Over several posts, I have responded to various Protestant objections to praying to saints. “How can a mere man respond to multiple prayers at the same time?” "Prayer to saints is necromancy!" Or, perhaps the most famous, “If Jesus Christ is revealed in I Tim. 2:5 to be the...
The good thief, as he is commonly called, is an unnamed character mentioned in the Gospel of Luke who was crucified alongside Jesus and asked Jesus to remember him in his kingdom. He is traditionally referred to as St. Dismas.
Though he has never been formally canonized by the Church, he is believed to be a saint by virtue of Christ’s words, “Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise.” His feast day is March 25.
When we cross-reference the account of the...
If you’ve been watching the news or browsing Facebook it’s been nearly impossible to escape the debate over same-sex marriage.
I actually addressed this issue a while back in a blog post that presented a secular case for defining marriage as the life-long, sexually exclusive relationship of one man and one woman. This was my argument:
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My colleague Matt Fradd recently showed me the results of a new study that reveals something very interesting about atheists. The study took place in Finland and will be published in the International Journal for the Psychology of Religion under the title “Atheists Become Emotionally Aroused When Daring God to Do Terrible Things.”
Researchers connected both religious...
I firmly believe that, sooner or later, each and every convert to the Catholic faith—whether that person chose to become Catholic as an adult or was brought into the faith as a baby by his parents—is going to have to face the scandal that the Church is not what he believed it to be when he signed up. The test will be whether he will persevere because he knows it to be the Church Christ founded, or whether he will fall away because he...
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