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Cafeteria Catholics, Protestantism

If you are Catholic, you learn that God made the answer to big questions of life, first of all “why do we exist?”, simple: to be happy now and forever. The second and last question is: how can we be happy now and forever. Once again simple: by desiring to and following God’s will in… Continue reading The Big Questions

Church Crisis

      There is a big difference between the classical definition of a priest and the more recent (within the 500 years) purpose of a minister to lead a congregation in prayer and to spread as well as explain the “scriptures” of a particular protestant denomination (definition for priest see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priest).  This is not to minimize… Continue reading Difference Between Being a Catholic Priest and being a Protestant Minister

      The crisis in the church along with how it came to be and why the church is hemorrhaging adherents and not getting as many priestly and religious vocations as in the 1950s despite the lessening of many of the former disciplinary rules, may be a complex problem and therefore I will describe as part… Continue reading Reasons for the Church Crisis

       In my blog on the Beatific Vision, I spoke about how at judgement, all would see what they did during life, how it adversely affected the world and how the world would have been had they not done the terrible things they did and for those that did good how their good affected the… Continue reading We will Freely Choose our Final Destination After Death

Was unable to generate a blog during father’s day because I decided to spend a week with my son. In the future, I will try to take advantage of the fact that you can queue up future blogs to publish at a certain time. This is actually a planned section of a book I plan… Continue reading Christ’s Truth about Happiness and How it Aligns with Its Concept in the Mind of One of the Greatest Secular Philosophers – Aristotle

        What is the Beatific Vision? The Beatific Vision is the direct knowledge of God enjoyed by the blessed in heaven.  I believe that not everyone could “enjoy” the Beatific Vision. That is why Jesus Christ, the man, is who all will see, at least at judgment and at that time will be appraised of… Continue reading The Beatific Vision

    Theology for Beginners by F. J. Sheed, 1957, published by Sheed & Ward. (there is a newer reprint) From the hardback jacket: Theology for Beginners begins with some of the reasons why the laity should bother with theology at all, showing it as food and light for the soul. Without it one might live… Continue reading Intermediate Catholic Theology and Christian Philosophy books