It was bishop Fulton J. Sheen who said, “There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate The Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be.” It is helpful to contemplate how the Church came to exist, and the price our Lord paid to give birth to her.
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Ecclesiology and the Four Marks of the Church
The study of ecclesiology leads to an understanding of the Church as an organic, visible and invisible, earthly and heavenly reality governed by a structured and hierarchical leadership, bearing the four marks of authenticity flowing from her divine foundation.
The Necessity of the Visible Church and Her Authority
It is to the benefit of all Christians to be concerned with and to live by what is really true. Our non-Catholic and/or Protestant brethren today often continue to adhere to the Bible as the only governing authority and the sole rule of faith. They see no requirement for a visible, structured and hierarchically ordered Church. However, the Word of God says otherwise.
An Advent Story: Do You Want To Become A New Person?
Have you ever wanted to become a new person, and live out a new, exciting and fulfilling life? Has the universal human experience of dissatisfaction and emptiness in earthly life given rise to a thirst for change within you?
The Holy Trinity and the Temporal Mission of God
Holy Trinity Sunday. God is one and God is Three. One God, who is three Divine Persons. Explore the Catholic dogma of the Holy Trinity, the foundation of the Christian divine faith, and the temporal mission of God by which the incarnate Son is sent into the world in order to rescue man from his sins.