Jews, a Pharisee named Nicodemus.
Is the existence of God probabilistic? It is if human intellectual knowledge is the inference of probability. This essay is intended (1) to acknowledge that
I don’t have faith that God exists. To some, that may seem like a surprising, even shocking, statement. How can I be a Christian without
Most of us, at some point, have encountered the demon of moral relativism, a philosophy claiming that every system of moral precepts (or lack thereof)
This essay presents the argument for the existence of God from the existence of existentially contingent entities, the entities of our direct experience. The previous
The argument for God as the first cause of serial contingency is an argument for polytheism. However, the argument fails because God cannot confer on
Have you ever discussed the divinity of Jesus with a Jehovah’s Witness or anyone else who claims to be a Christian but denies this essential
I finally made the decision to convert and enter the Catholic Church a year after I graduated from college. Through fifth grade, I attended a
