Category: Apologetics

You Should Be Worried!
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You Should Be Worried!

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by on May 08, 2012 in Apologetics, Contraception & Abortion, Featured, Government & Politics, History, Law & Justice, Live in Christ, The Social Order
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“He moved about freely with them in Jerusalem, and spoke out boldly in the name of the Lord.  He also spoke and debated with the Hellenists, but they tried to kill him.” (Acts 9:29, NAB) When St. Paul began traveling throughout the Roman Empire, truly going into the culture of death in order to proclaim [...]

Upcoming Movie Review: For Greater Glory
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Upcoming Movie Review: For Greater Glory

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by on May 01, 2012 in Apologetics, Columnists, Featured, Government & Politics, History, Law & Justice, On Movies
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I’m doing something I’ve never done before. I’ve never written a movie review for a movie I have not yet seen or a book review for book I have not yet read. But I am so excited by the “buzz” about an upcoming movie that I thought I’d let you in on some of it. [...]

Can It Be?
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Can It Be?

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by on Apr 08, 2012 in Apologetics, Featured
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This is my 18th Easter. For the first 38 years of my life I did not celebrate Easter because I was one of Jehovah’s Witnesses, a pseudo-Christian group with a very strange economy of salvation. It is not easy to describe life in a cult like Jehovah’s Witnesses. It is very dark. Even their light [...]

Theology as Archaeology
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Theology as Archaeology

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by on Apr 05, 2012 in Apologetics, Catechesis, Featured
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When a Protestant approaches the scriptures in order to rightly interpret them and apply them to their lives, the approach is typically that of a scientist and a historian – they are attempting to abstract and be removed from the context of today’s western world and be found within the culture, language and context of [...]

National Catholic Reporter Vs. Catholic Church
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National Catholic Reporter Vs. Catholic Church

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by on Mar 30, 2012 in Apologetics, Featured, On Media
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It’s been obvious for a long time, but now it is official: the National Catholic Reporter rejects the teachings of the Catholic Church on sexuality. In an editorial titled, “NCR Endorses Call for a New Sexual Ethic,” it supports retired Australian Bishop Geoffrey Robinson’s plea for the Church to change its teachings on sexuality. Bishop [...]

"Three Ball Total Equilibrium Tank" by Jeff Koons (1985)
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Of Art and Trousered Apes

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by on Mar 29, 2012 in Apologetics, Featured, Live in Christ
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Life without God is madness. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the absurd world of modern “art.”  In 1985, Jeff Koons assembled a work that consisted of three basketballs submerged in a fish tank. It symbolized, he proclaimed during one interview, “pre-birth”, “equilibrium,” “the eternal,” and “life after death,” among other things. It eventually [...]

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Two Josephs, Both Alike in Chastity

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by on Mar 19, 2012 in Apologetics, Featured, Men
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With our attention upon St. Joseph today, it might be good to look back at the Old Testament figure for whom Mary’s chaste spouse was most likely named. That would be Joseph, son of Jacob, grandson of Isaac, and great-grandson of Abraham. Joseph is a popular name for Jewish boys precisely as a memorial of this [...]

Christ and the Prophets, True Sons of Abraham
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The Invention of Judaism

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by on Mar 15, 2012 in Apologetics, Featured, History
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It is a common misconception today to associate the religion of Judaism with that of Moses, the prophets and even Jesus – when in reality, Judaism is newer than the Christian Church. This confusion is only compounded due to the existence of the modern state of Israel – a state that has no connection or correlation with [...]

Is Mormonism a Christian Denomination?
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Is Mormonism a Christian Denomination?

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by on Mar 09, 2012 in Apologetics, Featured, MyChurchParish.com
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Mormons like Glenn Beck and Senator Orrin Hatch have long given a high profile to this American-grown faith. And with Mitt Romney in the running for the Republican nomination, the question of exactly how to categorize Mormonism has become news. An Evangelical pastor who supports Rick Perry told reporters he thought Mormonism is “a cult”, prompting a [...]

Why the Believer Knows More About Science
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Why the Believer Knows More About Science

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by on Feb 21, 2012 in Apologetics, Featured, Science
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If I had to name the most important topics in science during our time, they would probably be evolutionary biology, cosmology, particle physics, and psychology to understand the human person better. However, if I had to name the most important issue in science today, it would be something more over-arching. It would be the general issue of [...]

Dark Evangelization: The Mandate as the Gospel of Mammon
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Dark Evangelization: The Mandate as the Gospel of Mammon

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by on Feb 18, 2012 in Apologetics, Catechesis, Featured
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The great theologian and catechist Frank Sheed wrote in his book Are We Really Teaching Religion: “The aim of teaching religion is that at minimum, children should emerge with a tremendous devotion to Christ, Our Lord, with an awareness of Him, a considerable knowledge of His Life and Personality, and a desire to increase that knowledge” [...]

Render Unto: Caesar’s Law, God’s Law, and the Church
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Render Unto: Caesar’s Law, God’s Law, and the Church

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by on Feb 13, 2012 in Apologetics, Catechesis, Featured
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The cure of the leper in this morning’s Gospel was more than a miracle of physical healing; it was a moral resurrection of a man who suffered from la disease that made him an outcast from society, doomed to crying out, as the first reading indicates, “Unclean, unclean,” in order to warn people in the [...]

