Did the Ascension Really Happen?

by | Jun 12, 2019 | Wednesday Audience

At the climax of the forty days spent with the disciples after his resurrection, Jesus ascended bodily into heaven. Catholics have always understood this to be a literal, miraculous event. We believe it really happened—and as a universal Church, we celebrated the...

Dante’s Roadmap to Paradise

by | Jun 11, 2019 | Wednesday Audience

Dante’s vision of the afterlife centers upon two features: order and motion. The world is truly ordered and orderly, and yet within it there is great movement. It is clear to all that there is order within the world, that the world follows certain rules and fits...

In Defense of Exaggerated Marian Devotion

by | Jun 10, 2019 | Wednesday Audience

Protestants aren’t the only ones who find Catholic devotion to Mary a bit over-the-top sometimes. A lot of Catholics find other Catholics, including great saints like Alphonsus Liguori and Louis de Montfort, to be a little “much” when talking about the Virgin Mary. I...