This is one of the most important questions that a person can ever ask himself. If someone is asking this question, he is probably far better off than the majority of people who do not even think that they need forgiveness. Our society has become so insensitive to sin that so many people do not…
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The Urgency and Importance of Marian Consecration
I am urging the readers of this paper to consecrate themselves to the Blessed Virgin Mary if they haven’t already in the past. Salvation, enjoying for eternity of the beatific vision, is something that only few will experience, Jesus tells us in Matthew 7:14: “For the gate is narrow and the way is hard, that…
Preparation for Confirmation
The lack of catechesis in the Church is frightening, the lack of theological preparation of young catholic men and women is sad. The current preparation for Confirmation is the symbol of our suffering modern Church. If one is curious to understand the state of crisis in our Church he has to simply attend confirmation classes…
Book Review “Aquinas and Evolution” of Fr. Michael Chaberek
CHABEREK, Michael. Aquinas and Evolution, Why St. Thomas’ Teaching on the Origins is Incompatible with Evolutionary Theory. Chartwell Press, 2017. Soft Cover, $ 16.95 Reviewed by Ed Da Pra, Franciscan University of Steubenville. Father Michael Chaberek argues in His book “Aquinas and Evolution” that a proper understanding of Thomistic philosophy is incompatible with theistic evolution….
Is the Church Still Against Contraception?
The short answer is Yes, the Church is still against contraception. I want to anticipate that this article doesn’t have the objective of explaining why contraception is wrong, nor it wants to explain the true nature of sexuality, but this article has simply the goal to inform what the Church believes. My hope is that…
Why did God let my Grandma Die?
Growing up as a sort of “practicing” Catholic I was confronted since a young age with existential questions coming from my non-believer classmates. When I was actually very young, in elementary school (or maybe even before that), I was told by a friend of mine that he stopped believing in God because his grandmother was…
What is Grace?
The word “Grace” is probably one of the most used words in the Christian world, but probably one of the terms that people understand the least. I’ve heard people who have been going to church since more than 20 years ask me “what does it means that Jesus died for us”, or “I believe in…
God’s Love in Temporal Punishment and the Catholic Teaching of Indulgences
The first way to address the issue of indulgences is to understand the nature of sin. What is sin? What are the consequences of sin? How does God react towards it? And how does the biblical text show God’s pedagogy towards His sons and daughters? The Catechism of the Catholic Church defines sin as “an…
A brief introduction to the Problem of Evil
In this period of research regarding different Christian apologetics topics I would like to address in the proximate future articles the “problem of evil” by presenting the works of two philosophers: Alvin Plantinga and Peter van Inwagen. In particular, I will be drawing insights from Plantinga’s book “God, Freedom and Evil” and Peter van Inwagen’s…
The Neo-Platonic Proof for the Existence of God – part 1
In this article, we want to present in an accessible way the proof for the existence of God formulated by philosopher Ed Feser in his new book “Five proofs for the existence of God”. We will briefly show that a composite reality has to find its conditions of existence in an ultimate non-composite reality. In “part…