Author: Dr. Marc Tinsley
Holy Water
Holy water is a sacramental used by the Catholic Church. Like all sacramentals, holy water works with the sacraments and brings us closer to...
Mother of the Church
The Blessed Virgin Mary’s maternal care for Jesus and his Church has been recognized for centuries. Mary not only accompanied Jesus during the most...
Pentecost
The Church celebrates when the Holy Spirit descended on Pentecost. Pentecost falls fifty days after Easter Sunday marking the end of the Easter season....
Will There Be Animals in Heaven?
Humans were created with rational souls that will live forever. These souls are separated from the body at death. When Jesus comes again in...
The Ascension of Jesus
Forty days after his resurrection from the dead, Jesus ascended into Heaven to be seated at the right hand of God the Father. Jesus’...
Catholic Deacons
Deacons are members of the Catholic clergy who are ordained by a bishop at a lower level of Holy Orders to serve his diocese....
Mother’s Day
Motherhood is considered an honorable and necessary role in the family, in the Church, and in society. Whether alive or deceased, we pray for...
Precepts of the Church
When Jesus instituted the Catholic Church, He gave it the authority to put in place whatever was necessary to carry out his teaching about...
Canonization
Canonization is the Catholic Church’s formal process of recognizing and declaring that a person who has died is a saint, someone who is in...
Just War
The Catholic Church teaches that war is never good. But the Church also understands that violence can be justified when it is necessary to...