Catholic Stand – Page 260 – Living the Truth the Church Teaches

Aslan is a Lion

Ken Kniepmann November 13, AD2016 8 Comments

“Aslan is a lion- the Lion, the great Lion.” “Ooh” said Susan. “I’d thought he was a man. Is he-quite safe? I shall feel rather

Does God Answer Prayer?

Bart Schuchts November 12, AD2016 2 Comments

This very question tends to make us uncomfortable: “Well, of course, God answers Prayer! How dare you even ask such a thing?” Yet, as we

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God’s Secret Plan

David Torkington November 11, AD2016 4 Comments

I remember going to watch the musical Godspell over forty years ago. I think I was the only person present who did not like it.

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The Cultural Emasculinization I Saw Hiking

Fr. Matthew Schneider, LC November 11, AD2016 19 Comments

I was visiting my family a while back. One day, my sister and I went out to the mountains for a hike up Johnston Canyon

Nuns of the Battlefield

Donald R. McClarey November 10, AD2016 1 Comment

Visitors to Washington DC might be surprised at first to encounter a monument, across from Saint Mathew’s Cathedral, to nuns and sisters entitled Nuns of the

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Amoris Laetitia, Mercy Robots & Sinning In Heaven

Guy McClung November 10, AD2016 1 Comment

Many scholars and theologians think that, at best, certain statements in the papal Exhortation Amoris Laetitia are ambiguous, with some possible interpretations being heresy. For

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Society is People

H. L. Duncan November 9, AD2016 3 Comments

Especially during these past few intense months of our presidential election, we in America have been shown how much society has turned substantially away from

Reflections On The Election: A Lament of a Colorado Catholic

Guest Contributor November 8, AD2016 12 Comments

Regrettably, I left Sunday Mass yesterday disheartened. And angry. I told my wife: “If this is what the Catholic Church has come to, then I’m

Faith, Doubt, and Analysis Paralysis in The Exorcist

Patrick Malone November 8, AD2016 1 Comment

Most stories about exorcism following in the wake of William Peter Blatty’s novel The Exorcist (and its film adaptation) tend to portray the Catholic Church as some

Hacking and the Law, Ethics, Vigilante Justice, and Catholicism

Steffani Jacobs November 7, AD2016 No Comments

When you stop and think about it, the World Wide Web today is kind of similar to the old Wild West. There are good

Critique of a Bayesian Case Study of Herod’s Death by an Angel

Bob Drury November 6, AD2016 4 Comments

Raphael Lataster is a teaching fellow in the studies of religion at the University of Sydney. Lataster and Trent Horn, a Catholic apologist, debated one

Trump Embodies the American Spirit

Julie Machado November 6, AD2016 3 Comments

Like most people, I avoid talking about politics. Living in Europe, and during this presidential election, that means especially American politics. I think Trump, everything

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Trump “Deplorables” Living in Bizarreland

Guest Contributor November 5, AD2016 3 Comments

Candidate Obama in the 2008 presidential campaign promised “change,” over and over: he was “a leader who can deliver change.” And he has indeed delivered

Poverty Versus Simply Being Poor

Dan Byron November 5, AD2016 2 Comments

Poverty Versus Simply Being Poor For nearly a score of years, my wife and I lived in Central Texas. Much of that time, we worked with

Divorce For Kids: Infectious Disease Or Single Blow

David Roney November 4, AD2016 35 Comments

Travelling to my second school drop-off the other day, I was listening to the Patrick Madrid Show and he was discussing the Fatima apparitions,

McVatican Detractors Are Missing the Point

Gene M. Van Son November 4, AD2016 2 Comments

Apparently, the Vatican’s Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See (APSA) thinks business is business. I sure hope that’s not the case. A plan