Articles in 'Mary & The Saints'
The most famous birth announcement
The most famous birth announcement
By Paul Couturier
The birth of a newborn child is an exciting event! The news of a new birth travels fast among immediate and extended family members. Between the telephone and all the social media we have today, the grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and other extended family members all know usually within 12 hours!
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Evidence for the Existence of God from Experience, Part 13: Miracles
Evidence for the Existence of God from Experience, Part 13: Miracles
By Bob Hunt
Over the course of humanity’s time on Earth, men and women have experienced, either as the beneficiaries of or witnesses to, extraordinary events that couldn’t otherwise be explained by the ordinary workings of the natural world. These are miracles. Miracles are events that are extraordinary.
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Christ-Mass!
Christ-Mass!
By De Maria
In this secular world, Christians decry the fact that non-Christians have taken Christ out of Christmas. But that was bound to happen after non-Catholic Christians took the Mass out of Christmas. Christ-mas is Christes Masse, or the Mass of Christ.
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Are you really a strong Christian?
Are you really a strong Christian?
By Wesley Falcao
There are two basic principles that I have come to understand and live out as a Christian. They are so simple and yet so profound that I wish I had understood them a lot earlier!
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Analysis of a Conversion - Why I left the Catholic Church, party time
Analysis of a Conversion - Why I left the Catholic Church, party time
By De Maria
I think it was St. Francis of Assisi or it might have been St. John Vianney, who, having passed by a bar where everyone was singing and enjoying themselves, arrived in Church to witness all the sad faces and quipped, "No wonder the bars are full. Who would want to be a Christian after looking at your gloomy faces?"
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His Presence
His Presence
By Lorrie McNickle
As I sat in Exposition, about a half dozen people with children raucously entered the church and began roaming around taking seats up front by the altar, where are Dear Lord and Savior was exposed in the Monstrance. They were talking with each other in load voices, neglecting any reverence for the Holy Sacrament, and even yelling across the Church at one point.
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The Point of the Lance
The Point of the Lance
By Kathleen Troost-Cramer
In a world gone one hundred percent off its proverbial rocker, the question arises: Should Christians condone armed resistance to ISIS and its ilk? Most timely for the United States is the “gun issue”, on which all contenders in the current election cycle are weighing in.
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Mary, Mary, I'm Contrary: How to Own Your Spiritual Mother
Mary, Mary, I'm Contrary: How to Own Your Spiritual Mother
By Gwen Evans
I know you are out there, but you are keeping your head down.You may be a convert to Catholicism, an under forty Catholic who just never “got it,”, or a victim of that Intimidating Perfection from the time you could hold the beads in your stubby little fingers. You are the Catholic who doesn’t “get” Mary. You feel a little ashamed, a little annoyed, and confounded as to what to do next.
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Seven things that might surprise you, about the Shroud of Turin
Seven things that might surprise you, about the Shroud of Turin
By De Maria
The Shroud of Turin is the cloth with which Jesus Christ was wrapped after the Crucifixion. Some people would say, the alleged cloth with which He was wrapped. But the matter has been proved to me beyond a shadow of a doubt. Why?
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Did Mary Have Labor Pains?: Why The Miracle of Christ's Birth Is Often Underestimated
Did Mary Have Labor Pains?: Why The Miracle of Christ's Birth Is Often Underestimated
By Nate Lauer
I have come to the realization that a majority of Christians underestimate just how magnificent, marvelous, and miraculous was the birth of Christ Jesus.
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Evidence for the Existence of God from Experience, Part 9: Truth
Evidence for the Existence of God from Experience, Part 9: Truth
By Bob Hunt
In his dialogue De libero arbitrio (Free Choice), completed in 395, St. Augustine of Hippo proposes a proof for the existence of God based on our experience of truth.
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Romans 4 and the Sacraments
Romans 4 and the Sacraments
By De Maria
I was pleasantly surprised that there was so much interest in the difference between how Catholics and Protestants understand Romans 10. That being the case, I’d like to highlight where Catholics and Protestants differ on the understanding of Romans 4. This chapter contains several quotes which Protestants also use to support faith alone.
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The Saint Makers in Your Life
The Saint Makers in Your Life
By Clare Lafferty
This morning, already running late for work, I looked at my gas gauge and realized I needed to make a stop to fuel up. Waiting in line, I glanced in my rear view mirror. There was a car behind me who had just pulled in and I thought nothing of it. Then, the car pulled around me and to the pump in front of me- the pump I had been waiting for.
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Where does the Bible say that people in heaven can hear our prayers?
Where does the Bible say that people in heaven can hear our prayers?
By De Maria
I hate to answer a question with a question, but please bear with me. Do you believe in the Trinity? I’m assuming that you do.
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The Confession
The Confession
By Linda Kracht
What do John the Baptist, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Baptist chaplain for AA, and a Catholic priest have in common? They all believed in the power [grace] of confessing one’s sins to provide palpable closure, healing, and forgiveness regardless of the era and/or their religious denomination in their lifetimes.
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Evidence for the Existence of God from Experience, Part 7: Martyrdom
Evidence for the Existence of God from Experience, Part 7: Martyrdom
By Bob Hunt
In all of human experience there is perhaps nothing so sublime or profound as the witness of one who is willing to sacrifice his or her life for the sake of the other, and for the sake of the Other Who is God. “Greater love has no man,” St. Paul said, “than to give his life that another might live.”
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Who is the Schoolmaster that leads us to Christ?
Who is the Schoolmaster that leads us to Christ?
By De Maria
Galatians 3:24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. This verse was written by St. Paul of Tarsus.  What is he talking about? Most people seem to think he is talking about the Ten Commandments.  And there's nothing wrong with that answer
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