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Sexual Abuse in the Church: A Catholic's Response

This Lenten and Easter season has been a tough time to be a Catholic. While American dioceses seem to have mostly put the scandal of sexual abuse of children by priests behind them, the recent explosion of reports of abu…
Father Augustine Tolton: A Convenient Cannonization?

On March 2, 2010, Cardinal Francis George of Chicago announced that a historical commission will be appointed to look into the life of Augustine Tolton, the first black priest in the United States. Augustine Tolton was…
Spiritual Thirst, and the Example of Saint Gregory the Theologian

Thirsty. The fresh, drinkable water was stored in barrels that had smashed along the side of the ship in the tussle of the storm. He and the crew were living The Rime of the Ancient Mariner centuries before Coleridge ima…
What Is Purgatory?

The Church gives the name Purgatory to this final purification of the elect, which is entirely different from the punishment of the damned. The Church formulated her doctrine of faith on Purgatory especially at the Cou…
Catholicism: Does This Define my Faith?

Sometimes I find myself at odds with my faith, more times than I’d like to admit. I no longer rebel against it; I find comfort in it, but I will still question it even if it is the best thing in my life. I gain communi…
Debunked: Misconceptions Of The Catholic Church

I enjoy reading this site. I really do. I appreciate when people can come together and have intelligent respectful and eye opening conversations. In light of that, I've been thinking about something recently that I wo…
Inconsistencies of the Catholic Church.

Today I watched a documentary on HBO called Boy Interrupted about Evan Perry, a bipolar boy who committed suicide. When they were showing his funeral, I started thinking about what was wrong with that picture.Although I…
What Do You Believe In?

Yesterday my lab partner and I got into a discussion about religion. She went to the Catholic school I went to in my younger years, and we were talking about our experiences with religion. Even though my mom decided t…
They're Going to Hell?

First of all, I should tell you that I'm fairly naive when it comes to different religons. I know quite a bit about my own, and what I thought was a considerable amount about others, but I'm learning more and more how…
I'm a "Recovering Catholic"

Every now and again, the subject of religion comes up and people ask me what religion I belong to. If you want to split hairs (which I do), I would identify myself as a "recovering Catholic," meaning I was raised Cathol…