St. Peter's Basilica, Rome

IX. Laypeople

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

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, [...]

VI. Babies

Monday, April 28th, 2008

Catholics like babies. No, scratch that – Catholics love babies. It’s not that Catholics love babies more than other religious denominations, it’s that they like having as many babies as possible in accordance to the number that God is willing to bestow upon the family. Though the US average of babies per [...]

I. Rome

Monday, April 7th, 2008

When someone says “home of the whore of Babylon” Catholics get warm fuzzies. But what else would you expect from those who acknowledge Rome as the capital of their religion? In all honesty, Rome really gets a bad rap from Protestants. Where else can you trip over thousands of years worth of history, get robbed [...]