Catholics already think God is ineffably cool just because He’s God. Miracles show God’s presence in a more tangible way. Many people are so deeply impressed by miracles that they become Catholics. Miracles also show that God has a great sense of humor, or at least a deep appreciation of the ironic. Catholics like miracles [...]
Not as in “The Knights who say NI!!!“, but the body part. Catholics like knees. More importantly, Catholics like being on their knees. It’s a sign of respect, humility, and in some rare cases, the opposite of humility, “God, I thank you that I am not like that politician…”.
Men have at times [...]
Since the publication of the Gutenberg Bible using movable type several hundred years ago, Catholics have always seemed on the back end of trends.
Can you name anything that Catholics can claim as their own since, say, the 1600’s? Let’s take a look at the list:
Bible covers. If you are Protestant you can find a cover [...]
Baptism is a ceremony where naked babies are dunked into small pool like fonts then paraded around the church by a priest or deacon so the assembly can see the babies’ naked body parts. This ceremony can be risky as sudden exposure to the cold church air, a plunge into the cold font water, [...]
Never mind that Thomas the Apostle had to poke the risen Christ before exclaiming, “My Lord and my God!” It’s no secret that Catholics love mystery. Much of what we hold most dear defies easy, rational explanation – the Virgin Birth, the Resurrection of Christ Jesus, the Ascension of the Lord, the Assumption of Mary, [...]
Catholics like sex.
OK, now that you have picked yourself up off the floor, dusted yourself off…one would have surmised this surprising fact from the post Catholics Like Babies, eh? Because, you may have noticed, the first often leads to the second. Like it is some kind of natural consequence or something. [...]
Give Us A Hand– Catholics Love Relics!
“In Budapest, the procession of the faithful was led by the Holy Right Hand of St. Stephen” was the lead in an article on the basilica there. And no, the Holy Right Hand is not an organization calling itself that. The “Holy Right” is the mummified right hand [...]
Is is not only the Seraphim surrounding our Lord in the Beatific Vision that like saying the word holy as we learn in the Book of Isaiah. Catholics really like saying the word holy also. We talk about the Holy Trinity, the Holy Spirit, the Holy Family, the Holy Cross, Holy Redeemer, the Holy [...]
If you aren’t Catholic, you may have gotten the idea from watching television shows from the 1960s or even old movies like, “On the Waterfront,” that priests are really important. Now, if confession or receiving the Body and Blood of Jesus is a Catholic’s thing, then yes, priests are very significant. For other Catholics, [...]
While it’s true that your average student at a Catholic College wonders almost daily why thinking about God needs to be so dang hard when Jesus loves us anyway, most Catholics come to nourish a certain pride in accomplishment that we have some kick-butt theology coming from our ranks.
Savor this, if you will:
“But what was [...]
