I had the privilege last week of going to St. Mary’s Seminary in Cleveland, and I gave a lecture there, but I also spoke to the seminarians. And, I used the sort of context of King David because I’d been working on this commentary in Second Samuel… Watch and listen to Fr. Barron’s commentary on [...]
Well, a team of sociologists, led by William D’Antonio who is a professor at Catholic University, just published a survey that’s gotten a lot of media attention, because it shows that there’s this kind of disconnect between people’s beliefs in Catholic doctrine and people’s sense of their viability as Catholics. So, I’ll give you one [...]
(A series on Blessed John Paul II’s Love and Responsibility) Love and Responsibility – Avoiding Fatal Attractions A man eating lunch at a restaurant notices an attractive woman at another table, and is immediately drawn to her beauty. His heart stirs, and he finds himself wanting to see her again. Yet, this is not the [...]
Pope Benedict announces: “The Year of Faith” Watch and listen to Fr. Barron’s commentary on “What Faith Is and What Faith Isn’t”. “The Protestant theologian, Paul Tillich once said that ‘faith is the most misunderstood word in the religious vocabulary’ and I’m increasingly convinced that he was right about that. And my justification for that [...]
(A series on Blessed John Paul II’s Love and Responsibility) Love and Responsibility – Resenting Chastity Virtue is not something simply lacking in the modern world. It is something many in the modern world actually resent. That’s a point that Blessed John Paul II – then Karol Wojtyla – makes when beginning his teaching on [...]
Angels — The Twelve Most Important Things to Know About Them They really exist. Not just in our minds, or our myths, or our symbols, or our culture. They are as real as your dog, or your sister, or electricity. They’re present, right here, right now, right next to you, reading these words with you. [...]
On August 15th of each Liturgical Year, the Church celebrates the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Mary’s earthly death has been nearly unanimously held by the Church’s theologians through the centuries. The Church’s liturgies affirm this. Indeed, the Solemnity of the Assumption was first known and celebrated as the Feast of [...]
Really, Truly, Substantially Present – On the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist [Editor Note: At the end of the article, you can watch and listen to Fr. Barron's detailed examination of the Bread of Life Discourse in St. John's Gospel - Chapter 6.] Last month [June 24-25, 2011], I gave an address at [...]
Time and again, as I go about the work of evangelization, I encounter from both believers and non-believers, a fierce objection to the doctrine of Hell. In its most radical form, it runs something like this: how could a God who is described as infinitely good create, sustain, and send people to a place of [...]
The Church teaches we can know with certainty by our human reason that God exists. But there are truths that we cannot discover until God reveals them to us. The doctrine of the Trinity is such a Divinely Revealed truth. Frank Sheed, one of the great Catholic apologists of the 20th Century, often spoke of the mysteries [...]
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St. Benedict for Beginners – The Third Step to Humility
This is the ninth in a series on St. Benedict for Beginners. – The Editors The Third Step to Humility ‘The third step of humility is that for the love of God a man should be obedient to his superior in all things.’ Obedience? What a sign of scandal in an individualistic age! The whole [...]
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