Raymond de Souza KM

Why is contraception even an issue among Catholics and Christians?  Why does the Church need to have a position on it?  It is such a common part of daily life, and gives to many the freedom to live as they choose.How does it fit into...

Celibacy is often dismissed as a vocation.  In today’s Darwinian and materialist society, celibacy is confused with being ‘single’, and frowned upon as an inhibition on progress.  Should  every man and woman be engaged in...

God clearly condemns the use of any ‘graven images’, and yet Catholic churches, claiming to follow the will of God, are packed with statuary from the nave to the altar. Is there a difference between the idols of pagan rites and the statues of...

Government? Courts? Individual? Church? The laws of morality used to be clearly defined. Then in the turbulent years of the latter twentieth century, societal dissent and disruption in all walks of life caused confusion and chaos. Who determines...

Raymond de Souza revives a time-honored tradition of recalling the historic hinge-point of the Incarnation, when God became Man in the womb of the Blessed Virgin.  Long ago, numerous Crusades were launched by capable men for the defence of...

In 1673, a cloistered French nun received the first of many visions from Our Lord Jesus Christ.  He offered to France a solution for their times and a return to holiness.  France didn’t listen, and a century later was crippled by the...

Martin Luther revived a trend that ravaged Europe and continues to divide Protestant from Catholic today: the authority of the Pope. Claiming to live solely by the Bible, our Separated Brethren bypass the "alleged" Vicar of Christ and struggle to find...

Christ claimed to build His Church upon a Rock.  Apparently, He chose a man to be the figurehead of the Church on Earth, a man once called Simon, renamed Peter.  Throughout the centuries, his ‘successors’ - the popes - have...

Are all mankind - without exception - stained by personal sin? How would the unborn, infants or the mentally ill be guilty of sin? What about the Blessed Virgin Mary? Can someone be free from Original Sin at conception? Is there any Biblical foundation...

Is Mary the Mother of God...or the Mother of Jesus? How can a human mother give birth to God?  Our Separated Brethren grapple with the desire to honor Mary, and yet the rejection of granting her the title of divinity.How does the Catholic Church...

Our Lord Jesus Christ condemned the prayers of the pagans for their sense of repetition.  How is the Rosary any different?  Are Catholics mimicking ancient pagan practices of supplication, or is it a form of prayer from Heaven itself? ...

In the Last Supper, did Christ institute a celebration of fellowship, mercy and the goodness of God?  Or was He fulfilling an ancient ritual of sacrifice revealed by God to the Hebrew people?  Protestant and Catholic theology hinges on this...