The Narrow Gate Blog
Reflections about faith, life, struggles, and our hope for our ultimate home, Heaven. But the only way through, is via The Narrow Gate.
EWTN: Program Highlights – October 2023
EWTN Program Highlights – October 2021
Confusion in the Church
This article first appeared at: stpaulcenter.com It’s clear that we are living in a time of confusion and division, both in the Church and in the world. I am not qualified to evaluate whether this is the worst confusion the Church has seen or not—we have been through...
The Glory of God is Man Fully Alive
This article first appeared at: fireupministries.comIn my teen years, I believed that I could never be fully alive and happy if I lived according to the Church’s teachings on human sexuality. When I was about seventeen years old, I remember being at the gym, watching...
Parousia News – August/September 2023
Ignite Bible Study TourAbove: Deacon Harold and Charbel are welcomed at the airport during a ceremony in Papua New GuineaAs we were putting together our previous newsletter, the ‘Ignite Bible Study Tour’, featuring Deacon Harold Burke-Sivers and Sonja Corbitt was in...
Called to Holiness
This article first appeared at: stpaulcenter.comJesus summed up his teaching in a startling and unambiguous call to His followers: “You, therefore, must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect” (Matt 5:48). Perfect in purity of heart, perfect in compassion and...
Who is to Blame for Suffering?
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...
EWTN: Program Highlights – September 2023
EWTN Program Highlights – October 2021
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...
