Tag: catholic church

The sacraments are given to us as ways to nourish, in various ways, an active love for God and neighbor. They are means to an end, not ends in themselves. 

The difference between the two Christian churches was the Eastern Orthodox Church did not add too, subtract from, or alter any of the original teachings and beliefs of the original faith of Christ and the apostles to this day.

I encourage you to give the Catholic faith another chance. At the same time, I hope you will do so with realistic expectations

Some Catholics, in the face of the clergy sex abuse crisis, choose to give up on being Catholic, so deeply are they scandalized by this great evil. Understandably so. But I don't think this is necessarily the best or the most courageous choice.

As part of its "Ask" series FāVS is launching an "Ask A Catholic" column where readers can submit questions to local Catholic author Mitch Finley, who will answer the questions in a column here on SpokaneFāVS.com

As a scholar of the Catholic Church, I believe an important but often poorly understood reason for the abandonment of abused children is the Church’s Code of Canon law, which the pope alone can change.

The Catholic Church has the same problem as all other organizations I’ve ever studied…it’s run by fallible humans.