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CCF_Carol writes:Perfect! I think ultimately that mystery is what the whole conversation on the "problem of evil" is always missing. We are examining something transcendent and Divine from a...

Not sure where to join the discussion here, and I have obviously have not read through all 150 posts. However, statements such as: Damage done to Christianity by Christians is profound. They have...

More recently, the Second Vatican Council's Declaration on Religious Freedom: Dignitatis Humanae has a lot about human liberty which is rooted deep in the God-given dignity of the human person....

Hi Connie1:

I think the prayer we pray together after the rosary before morning Mass in our parish is a good way to understand what the rosary is:

O God, Whose only Begottn Son by His Life,...

Hi Anglian:

This is the first I have ever heard of an "extraordinary Magisterium" in that context. Are you meaning that excubitor is making a statement as though he had the infallibility of the...

According to the Catholic Study Bible the whole of Chapter 11 is referring to the special Providence of God for the Israelites during the Exodus. The first reference is to the transcendent power of...

The Little Brothers of Jesus founded by Rene Voillaume in imitation of the life of Charles de Foucauld are all over the world and in South America as well. there is lots of information on this...

Hi bobs:

That is a really neat link. Youtube publications make for a really fantastic apostolate. No telling who the St. Louis Jesuits might reach that way.

CCF_Micaela

I agree absolutely listen to Him. But be sure that I am doing what He tells me and not what someone else wants me to believe that He is telling me. St. Peter nearly made that mistake with St. John. ...

In my Journey of faith through Advent, every day, as I was praying the prayer of St. Andrew, I began to realize that, through His Divine Person, all of Jesus' life is eternally present in time and...

One favorite is Jesus' assurance at the last Supper : "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life, no one comes to the Father except through Me." John 14:6. Also His other assurances in the context of the...

According to the teaching of the Church, faith is a free gift of God. The "choice" is how we respond to His Gift. Sometimes in a conversion there is a very strong impelling grace, but we are always...

I, too, appreciate a good homily, but it is always good to remember that the Holy Spirit can speak through his ministers in His Wisdom in any way if we listen carefully.

As St Teresa of Avila...

Hi Carol:


I do not see where there is a link to Amazon to be able to bookmark it. I do not want any of the things listed in the Carousel, but I use Amazon all the time. If click on one of the...

The Church over centuries of study of Revelation has come to define faith as the theological virtue which is the gift of God that gives us the supernatural ability to open our minds and hearts to...

I pray the rosary daily, but every day of every month. Dom Columba Marmion in Christ in His Mysteries says that the Jesus' whole life was meant not only for us to imitate, but that His Divine Person...

Is there something wrong with my browser, or did we lose the option for choosing color schemes? Everything is blue instead of the wine color it used to be.

With all the unrest in the Arab world, I think it might be good to remember the first Encyclical "Redemptor Hominis" of Pope John Paul II on Jesus as the Redeemer of all mankind. Every person of good...

My experience has been that the most ardent convinced atheists are those who actually "know" a lot about it, and were never really strangers to the truths of the faith. Those who have never had much...

I agree wholeheartedly because the Church assures us that the work is Divinely inspired or authored. Biblical scholarship is only authentic when it is mindful of the "mystery" of Divine Revelation....

One of the big considerations in really effective advertising is to reach the "target" audience. It could be argued that ubiquitous "sex in advertising" may actually often be missing the mark on who...

If anyone is looking for a really good charity under Catholic auspices for Kids on the street, here is a link to Covenant House which has shelters in many large cities for the thousands of very...

John 8,31-32 says that "Jesus then said to those Jews who believed in him, 'If you remain in my word, you will truly be my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.'...

Hi Jacafamala:

I have to agree with you. There are some 72 posts on the original speculation and this is not really a valid discussion about anything any of us should be debating with regard to...

Anglian writes:
Situation ethics and Relativism have been prevalent for years before they were ever connected with and blamed on Modernism. It is always tempting to persuade conscience that the...