by Guest Author | Aug 15, 2021 | CUP Blog, Our Catholic Faith & Church
Long ago, after reading a pastor’s note on peace, I asked, “What is peace?” Many will say peace is the lack of war, some will say it’s a feeling of comfort and others will say that Christ is peace. All of these answers are correct but Philippians 4:6 says,...
by Guest Author | Aug 9, 2021 | CUP Blog, Our Catholic Faith & Church
By Matt Rowe Judging by the way the Church hierarchy has publicly responded to political events and the COVID virus, the leadership of the church appears much more concerned with our mortal bodies and earthly issues than our immortal souls. In the US, church...
by Guest Author | Aug 4, 2021 | CUP Blog, Our Catholic Faith & Church
In the 1992 movie, A Few Good Men (1992) there was an explosive exchange in which Tom Cruise’s character, Lt. Daniel Kaffee, is relentlessly cross-examining Col. Nathan Jessep, played by Jack Nicholson, about a tragic incident that left a Marine dead. Kaffee is...
by Guest Author | Jul 21, 2021 | Blog, CUP Blog, The Catholic Church
Do Not Let Your Hearts Be Troubled Authored by: Anonymous As the rumor swirled for many weeks surrounding the potential restrictions of the Usus Antiquior (Tridentine Mass), I never expected a document to be released quite like this. Not only is it surprising...
by Raul Zavaleta | Jul 13, 2021 | Blog, CUP Blog, Our Catholic Faith & Church
This week I had a couple of discussions on various topics on which the participants reached different conclusions based on their understanding of faith. That got me thinking: what is faith? Many of us grew up hearing the word in Sunday school classes, church...
by Raul Zavaleta | Jul 6, 2021 | CUP Blog, Preservation of Religious Liberty (and Other)
Walking around my neighborhood I occasionally see “In this house we Believe …” signs outside homes of residents who are often white, educated, white-collar, and in the upper end of middle-class income. But in Venice, California, the sign is everywhere. Venice is a...
