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Last week we talked about the curious taboos that marked the Old Testament. As we discussed, such taboos are not really very strange to us if we think about it, which is why you did not start your day with a heaping helping bowl of nutritious insect larvae, despite the

Last week, we talked about the revolutionary idea at the heart of Catholic anthropology: the truth that sin, while normal, is never natural since sin is what destroys, not constitutes nature.  This does not mean that “sin is unreal”.  It means that man as created and, more importantly, man as

The creed tells us, “We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins.” This clause emphasizes a teaching of the ancient Church that would later be denied by the rise of anabaptism. Anabaptism taught that infant baptism was a waste of time and said that you must be baptized as