What must I do to be saved? It is the most important question anyone can ask. Unfortunately, the answer is not always easy to grasp. Since the Reformation, there have been many different answers to this question, and while the Catholic position has been the same since the beginning, it has not always been well articulated. The goal of this article is to help change that.  The first thing we must do is examine salvation’s source: divine grace. Saint Paul writes, “ For by grace

I recently heard a sermon on Ash Wednesday that convinced me this article needed to be written. The priest was talking about how there were more than double the number of people at Mass for Ash Wednesday than for a regular Sunday mass, even though one is obligatory and the other is not. For most people, this would not be considered big news, but what he said next really stuck with me. He said, and I am paraphrasing here, “The ashes aren’t magic, and they are not going to auto

The picture that accompanies this article depicts one of the most dramatic scenes in Church history. Emperor Theodosius I, fresh off of...

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One of the more challenging dogmas of the Catholic faith is the belief that outside of the Church, there is no salvation. This phrase...