Parable of the Good Samaritan
The famous parable of the Good Samaritan shows that mercy and compassion are not always convenient, and that love of neighbor can't be limited to those like us...
06 July, 2025
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Why the Trinity Matters – Podcast
In this 14 minute podcast, Anna Mitchell, host of the Sonrise Morning show, interviews Dr. Italy on Why the fact that God is Trinity, one God in three persons, matters for our faith and our everyday lives. The Trinity is the central dogma of the Catholic...
08 June, 2025
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Trinity Sunday – Is it Relevant?
Trinity Sunday celebrates the Church's faith in the triune God, one God in three persons. This doctrine has baffled people for 2,000 years. Given that it is so hard to accept, why bother with it? What difference does the trinitarian dogma really make to how...
08 June, 2025
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Holy Thursday & Corpus Christi – Eucharist, The Body of Christ
Holy Thursday, the Lord's Supper, the institution of the Holy Eucharist, Corpus Christi -- What did Jesus mean when he said "This is my body and this is my blood" and "Do this in Memory of Me"? And what does the Catholic mean by...
13 April, 2025
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Turn the Other Cheek – Who am I to Judge?
The Sermon on the Mount in Matthew's gospel includes such tough such as love your enemies, turn the other cheek, and judge not. How are we to understand such things and put them into practice? The examples of Jesus & St. Thomas More...
16 February, 2025
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Beatitudes: Is It Wrong to be Happy?
The Beatitudes appear in the gospels of Matthew and Luke as part of the Sermon on the Mount. But what actually is the nature of true happiness? Must we be miserable in this world to be happy in the next? Faith and hope...
09 February, 2025
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High Adventure or Cautious Mediocrity?
Discipleship is about a call to embark upon an epic adventure, not about preserving the safe, comfortable and predictable mediocrity of business as usual. The disciples left behind everything to follow Jesus and journey down a road that would lead them through danger to...
02 February, 2025
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Thomas Aquinas – Sacrament of the Eucharist – Quotes
A collection of quotes from St. Thomas Aquinas on the eucharist, the sacrament of sacraments....
26 January, 2025
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Catholics and Bible Study – 3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, cycle C
Bible study and prayer with Scripture is absolutely necessary for Catholics. As St. Jerome said, ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ...
19 January, 2025
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Wedding Feast at Cana – Sign of Transformation
Everyone knows the story of the first of the Lord's "signs" -- how Jesus changed water into wine at the wedding feast of Cana at the request of Mary, his mother. But there is more to the story than at first meets the eye....
12 January, 2025
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