Catholic Church

By Dr. Robert Stackpole, Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception of the B.V.M. - One of our readers named Bernard recently wrote to me and asked if there really was any evidence that Mary was taken to heaven in body and soul upon her death, since the Bible seems to be silent about it, and even the early fathers of the Church say nothing about it. He had just read a book by a Protestant author who called Catholic belief in the Assumption the product of popular "sentiment and myth."

By Msgr. Charles Pope - The video below has a lot to say about how we understand the proper solutions to our real problems. The commercial features a man in the desert who collapses with dire thirst. In the distance he sees a cooler; it is a miracle! Opening it he sees just what he needs, water!  But he is disappointed! Why? Water is so plain and ordinary. He wants something with flavor and pizzazz!

By Chris Sparks, Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception of the B.V.M. - As 2020 grinds along, it seems more and more things are falling apart. Violence here, injustice there, willful blindness from otherwise brilliant people when it’s not convenient to their politics or their own self-interest, a great muck of corruption across the globe, on and on — the list grows ever longer every day... In the midst of all this, it’s easy to get frightened. At some point in the face of this oncoming tide of massive transformation, of staggering death tolls, hugely consequential decisions at all levels of society, and a world more and more divided, fear becomes contagious.