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How Can We Have Free Will If God Knows the Future?
[embedded content]A lot of people think that if God knows what we’re going to do ahead of time, then we have no free will. But that’s a huge mistake—and to see why, you’ll need to watch to the end of this short video. Classical theism holds that God is omniscient, meaning that he knows everything, and this means that he knows the future. This is how God lets the biblical prophets know what’s going...
Diocese of San Diego Bans Catholic Homeschool Groups on Parish Properties; Non-Catholic Schools Allowed to Remain…
San Diego diocese bans homeschool groups on parish properties Skip to content A newly issued policy in the Diocese of San Diego forbids homeschool groups from using space at area parishes, while allowing parishes to rent space to non-Catholic schools on a case-by-case basis. St. Joseph’s Cathedral in San Diego, California. Credit: Nehrams2020/wikimedia. CC BY SA 3.0 Some homeschooling ...
Weaving a Web of Faith
“Through reading Your Word, I’ve seen that waiting, trusting, and hoping are intricately connected— like golden strands woven together to form a strong chain. I think of trusting as the central strand because this attitude is taught so frequently throughout the Bible. Waiting and hoping embellish the central strand and strengthen the chain that connects me to You.” – Jesus Listens, April 15th When...
Pope Francis Names New Consultors to Vatican’s DDF, Including Controversial Theologian Father Maurizio Chiodi…
By Hannah Brockhaus Vatican City, Sep 23, 2024 / 11:45 am Pope Francis has named 28 new consultors to the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, including moral theologian Father Maurizio Chiodi, who has expressed opinions contrary to Church teaching. Chiodi, a moral theologian, has come under media scrutiny in recent years for suggesting contraception use in marriage could be morally ...
Gigantic Wave in Pacific Ocean Was the Most Extreme ‘Rogue Wave’ on Record…
animation of a grid representing a giant rogue wave In November of 2020, a freak wave came out of the blue, lifting a lonesome buoy off the coast of British Columbia 17.6 meters high (58 feet). The four-story wall of water was finally confirmed in February 2022 as the most extreme rogue wave ever recorded at the time. Such an exceptional event is thought to occur only once every 1,300 years. And u...
The Canon of the Bible: Who Decided What Made It In?
Despite the multitude of Christian denominations that have sprung up over the last 500 years, there seem to have been few, if any, important divisions among Christians about the authenticity of the canon of the New Testament since the Catholic Church promulgated it at the Council of Rome more than 1,600 years ago. I. The Genesis of this Topic St. John Henry Newman, the great 19th century English c...
Let us love purely and be open to life…
25th Sunday in Ordinary TimeBy Fr Victor Feltes What is the act of eating for? It is good for eating and drinking to be enjoyable, but they are intended for supporting life. What if people tasted but refused to consume? What if it became common and culturally accepted for people to eat and expel their meals without digestion? A normalization of bulimia would obviously be very unhealthy. It would b...
Kamala Harris to Skip Al Smith Dinner, Traditional New York Catholic Charities Event for Major Presidential Candidates…
PHOENIX (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris will skip this year’s Al Smith charity dinner in New York, breaking with presidential tradition so she can campaign instead in a battleground state less than three weeks before Election Day. The dinner benefitting Catholic Charities traditionally has been used to promote collegiality and good humor, with presidential candidates from both parties appearin...
Will We Be Free in Heaven?
Skip to content It would seem that we are not free in heaven. If there is not even a possibility of falling from heaven, then can we say that we are there freely or are we there against our will? To navigate this paradox, we can look to Dante Alighieri’s masterpiece, The Divine Comedy. In the poem, Dante’s guide, Virgil, bids farewell after leading him through hell and purgatory. His parting ...
This Sunday, You Don’t Have To Be the Greatest. Let Jesus Embrace You Like a Child…..
Take a walk with Jesus through your childhood neighborhood this Sunday, in the readings for the 25th Sunday of Ordinary Time, Year B. Be yourself around him, acting just as you always do — too willing to ignore Jesus and too willing to assert your ego. That is what the Apostles do, and they learn a remarkable insight about spiritual childhood. This Sunday’s Gospel passage would be funny if it didn...
What Does God Really Want?
[embedded content] I want to talk about something fundamental. We’re going to discuss what God really wants—the most important thing to God. So here are 9 mysteries concerning this subject What God Really Wants The thing that God really wants from us is love, and there are several ways we know this. One of the ways is that Scripture flat-out tells us that God himself is love. In 1 John 4, we read:...
When “rights” are severed from responsibilities, the public square becomes a gladiatorial pit …
In her prescient book, Rights Talk: The Impoverishment of Political Discourse, Mary Ann Glendon of the Harvard Law School warned her fellow Americans in 1993 that our public life was being degraded by the promiscuous use of the language of “rights” as a rhetorical intensifier in campaigns to promote this, that, or the other thing: things that the Founders and Framers would never have imagined to b...
