Tag: Catholic Theology
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HE CROSS BEFORE CALVARY? — EZEKIEL 9
There is a mysterious scene in Ezekiel that Christians have been reflecting on for centuries. Before judgment falls upon Jerusalem, God commands the man clothed in linen: “Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem: and mark Thau upon the foreheads of the men that sigh, and mourn for all the…
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The World Hated Him First
The Richmond Catholic Memo, the machinery of suspicion, and why the Church Christ founded will always be an enemy of the spirit of the age “If the world hate you, know ye, that it hath hated me before you.”— John 15:18, Douay-Rheims There is a temptation whenever Catholics discover something like the FBI’s Richmond Catholic…
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Michelangelo, the Catholic Church, and the Mysteries Hidden in His Art
Michelangelo Buonarroti was not simply one of the greatest artists who ever lived. He was also a man whose life became inseparably connected with the Catholic Church. Born in AD 1475, Michelangelo lived during one of the most dramatic periods in Church history. Renaissance Rome was filled with extraordinary beauty, political struggle, corruption, reform movements,…
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From Jerusalem To Rome: WHEN The Shadow Gave Way To The Body
Could ancient Jewish tradition have unknowingly preserved signs pointing to Christ? Yoma 39b records that several Temple signs ceased about forty years before Jerusalem’s destruction in AD 70—roughly the time of the Crucifixion. Seen alongside Hebrews, Romans, and the Gospel accounts, these traditions invite a profound reflection on the passing of the old sacrificial order,…
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What Began in Eden Points to Calvary
The Bride From the Side There is a mystery hidden in the opening pages of Genesis that reaches its fulfillment beneath the Cross. In the garden, Adam is cast into a deep sleep. God opens his side, and from his side comes the woman who will become his bride: “Then the Lord God cast a…
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The “Apocrypha” Points to Christ: The Deuterocanonical Books Protestants Are Missing
If you have ever opened a Protestant Bible and compared its Old Testament with a Catholic Bible, you probably noticed something strange. The Catholic Bible has more books. Tobias. Judith. Wisdom. Ecclesiasticus. Baruch. First and Second Machabees. Plus additional portions of Esther and Daniel. Protestants commonly call these books the Apocrypha. Catholics call them the…
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Is Purgatory Real? Beyond the Myths
The biblical, historical, and Catholic case for purification after death. The small Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Prati, on the banks of the Tiber, houses a most curious collection of artifacts: sixteen pieces of cloth, paper, or wood, each claimed to bear the scorched signs of hands and fingerprints from souls in…
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No, the Eye in the Triangle Is Not Automatically “Illuminati”
That mysterious eye above the altar has a much more Christian meaning than social media would have you believe. Walk into an old Catholic church and look up. You may see an eye enclosed within a triangle, surrounded by clouds or brilliant rays of light. It might appear above the high altar, inside a dome,…