When you rock climb, the routes or ways you get up the wall are called a problem. You spend time trying to solve the problem, figuring out where your hands and feet go to complete the route. When there is a hard problem to solve, I often watch others climb and try to...
Seek and Save | Liturgy Live 31st Sunday in Ordinary Time
This week we really dive deep into the beginning of the first reading. How the whole universe is a grain from the balance. How small we are in the relation to everything, yet how much God loves each and every one of us. We talk about thinking about God and thinking...
A Catholic’s Response To Rapper Hopsin’s Viral Rejection Of Christianity
One of the most “thumbed-up” comments for this video reads: “18k priests disliked this video.” Given the cursing, vulgarity, and out-right rebellion before God and the Christian faith it might seem obvious. (Viewer discretion is advised!) Still I think Hopsin's...
10 Surprising Things That Happen When You Go To Adoration More Often
The Eucharist is described in the Catechism as the "source and summit" of our faith. Finding the time to go to Adoration can be difficult. But if you can make it happen, committing to regular Adoration with an open heart can have some surprising results. While they...
How To Humbly Respond To A Sophisticated Deconstruction Of Religion
It’s a laudable, sincere and profound exercise of the intellect to recognize all the good different religions have contributed to humanity throughout history. However, as one philosopher said with elegant simplicity, “Religion did not arise out of the need to assure...
10 Non-Religious Ways To “Prove” God’s Existence (Especially For Your Atheist Friends)
Those of us who take part in an apostolate are used to looking for ways of explaining the presence of God in the easiest way possible, so that even the simplest of our friends can understand something so great. We struggle trying to understand the 5 ways of proving...
5 “gods” We Typically Mistake God For
Let's get right to the point. The Christian life is a process and a journey to love and get to know God. Take a look at the apostles: at the beginning, none of them knew for sure just who Christ was. Little by little, thanks to the Lord’s loving pedagogy, Jesus...
Does God Intervene In Love Stories? | A Providential Animation
God's ways are always surprising. You don't need to be overly pious to realize how reality is like a fine piece of cloth, knitted together by God. I am not one to see signs of God in absolutely everything that happens. I say this because just recently I have had...
Why Couldn’t Christ Forgive Our Sins With A Smile? *Warning: Disturbing Images
I want to start off by saying that this is not an easy question. A lot has been written about this subject. I don’t mean to exhaust the richness or complexity of this theological problem that has fascinated a large part of Christian theologians-not without a...
Where Does Christ Dwell? | St. Gregory Nazianzen Quote
“Christ is born, glorify him. Christ from heaven, go out to meet him. Christ on earth; exalt him: “Sing to the Lord, all the earth. Let the heavens be glad and the earth rejoice !” (Ps 96:1.11), for him who is of heaven and now of earth. Christ has made his dwelling...
Brother Terrorist, Tell Me What You Felt!
Brother Terrorist: Tell me, what did you feel? When you looked into the terrorized eyes of your brother and you triggered his absence in this life… when innocent men and women begged for mercy, cried out to the humanity that runs through your veins, and you denied...
Man Does Not Have Confidence In God | Fr Jacques Philippe Quote
Our great drama is this: Man does not have confidence in God. Hence he looks in every possible place to extricate himself by his own resources and renders himself terribly unhappy in the process rather than abandon himself into the tender and saving hands of his...
What Do You Think This Man Was Looking At?
A photographer, evidently. But, before we get to the more interesting answer (for those who don't know, no cheating or looking below!), ask yourself: What is he feeling? What emotions come to mind? What do you think is going on in his heart? Who do you think this man...
5 Characteristics Of Falling In Love That Change Your Christian Life Now
“Nothing is more practical than finding God, than falling in Love in a quiet absolute, final way. What you are in love with, what seizes your imagination, will affect everything. It will decide what will get you out of bed in the morning, what you do with your...
Who Is Jesus? How To Speak About Christ’s Divinity Using One Argument
The question of who is Jesus lies at the heart of our faith. While being a mystery, as believers we must be prepared to guide others in the faith and seek to share what we believe. Watch as this video asks others "Who is Jesus" on the streets of New York. Who Is...
Does God Exist? What Does Science Have To Say?
This video deals with the Kalam Cosmological Argument. It seeks to present certain results from scientific research that help to clear the path towards the belief in God’s existence. It is an occasion to always remember the words of Saint John Paul II about the...
An Atheist Asks “How Can Goodness Be Possible If I Have No God?”
Just recently, I found myself in an unexpected conversation with an atheist. It wasn’t our difference in faith, per se, that made the encounter unique. Rather, it was the fact that our disparate religious views actually came to the fore in the conversation. What I...
18 Special Moments In Daily Life To Discover God’s Presence
Not infrequently I've heard it said, “God has forsaken me, God does not hear me,” or “I do not know where God is.” Our lives are often hurried, immersed in routine and in the thousands of activities demanded by today's world. Such activity can make us lose the sense...
A Little Iraqi Girl Figured Out How To Respond To ISIS
Myriam is an Iraqi Christian whose family had to flee their home near Mosul when ISIS took control of their town in mid-2014. They fled to Irbil, a safer area of the autonomous region of Kurdistan where they live as refugees. She told her story to Essam Nagy, the...
“I Never Expected To Meet God In The Middle Of Misery”
Thanks be to God, the apostolate that we do at Catholic-Link (CL) doesn’t only take place at a desk, sifting through resources and commenting on videos. If the online resources and our commentaries serve in any way to lead others to God, it is because we ourselves...
Have You Heard The “God Is An Elephant” Analogy?
Argument: Four blind men stumble upon an elephant. Each man begins to grope around in order to understand what exactly it is: one man examines the tail, another, the trunk, another, a front leg, etc. After a while, they reach their conclusions and begin to describe...
What Do You Have To Be Thankful For? In Just Might Be Suffering!
Dr. Peter Kreeft, a philosophy professor at Boston College, does an incredible job explaining how both God and Suffering can exist in this brief video. In just a few minutes, Dr. Kreeft successfully refutes many of the arguments that atheists often use when they...
If God Exists, Why Is There Suffering? A Look At The Question From A Catholic Perspective
This video gives a fairly clear answer to an age-old question: if God exists and he is all good and powerful, then why do people, especially the innocent, suffer? In his argument, Peter Kreeft basically says that the fact we even say “it’s not fair” is proof that God...
The Gangster Who Died and Came Back to Life
There’s a certain extra potency when the radical message of the Gospel – the good news – comes from someone with a story like John Pridmore’s, a man who was once so rotten – so dead – that his rescue was truly as dramatic as a last-ditch heart defibrillation. I will...
Interview With Bono: “Jesus Was Either The Son Of God Or Nuts!”
Our model is Jesus Christ and we discover paradigmatic examples in the lives of the saint. Period. When we speak about the conversion or faith of famous people, we are in no way affirming them as models of Christian life. Human beings that are still walking the walk...