Topic 23: Penance (II)
Priests receive from God the power to forgive sins in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
Topic 22: Penance (I)
Christ instituted the sacrament of Penance to offer us a new possibility of converting and recovering, after Baptism, the grace of justification
Topic 18: Baptism and Confirmation
Baptism “justifies” us in God’s sight, while Confirmation brings us the supernatural gifts of Christian maturity.
Scott Hahn about Bishop Alvaro del Portillo
Scott Hahn talks about Bishop Alvaro del Portillo, the Statue of Liberty, and the joy of the faith. Bishop del Portillo is the first successor to Opus Dei's founder, Saint Josemaria Escriva, and was declared "Venerable" by Pope Benedict XVI in 2012.
Topic 19: The Eucharist (I)
The Eucharist is the memorial of Christ’s Paschal mystery, making present his unique sacrifice in the liturgy of the Church.
Topic 11: Resurrection, Ascension and Second Coming
Christ’s Resurrection is a fundamental truth of our faith, as St Paul tells us (cf. 1 Cor 15:13-14). Thereby God inaugurated the life of the future world and put it at the disposition of mankind
Topic 4: God's Nature and Action
The God we come to know through faith and reason is "spiritual, transcendent, omnipotent, eternal, personal, and perfect. He is truth and love."
Topic 2: Revelation
God wished to manifest himself as a personal Being through the history of salvation. He raised up and guided a people to be the custodian of his revealed word. Through that people he prepared the world for the Incarnation of his Word, Jesus Christ.
Topic 20: The Eucharist (II)
The Holy Mass is a true sacrifice because it makes present, in the “today” of the Church’s liturgical celebration, the unique sacrifice of our redemption carried out on the Cross.
Topic 14: History of the Church
The Church continues to make Christ present in human history. In the history of the Church, we find the divine and the human closely intertwined.