Source: Ascension Presents on YouTube For many people, the Catholic Church’s teaching on in vitro fertilization and contraception is a hard one, but it is in concordance with the nature of things. The nature of a thing, as Fr. MIke puts it, is its “what-it’s-for-ness”. Sex is for procreation and […]
Source: Ascension Presents on YouTube It may be difficult to tell a non-practicing Catholic that he or she can’t receive Communion, but—as Fr. Mike Schmitz proves in this video—in the big picture, you would actually be helping the person. While telling an awe-inspiring story about a seminarian, Fr. Mike lays […]
Source: Ascension Presents on YouTube Good people go to heaven when they die, right? Well, according to the Gospels, not exactly. Fr. Mike Schmitz points to at least four things Christ says we need for salvation: 1. Baptism (John 3) 2. The Eucharist (John 6) 3. Faith (Romans 10:9) 4. […]
Source: True Light Catholic Media on YouTube The Catholic Church understands that married couples struggling to conceive a child may suffer greatly. She therefore encourages research and medical techniques aimed at reducing human sterility. However, In Vitro Fertilization, aka IVF, is one of the methods which the Catholic Church considers […]
Source: Fr. Mark Goring, CC on YouTube SUBSCRIBE – click link below to receive Fr. Mark’s daily videos by email https://visitor.r20.constantcontact.co… Blessed Jacinta Marto, youngest visionary of the appearance of Our Lady at Fatima in 1917. Header image: via (multi-search, indeterminable) naorcc.orgN.B. facebook page not available at time of publishing.
Source: Ascension Presents on YouTube It’s a question that arises whenever someone challenges the beliefs of Christianity: If God is all-loving, why does he send people to hell? Some Christians choose to believe that hell doesn’t exist, or if it does, then only those guilty of the most heinous sins […]
Source: Ascension Presents on YouTube Sister Maris Stella tells the story of how she found her vocation with the Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia in Nashville. Beforehand she had a comfortable life with many friends, was in college and had a boyfriend. But when she chose the religious life, she […]
Source: Ascension Presents on YouTube Are you aching to find a spouse who understands you and your Catholic faith? Being called to the married life when you don’t have a spouse makes you feel like you’re putting your life on hold, waiting for someone to come along so you can […]
Source: Matt Fradd on YouTube In the most recent episode of the Matt Fradd Show, we spent some time going over the best arguments given in support of the Pro-Choice position. “The Violinist Scenario” is once such argument: Say you wake up in a strange hospital, attached to a stranger. […]
Source: Ascension Presents on YouTube Jackie and Bobby give seven reasons why Christians are pro-life, and they are all rooted in scripture. 1. Genesis 1:27 – “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.” 2. Exodus […]
Source: Brian Holdsworh on YouTube Well, a new Pew Research Center Survey was published this week that says that only 1 third of Catholics believe the Church’s teaching about the real presence of Jesus in Holy Communion. Just for some context, the Church teaches, and has always taught, that when […]
Source: Brian Holdsworth on YouTube Sponsor: Franciscan University of Steubenville graduate theology programs: https://franciscan.university/bh/ Music written and generously provided by Paul Jernberg. Find out more about his work as a composer here: https://pauljernberg.com Pope Benedict, when he was still Cardinal Ratzinger, coined a phrase that I’ve returned to often in […]