Reasons to Believe by Scott Hahn is everything that I expected it to be.  This book is great because it goes beyond the typical apologetics fare that we have grown used to from Hahn and his compatriots.  Reasons goes into the basic reasons for our faith as a whole.  It provides ways to talk to […]

New from the makers of the Great Adventure Through The Bible series…Adventures in Revelation.  This 10 week study comes in DVD or CD format, and includes study binders for all participants.  The set will help you to understand the context and meaning of many of the often misunderstood images and prophesies in Revelation by looking […]

I doubt that we shook our evangelical friend’s faith or his resolve to save Catholics, but we at least showed him that there were Catholics who knew their Bible and could challenge him with some tough questions about his views of the church and the Bible.  I am firmly convinced that any Catholic who knows […]

We turned the conversation to the authority of scripture and the Catholic church.  We pointed out that if the Bible was the only source of authority in matters of faith, then the Bible should state that or else the teaching would not be from the Bible.  He started spouting off verses, so we pulled out […]

A few years ago, I was riding on the Chicago Metra to a conference when my wife and I decided to pull our our rosaries for a little prayer time.  Within 10 minutes, a nice young man came down from the upper level of the train to talk with us about why the rosary was a […]

Here is a litte Catholic Lenten Humor that my aunt sent me today:
 Each Friday night after work, Bubba would fire up his outdoor
grill and cook a venison steak. But all of Bubba’s neighbors were
Catholic….and since it was Lent, they were forbidden from eating
meat on Friday. The delicious aroma from the grilled venison
steaks was causing such […]

I think that everyone knows about the Hannity Catholic Controversy by now, so I won’t waste time going over the details.  However, I did want to throw in my 2 cents worth on the groups that are calling for a boycott of Hannity.  I have felt for a few years that Hannity was more the […]

With the continued growth of all kinds of media, especially internet and mobile communications, you’d think that books in print are are dying breed.  Not so.  Books are more popular than ever.  According to Forbes, people are reading more than ever, and it’s due in large part to the internet.  Although many people are reading […]

Pope Benedict XVI had a good thing to say about faith conversion in his general audience on Ash Wednesday with about 10,000 in attendence. By way of the Vatican Information Service:
“Conversion,” the Holy Father explained, is not something that happens once and for all, it is a […]

Recently I started reading a new book called Memorize the Faith! (and Most Anything Else): Using the Methods of the Great Catholic Medieval Memory Masters - by Dr. Kevin Vost, PSY.D. Originally, I was intrigued by the book’s description which states: “By the time you finish this book, you will have memorized dozens of […]