This happened a while ago,but everytime I think about it, I get totally disgusted. A few years back, my mom's friend and her husband and their daughter came over to visit. Then the dad went to the bathroom. Min...

"My sweet little boy, Curious you would be To watch me play every day Isn't that a sin, immaculate Catholic boy? A million ways to love On hundred ways to kiss Of wanton passion and sugar coated delights Won't you take y...

-Hell does not occur within the Pauline Corpus. In other words, Paul’s gospel is not proclaimed with the threatening backdrop of Hell looming over his hearers. It is the kindness of God that leads to repentance. The clos...

Key Scripture:Matthew 4.18~21 – And Jesus, walking by the Sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea:  for they were fishers.  And he saith unto the...

After our President's crushingly amoral affirmation of our right to torture terrorism suspects,  I thought I might as well pitch this completely unprovocative statement out there.  Of course, not one of us is i...

cry and beat my fists to the wall.ignorance, sacrifice

Behold! O man, thy soul was formed by God Himself. It is of a finer texture than the trodden clod—endowed with an intelligence of a higher nature than animal instinct. It is a vile degradation of its powers to feed it on...

Welcome back friends.  Today in my studies I was led to a passage in Isaiah.  Instantly, I knew it was of importance and I wrote it down.  Have you noticed the increase in self-transcendance lately?...

Every time I get around to thinking "You know, organized religions aren't so bad!", something like this comes along and knocks some sense into.Note:  I borrowed this from Lucia, and added my own special commentaries...

Back to the non-exclusivist thread-- Why is Matthew so relevant to the whole dealing-with-non-Christians thing?  It has a great deal to do with the context in which that story of Christ was written.&nbs...