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06/01/2026

TikTok comment: "If God is all-powerful and all-loving, hell shouldn't exist in the first place"

Joe Heschmeyer: "That's right. It shouldn't."

"God's very being is love. By sending his only Son and the Spirit of Love in the fullness of time, God has revealed his ...
05/31/2026

"God's very being is love. By sending his only Son and the Spirit of Love in the fullness of time, God has revealed his innermost secret: God himself is an eternal exchange of love, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and he has destined us to share in that exchange."
(Catechism of the Catholic Church, 221)

See our article "Explaining the Trinity" for more: https://bit.ly/4nSCm82

05/29/2026

TikTok comment: "Convince us that abortions are evil without using religion"

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"Hot take" culture is spiritually toxic, and there's no better illustration of this fact than social media after a new p...
05/28/2026

"Hot take" culture is spiritually toxic, and there's no better illustration of this fact than social media after a new papal encyclical.

Marcus Peter notes that there's now a "predictable ritual...A newly issued papal encyclical now apparently requires an immediate firing squad of digital theologians, who read the headline, skimmed three posts, absorbed one irritated thread, and then rushed to announce that the Holy Father has neglected Christology, slipped into socialism, flirted with modernism, or somehow forgotten that his actual job involves teaching the Faith."

This is spiritually dangerous. It produces a Catholic temperament devoid of filial receptivity. We react with instant suspicion because the “likes” engines reward that posture.

Yet the ordinary posture of a faithful Catholic to the Holy Father ought to be like a child before a father: one of reverent, prayerful attention and patient study before we engage.

So perhaps, suggests Mr. Peter, we could attempt a daring experiment in Catholic maturity by reading the whole document, considering what Pope Leo is actually saying, asking why he is saying it, and receiving his paternal exhortation with the docility due to a prudent shepherd who has written a careful text for our confused age.

Read more here: https://bit.ly/4ee5gLN

How can you tell if you have the right understanding of the Eucharist?Catholic apologist Joe Heschmeyer suggest five thi...
05/27/2026

How can you tell if you have the right understanding of the Eucharist?

Catholic apologist Joe Heschmeyer suggest five things to look for. Your beliefs should be:

-Strange
-Sacrificial
-Serious
-Sacramental
-Shocking

First, the proper Christian understanding of the Eucharist must be strange, and hard to accept. That’s how it was initially received, and Jesus did nothing to dispel this impression.

Second, it must be sacrificial. St. Paul compares the eucharistic sacrifice to the pagan and Jewish sacrifices of his day, pointing out that “those who eat the [Jewish] sacrifices” become “partners in the altar,” whereas those who eat the pagan sacrifices become “partners with demons” (1 Cor. 10:18-20).

Third, it must be serious. Paul recounts for the Corinthians the events of the Last Supper, which he says he “received from the Lord” (1 Cor. 11:23). Paul never met Jesus during Jesus’ earthly ministry; it seems that what he’s about to relate concerning the Eucharist he learned through a special revelation from him. If that’s right, it speaks to just how seriously Jesus takes the Eucharist. He doesn’t just leave it up to us to figure out how best to commemorate or honor or worship him.

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One of the most important paragraphs in Pope Leo XIV's new encyclical on AI:“We cannot be satisfied with merely calling ...
05/26/2026

One of the most important paragraphs in Pope Leo XIV's new encyclical on AI:

“We cannot be satisfied with merely calling for the moralization of machines — the so-called 'alignment' of AI with human values — without also having the courage to insist on a further condition: the possibility of openly discussing the ethical frameworks involved and subjecting them to shared standards of social justice. Otherwise, those who control AI will impose their own moral vision, which will become the invisible infrastructure of these systems. A more moral AI is not enough if that morality is determined by a few. What is needed is a more active political involvement that is capable of slowing things down when everything is accelerating, and of protecting the opportunities for communities still to be able to participate and ask questions.”

Full text: https://bit.ly/4wThq53

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