Catholic Stand – Page 116 – Living the Truth the Church Teaches

Can We Know God Is Real? Part I

Marty Dybicz May 15, AD2021 4 Comments

We can know God is real, and we can do so without Faith. We can know, from Reason alone, that God exists. Recall that Faith

Your Eternal Destiny is Found Where Your Eyes are Looking

Gabriel Garnica May 15, AD2021 1 Comment

I do not know who the Jones’s are, but I keep hearing how everyone wants to keep up with them. I have to wonder ‘why?’

Memento Mori, Thoughts on Growing Old

Bob Kurland May 14, AD2021 9 Comments

Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the

Parents Shouldn’t Love Their Same-Sex Afflicted Kids More Than God

Gene M. Van Son May 14, AD2021 23 Comments

How would you react if your 17-year-old son or grandson announced that he was homosexual? How would you respond if your 17-year-old daughter or granddaughter

joe biden, presidential candidate, vice-president, Conspiracy Theory

Biden: Devout or Devious?

Tom Collingwood May 13, AD2021 13 Comments

I promised myself after the election, the DC riots, and all the political noise that I would divorce myself from those issues and focus my

Mother’s Day – After Years of Dread I Can Finally Deal With It

Larry Peterson May 12, AD2021 6 Comments

Mother’s Day has come and gone. I used to be glad when it was over. Not anymore. My mother died 60 years ago. She had

Fresh Approaches to Classic Prayer Practices

Abigail C. R. Gripshover May 12, AD2021 1 Comment

With a long stretch of Ordinary Time coming, the faithful often loses vigor once the intense seasons of Lenten penitence and Easter celebrations finish. However,

Garabandal: Believe the Miracles

Edward Benet May 11, AD2021 32 Comments

June 18th is the sixtieth anniversary of the first vision in Garabandal. The events were controversial from the start, largely because of the negative evaluation

People Are All Made of the Same Clay

Julie Machado May 11, AD2021 2 Comments

I still vividly remember my best friend’s speech on domestic violence for the Speech and Debate Club in high school I also participated in. It

The Church’s Wondrous Stigmatists

Lilia Borlongan-Alvarez. May 10, AD2021 2 Comments

Since stricter lockdowns were imposed in certain regions of the Philippines two months ago, I’ve thought about how the saints in heaven would have coped

A Teacher of Strange Things: Off the Shelf 212 with Cy Kellett

Pete Socks May 10, AD2021 No Comments

Off the Shelf 212 – Cy Kellett Many people seem to have a personal notion of who they THINK Jesus is but it’s not exactly what

Creatio ex Nihilo, invisible, Divine Providence

Trains and Chains and God as First Cause

Bob Drury May 9, AD2021 2 Comments

Trains and chains are popular analogies used to illustrate the argument for a First Cause, whom we call God. See: Reasons to Believe (p. 32)

My Catholic Identity

Daniel Mark May 9, AD2021 4 Comments

Once I finished university, I started working in a large city. It took forever to find an apartment at a fair price but I finally

Not Of the World: Catholic Tradition and Separation

Anthony S. Layne May 8, AD2021 5 Comments

There’s a certain value to nonconformity, to separation from the rest of society. So long as you stand for something definite, something positive that the

Angels and Demons

Hunter Leonard May 8, AD2021 4 Comments

Many Catholics and Christians today are confused about the true nature of angels and demons. Too often, our understanding of these spiritual beings comes from

Book of Wisdom, Bible, Jonah, Truth, Gospel, Hebrews, homosexuality, word

Scripturism: Is the Bible Enough?

Rory Fox May 7, AD2021 12 Comments

Scripturism is the view that everything a Christian needs to know is in the Bible (i.e., in the Scriptures). More sophisticated versions of Scripturism avoid