Catholics really like sacred scripture. In fact we just plain love the Bible and the Church fully asserts that it is written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, that they have God as their author. Now some will drop their jaws at this and say “whaaaaat!” Don’t you Catholics believe plenty of things that [...]
Catholics love lists. They’ve inherited this trait from their Jewish forebears. Adam named the animals, and Noah probably used a list to make sure he got them all on the ark. His descendants made sure they included long lists of geneology in their sacred Scripture. Eventually they graduated into discreet quantities:12 Tribes of Israel, The [...]
Catholics can’t remember anything, God bless us. With great effort and much discipline we can sometimes remember the Gospel until the homily starts, but most of couldn’t guess the number of readings done on Sunday let alone the subject matter. We enjoy Palm Sunday when the Gospel is written out like a play and we [...]
I’m talking about Sanctification–making things holy. Or more accurately, turning things over to God, to be used for his purposes. Catholics do this all the time–usually with the help of a priest. We do it to patron saint medals, strings of beads, necklaces–things that for non-Catholics are jewelry, we have blessed, made holy, sanctified, and [...]
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 [...]
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. Wild. But Catholics [...]
