There is a lively discussion going on over at my Facebook Page about parishioners who treat their time at the Sacrifice of the Mass like a Date-Night. What’s your thoughts or experience?

A great deal of what Eve has to say in her book can aptly apply to any Christian seeking to follow God’s call upon their life. Essentially, she is simply offering her input on the 2,000 year old question, ‘How Do I Serve Christ Jesus?’. Particularly, she wants to answer the question, ‘How Do I Serve Christ Jesus as a Gay-Celibate’, and dangerously couched in her 224 page response to that particular question is her idea that being ‘gay’ is a permanent condition.

So, there we were standing and awaiting the final blessing from the Bishop and out-of-no-where in the center circular section near-rear of Church a woman, short in stature, perhaps in her mid-fifties, wearing a white veil over that had slightly fallen over her eyes stands up, with her arms up and outward in the direction of the sanctuary, palms slightly inward.

July 25, 2014 – This Week’s Best in Catholic Apologetics features the best articles from around the internet concerning faith proposals and defenses of the Catholicism from Friday of the previous week through Thursday of the current week.

Obama’s latest edict is unenforceable on employees classified as Ministers, so all Catholic organizations need to do is have all employees sign a contract with the appropriate language; similar to what many Catholic schools are already doing, and the apparent problem is solved, even if the next President doesn’t rescind it.

What Saint Paul wants to inform us about here are the two reasons why the Holy Spirit intercedes for us in prayer. The first thing is about why the Holy Spirit intercedes for us in prayer on our behalf, and the second is why the Holy Spirit intercedes for us in prayer on God’s behalf for us.

July 18, 2014 – This Week’s Best in Catholic Apologetics features the best articles from around the internet concerning faith proposals and defenses of the Catholicism from Friday of the previous week through Thursday of the current week.

In this first installment of The Praxis of the Faith, David L. Gray talks about how we Cooperate with God and some of the struggles we have in doing so.

In short, what Protestants would call an essential is what is perspicuous in Scripture, and what is non-essential is what is obscure in Scripture. For example, according to them, the seven Sacraments of the Catholic Church are obscure in Scripture.

Rather than saying that, “celibacy was established in the tenth century,” what Pope Francis probably meant to say (charitable me)/should have said (me being quite frank) was that celibacy for the clergy was officially mandated as a discipline in the 12th century by an ecumenical council for the first time.

In last Sunday’s reading from Matthew 11:25-30 I pointed out in there ‘Jesus’ Teaching on the Origin, Content, and Invitation of Revelation‘. In this Sunday’s Gospel Reading from Matthew 13:1-23 Jesus has much more to say about the Invitation of Revelation.

July 11, 2014 – This Week’s Best in Catholic Apologetics features the best articles from around the internet concerning faith proposals and defenses of the Catholicism from Friday of the previous week through Thursday of the current week.

Avoid Sedevacantism. I know it’s tempting. I know the hour we are living in. I understand why many Catholics are feeling like something is wrong; something in the air doesn’t smell right. I feel it myself and I think that is a legitimate sense, but the proper response is not heresy or abandoning the Church.