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 […]
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Is the Church’s Priority Saving Souls, or Saving the Earth?
Source: Katarina Carranco via pop.org Over geological time, the earth’s climate has varied from tropical (think dinosaurs) to ice age (think woolly mammoths) and back again. We’re currently living in an interglacial period, and if another ice age descends upon us, as it well may, there is nothing we can […]
What’s Our Church’s Growth Strategy?
Source: Bishop Robert Barron via YouTube.com Friends, in many parts of the world the Catholic Church is shrinking. Parishes are closing or merging, pastors are devising strategies of consolidation. But for the Church to flourish, we can’t just manage decline. We need strategies for growth. That’s what Brandon Vogt and […]
Scientism is Unbelieveable
Source: Discovery Science via youtube.com Historian of science Michael Keas critiques the idea of “scientism,” the claim that only science (not religion) is reasonable. He explains how this idea is based on fake stories about Christianity being at war with science in history. According to Keas, scientism also ignores evidence […]
Racism, Human Dignity, and the Catholic Church in America (Part One)
Source: Word on Fire Institute We are made by God and for God. We are all his children, we share equal dignity, and each member of the human family is bound in that dignity. In the first part of “Racism, Human Dignity, and the Catholic Church in America,” Gloria Purvis […]
New survey shows why Catholics leave the Church
Source: The Counsel of Trent via YouTube In this episode Trent examines recent survey data to show the real reasons Catholics are leaving the Faith and five simple things families can do to strengthen their children’s faith. To support this channel: https://www.patreon.com/counseloftrent Show resources: New Stats on Why Young People […]
Revolt Against Reality!
Source: Catholic Truth via YouTube. Revolt Against Reality! (2000 years of Attacks on Jesus and the Catholic Church) with Gary Michuta. Gary Michuta talks about his new book Revolt Against Reality and all the revolts and attacks of evil against Jesus Christ and the Catholic Church and how the Catholic […]
Why Church-State relations in Ireland are unlike anywhere else
Source: James Bradshaw, via mercatornet.comReprinted with permission. Historically, the relationship between Church and State in Ireland was unique. Professor John Henry Whyte’s (1928-1990) Church & State in Modern Ireland, 1923 – 1970 was published in 1971. Whyte described the purpose of the book as being three-fold. He aimed to examine Church-State relations […]
I’m Struggling
Source: Brian Holdsworth via YouTube Support the channel by visiting https://brianholdsworth.ca Music written and generously provided by Paul Jernberg. Find out more about his work as a composer here: https://pauljernberg.com If you’re like me, you may have felt like the whole world, including the Church, has gone insane and you’re […]
Clarifying Fetal Tissue Policy Contradictions
Source: Tadeusz Pacholczyk via thepublicdiscourse.comReprinted with permission. If the president and his administration are to be credibly accused of inconsistency with respect to their stance on using fetal cell lines from abortions, it would not be because the president personally received a dose of Regeneron’s drug, but rather because of […]
The Good the Church Does
Source: Iona Institute via YouTube The Catholic Church receives a lot of criticism (some of it deserved), but it also does a lot of good every minute of every day as this new video from The Iona Institute explains. Please watch and share! Header image: Carlos Daniel via cathopic.com
Overcoming Extremism in the Church
Source: Bishop Barron on YouTube Church: Clerically Speaking Podcast (Part 2) Friends, in this second video clip from the Clerically Speaking Podcast with Fr. Harrison Ayre and Fr. Anthony Sciarappa, our discussion centers on the theology of the Church, or ecclesiology. I express my concerns regarding the abuse scandal, the […]