Catholic Church

By David Warren, The Catholic Thing - Suppose, for the sake of argument, that you are God... Ask yourself some obvious, apparently simple questions about the universe that you have created. For instance, when did the idea of creating a universe first occur to you? And how long has it been since you began to put it into existence?... Was it created, literally, ex nihilo – out of nothing – or were there stages to be passed through?

By Kennedy Hall, Crisis Magazine - According to a helpful post from Catholic Answers on how demons could attach themselves to an object, it seems that demonic infestation of material things or places is, in fact, possible... The author of the post, apologist Tom Nash, wrote: “Only people can be demonically possessed. But inanimate objects can be negatively controlled through curses.”

By Joseph Summers, LifeSiteNews - Three Republican members of Congress announced earlier this week that they have formed a Congressional Family Caucus to defend the marriage-based family from leftist attacks... Reps. Mary Miller of Illinois, Diana Harshbarger of Tennessee, and Brian Babin of Texas announced the formation of the caucus Monday in an op-ed in The Washington Stand, a news and commentary publication of the Family Research Council.

By Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture - We face here a quintessential modern ambivalence about reality, a tendency to reduce reality to human desire. It therefore comes as a shock that one cannot expect full inclusion in the Catholic Church while in open denial of her teachings, still less on the condition that the Church honor and embrace that denial as spiritually and morally legitimate. The inability to appreciate such an internal contradiction is a product of our incorporation into a social order—a dominant culture—which so often insists that black is white and white is black ....