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Over the past couple of weeks, I have been thinking a lot about the statistic that only about 1/3 of Catholics believe in the Real Presence in the Eucharist. Putting aside that, clearly, some Catholics have fallen victim to the current Western culture of ever malleable, subjective truth, I am also thinking about a point…
Anyone who is nominally familiar with the Christian faith has most likely heard Christ referred to as a shepherd tending to His flock. For example, funeral services – even ones that may be more secular in nature – often incorporate Psalm 23: “The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want…” As a sort of…
In John 20:19-31, the Gospel reading for Sunday, April 11, we explored the risen Christ appearing to His then frightened disciples, helping put their troubles at ease, and proving that He fulfilled all of God’s Covenants by dying and then rising for humanity’s sins. This reading also reveals the famous story of “doubting Thomas”, and…
As I was first reading “Hard Sayings” by Trent Horn, I couldn’t help thinking – over and over again – where was this book during both my Protestant and atheist years, when I struggled — over and over again – with the numerous, cringeworthy accounts of blood, death, destruction, and blatant immorality featured throughout the…
As I was preparing to write out the Gospel reflection for this week, I happened to catch a homily that Bishop Robert Barron released this weekend on YouTube. Like many other Catholics out there, I absolutely love Bishop Barron’s insights into Catholic Christian life, the world around us, and growing a deeply meaningful relationship with…
A few years ago, I watched a documentary about modern bodybuilding and how the sport has become increasingly demanding over the past few decades: Aspiring bodybuilders must train more vigorously, more ferociously than ever before, as the judging standards for muscularity keep setting the bar higher and higher. And hence why anabolic steroid use is…
Question: What do the anagogical sense and a committed relationship / marriage have in common? Let’s explore the answer… In our modern way world, we have almost universal literacy; the lowest poverty rate in history; immediate access to a colossally powerful, ever expanding network of information (A.K.A. the Internet); sweeping technological advances in just about…
When thinking about the four senses of interpreting Scripture, If the term “moral sense” immediately conjures up thoughts of being puritanically righteous; or if it makes you think, “Uh oh, I better be good!”, or “This is the part where I’ll probably get my hand slapped!” – then welcome to the world of being…human! After…
If you have ever had a conversation with your friends, family, or colleagues about reading the Bible, you may have heard at least one person in your life say, “The Bible isn’t meant to be taken literally”, or “The Bible is just a lot of allegory and parables.” Or some of your more scholarly acquaintances…
From the Catechism (109) of the Catholic Church: “In Sacred Scripture, God speaks to man in a human way. To interpret Scripture correctly, the reader must be attentive to what the human authors truly wanted to affirm and to what God wanted to reveal to us by their word.” Keep the above quote in mind…
