Every Good Friday, Catholics hear a sermon about the crucifixion of Jesus. Perhaps that sermon may reference Temple leaders calling for Jesus’ crucifixion or...
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Listen on: Apple | Google | Spotify In the early days of the church, death by crucifixion was still seen as something scandalous and shameful. It is generally...
Listen on: Apple | Google | Spotify What is the point of Lenten fasting for Catholics? The practice has come to be so intertwined with wellness culture that if...
Listen on: Apple | Google | Spotify The Catholic Church has a vast panoply of canonized saints, some obscure, others well-known, others so popular they have...
The short answer to this question is no. Gender is something that belongs to humans; God is beyond gender. But because we believe in a personal God, and people...
Eating fish on Fridays, especially during Lent, is a well-known Catholic tradition that has been practiced for centuries. The custom takes different forms from...
Listen on: Apple | Google | Spotify The idea of life–especially intelligent life–on other planets has long captured the contemporary imagination. Despite the...
A common misunderstanding about Catholicism is that the church has preset answers to every possible moral or theological question, and that discussion about...
Beads and booze. Food and fats. Dancing and drinking. Pleasures and pączki. OK. The last one is more of a Chicago thing. Pączki are Polish pastries enjoyed by...
Growing up, I assumed that the Catholic Church taught that people who were not Christian could not go to heaven. That view never sat well with me, so it was a...
