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The quest for happiness is a universal human experience, yet many struggle to find lasting fulfillment. Catholic teaching asserts that true happiness, or beatitude, is not found in fleeting pleasures but in communion with God. The Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC 1716–1729) explains that the Beatitudes, as taught by Jesus i…
The Mass is the central act of Catholic worship, where the faithful participate in the re-presentation of Christ’s sacrifice on the cross. It is not merely a gathering or ritual but a profound encounter with Jesus in the Eucharist. The Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC 1324) describes the Eucharist as the “source and summit”…
St. Matthew’s Gospel, written primarily for a Jewish-Christian audience, emphasizes Jesus as the fulfillment of Old Testament prophecies. The account of the dead rising at Christ’s death ( Matthew 27:52-53 ) is part of a series of extraordinary signs accompanying the crucifixion, including the darkening of the sky and the tearin…
The Catholic Church claims a divine origin, established by Jesus Christ Himself, as recorded in Matthew 16:18 , where He declares Peter the rock upon which the Church is built. This foundational moment is not merely historical but carries a theological promise of endurance. The Church’s indefectibility, a core Catholic doctrine,…
Catholicism presents death not as an end to be feared but as a passage to eternal life, rooted in the belief in the resurrection of Jesus Christ. The Church teaches that human beings are created with an immortal soul, destined for eternal communion with God (CCC 366). Death, while a consequence of original sin, is transformed by…
For one reason, precisely because it is dead! In modern and living languages, words are constantly changing their meaning whilst in a dead language, such as Latin, they do not. The essential doctrine and significance of Christianity must not change, and the safest way to preserve it intact is to keep it in an unchangeable langua…
This does not suppose an exemption from judgment. “We must all be manifested before the judgment seat of Christ.” 2 Cor. V., 10. Your text means, “If you have faith and all other necessary conditions, you will not meet with the judgment of condemnation; and even now, if you be in God’s grace, you have a title to this merciful ju…
It was not so much the condemnation of the innocent as the free offering of the Son of God in His human nature for the salvation of His sinful yet brother human beings. Man, bought by so great a price, is taught his true dignity in the eyes of God, learns how evil sin really is, and is moved to love One who has proved His love i…
He had in mind such men as had been Catholics, and who labored to destroy the faith of other Catholics after their own lapse from the Church. And even then he puts the question speculatively. And he was quite logical. He argued that one who unjustly takes his neighbor’s life by murder deserves death at the hands of the state. Bu…
Those Priests would have been more comfortable at home reading some pleasant book. Wriy should they put themselves out like that? Look at things from a Catholic standpoint. A Priest is obliged to do all he can that not one soul be lost through his indifference. If he knows that a Catholic is dying, he must do all he can to bring…
Ingersoll, as usual, makes many mistakes. Firstly, he forgot the theocratic nature of the nation of the Jews at that time. God was the direct ruler of the Jews, and idolatry was going over to the king’s enemies, and an act of treason, even in the temporal order. And God has full rights over life and death. Secondly, if Ingersoll…
God does not judge in order to discern guilt. At the particular judgment, which takes place as individuals die, God apportions to each soul relative remuneration or retribution. But at the end of the world, all souls will be re-united to their bodies, the souls of the just not losing their happiness, the souls of the lost not es…
In such a case the moral theology of the Catholic Church says that a wife is justified in refusing marital privileges to her husband, and that he has an obligation to practice self-restraint and continence, thinking more of his wife than of himself. He must content himself with the other benefits of married life, mutual love, co…
Those last words obviously show that it is useless to depend upon a reward as far as recognition by fellow men is concerned. The writer is speaking from the point of view of people still living in this world. To all practical purposes as far as this world is concerned the dead are removed from this world and know not anything as…
Of course he must judge that Protestantism is false, and Catholicism true. But that judgment is preliminary to faith. Having made that judgment and acted upon it, he becomes a Catholic. From that moment he is guided in what he believes, not by his own human judgment or opinion, but by what Christ has actually revealed as taught …
This fact does not invalidate the reasons given already, and is also easily explained. The soul whilst in a state of union with the body operates by using the faculties of that body. If the sense instruments are incapacitated, the soul can no longer operate adequately whilst united to the body. But once released from the body, i…
In that text Christ says, “I tell you of a truth: There are some standing here that shall not taste death till they see the kingdom of God.” But those words have no reference to the end of the world. Christ often called His Church His Kingdom. When He said to St. Peter, “I will build my Church . . . and give to thee the keys of …
Christ lived and died in a remote corner of the Roman world, and had caused no political disturbance. Again, the Romans had supreme contempt for the Jews, and reports connected with Jewish religious happenings held very little interest for them. Suetonius mentions Christ briefly in his biography of Claudius; Tacitus speaks of Hi…
That is a complete denial of the historical value of the Gospels. You have no proof whatever that no one has ever risen from the dead. You may not have personally witnessed such an event, but not all beyond your personal experience is necessarily false or non-existent.
Such texts must be interpreted in the light of other passages where God reveals that Mary was never under the dominion of Satan. Mary is included in these words of St. Paul juridically in so far as she was born of Adam, but she was not allowed to be born in sin to be afterwards redeemed. She was redeemed by prevention.
No Catholic has ever believed that Christ is really slain in the Mass. They have never gone beyond the words of Scripture, “As often as you do this you shall show the death of the Lord until He come.” Nor did any theologians attempt a mathematical calculation as to the efficacy of the Mass. They knew that mathematics could never…
No human being can say. Christ Himself refused to give any definite information on the subject. “Of that day or hour no man knoweth, neither the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but the Father.” Mk. XIII., 32. The uncertainty is deliberate, so that men will be encouraged to live good lives in constant expectation of the possible e…
It does not. It refers to the resurrection of the body. If the individual soul ceases to exist, there could be no resurrection of the same personality. The material body could be recalled, but another soul would have to be created. This would mean two successive personalities, of which the second would not be the first. Deny the…
You must have been reading Stevenson’s Suicide Club, and then eaten cucumbers and gone to bed with the fond hope that you would not have a nightmare after all! There is a Carmelite Convent in your suburb at Dulwich Hill, but it is not a Death Order. It is an Order devoted wholly to the life which alone really counts—that of God’…
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