I Love Flying but I Hate Organized Aviation
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I Love Flying but I Hate Organized Aviation

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by on Feb 08, 2012 in Apologetics, Featured
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Flying is an amazing experience. You just can’t beat it if you want to get anywhere far away in a hurry. The early history of flying reveals the glory days and shows us what flying should be. The planes were made by individuals or by small groups of craftsmen who learned by tinkering. They were [...]

Atoms Are Imaginary
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Atoms Are Imaginary

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by on Jan 27, 2012 in Apologetics, Featured, Science
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“For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall understand fully, even as I have been fully understood”  — 1 Corinthians 13:12. A group of atheists in Colorado are putting up the newest version of their billboard messages, this time proclaiming that “God [...]

The Persecuted Church
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The Persecuted Church

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by on Jan 25, 2012 in Apologetics, Featured, Those in Need
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On January 21st, I attended a terrific conference in Framingham, MA concerning “The Persecuted Church.” When I say terrific, I mean the full, riveting, appalling sense of the word. Sponsored by CAMERA, the speakers ranged from young participants of the “Arab Spring” protests to sage professors to political operatives. The event culminated in a keynote address [...]

Was John Courtney Murray right? A Postscript
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Was John Courtney Murray right? A Postscript

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by on Jan 24, 2012 in Apologetics, Columnists, Featured
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After initially intending to complete this series in three parts (Part I, Part II, Part III), it appears that it may be useful to tie up any remaining loose ends with an overview of the propositions put forth in the Declaration on Religious Liberty of Vatican II, followed by Fr. Murray’s own reflections dated the [...]

Science Works, Just like Theology Said It Would
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Science Works, Just like Theology Said It Would

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by on Jan 20, 2012 in Apologetics, Featured, Learn & Live the Faith, Science
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University of Chicago biologist Jerry Coyne has an interesting post over at his blog “Why Evolution Is True,” which hits on something I care a lot about: science and religion.  Specifically whether they go together or not. Coyne mentions two posts from the New York Times blogs, one against naturalism and one in favor of [...]

On the Zavala Affair
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On the Zavala Affair

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by on Jan 13, 2012 in Apologetics, Columnists, Featured
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The Archdiocese of Los Angeles, the largest in the United States, rang in the New Year with some disturbing news: Auxiliary Bishop Gabino Zavala had resigned in shame after publicly admitting to having sired two children with the same woman more than a decade ago. (I use the word “sire” intentionally, as “fathering” is something [...]

True Faith and False Freedom: On John Courtney Murray (Part II)
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True Faith and False Freedom: On John Courtney Murray (Part II)

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by on Jan 10, 2012 in Apologetics, Columnists, Featured
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Careful examination of Fr. Murray’s corpus reveals that he takes great liberty (no pun intended) in his treatment of the traditional teaching on religious freedom. However, he does so in such a way that the casual observer may either miss it altogether, or may perhaps just consider it so subtle as to be irrelevant to [...]

True Faith and False Freedom: On John Courtney Murray (Part I)
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True Faith and False Freedom: On John Courtney Murray (Part I)

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by on Jan 09, 2012 in Apologetics, Columnists, Featured
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Everyone knows that religion is noble, and since no one in his right mind would possibly argue that liberty is not a precious right, it only stands to reason that “religious liberty,” as it is so often invoked these days, must be especially good! Now, it’s just a hunch mind you, but I suspect that [...]

Epiphany
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Epiphany

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by on Jan 07, 2012 in Apologetics, Columnists, Featured, MyChurchParish.com
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Up until now, all has been quite humble.  A donkey-ride to a dusty town south of Jerusalem.  Hotel rooms all booked up.  Giving birth in a stable and laying the baby in an animal’s feed trough instead of a cozy cradle. Into this scene of obscure poverty suddenly bursts an exotic entourage from a far-off [...]

Why Sola Scriptura Still Matters, Part Three
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Why Sola Scriptura Still Matters, Part Three

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by on Jan 07, 2012 in Apologetics, Featured
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In part two, we left this discussion asking exactly what the point was of 2 Timothy 3:16-17, if it is not the sola scriptura conclusion that Protestants often draw. What exactly was this apostolic authority, St. Paul, saying to Timothy about the Scriptures? Was St. Paul saying that “the Bible” would make the man of God [...]

Why Sola Scriptura Still Matters, Part Two
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Why Sola Scriptura Still Matters, Part Two

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by on Jan 06, 2012 in Apologetics, Featured
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In part one we discussed the importance that the Protestant principle of sola scriptura still has as we near the 500th anniversary of the “Reformation.” Now it is time to get into the meat of the argument by examining the classic Protestant interpretation of two key verses of Scripture. “All Scripture Is Inspired” The Bible verses [...]

Why Sola Scriptura Still Matters, Part One
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Why Sola Scriptura Still Matters, Part One

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by on Jan 05, 2012 in Apologetics, Featured
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If you are not the sort of person who celebrates divorce anniversaries or sends congratulatory notes to pals for holding onto grudges, it may not have occurred to you that 2017 is going to be a big party year for some of our friends. The Banner of the “Reformation” Still Flies That year, October 31 [...]

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