The Original Walking Dead: Why Jesus isn’t a zombie
This past Sunday, Christians around the world celebrated Easter, the commemoration of Jesus’ resurrection from the dead. Next Sunday night, fans of Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead will…
resurrection of christ
#421 Why are there differences in the gospel accounts of the Resurrection story?
On this week’s episode, we get out our Bibles and do a little compare/contrast with the gospels. (Fr. Dave recommends the book Gospel Parallels for…
We live and die; Christ died and lived! — John Stott
Fast from the need to be in control today. Pray for anyone in your life who may be struggling with illness. Give an hour to…
Did Mary Magdalene marry Jesus?
Dan Brown created quite a stir with his book The Da Vinci Code and the resulting movie in which he purports that the Church has…
Is the story of the loaves and the fishes really a miracle, as in a supernatural experience where Jesus literally changes a little bit of food into a whole bunch? I heard a priest tell me it was just about “sharing.”
Miracles require faith and faith has no proof. Catholic tradition holds that Jesus’ multiplication of the loaves and fishes (the only miracle told by all…
100 words (give or take) on… Resurrection
Catholics believe that Jesus rose from the dead after being crucified, that this is a real event in history and has been verified by sacred…
Easter
Return to the Lent calendar. Easter John 20:1-9 On the first day of the week, Mary of Magdala came to the tomb early in the…
Why are prayers in the Catholic Mass spoken in the present tense?
It’s true that the Mass is a remembering of the death and resurrection of Christ. But it’s a particular kind of remembering that involves an…
Paranormal Activity
Attempts to contact or communicate with the spirits of the dead are warned against both in Scripture (Deuteronomy 18:10-12, Leviticus 19:31, I Samuel 28:8) and…
