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Jimmy Akin recommends good resources to give young Catholics to help them better understand the Faith:
102.9FM St. Michael Catholic Radio is so excited to welcome Dr. Marcellino D’Ambrosio (Dr. Italy) to be a guest on Outside the Walls with Timothy Putnam next week 2/16/15! Dr. Italy is a Catholic Apologist, Speaker, and Writer appearing on Catholic Answers Live, Catholicmom.com, Catholic Exchange, and much more! Dr. Italy is an expert in…
Wow! I can’t believe it has been a year already since I started this great adventure of blogging. Many, many thanks to all those who have read and commented and provided encouragement and support. I have been blessed to have met so many wonderful people through the blog and am humbled by the kind words…
“Best City in the World in Which to be Broke” – Ven. Fulton J. Sheen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0VpMc6ZW3c Be blessed, O most pure Virgin, for having vouchsafed to manifest your shining with life, sweetness and beauty, in the Grotto of Lourdes, saying to the child, St. Bernadette: “I am the Immaculate Conception.” A thousand times we…
The song “Take Me to Church” by Irish recording artist Hozier was nominated for Song of the Year at the Grammy’s. I must admit, I am not a pop culture guy. I spent most of the time when watching the Grammy’s asking my wife, “Who is that?” and “What is happening right now?”. When playing…
I will not sleep, I will not even sit down, until every man goes to bed with a paperback copy of Sigrid Undset’s Kristin Lavransdatter. In these high fourteenth-century mountains, priests still visit the sick shouting, “God help those in this house!” as they raise a cross to all four corners of the room and…
Christian Morality: Virtues, Sin, and Grace Virtues In today’s modern culture, virtue is seen more as a weakness or as something to be mocked. Television, movies, music, books et. al. seem to be most popular when they are promoting immorality. As a Christian, in the so-called “Buckle of the Bible Belt” I can be very…
Want to read 14 books of the Bible in 2 weeks? Read one of these books per day and you will have read 14 books of the Bible in half a month! The following are 7 Old Testament books and 7 New Testament books, each under 100 verses. The number of verses in each is…
Around 200AD, Tertullian wrote the following quote as an expression of the astonishment the pagans of the day had when they witnessed the love and caring among the Christians: “See how they love one another.” The early Christians’ love for each other went far beyond pious sentimentality. Their love was tangible and practical: they took…