The Facts: Only 30% of Americans who were raised Catholic are still "practicing" - meaning they attend Mass at least once a month. Only 15% are at Mass on a given weekend. Nearly 4 times as many adults have left the Catholic Church as have … [Read more...]
From Peter Kreeft's You Can Understand the Bible: Matthew's Gospel is the first book of the New Testament, not because it was written first - some of Paul's epistles take that honour - but because it's the bridge between the Old and New … [Read more...]
From Peter Kreeft's You Can Understand the Bible: The word gospel is a modernization of the Old English gospell (or God-spell), meaning "good news." The original Greek word is eu-angellos (Latin, evangelium) meaning "good message." The … [Read more...]
From Peter Kreeft's You Can Understand the Bible: The Book of Revelation, or the Apocalypse, the only prophetic book in the New Testament, is surely the strangest and hardest to interpret of all the books of the Bible. It is a visionary, highly … [Read more...]
From Peter Kreeft's You Can Understand the Bible:Jude was the "brother of James" (v.1) who was Jesus' "brother", that is, his cousin (Mk 6:3, Mt 13:55). This makes Jude one of Jesus' relatives too. These relatives did not believe in Jesus until after … [Read more...]
From Peter Kreeft's You Can Understand the Bible: First John - Sharing God's Very Life Profound, yet simple letter addressed to his spiritual children written by the Apostle John in his old age. One of John's purposes is to combat … [Read more...]
From Peter Kreeft's You Can Understand the Bible:Peter's two letters are full of sound advice and exhortations for daily Christian living. Peter's letters, like James', are practical.Peter had taken the centre of Church authority to the centre of the … [Read more...]
Fr. Casey - Talk 1 - We are in Battle! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlpTFUqOkj0 Fr. Casey - Talk 2 - The Devil: Liar and Murderer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7SE5FjauCk Fr. Casey - Talk 3 - Spiritual Battle of our … [Read more...]
From Peter Kreeft's You Can Understand the Bible: The author of the Epistle of James was probably not the James who was one of Jesus' twelve disciples, John's brother. That James was martyred very early, probably in 44 AD. The author was probably … [Read more...]
From Peter Kreeft's You Can Understand the Bible: No one but God knows who wrote Hebrews, or to whom. As Romans is the world's first systematic theology, Hebrews is the first apologetic for the Christian faith. Hebrews argues for the … [Read more...]
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