Catholic teaching on a range of topics.
Friends, over 83 percent of Americans still believe in miracles, but what, specifically, are miracles? What are the grounds for believing in them, especially for non-eye witnesses? In the Catholic context, who has the authority to deem an event miraculous? Should Catholics incorporate devotions to Church-approved supernatural events like apparitions […]
Dr. Mary Healy, professor of Scripture at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit, editor of the Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture, and consultor to the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, addresses concerns and questions about the gift of tongues in the life of the Catholic […]
Source: Bishop Robert Barron via YouTube.com. Friends, we come to the great Feast of Corpus Christi—the Body and Blood of Christ. This year, as the Church in the US is going through a lengthy Eucharistic Revival, it’s good for us once again to turn to this greatest of sacraments. What […]
Premiered on 11 May 2024 Bishop Barron’s Sunday SermonsFriends, today we come to the wonderful Feast of the Ascension of the Lord. Like the disciples in our first reading, we often want to ask the Lord, “When is all of this going to come to fruition? What’s it all about? […]
Source: Fr. Mark Goring, CC via YouTube.com Fr. Mark Goring on human sexuality and the scriptural view of marriage. Header image: Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash
“All the aspirations which the prayer of other religions expresses are fulfilled in the reality of Christianity beyond all measure.” This ecclesial document was written in 1989 by the then-Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal Ratzinger, who would later become Pope Benedict XVI. Ratzinger was […]
Source: Catholic Culture Audiobooks via YouTube The Angelic Doctor’s very own sermon on how to detect false prophets. Beware! LINKS Article on Aquinas’ preaching style: “What Lessons Do Thomas Aquinas’ Sermons Hold For Modern Preachers?” https://www.hprweb.com/2017/06/what-l… Translation courtesy of Catholic University of America Press: https://www.hfsbooks.com/books/the-ac… SUBSCRIBE to Catholic Culture Audiobooks […]
Source: Bishop Robert Barron via YouTube. Friends, we continue our celebration of the Easter season on this Second Sunday of Easter, Divine Mercy Sunday. Mercy, St. Thomas Aquinas says, is compassion in regard to someone else’s suffering; thus, God’s mercy is his compassion reaching out to us precisely in our […]
Source: Bishop Robert Barron via Youtube. Friends, on this Fifth Sunday of Lent, we hear one of the most pivotal passages in the Old Testament: Jeremiah 31:31. Jeremiah knew the long Israelite history of covenant and blood sacrifice, but he prophesies, “The days are coming, says the LORD, when I […]
Source: The Jewish Catholic via YouTube. The Most Holy Eucharist was one of the triggering factors that lead me into Catholicism. Here is why! @PintsWithAquinas video about the Eucharist: • What Early Christians Believed About … Follow me on Instagram: @Thejewishcatholic Header image: The Jewish Catholic via YouTube Is Jesus really present in the Eucharist? How? […]
Source: Scripture & Tradition via YouTube. DEEPLY DISTURBED: Indefensible errors in the ‘Divine Will’ writings. The texts condemn themselves. God allows errors to circulate because there are great benefits to be drawn from defeating these. We learn the true sources of pure Catholic doctrine, we hear what the greatest voices […]
Source: Bishop Robert Barron via YouTube. Friends, the Gospel on this Fourth Sunday of Lent includes one of the most famous verses in the Bible: “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have […]