Author: Catholic.com
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Catholic Tradition, Islam, and God
Do Catholics and Muslims worship the same God?
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Lent and Easter by the Numbers
We spend forty days preparing to mark the three days of Christ’s passion, death, and resurrection (and his three days in the tomb) followed by fifty days of Paschal celebration.
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Eating Meat This Friday Will Make You Holier
The Easter octave is such an important celebration that the Church directs us not to fast…not even on Friday
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Why Jesus Died for Our Sins Instead of Just Saying, “You’re Forgiven”
God didn’t HAVE to die for us, so why did He choose to do that?
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How God Can Wrestle Without a Body
In the book of Genesis 32, Jacob’s name changed to Israel after wrestling with God.
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Slavery and the New Testament
Critics are mistaken when they say the New Testament ignores or even approves of slavery. The Bible promotes an ethic of equality and mercy to the downtrodden, including those who were enslaved in the ancient world.
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Are We Saved by Works?
We don’t do good works to get into a state of justification; good works flow from the state of justification, and ultimately God rewards us for having done those in the next life.
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What the Early Church Believed: Mary is the Mother of God
Mary is the Mother of God in the sense that she carried in her womb a divine person—Jesus Christ, God “in the flesh”.
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The Immaculate Conception
Mary was preserved from original sin by God’s grace; from the first instant of her existence she was in the state of sanctifying grace and was free from the corrupt nature original sin brings.
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St. Alphonsus Rodriguez and the Attraction of Holiness
Alphonsus was known for his prayerfulness and continual consciousness of God’s presence, but his deeply human struggles with scrupulosity and agitations of mind were present in his life.