Sometimes atheists claim that God endorses rape because Deuteronomy says it’s okay to force women you’ve captured in wartime to marry you. Is that true? Let’s look at the issue . . . Captive Brides (NOTE: This post is part of a series on the “dark passages” of the Bible. Click here to see [...]
Sacraments
You sometimes hear about people being asked to delay receiving the sacraments because they are not performed at certain times of year–like Advent or Lent or Holy Week or Good Friday or other days. There are a few restrictions on the times when sacraments can be celebrated, but not as many as people think. Recently [...]
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A reader writes: I am caught in the odd–maybe not uncommon–situation of my Catholic godson getting married in the Church to a non-Catholic, yet, based on reasonable presumption, not living a Catholic life, not attending Mass, not having anything to with the Church practically, etc. and presumably having no intention of doing so in the [...]
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When the bread and wine become the Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ at Mass, the change is permanent. It remains so long as the appearances of bread and wine do. This has implications for how we treat the consecrated elements after Mass is over. Hosts that remain are stored in a Tabernacle, [...]
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A page on CNN’s web site is headlined: Jesus Christ ice pops made from frozen, inadvertently blessed wine. No, we can’t believe we typed that, either. The story goes on to explain: Sebastian Errazuriz has used art to take on an array of issues: New York’s death rate, the Occupy movement, military suicide, children with [...]
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Recently an article on the Internet that claims same-sex “marriage” used to be a Christian rite has been trending. It’s been cited repeatedly, in many different places, and Jimmy has gotten multiple queries about how to respond to it. In this video episode of the Jimmy Akin Podcast, Jimmy discusses the piece, where it came [...]
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According to something on Yahoo called “Shine,” Last week, Nadine Schweigert married herself in a symbolic wedding ceremony. The 36-year-old divorced mom of three wore blue satin and clutched a bouquet of white roses as she walked down the aisle before a gathering of 45 friends and family members in Fargo, North Dakota. She vowed [...]
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Today on Catholic Answers Live a caller said that his priest was discouraging from confessing his mortal sins by number because this was a “pre-Vatican II” thing. I assured him that it was not and that I would follow up on the blog with a post-Vatican II, authoritative source, so here goes. From the Code [...]
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The Register recently asked me to do a post on what I saw at Mass this Sunday, the first Sunday of Advent, the first Sunday using the new translation of the Roman Missal. Happy to oblige! So here’s what happened . . . I arrived at Mass a few minutes early and took my seat [...]
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You often hear that Jesus and the apostles quoted from the deuterocanonical books of the Bible–those that aren’t in the Protestant Old Testament. Did they? If not, what does the New Testament’s use of the Old Testament tell us about the canonicity of those books? In Acts 8 Luke describes a situation where a group [...]
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