“Without faith it is impossible to please God.” Image: John Martin's Last Judgment Wiki Commons CC Editor's Notes I recently shared the Simple Summary of the Catholic Faith written to help my recently deceased Grandmother when she was being received into the Church. I hope that that document will be useful to others. As I …
Continue reading What must we believe to be saved? from McHugh and Callan’s Moral Theology, 1958
A summary for helping elderly converts understand what must be believed Image: David Gilbert Wright On 24 August 2022, my grandmother finished her time on earth. In 2020, in her mid-nineties, she was received into the Roman Catholic Church. Given her age and other factors, a typical period of instruction was not possible. It was …
Continue reading How can we explain the Catholic faith simply?
In Sapientiae Christianae, Pope Leo XIII taught that it is a duty for laymen to study and spread the Catholic faith. He wrote: "In order to safeguard this virtue of faith in its integrity, we declare it to be very profitable and consistent with the requirements of the time, that each one, according to the measure …