If you’re a Catholic who regularly attends Mass, I’m sure you have noticed that the pews are not as crowded these days as they have been in the past. If your parish is like mine, you will also see the people in the seats predominantly have either gray or no hair. This is a growing and serious issue for the Catholic Church. Mass attendance is down significantly with fewer young people attending regularly. What has happened to cause this? Let’s... Read more
For Catholics, the family is at the center of God’s plan. God wants His children to be happy and live fulfilling lives. For many couples that includes having children. The world fertility rate, (number not children per woman), has been steadily falling since the 1970s and a growing number of couples who have struggled to have children have turned to artificial insemination as an aide to fulfill their dream. There are a myriad of reasons for these couples to turn... Read more
Catholics have been under attack for our beliefs going back centuries. Politicians of today are weaponizing the government against Catholics and our beliefs, in many cases to garner more votes for their campaigns. Many politicians are labeling Catholics “extremists” mostly due to our position on abortion, the sanctity of life, and gay marriage. Catholic values oppose society’s values that focus on the material world and individual rights, over the spiritual world and living the gospel. In the beginning …… America... Read more
Abortion has always been an emotional and controversial issue, and became even more so with the Supreme Court action to strike down the “Roe v Wade standard” in 2022. There has been an ongoing debate within the Catholic community as to whether politicians who support abortion and abortion rights should be denied the Eucharist, but as Catholics is this the right thing to do? Is this simply an emotional response or a truly Catholic response? The Bible and the Catholic Church have... Read more
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