Defending the Catholic Church - Catholic Apologetics

04/10/2026

Jesus Christ started the Catholic church and denominations were started by men 15 to 20 centuries later. the Catholic church is the original Christian Church.

04/10/2026

Each day within the eight-day celebration of the Easter octave is a solemnity, the Church’s highest class of feast. This means Catholics must shift their thinking when it comes to the usual Friday penance.

Whereas the Church requires Catholics to abstain from meat, fast, or substitute some other penance on Fridays for almost the entire year, all of these practices are contrary to Church discipline when it comes to the celebratory spirit of the Easter octave!

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04/07/2026

04/07/2026

The Bread and Wine of the Eucharist are ONLY Symbols of Jesus' Flesh and Blood ???

And did Jesus say His Flesh profits nothing in John 6:63 ?
👉 Answer: NO.

John 6:54-58 (NKJV)

54 Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. 55 For My flesh is food indeed, and My blood is drink indeed. 56 He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him. 57 As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who feeds on Me will live because of Me. 58 This is the bread which came down from heaven—not as your fathers ate the manna, and are dead. He who eats this bread will live forever.”

John 6:60-62 (NKJV)

60 Therefore many of His disciples, when they heard this, said, “This is a hard saying; who can understand it?”

61 When Jesus knew in Himself that His disciples complained about this, He said to them, “Does this offend you? 62 What then if you should see the Son of Man ascend where He was before?

John 6:63 (NKJV)
It is the Spirit who gives life; THE flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life.
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𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗟 𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗘 𝗼𝗳 𝗝𝗲𝘀𝘂𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝘂𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁

Matthew 26:26-28 ESV
26 Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, “Take, eat; THIS IS MY BODY.” 27 And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, saying, “Drink of it, all of you, 28 for THIS IS MY BLOOD of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.

See also:

Mark 14:22, Luke 22:19, 1 Corinthians 11:24.

John 6:35-69 - 𝗝𝗲𝘀𝘂𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗟𝗶𝗳𝗲

John 6:51 ESV
51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”

John 6:55 ESV
55 For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.

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* Jesus was born in Bethlehem, which in Hebrew means "House of Bread".

* When Jesus was born, He was placed in a manger which is literally an actual container for food.

* "the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.” -- Jesus (John 6:51)

* “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. -- Jesus (John 6:53)

* The bread "IS MY BODY". -- Jesus (Mk 14:22, Mt 26:26, Lk 22:19, 1 Cor. 11:24)

* The wine "IS MY BLOOD" -- Jesus (Mt. 26.:27-28, Lk. 22:20, Mk. 14:23-24)

* 1 Corinthians 5:7 - For Christ, our Passover Lamb, has been sacrificed.
(According to God's command in Exodus 12:7-8, the Passover Lamb is to be LITERALLY EATEN.)

Be an Informed & Inspired Catholics! 👍😉🙏

04/04/2026

🔥 “He Descended into Hell” — What Does It Mean?

In the Creed, Catholics profess that Jesus Christ “descended into hell.” But this can be misunderstood.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church explains (CCC 632–635): Jesus did not descend to the place of the damned. Rather, He entered the realm of the dead—the “hell” (Sheol/Hades) where the righteous awaited the Savior.

He went there not to suffer, but to proclaim victory and free the just who had died before Him—like Abraham and the prophets.

As an ancient homily declares:
“I command you: Awake, O sleeper… I did not create you to be held a prisoner in hell.”

Pope Benedict XVI reflected that Christ entered the “loneliness of death” so that no human being would ever be alone there again.

For Catholics, this truth is powerful:
There is no darkness Christ has not entered.
No depth He has not reached.

Even in death… He is Lord.

So when we say “He descended into hell,” we proclaim not defeat—but **the triumph of Christ over death itself**.

04/04/2026

Holy Saturday
Holy Saturday is the day between the crucifixion of Jesus Christ on Good Friday and His resurrection on Easter Sunday. It is a day of silence, waiting, and reflection, when the body of Jesus lay in the tomb while His disciples mourned and the world seemed quiet.

Yet Scripture hints that even in death Christ was at work. “He was put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit, in which He went and proclaimed to the spirits in prison.” (1 Peter 3:18–19). Early Christians believed this was the moment when Christ descended to the realm of the dead to proclaim victory and bring hope to the righteous who had gone before.

The early Church spoke about this mystery. Melito of Sardis wrote that Christ “went down to the depths of the earth to free the captives.” Even ancient writings outside Christianity, like the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus, record that Jesus was crucified and His followers later proclaimed that He appeared to them alive again.

Holy Saturday reminds us that even when God seems silent, He is still working. The tomb was not the end; it was the quiet moment before the greatest victory in history.

03/11/2026

https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/what-is-the-point-of-a-priest

It's not as though priests came to be only after the Catholic Mass was established. We've had priests for a long, long time.

03/11/2026

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02/27/2026

Both last about a month, give or take, and both involve fasting and self-denial to please God. But Lent and Ramadan really are very different.

02/27/2026

01/24/2026

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