Here’s an excellent 2012 34-minute interview of the future Pope Leo XIV by the Catholic News Service on the media and evangelization.
Sacred Scriptures
Miriam, the Prophetess
- Chuck White
- April 27, 2025
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Let’s take a look at the story of Miriam, the sister of Moses, and see what bearing her story might have on us. So many Marys There are so many Marys are mentioned in the New Testament! Mary, the mother of Jesus, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James the…
On Ezekiel’s “Laws that were not good”
- Chuck White
- April 25, 2025
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Therefore I also gave them statutes that were not good, and judgments, in which they shall not live. And I polluted them in their own gifts, when they offered all that opened the womb, for their offences: and they shall know that I am the Lord. Ezekiel 20:25-26 DRA These…
On Servile Work
- Chuck White
- March 6, 2025
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The first precept of the Church is: "You shall attend Mass on Sundays and holy days of obligation and rest from servile labor" Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2042 Sabbath rest applied to Sunday In enjoining this precept, the Church obviously borrows the Sabbath rest from the Decalogue and applies…
Featured Posts
Handling Bible Difficulties
- Chuck White
- October 26, 2024
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Here are some posts that explain some of the more difficult passages of the Bible.
A March Through the Scriptures
- Chuck White
- February 17, 2025
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A Bible Study Toolbox for Catholics Some Interpretive Principles The Four Senses of Sacred Scripture– Catechism of the Catholic Church…
Bible Study Tools for Catholics
- Chuck White
- April 5, 2023
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Sacred Scriptures Online Bibles Some Good Bible Study Apps BibleGateway.com (Includes many versions of the Bible, including Catholic bibles with…
Handling Bible Difficulties
- Chuck White
- October 26, 2024
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Here are some posts that explain some of the more difficult passages of the Bible.
A March Through the Scriptures
- Chuck White
- February 17, 2025
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A Bible Study Toolbox for Catholics Some Interpretive Principles The Four Senses of Sacred Scripture– Catechism of the Catholic Church…
Bible Study Tools for Catholics
- Chuck White
- April 5, 2023
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Sacred Scriptures Online Bibles Some Good Bible Study Apps BibleGateway.com (Includes many versions of the Bible, including Catholic bibles with…
Handling Bible Difficulties
- Chuck White
- October 26, 2024
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Here are some posts that explain some of the more difficult passages of the Bible.
Catechesis and Doctrine
On Servile Work
- Chuck White
- March 6, 2025
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The first precept of the Church is: "You shall attend Mass on Sundays and holy days of obligation and rest from servile labor" Catechism of…
The Catechetical Instructions of St. Thomas Aquinas
- Chuck White
- February 7, 2025
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Here’s an English translation of a great catechism written by St. Thomas Aquinas, a 13th century Dominican friar, saint and doctor of the Church: Aquinas,…
What Does the Catholic Church Teach?
- Chuck White
- January 28, 2025
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There are several good sources to learn what the Catholic Church actually teaches. Catechisms, especially the Roman Catechism and the Catechism of the Catholic Church,…
Why Don’t Catholics Worship on the Sabbath?
- Chuck White
- April 2, 2024
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The Seventh Day Adventists insist that Christians should set aside the Jewish Sabbath (Saturday) for rest and worship instead of Sunday. Moreover, the Seventh Day…
Is Aslan on the move?
- Chuck White
- May 21, 2025
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“They say Aslan is on the move- perhaps has already landed." And now a very curious thing happened. None of…
Hopes for a new pontificate
- Chuck White
- May 17, 2025
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If they practiced at Nicaea what I perceive they now mean by "synodality" - especially as the Germans perceive now…
The Holy Rosary
- Chuck White
- May 15, 2025
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Our Monday night Catholic Study Group recently considered the topic of the Rosary as it is presented in our text,…
Pope Leo on Media and Evangelization
- Chuck White
- May 11, 2025
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Here's an excellent 2012 34-minute interview of the future Pope Leo XIV by the Catholic News Service on the media…
Pope Leo and the Neocatechumenal Way
- Chuck White
- May 9, 2025
- 1
Pope Leo XIV was once assigned to be the apostolic administrator “sede vacante” of the diocese of Callao in Peru after…
The Six Days of Creation
- Chuck White
- March 6, 2022
- 3
Introduction St. Thomas Aquinas has provided the Church with an intriguing interpretation of the six days of creation described in…
A Brief History of the Latin Vulgate
- Chuck White
- December 29, 2024
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Introduction What role does the Latin Vulgate, St. Jerome's translation of the Sacred Scriptures into Latin, play in the Church…
Artistic or Pornographic? A Theological Analysis of Nude Art
- Caleb White
- December 20, 2023
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Nude art has long been the subject of theological debate, regardless of Christian denomination. Although respect and public display of…
On the Death of King David’s Baby
- Chuck White
- October 24, 2024
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This comment recently appeared on our Catholic Study Group Facebook page: Here’s the short answer: Yes, God punished David by…
Some Catholic Jokes
- Chuck White
- November 23, 2013
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Some relatively clean humor... A little boy was listening to a long and excessively boring sermon in church. Suddenly his…
One Flesh
- Chuck White
- August 28, 2024
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I had the grace to hear a powerful “marriage exhortation” the other day when I attended the wedding of a…
On Violence in the Old Testament
- Chuck White
- January 7, 2023
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The violence of the Old Testament is often cited in attacks on the Bible and the Faith. Here are four…
The Victory of Truth
- Chuck White
- April 24, 2022
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The Catholic Church teaches that those who die before Christ comes again will be judged twice: once immediately at their…
Forty Days
- Chuck White
- February 24, 2020
- 2
Several years ago my brother Carl, a drummer, announced that he was forming a new band. When I asked him…
Healing the Culture: The Four Levels of Happiness
- Chuck White
- November 18, 2013
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I was in my mother-in-law's car port a few weeks ago, and I could not help hearing the radio program…
Pope Leo and the Neocatechumenal Way
- Chuck White
- May 9, 2025
- 1
Pope Leo XIV has had some experience in bringing healing to a diocese damaged by the Neocatechumenal Way.
Habemus Papam!
- Chuck White
- May 9, 2025
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Let us pray for our Pope Leo XIV, that he shepherd the Church well, leading all men to Christ.