The divinity of the Holy Spirit was infallibly defined at the First Council of Constantinople in A.D. 381, but not everyone accepts the fact that the Holy Spirit is a divine Person–one of the three Persons of the Blessed Trinity. For example, Jehovah’s Witnesses claim that the Holy Spirit is merely God’s “energy” or “active [...]
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Wouldn’t it be nice is the devil and his angels all repented, stopped doing evil in the world, and turned back to God so that they could be saved? But can something like this really happen? What is the biblical evidence and how does the Church understand this question? If you like the information I’ve [...]
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This Saturday, December 8th, is the feast of the Immaculate Conception. It celebrates an important point of Catholic teaching, and it is a holy day of obligation. Here are 8 things you need to know about the teaching and the way we celebrate it. 1. Who does the Immaculate Conception refer to? There’s a [...]
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As someone who came to the Catholic faith from Evangelicalism, one of the doctrines that I had to deal with was purgatory. Upon starting work as an apologist, I had to dig even deeper into the subject, and I discovered that over the course of time it has been understood in different ways. One of [...]
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There is a common argument used against the idea of purgatory in some circles which goes like this: “St. Paul says that ‘to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord’ (2 Cor. 5:8). It’s that simple: If you’re a Christian and you aren’t in your body then you are with [...]
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At least that is not the common understanding in Catholic theology. Over the past couple of days, we’ve seen that the word “eternal” can be understood in more than one way. God is eternal in the sense of being completely beyond time. And some have made an unsuccessful argument for human souls leaving time and [...]
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At some point in their lives, virtually everyone has wondered whether they can be forgiven for what they’ve done. The good news is, they can! But sometimes the doubts linger, particularly for people with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and particularly in connection with certain passages in the Bible, such as some in the book of Hebrews [...]
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This Sunday is Pentecost, and to celebrate, I have made a special video in which I demonstrate a simple way that you can show that the Holy Spirit is a divine Person. The divinity of the Holy Spirit was infallibly defined at the First Council of Constantinople in A.D. 381, but not everyone accepts the [...]
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This Sunday’s readings deal with one of the most important events in Christian history. Although the majority of Christians have little or no knowledge of the event, a pivotal moment in the history of the Church is recorded in Acts 10. This event is the conversion of the household of the Roman centurion Cornelius, and [...]
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This week the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in Rome mandated a thoroughgoing reform of the largest leadership conference for women religious in the United States. In an exclusive interview, Ann Carey joins Jimmy Akin to go in-depth on this dramatic announcement, why it happened, what it means, and what may happen next. [...]
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