The papal line of succession is riddled with political appointees, Borgias, adulterers, murderers, and power-hungry wretches who cared far more for themselves than for Christ or His flock the church. For decades there were 2 popes at the same time, and for a while even 3 popes. All of them frantically excommunicating each other and…

  I grew up in a loving Christian home. My parents were both cradle Catholics who got born again in the early 70s, during the Jesus Movement – which started in the 60s. My parents were Christian hippies. They grew out of that when we kids were born and they became regular Protestants. At a…

  This is Czesława Kwoka taken at the Auschwitz concentration camp, just minutes before she was murdered by the Nazis. Her crime was being Polish, Catholic, and 14 years old.  Her red triangle was for political prisoners, because of where she was born in Poland. After this photo was taken, she was killed in Auschwitz…

 I love eschatology, the study of the End Times. I am a futurist. I believe most of the prophecies in Scripture concerning the End Times are future. I am a Premillennial, which means I believe Christ will return before the Millennium. Christ will rule the world under a theocracy headquarted in Jerusalem. I am also…

  I wrote this poem 10 years ago, to honor the samurai of Japan!   Swords raised.  太刀は抜かれた。 Senses heightened. 五感が高ぶる。 Tempered minds 鍛精した心が command cold steel 冷たい鉄刀を操る glimmering in dawn’s light. 黄昏の光とちらめついた。 Sharpened by intention, 武士道ひとすじへの Bushido, こころ意気と the warrior’s code 武人の鉄則が restricts and defines 最終試練の a final test. 決定役を果たす時となった。 A struggle for honor.…

I slowly walk down the streetIt’s a chilly autumn dayA kaleidoscope of colorful leavesThey crunch underfoot A lone raven flies aboveCircling in the skyLooking for something to eatIt caws at me Cars whiz pastI wonder who they areWhere they are goingDo they see me? It’s a cloudy dayShafts of sunlightPeek through thick cloudsI feel tired…

  Inferno by Pieter Huys – 1570 We as humans are beings created by God and we possess an immortal soul. Scripture clearly teaches that when we die we will go to either Heaven (if we are in Christ) or Hell (if we die apart from saving faith in Him). What is Hell like? Who…

  Augustine wrote a short treatise (in Latin) on demons, De divinatione daemonorum / On the divination of demons. He discusses the powers of demons and how they operate in deceiving us. The English Translation was done by Dr. Mattias Gassman. Augustine say demons have swiftness of movement and keen senses. They can perceive things…

On July 16, 1945, at 5:29:45 AM (MST), the first atomic bomb ever detonated went off near Socorro, New Mexico at the test site known as Trinity. Hence the world was ushered into the Atomic Age. This place wasn’t far from Los Alamos, where the atomic bombs were under development in the top secret program known…

  Martyrdom is no stranger to the Church. During the 1st century at the birth of the Church, and on through the next nearly 3 centuries the Christian community of believers was persecuted and martyred by the Roman government. Their martyrdom was the life blood of the Church. For all the persecution, the Church only…