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Teaching, Videos

What the Early Church Believed About the Sacraments

If we jumped into a time machine, traveled back to the first centuries of the Church, and asked Christians what they believed about the seven sacraments, would we feel we were among Catholic brethren? Karlo says yes, and he shows, using the writings of the early Fathers, that their belief regarding the sacraments is the same belief the Catholic Church professes today.

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Presentations, Videos

Life of Fr. Michael Mcgivney

Vaticano explores the life and work of Fr. Michael Mc Givney, whose extraordinary life of service to the local people, immigrants, widows and orphans, and along with a confirmed miracle cure of a unborn child has led to his cause being promulgated by the Knights of Columbus for his beatification.

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Presentations, Videos

How to Deal with Ruined Plans

Father Mark-Mary and Father Malachy, like most of us in these times, have experienced broken plans first hand recently. Father Malachy wasn’t sure when his ordination would happen, and if it did how many people would be allowed to come. After waiting twelve years, his dreams about his ordination were shattered. He tried to re-plan things. Plan A, Plan B, Plan C …

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Presentations, Videos

The Validity of Vatican II

The second Vatican council was an ecumenical council of the Catholic Church hosted over several years and presided over by 2 popes (John XIII & Paul VI).

Up until this point in the Church’s history, councils were called in order to resolve some controversy as in someone’s been teaching something that is creating confusion and debate and so the Church needs to gather to prayerfully consider it and offer a clarification.

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Presentations, Videos

Are Soulmates a Thing?

Many of us have heard, or have been part of, beautiful love stories that make us believe in the existence of “the one”. We say, the way everything lines up to bring these two together, and/or the things they have in common make it obvious: they must be soul mates.

Presentations, Videos

When People Annoy You

We all have pet peeves. We all get annoyed by things that really don’t matter much, whether it’s someone chewing with their mouth open, or someone whispering the Rosary in an Adoration chapel—which are two things that used to be pet peeves for Fr. Mike. But he learned a better way to deal with annoyances.