The Sacrament of Marriage
Below are some videos from Stephanie Rose, a wedding organizer, speaking about the Sacrament of Marriage on her YouTube channel:
Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go be the Best Man for my friend John 
Category: Catholicism
A Meditation on the Mass
Friday Frivolity: Martyrs Read Joel Osteen Tweets!
Quite some time ago I wrote a short post about the “health and wealth gospel” that gets kicked around some congregations these days. “Lutheran Satire” do a wonderful job of conveying the ridiculousness of this having the martyrs of the Early Church read some of Joel Osteen’s tweets:
TOT: Making Tough Decisions
Theology On Tap is an initiative in the Diocese and throughout the USA where young adults gather in a bar or restaurant to listen to a speaker, to fellowship with one another and grow in their faith.
Earlier in the month, I gave a talk at Theology On Tap about Sacred Scripture. The series continues, this time with the talk being given by Jamie Cleaton.
Jamie is a fellow resident of San Diego, where he lives with his wife and three children. Jamie has been a youth minister for four years. He has been involved with all kinds of youth events and he has been a professional speaker since 2008.
Here is the audio for his talk entitled “Making tough decisions: Listening to God’s voice as you make daily life decisions”:
Audio PlayerMain Talk (Download)
Audio PlayerQ&A (Download)
“The universe has always existed”
Trent Horn’s new book Answering Atheism has finally been released. My copies actually arrived yesterday which I’ll be giving away. Today, Trent responds to another common atheistic claim:
Who has sucked the most?
The next time someone tells you that “Religion is the cause of all the war in the world”, I’d invite you to point them at the statistics below which compare the atrocities perpetrated by theists to atheists.
To be clear, this in no way excuses the abuse of religion as an excuse to perpetrate evil, but hopefully it should provide a little bit of perspective…
The Catholic Gentleman
This is one of my new favourite websites, The Catholic Gentleman: