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10/16/2026

Anti-Catholic says the Bible proves the Catholic Church is pagan.

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10/15/2026

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10/15/2026

St. Teresa of Avila is one of the towering spiritual writers in Catholic tradition. The account of her spiritual life contained in the “Life written by herself”, in the “Relations”, and in the “Interior Castle”, forms one of the most remarkable spiritual biographies of all time, perhaps rivaling only the “Confessions of St. Augustine”.

St. Teresa of Jesus, pray for us 🙏

10/14/2026

Hell must exist, because God will not force us to be in heaven with him.

Indeed, if God forced heaven onto those who do not want it, then heaven would feel like hell to those people.

10/13/2026

People online LOVE arguing about hell. Unfortunately, this discourse often inverts the lens by which it views standard Christian teachings, making them something they are not. Worse yet, the fairly established “goods” of Jesus and heaven are rebranded. God’s grace, literally an unfathomably precious and transforming gift, becomes some sort of manipulation tactic.

Take, for instance, this objection: “But I could never be happy without [Loved One] in Heaven!”

This upends the offer of eternal union with God. It takes the prospect of heaven and turns it into an opportunity to cut us off from loved ones. This forces us to either consider ourselves the chosen, uncaring elite or reject God ourselves in favor of accompanying our earthly loved into their own darkness.

Although this mindset appears to promote a love for others, one of the two great commandments, in expressing the role that unique person and our relationship with him has in our happiness, it misplaces the Source of that love and happiness in the first place. For Christians, “God is love” (1 John 4:8) and the efficient cause of all being (Exod. 3:14, ST I. Q 2. A 3), including the love we have for our friends and family. It does not follow that we love less when united perfectly to the source of love, which is what union with God in heaven is, especially if the reason is the absence of someone who has rejected that source of love.

If heaven became less heavenly because something other than God is not there, then it was never heaven in the first place.

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10/12/2026



10/11/2026

Please join us in prayer for Pope Leo’s successful surgery and recovery. Saint Luke, patron of physicians, pray for our Holy Father 🙏

Pope Leo XIV reveals that he is set to undergo surgery to remove a “localized nodule in my lung,” noting that it is at a “very early stage and is well ...

10/09/2026

If you want to be Catholic but you don't know how to tell your old church, here's what to do 👇