Three Common Objections to Purgatory
Purgatory is perhaps one of the more misunderstood doctrines by Non-Catholics and Catholics alike. Three common objections are raised by our Protestant brethren against this doctrine.
Reaching out to a…comet!
On November 12, 2014, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta probe will attempt to put it’s lander, called “Philae” onto the surface of comet 67P While mankind has put exploring craft on Mars and the moon, and sent craft to several other…
Book Review: “A Map of Life”
“A Map of Life“, by Frank Sheed, Ignatius Press, San Francisco, 1994. Originally published by Sheed & Ward, London, 1933. 147 pages. I first heard of Frank Sheed, a 20th lay Catholic apologist while I was in college when a…
A Visit to Yap
I was recently blessed with the opportunity to visit Yap, one of the four states of the Federated States of Micronesia. In my search for “the true, the good, and the beautiful”, Yap is solidly in the “beautiful” category. Yap…
The Lamb of God
Just what does John the Baptist mean by calling Jesus the "Lamb of God"?
Book Review: The Spirit of the Liturgy
The Spirit of the Liturgy, by Pope Benedict XVI, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Ignatius Press, 2000. Reviewed by Rey Dalisay. What is the liturgy? What happens during the liturgy? What kind of reality do we encounter there? So begins Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger’s book The…
A Frank Discussion
A response to an editorial in the Pacific Daily News, August 15, 2014: Community needs to have frank and honest discussion on suicide Thank you, Pacific Daily News, for bringing up the topic in the wake of Robin Williams’s death…
On Christian Community and the Catholic Worker Movement
My copy of the “Hartford Catholic Worker” arrived in the mail a few days ago, and its arrival reminded me of my time volunteering at a Catholic Worker community on Cass Avenue in St. Louis during my senior year of…