Category: Catholic
Confessing to a Catholic Priest
As God, Jesus has the authoritiy to forgive sins. He shared this authority with the Apostles and this same authority and power continues to...
The Seven Deadly Sins
The traditional seven deadly sins are not necessarily sins but are vices that are in opposition to the virtues that give man the ability and...
Sitting, Standing, and Kneeling
The Catholic Church teaches that the liturgy celebrated here on Earth is a participation in the heavenly liturgy. Certain postures, along with other gestures,...
Miracles
Many things are referred to as “miracles” but a true miracle is a sign of divine intervention, when God enters into our world and...
Relativism
Relativism is the belief that there is no absolute or objective truth. Instead, the relativist believes that truth is subjective and that what is...
Becoming Catholic
The journey of faith often leads people to the fullness of the truth found in the Catholic Church. Unbaptized individuals and non-Catholic Christians are...
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...