Discussing the Resurrection with a Skeptic
Recently on The Faith Explained, a listener asked Cale what he thought were the top arguments for the Resurrection, and how specifically he would use those arguments to discuss it with someone who was skeptical of it. As some of you might know, this issue is very important to Cale because it was the Resurrection...Continue reading→
The Power to Cast Out Demons
Ever since the release of The Exorcist in 1973, Hollywood has held onto the genre of religious horror, never shying from the chance to give their audience a good scare, especially when the premises of the films are based on true stories. Even from an industry notorious for its secularistic and materialistic culture, it is...Continue reading→
The Feasts of Faith (Part II)
This is Part II of a discussion from The Faith Explained. You can read Part I here. Cale moved on to the next Hebrew feast, Rosh Hashanah, which translated means “head of the year” or “first of the year”. And, as the translation indicates, this celebration is the feast of the Jewish New Year. For...Continue reading→
Feasts of Faith
Just as we have major feast days in the Catholic Church, there are major feasts in the Old Testament that were celebrated by the Israelites. And interestingly enough, the feasts of the Old Testament directly foreshadow the ones in the New Testament. Cale Clarke spent a segment of The Faith Explained taking a look back...Continue reading→
Freedom of the Children of God
Our human dignity consists in being loved as God’s own sons and daughters, free to love in return. As Fr. Fernando Ocáriz relates: Our divine filiation enables our freedom to expand with all the strength that God has bestowed on it. It is not by emancipating ourselves from the Father’s house that we become free,...Continue reading→
The Catholic Church’s Teaching on Sexuality
NOTE: This article features some sensitive topics that may not be suitable for younger readers. Please use discretion. If you were to ask the average non-Catholic about the Catholic Church and it’s teaching on homosexuality and gender, it wouldn’t be shocking if you received an answer about how the Church is anti-gay and transphobic, or...Continue reading→
Did Jesus Reject the Old Testament Law of Moses?
“Morality is not man’s prison but rather the divine element in him … The morality that the Church teaches is not some special burden for Christians. It is the defense of man against the attempt to abolish him. If morality – as we have seen – is not the enslavement of man but his liberation,...Continue reading→
Returning to Gaudete et Exsultate
I thought it would be worthwhile to return to Pope Francis’ wonderful Apostolic Exhortation On the Call to Holiness in Today’s World—Gaudete et Exsultate, because this should be the goal of each one of us, as well as for the whole Church: holiness means the happiness that comes from union with God that reaches its...Continue reading→
Did Jesus Acknowledge His Divinity?
Recently on Twitter, a Mormon theology scholar by the name of Dan McClellan recently posted a video, making the argument that Jesus is not, nor has he ever in the New Testament claimed to be, God. “Jesus nowhere claims to be God in the New Testament. What Jesus claims is to be the authorized bearer...Continue reading→
The Christmas Star
“When Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea, in the days of King Herod, behold, magi from the east arrived in Jerusalem, saying, ‘Where is the newborn king of the Jews? We saw his star at its rising and have come to do him homage.’” (Matthew 2:1-2) It is widely held that a great new star...Continue reading→
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