This article first appeared at: fireupministries.comLife throws us many curveballs, perhaps none as difficult as reconciling the existence of an all-good God with the reality of suffering and evil in the world.I remember reading a news article about a terrorist group...
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Hospitals without Hospitality?: the State of Medicine in a Post-Christian World
This article first appeared at: stpaulcenter.comWe live in a strange world today. Some people are beginning to call it a post-Christian world, in spite of the fact that Catholics are more numerous than any other single group on earth. But really it’s the intellectual...
Are You the Older Brother?
This article first appeared at: fireupministries.com Famously known as the Parable of the Prodigal Son, Luke 15 tells the story of a repentant son to his merciful father. We can all see ourselves in the sinful yet contrite son and God the Father in the forgiving...
Upholding Church Tradition
This article first appeared at: stpaulcenter.comThe Lord entrusted to his Church the Deposit of Faith, which is the body of his teachings to be handed down to each generation in all its purity, uncorrupted by any modifications or omissions. The determination of what...
Two Modern Traps to Protect Your Kids From
This article first appeared at: catholic.com Parents, no one cares about your children as much as you do. That means the care of your children belongs to you. There is an important principle that parents have to put in place when determining how to protect their...
Transgenderism: Answering Common Objections to Church Teaching
This article first appeared at: stpaulcenter.com Why is transgenderism incompatible with Catholic teaching? It is my hope that this short dialogue will not be perceived as a pat answer intended to close conversations but rather as an opportunity to spark a deeper and...
The Bible in the Liturgy and the Liturgy in the Bible
This article first appeared at: stpaulcenter.comYou’re in church, and you’ve just heard a reading from the Old Testament and a reading from one of the letters in the New Testament. They must be very important, because there’s a special place for reading them at the...
What Is Beauty?
This article first appeared at: stpaulcenter.comPaul Claudel was eighteen years old and walking the streets of Paris on a cold and rainy afternoon. It was Christmas Day, 1886. Claudel was, like many in France at the time, a skeptic and an atheist. The young man...