The Truth of the Gospel Message – Explained In Simple Terms from a Catholic Perspective
Prudence, Justice, Temperance and Fortitude are the four Cardinal Virtues.
Catholic liturgy is filled with history and tradition, Scripture and proper worship.
What was noticed? What did the teacher teach, without saying a word?
Continue reading “Silently Teaching the Truth of Catholicism”
Continue reading “The Immaculate Conception of Mary – What Difference Does It Make Anyway?”
I just finished leading an 8 week Adult Faith Formation class called ‘The Mystery of God’ by Bishop Robert Barron and Word on Fire ministries. I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to explore some tough questions about God such as His nature and providence, the problem of evil in our world, and the mystery of the Holy Trinity (to name a few). 
Since class time is very limited, I always encourage the participants to email me with any troubling questions they may have. I recently received a question about Hell that had such an interesting slant that I felt compelled to share the question, and my response, in an SCT blog post.
Continue reading “Are there people in Hell, now? The Big Dogs speak and a little puppy whimpers.”
Continue reading “Making Babies and Salvation – There Really is a Connection”
There’s an old story about how best to cook a frog. The parable points out that if you throw a frog into a pot of boiling water, the frog will instantly react and jump out of the pot, thus saving his life. If, on the other hand, you place the frog into a pot of warmish water, the frog is happy enough and stays put. The parable continues that if you then start to slowly raise the temperature of the water, even to boiling, the frog will not notice and eventually will meet his demise.
So goes the story of a frog, so goes the story of our souls…
Continue reading “The Noise of the World is Boiling our Souls”
In this post I’ll explore what is meant by a Dogma, a Doctrine and a Discipline. I’ll describe in concept where they come from and how they are form our faith. Finally to get specific, I’ll present a list of the 258 Dogmas of the Catholic Church (that I could find) that all the faithful must believe.
Continue reading “What Catholics Must Believe – Dogma, Doctrine or Discipline?”
How would you explain Catholic Christianity to an outsider? Could you even begin to concisely describe your faith? After a bit of struggling, here is what I think it means, and what it takes, to be Catholic.
To Be Catholic Means:
A good friend of mine recently loaned me a movie entitled “For Greater Glory” 
which is a chronicle of the Cristeros War (1926-1929); the grass roots response of Mexican Catholics against the oppressive atheistic Mexican government.
Normally, this might be just another shoot-em-up action movie but given the current pressures against the Catholic Church, religious freedom in the United States and the persecution of Christians in the world, this movie represents so much more.