National Catholic Register, Kevin Di Camillo: The opening page of the Douay-Rheims translation of the Bible contains a curiosity that I’ve never quite been able to figure out. Instead of simply the usual imprimatur/nihil obstat, the copyright page reads: Approbation of … Continue reading
Here are my clues: My name occurs four times in Holy Scripture, all in the Old Testament. Three of those four times the passage speaks of me; the other time, it is another woman that is spoken of with the … Continue reading
Community in Mission, Msgr. Charles Pope: The Gospel for Tuesday of the 22nd Week of the Year features Jesus casting out a demon, easily dispatching it. There is another parable, however, in which a cast-out demon returns with seven others. It is puzzling … Continue reading
And Judas that betrayed him, answering, said: Is it I, Rabbi? He saith to him: Thou hast said it (Matthew 26:25) Jesus saith to him: Thou hast said it. Nevertheless I say to you, hereafter you shall see the Son of … Continue reading
Karlo Broussard addresses this question in a Catholic Answers piece. It is quite good. He points out that when scripture uses the word “reckon” in regard to our justification by God’s grace that it can only mean that God affirms … Continue reading
“Jesus saith to her: Do not touch me, for I am not yet ascended to my Father. But go to my brethren, and say to them: I ascend to my Father and to your Father, to my God and your … Continue reading
Dr. Taylor Marshall: Our Lord Jesus Christ founded a New Israel with Himself as Davidic King and with Twelve Apostles initiating the new Twelve Tribes of Israel. This is the Messianic Kingdom of the Church. As one who connects the … Continue reading
Due to the fact that my mystery guest is so well known, I had to be extra clever with my clues. In fact, reading them, you may easily be led astray, nevertheless, I assure you, when this person is revealed, … Continue reading
Fatima Perspectives, Chris Ferrara: The late Joe Sobran, writing back in 2010, coined the term “Darwiniac” to describe the fanatical ideologues who promote Darwinian and Neo-Darwinian evolutionism in the public schools and who succeeded in persuading a federal judge that … Continue reading
Catholic Herald, Dave Armstrong: We are required to believe in Mary’s perpetual virginity, meaning that she was always a virgin and had no other children, and that Jesus’ birth was a miraculous one, not in any particular hypothesis accounting for … Continue reading
Could he have been 33, as was Our Lord whom he prefigured? I want to agree with Scott Smith that it was fitting that he was 33. The Scott Smith Blog: Imagine Abraham and Isaac. Imagine the man that God … Continue reading
But after I shall be risen again, I will go before you into Galilee (Matthew 26:32). And going quickly, tell ye his disciples that he is risen: and behold he will go before you into Galilee; there you shall see … Continue reading
On the first Easter Sunday, the day when Jesus Christ rose from the dead, He made Himself known on six occasions. The great Benedictine Abbot Dom Gueranger refers to the six incidents as “apparitions” and he supplies extremely valuable commentaries … Continue reading
This is an interesting account of the translation of Adam’s bones to Noah and on to Melchisedeck who was the Priest/King of Salem (Jerusalem). Melchisedeck placed them on a hill outside the city. Even the Jews of Our Lord’s time … Continue reading
Though it is not a defined dogma, the future conversion of the Jewish nation to the Faith is a common teaching of the Fathers and Doctors, inferred directly from Holy Scripture. This mass conversion (which need not be absolutely total) … Continue reading
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