Catholic Church

By Jason Gale, L.Div., Catholic Studies Academy - So there you are, on a car ride with your child, and out of nowhere comes the question, “Am I going to Heaven?” or maybe “Is Grandma in heaven?”… How would you answer this without sending everyone to hell or without sounding like a Universalist? (the belief that, in the end, everyone is in heaven). How can we convey the truth without causing an unreasonable amount of anxiety?

By Eric Sammons,  Swimming Upstream - Two weeks ago, I wrote about the importance of all-boys clubs. My jumping-off point was the decision of the Boy Scouts to drop "Boy" from the name and to open the group to girls. But the push to include girls in all-boy groups isn't confined to secular organizations like the Boy Scouts. It's also been evident in the Catholic Church for decades now.

By Msgr. Charles Pope - In the first reading for Wednesday of the 7th Week of Easter, St. Paul warns of perhaps the most damaging and most wrenching evil the Church must face, dissention from within: I know that after my departure savage wolves will come among you, and they will not spare the flock. And from your own group, men will come forward perverting the truth to draw the disciples away after them. (Acts 20:30-31)