Brief Overview The Catholic Church teaches that self-defense is not only a moral right but can be a grave duty, particularly when someone bears responsibility for the lives…
Brief Overview The Catholic Church has not issued a blanket condemnation of every new weapon technology, but it has established firm moral principles that make several modern weapons…
Brief Overview St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas did not invent the idea that some wars could be moral; they built a rigorous theological framework that transformed scattered…
Brief Overview The Catholic Church does not teach that war is inherently good or automatically permissible; it teaches that war is always a tragedy and only tolerable under…
Brief Overview Spiritual direction is a formal, ongoing relationship in which a trained guide helps you attend to how God is working in your prayer life and interior…
Brief Overview The Traditional Latin Mass is the ancient Roman Rite codified by the Council of Trent in 1570 and celebrated in Latin with the priest facing the…
Brief Overview Both phrases are real weapons in family conflict, and the Catholic Church refuses to bless either one because both replace love with leverage. The Fourth Commandment…
Brief Overview Christianity makes the most specific and audacious claim of any world religion: that God became a human being, died, and physically rose from the dead, and…
Brief Overview The Catholic Church definitively teaches that the Bible is inspired by God and free from error in everything it affirms for the sake of human salvation,…
Brief Overview Atheism raises some of the most serious intellectual and emotional objections to belief in God ever formulated, and the Catholic Church does not dismiss them as…
