Want to be the Change in Someone’s Life?

“Follow a man as he affects multiple peoples’ lives with just one dollar, proving that it doesn’t take much to be the change in someone’s life.” Watch this provocative video: It’s easy to be tricked into thinking that whatever little ability or power we may personally have could ever make a big difference to anyone [...]

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The Best Christmas Gift

Short on money this year for all those Christmas presents you need to buy? Good news: You don’t need it and you can still give the best Christmas gift ever. We spend over $450 Billion on Christmas gifts each year. Buying people gifts has become a matter of formality with less and less meaning. This [...]

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Dear President Obama…

Here’s a great new video ad by CatholicVote (embedded below) highlighting one of the most important (but not talked about much by the media) issues for this current election cycle. The Obama administration has relentlessly and quietly continued to undermine religious liberty in our country in every way that it serves their agenda – often [...]

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You’ll Lose Your Looks

“You’ll lose your looks having kids. But you’ll lose your looks anyway. So you may as well do it having children and then they can remind you of how good looking you once were.” – Janet Smith Life is way too short to spend it worrying about your looks so much anyway. Gee whiz. And [...]

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Why is there a new translation of the Mass? (+ resources)

There have been some changes to the Mass. Here’s why…(with a lot of great resources below). First, the essence of the Mass is not changing, there have just been some improvements to how we celebrate the Mass in English. The text of the Mass is contained in what’s called the “Roman Missal,” and this latest [...]

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Does it matter what you believe?

Does it matter what you believe? Or do you just have to be a “good” person? Can you still call yourself a Catholic or a Christian if you don’t actually believe the doctrine that defines what those mean? Fr. Barron opines and discusses what it means to be a “good” or “loving” person (video below). [...]

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How is Prayer Answered?

So often we feel like our prayers go unanswered. Like God must be ignoring them. But maybe we’re the ones doing the ignoring? Unfortunately, we are too often close-minded about what an answered prayer should look like that we end up missing the answer all together. God is everywhere, yet somehow we miss Him. The [...]

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On to Something Big

Have you ever gotten an answer to a question that just led to more questions? And then you got answers to those questions only to have yet more questions? That can be terribly frustrating. And it can end up causing you to feel like maybe it’s impossible to know much of anything for sure. Or [...]

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The Question Confronting the Church Today

“The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.” – Pope John Paul II And the place we need to start is with [...]

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Young-Earth Creationists’ Explanation of Dinosaur Extinction

Seriously though… All fun aside – realizing that some world views out there, I think, too quickly deny reason because of their faith – please don’t forget that faith and reason work together. :-) And that true faith, rather than contradicting reason, actually strengthens reason. When we forget that, we end up at two extremes, either [...]

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What the Church means by Purgatory

Catholics get a bad rap for thinking we somehow “merit” or “earn” our own sanctification (and salvation) through “works” that we do. But that’s a misunderstanding of what the Catholic Church actually teaches. Our sanctification (our being made holy) happens only by the Grace of God. But it does require a response on our part. [...]

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