Author: Dr. Marc Tinsley

Doctors of the Church
All of the saints are examples of heroic sanctity. A select few have guided the faithful by exceptional writing or preaching that transcends time....

Abstaining from Meat
On Ash Wednesday, Good Friday, and all Fridays during Lent, Catholics 14 years of age and older are required to abstain from eating meat....

Ash Wednesday
Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, a day when Catholics are marked with ashes on their foreheads. Symbolizing the dust that man was created from...

Lent
During the prayerful and penitential season of Lent, Catholics imitate Jesus’ 40 days in the desert through prayer, fasting, self-denial, almsgiving, and other good...

Spiritual Works of Mercy
Mercy is responding to the suffering of another through acts of love. Jesus spoke of God the Father doing good for even the ungrateful...

The Presentation of the Lord
The Law of Moses required that the first-born male child was to be offered to God as thanks for sparing the Israelites during the...

Prayer of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
Dear Lord, there is something I want, I need badly. I hope I want it for Thy Glory and it’s best for my salvation....

Corporal Works of Mercy
The spiritual and corporal works of mercy are ways to live out Jesus’ commmandment to love our neighbors as ourselves. Mercy is showing love...

Catholic Bishops
Today’s Catholic bishops are successors to the original Apostles chosen by Jesus. From the Cathedral that holds the special chair of the bishop, he...

Martin Luther King, Jr.
As a Baptist Minister, his Christian beliefs informed and inspired the work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He preached of unity and love to...