Posts Tagged ‘Catholic’
Holy Saturday
“Atheism is the opiate of the masses”
Fr. Robert Barron discusses the intellectual vacuity of the modern atheist movement in the video commentary above. Karl Marx famously said that religion is the “opiate of the masses.” Fr. Barron says he got it backwards, that atheism is the opiate of the masses, that it attempts, much like a drug, to mask our deepest longing. And what is that longing?
It is our longing for God, our desire for something beyond the abilities of this world to satisfy…
Read More“A caress of Jesus”
Today is Holy Thursday.
The profound richness of the Last Supper comes alive in this, the beginning of the Easter Triduum.
Tonight at Mass, we will wash each other’s feet as a prelude to the Eucharistic sacrifice…
Read MoreThe Indiana Catholic Bishops respond
“We believe that it is crucial that religious freedom be protected. As Pope Francis wrote in his apostolic exhortation, The Joy of the Gospel: “No one can demand that religion should be relegated to the inner sanctum of personal life, without influence on societal and national life, without concern for the soundness of civil institutions” (n. 183).”
Read MoreThe case for Purgatory
“God is like a refiner’s fire, (Malachi 3:2) burning up all the impurities and leaving the pure gold behind. When gold (or pretty much any other metal) comes out of the ground, it comes as ore, fused with other minerals. In other words, it’s all mixed up with useless junk. It’s imprisoned in worthlessness.
What the refiner has to do is set the gold free. And fire is what does it. It takes away the things that keep gold from being golden. It sets the gold free to sparkle and shine.”
Read More“Their God is my God.”
The man from Chad kneeled upon the beach from Hell.
He gazed to his left, and then his right. He saw 20 men, all Coptic Christians, prepared to answer a question that would determine whether they live or die:
Read MoreWhy I’m Catholic
But if there is no arbiter of Truth, there is no truth. Protestantism was built on protest. There is no central authority. As a result, there are 40,000 flavors of Protestantism, with wide-ranging dissent on wide-ranging theological questions.
Read MoreChristian fundamentalists vs. Catholics
As a Catholic convert who has great respect for my Protestant brothers and sisters, I am deeply saddened by those who view Catholics as “unsaved.”
Read MoreWill you go to hell if you kill yourself?
“We should not despair of the eternal salvation of persons who have taken their own lives. By ways known to him alone, God can provide the opportunity for salutary repentance.”
Read MoreMaking love the Catholic way
“Marriage is the institution God has given us so that we can have the freedom to love (and make love) without fear.”
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