Source: Ascension Presents on YouTube Bobby hates natural family planning because it requires self-mastery and dying to self. While it sounds great in the idealistic sense, living it out is a whole different story. Being married doesn’t mean you’re entitled to sex with your spouse. If sex is the beautiful, […]
Teaching
Catholic teaching on a range of topics.
Catholic Teaching on IVF and Contraception Explained
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 […]
What Constitutes a Practicing Catholic?
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 […]
Do All Good People go to Heaven?
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. […]
7 Things Catholics Need To Know About IVF
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 […]
Warning young people about Hell
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.
Hell Is for Real
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 […]
7 Reasons Why Christians Are Pro-Life
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 […]
Church Fathers 101 (Part 1 of 3)
Source: Bishop Robert Barron on YouTube Who were the Church Fathers, and why do they still matter today? Bishop Barron introduces these spiritual masters and shares their key contributions. In the first episode of our three-part series, he also discusses the three main Apostolic Fathers: – Clement (35 – 99) […]
Church Fathers 101 (Part 2 of 3)
Source: Bishop Robert Barron on YouTube In this second part of our series on the Church Fathers, Bishop Barron takes a look at some important Church Fathers from the pre-Nicene and Nicene periods, including Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Origen, Athanasius, and Gregory of Nyssa. A listener asks how we can understand […]
Church Fathers 101 (Part 3 of 3)
Source: Bishop Robert Barron on YouTube In this third and final part of our series on the Church Fathers, Bishop Barron examines four influential Fathers from the post-Nicene period: John Chrysostom, Jerome, Augustine, and Gregory the Great. A listener asks whether to pray for people who are sick or simply […]
Fr. Mike Schmitz on Same-Sex Attraction
Source: FOCUS Catholic on YouTube For many people, the stance of the Catholic Church on same-sex attraction is perceived as intolerant, narrow and even hateful. But is this true? What does the Church offer men and women for whom this is a daily reality? Header image: FOCUS Catholic on YouTube