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  • The Distinctly Catholic Doctrine

    There is one doctrine in particular that you need to get right: the papacy. If Catholics are right about the papacy, everyone should be Catholic. If Catholics are wrong about the papacy, nobody should be Catholics.

  • The Cross and the Mass

    Excerpts from Fr. Barbour’s homily for Corpus Christi Sunday about the Eucharist being the most perfect symbol that contains the things it symbolizes.

  • The San Damiano Cross

    Saint Francis answered the Lord’s call by rebuilding the old structure of the San Damiano Church but then later realized that Jesus was asking him to help rebuild the actual Church which is made up God’s people.

  • Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ

    Jesus tells them that when they eat his flesh and drink his blood, they will remain forever connected to him. These are difficult words, but they are important because they seek to show us our intimate connection with Jesus.

  • Why Remain Catholic?

    Even as leaders in the Church fail morally, the Catholic Church remains the mystical body of Christ, the Bride of Christ, and she’s worth fighting for.

  • The Problem of Personhood

    Modern accounts of personhood fail because they do not explain deep-seated moral intuitions almost everyone has about the way the world works: All human beings, including infants and young children, have the same basic rights and dignity.

  • Highlighting Black and African Catholic Saints

    Information about Saints Anthony the Great, Augustine, Charles Lwanga, Martin de Porres, Monica, Perpetua, and Felicity.

  • How the Problem of Evil Points to God’s Existence

    The question, then, is not how evil and suffering is compatible with an all-good, all-powerful God (it obviously is) but why God allows it.

  • Trinity Sunday

    Today is the first Sunday after Pentecost, instituted to honor the Most Holy Trinity. In the early Church no special day was assigned for the Holy Trinity.