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An Ancient Miracle: Great Balls of Fire!

Did you know that the Emperor Julian the Apostate tried to disprove the prophecies of Jesus about the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem by attempting to re build the temple? Stephen Beale tells the fascinating story here. From the time of Constantine to the French Revolution, he is the only Christian monarch ever to [Read More...]

Read, Mark and Learn – Day 25

One of the best things about reading a gospel through from beginning to end is that we can see the stories we are so familiar with in their context. We can see how they relate to the other stories and therefore what the big teaching points are. This week is the end of the Lent [Read More...]

Rapture or Rupture?

Go here for my latest article for Integrated Catholic Life–on the Protestant idea of the rapture. This used to scare us as kids, “Would we be ‘Left Behind’?” In fact, thinking back, it is not only a pretty effective preaching scare system–”All the good people will be taken by Jesus and you’ll be left here [Read More...]

The Absurdity of Evil

Here is my latest post for Catholic Online:  An exorcist told me one of the most disturbing and maddening things about exorcism is that one can rarely diagnose the problem completely. “You see,” he said, “the devil is a liar and the father of lies. Once you have identified the demon you don’t know if [Read More...]

Jesuit Priest Executed in Syria

London’s Daily Telegraph reports here on the death of Dutch Jesuit priest Francis Van der Lugt. A Dutch priest who had refused to leave the besieged Syrian city of Homs in solidarity with its residents, was on Monday beaten and then shot dead in his monastery by a masked gunman. During more than three years [Read More...]

Is the Garden of Eden Lost Beneath the Persian Gulf?

A new theory reported here about the origins of man suggests that the earliest human settlements are now below the Persian Gulf. Veiled beneath the Persian Gulf, a once-fertile landmass may have supported some of the earliest humans outside Africa some 75,000 to 100,000 years ago, a new review of research suggests. At its peak, [Read More...]

Read, Mark and Learn – Day 24

Lent has zoomed by! This is the last week of the Blobble Study. I will be too busy during Holy Week to continue. I hope you enjoyed what we have done. It looks like we will not get all the way through the Gospel of Mark, but I encourage you to continue reading through Holy [Read More...]

Are the Apostles Asleep?

During the last week the battle cry of the proponents of same sex marriage has gone up with a whoop. A chief executive of a major company was forced out of office for a donation to a pro trad marriage campaign. The baying crowd hounded a Catholic nun who dared to uphold Catholic teaching in [Read More...]

Are the Disciples Asleep?

During the last week the battle cry of the proponents of same sex marriage has gone up with a whoop. A chief executive of a major company was forced out of office for a donation to a pro trad marriage campaign. The baying crowd hounded a Catholic nun who dared to uphold Catholic teaching in [Read More...]

“Catholic” Nancy Pelosi Accepts Racist Eugenicist Award

Life Site News reports here on the reprehensible Nancy Pelosi accepting the Planned Parenthood Margaret Sanger Award. Pelosi said pro lifers were ‘dumb’ for believing life began at conception. At Planned Parenthood’s annual gala last night attendees…  watch[ed] Nancy Pelosi receive the Margaret Sanger award for her work defending abortion rights. In her acceptance speech, [Read More...]