Protestants deny that good works can be meritorious (i.e., rewarded by God), but St. Augustine taught that our merit was merely God “crowning his own gifts.” That’s what the Catholic Church teaches.

The Gospel message always aims to alter our perceptions. Discipleship carries no insurance policy. Following Jesus is a risky ...

The Catholic OT Canon includes - Tobit ... incest in Genesis 19:32 and inhumanity in Psalm 137:9. Also in Hosea 1:2, God commands the prophet Hosea to marry a woman who would commit adultery.

The Roman Catholic Church has consistently condemned ... Did not the same one fashion us before our birth?" (Jb 31:15). In Psalm 139:13, we pray, "Truly you have formed my inmost being; you ...

But there is one reason not to feel shame, and that is for being a Catholic. However, there are false reasons for attaching shame to being a Catholic. It is important to spell these out so that ...

Just two months before the Synod of Bishops gathers again in Rome, its Latin American members met to discuss how synodality can be implemented in the Catholic Church after the close of the ...

Second, it should draw worshipers beyond themselves and into a relationship with things that transcend their particular place and time: the universal church, a rich Catholic tradition and ...

That is what the Clarkston football team can say after winning the program's first state championship in the school's long history by topping Detroit Catholic Central, 32-14, on Saturday afternoon ...

The Catholic University of America is a private institution that was founded in 1887. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 3,139 (fall 2023), and the campus size is 176 acres. It utilizes a ...

Mayfield’s JD Dinnen goes for a tackle during the Wildcats’ 32-26 come-from-behind win at Elyria Catholic on Aug. 30. (Joe Colon — For The News-Herald) “It’s belief, man. Our kids believ ...

A seminary on Flores, a Catholic-majority island in Indonesia ... the head of the rectorate office. Aurelio Morghan, 32, is one of the 48 seminarians at Ledalero scheduled to be ordained in ...