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How Rick Middleton's Life Sang for the Lord, and We Should Do Likewise

Even though it may come off as trite to profess it: the ultimate scope of the impact of one’s life is often reflected in how he or she is regarded immediately after he or she has passed.... (www.catholic365.com)

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White Privilege and the Christian Imperative

I finished a paper titled, “An Alternative Perspective on White Privilege,” in which I argue that the concept of white privilege is not, as postmodern progressive academic elitists characterize it, a deliberate conspiracy perpetrated by white people, but the natural result of historical sociocultura... (www.catholic365.com)

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What History would Always be in a Fallen World, Part II: the Preeminent Ages

From the Part I of the Greater Ages in Abstraction, we saw that God can in no wise send the Incarnation immediately into a fallen world but must first have, at the least, a Covenant of pictures, types, that foreshadow the things that really matter. Now, we will ask, can God even commence the Prefigu... (www.catholic365.com)

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What to Do with a Dead Soldier

Dead soldiers are annoying, especially if you're in a hurry. A "dead soldier," of course, is a colloquialism for a speed bump - an asphalt mound across a road where drivers are tempted to drive too fast. In school zones, "dead soldiers" keep kids alive.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Day 162 – Participation

Paul spends several verses outlining for the Corinthians the boundaries for eating meat that had been sacrificed to idols. Basically, he really wants to make the point that Christianity is something far different from paganism. He wants the older converts to shore up their new brothers. They must... (www.catholic365.com)

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Save Us From the Fires of Hell

It has been a harrowing couple of days following the centennial event at Fatima, Portugal. A group of us went north to Avierto, Porto and then ventured out to Valencia, Alvor, Monção and elsewhere in the Vinho Verde wine region. While we were visiting historic towns, churches and vineyards, we notic... (www.catholic365.com)

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Apostolic Succestion and the Arian Controversy

To those who study Church history the Arians are a familiar foe of orthodoxy. The heresy came to the forefront in the 4th century, and was declared heretical at the Council of Nicea in 325 and again at the Council of Constantinople in 381. How was the proper view of Christ upheld?... (www.catholic365.com)

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Do we refuse to forgive? If so, God too will refuse to forgive us. As we treat our neighbors, so also does God treat us.

The story of Jonah this anti-prophet, this sullen, pouting prophet, reminds us that we are called on to emulate God’s compassion and mercy.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Signs in the Sky

For the past four years and 8 months, a series of celestial signs have occurred. Now, such signs are not, in and of themselves, anything portentous. We are not to do as the Romans and other ancient cultures did and spend our days constantly looking to the sky for some omen from which to divine the w... (www.catholic365.com)

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What History would Always be in a Fallen World, Part I: the Prefiguring Covenant

In the Introduction to the Abstract Fallen World, we saw that the material creation proves the most complex and wonderful, in that, if it falls, an Incarnation introduces the possibility of God loving the creatures to a greater degree than if the world had never fallen, namely that God might suffer ... (www.catholic365.com)

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"But It Looked So Harmless...!"

The spiritual dangers that surround us are far more serious than bodily ones, for "what good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul?" (Mt 16:26).... (www.catholic365.com)

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Day 161 – Paul's Duty

Today we read passages where Paul further annunciates his right as an Apostle to obtain a living from the congregation, if he so chooses. However, Paul makes the point that he has forgone this right in order to present absolutely no obstacle between a potential convert and the faith.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Racial Tensions in a "Post-Christian" World

Many social scientists, postmodern progressive academic elitists, and many politicians claim we live in a “post-Christian” world. We Christians know that Christ promised to “be with us always, even unto the end of the age” (Matt 28:20).... (www.catholic365.com)

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I always begin my prayer in silence, for it is in the silence of the heart that God speaks. God is the friend of silence – we need to listen to God because it's not what we say but he says to us and through us that matters.

We all have to be busy like Martha: we need work for our livelihood, food must be prepared, the house must be maintained, children must be taken care of. Doing all this indeed is doing God's work in our daily lives: do we find God somehow in these ordinary and extraordinary chores?... (www.catholic365.com)

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Crown Him With Many Crowns

This morning, my fingers delighted in playing the chords and melody of a hymn which had been chosen by Sr. Rebecca, whose week it is to lead Office, lector at Mass, and select the music. In other words, it’s “her week for liturgy.”... (www.catholic365.com)

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What History would Always be in a Fallen World, Introduction

To recap from the introduction to the Greater Ages in Abstraction, we reiterate more precisely, the theory to this entire book is that there is a spiritual blueprint for the ages of salvation history if God is to redeem man to his fullest potential before the end of history.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Free Choice: To the Church or the Gallows

The most incredible law that was ever established in the United States was one enacted by the state of Virginia in 1610; it prescribed not jail, but the death penalty for any healthy adult failing to attend church for three consecutive Sundays!... (www.catholic365.com)

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Day 160 – Meat Sacrificed to Idols

Paul next addresses what was a fairly big controversy in the first century. As the faith spread out from Jewish to Gentile areas and the conversion of Gentiles became a greater focus, the question of what to do with meat sacrificed to idols became a recurring issue.... (www.catholic365.com)

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Pope Francis, St. John XXIII and St. Joseph

Had he been elected Pope in the 2005 Conclave, Jorge Cardinal Bergoglio would have taken the name John XXIV. He is reported to have told the late Francesco Cardinal Marchisano, “John, I would have called myself John, like the Good Pope; I would have been completely inspired by him".... (www.catholic365.com)

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We instinctively tend to limit for whom we exert ourselves. We do it for people like us, and for people whom we like…..Jesus will have none of that….. Everyone is your neighbor, and you must love your neighbor.

It is easy to be a good neighbor to people whom we want to impress, or people we care about, or people we just like, but can we be the same to the stranger on the street, the lonely, the depressed, the person with AIDS, the addict, those who don’t look like us, talk like us, or have different belief... (www.catholic365.com)

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