on May 25 / by Chris Cammarata
Divorce is definitely a tricky issue to discuss in this day and age, where in some places nearly half of all marriages end in divorce. We live in a society with a deeply impoverished sense of marriage and family. At the same time, there is definitely an increased awareness in the Church today that divorce […]
on May 21 / by Edin Michael
The first step towards knowing what a Christian needs to believe would be to gain the understanding of what Jesus and his apostles along with the various New Testament (NT) writers put forth as the rule of faith. Is it just the written Word of God or is there something else? The first glimpse of […]
on May 21 / by Edin Michael
Since the New Testament era, the Catholic Church has always understood baptism as a sacrament which accomplishes several things, the first of which is the remission of sin, both original sin and actual sin. Peter explained what happens at baptism when he said, “Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of […]
on May 21 / by Edin Michael
The dogma of the Assumption affirms that Mary’s body was glorified after her death. In fact, while for other human beings the resurrection of the body will take place at the end of the world, for Mary the glorification of her body was anticipated by a special privilege. While defining the dogma Pius XII avoided […]
on May 17 / by Chris Cammarata
This is actually a question as old as the Bible itself. Jesus calling God his Father was scandalous to the Jewish authorities and was one of the reasons they would eventually arrest him. “For this reason the Jews tried all the more to kill him, because he… also called God his own father, making himself […]
on May 14 / by Jacob Jose
Jesus Youth is an International Catholic Movement, approved by the Holy See. As of 20 May 2016, it has been granted recognition by the Vatican as an international private association of the faithful with juridical personality. In the mid 1970s the flame of the Charismatic Renewal spread to India and to Kerala, the southernmost tip […]
on May 14 / by Chris Cammarata
The short answer to this question is “yes, but with conditions.” In general, the faithful are free to pursue whatever vocation to which they feel the Lord has called them, provided they are not barred from it by some impediment. For instance, a woman cannot enter marriage with a man who is already married. A […]
on May 14 / by Chris Cammarata
Jesus’ twelve Apostles were all different ages when they were chosen, and we don’t really know the age of any of them. We can infer from some of the times of their deaths that none of them could have been too much older than middle-aged. Most of the disciples worked a trade (fishing, tax collecting) […]
on May 14 / by Chris Cammarata
There were several movies made in the 1950s and 1960s about what happened to Jesus’ robe and to Barabbas after the Crucifixion. These dramas, while entertaining, are entirely fictional. I wonder if these are what inspired your questions? We don’t actually know what happened to Barabbas after his brief appearance at the trial of Jesus. […]
on May 14 / by Chris Cammarata
Good questions. Let’s break them down step-by-step. Why didn’t God destroy the devil? God never wants the destruction of his creation. The Book of Wisdom tells us: “God did not make death, nor does he rejoice in the destruction of the living. For he fashioned all things that they might have being” (1:13-14). Death and […]
on May 14 / by Jacob Jose
Miracles still happen. They are likely wherever the lordship of Jesus is proclaimed, and the word of God is preached, be it on the streets, churches or in a retreat centre. The scriptures confirm the same:And they went forth, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following Mark […]