Third Sunday of Advent, Year A In this episode of The Sunday Catholic Word, I focus on four apologetical themes that all arise out of the Gospel reading for the Third Sunday of Advent (Year A), which is taken from Matthew 11:2-11. The four themes are as follows: 1)...
Second Sunday of Advent, Year A In this episode of The Sunday Catholic Word, I focus on four apologetical themes that appear in the Liturgy of the Word for the Second Sunday of Advent, Year A: 1) The divinity of Jesus; 2) The nature of Christian baptism; 3) Hell; and...
1st Sunday of Advent, Year A In this episode of The Sunday Catholic Word, we focus on two apologetical themes that arise out of the Liturgy of the Word for the First Sunday of Advent, Year A. The first is the so-called rapture doctrine (at least the pre-tribulation...
In this clip from Catholic Answers Live, I explain to a catholic caller why it would not be a good idea to attend the wedding of a family member, who is not marrying in the catholic...
It’s immoral to kill an innocent human being. That’s because we all have a “right to life”—a moral claim on one another not to be killed. But some might say that this approach creates a conflict with our general intuitions about justified lethal self-defense. Does the...
