Faith
The challenge of Catholic evangelization
“Hey, would you like to go to church with me?”
What a nice, friendly way to be hospitable and evangelize your faith.
Protestants are much better at this than Catholics. Here’s the rub for Catholics: once they get their non-Catholic friends to Mass, they can’t let them go up for Communion. You have to be Catholic.
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By Tom Quiner Art is one of the best ways to evangelize our Christian faith. I have written a musical, The Wedding at Cana, that evangelizes the awe and beauty of the 2nd chapter of the Gospel of John using a dinner theater format. Would you check it out at my Kickstarter page? If the…
Read MoreI am praying for our president
I’m not feeling very Christian toward my president.
Here’s why: Muslims are raping, mutilating, and crucifying Christians in the Middle East. And yet the president consistently and relentlessly, downplays the irrefutable connection Islam has with relentless mass murder around the world.
Read MoreChrist Our Life
I spent the weekend Facebooking and tweeting from the Christ Our Life Conference in Des Moines, Iowa.
What a weekend. I listened to top Catholic speakers peel back the depth and beauty of Catholic faith.
Here is a quick distillation of key ideas presented by these speakers:
Read MoreThe dysfunctional family that is the Catholic Church
The Catholic Church is a big, messy family.
I’m blogging live at the Christ Our Life Catholic Conference at Wells Fargo Arena. The arena is packed with the Catholic faithful from around the Midwest. I’m guessing there are about 7500 Catholics in attendance…
Read MoreThe case against human abortion
The “fake church” supported by the State
“What was once a request to live and let live has now become a demand for approval. The ‘ruling class,’ those who shape public opinion in politics, in education, in communications, in entertainment, is using the civil law to impose its own form of morality on everyone.”
Read MoreCardinal Dolan should step down as Grand Marshall of the St. Patty’s Parade
Many Catholics were surprised when Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York decided to remain as the parade’s Grand Marshall saying, “Neither my predecessors as Archbishop of New York nor I have ever de-termined who would or would not march in this parade . but have always appreciated the cooperation of parade organizers in keeping the parade close to its Catholic heritage.”
Read MoreWill homosexual activists ruin the St. Patrick Day’s parade?
“Never in the history of New York’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade have homosexuals been barred from marching, anymore than pro-life Catholics have, but in both cases they were not permitted to have their own unit.”
Read MoreTime to get serious about the culture war
“But now we are being asked to raise toasts and to enjoy a night of frivolity with those who think it is acceptable to abort children by the millions each year, with those who think anal sex is to be celebrated as an expression of love and that LGBTQIA… (I=intersexual, A= Asexual) is actually a form of sanity to which we should tip our hat, and with those who stand four-square against us over religious liberty.”
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