Tag: Sin

This week Fr Flader answers a commonly asked question people have about good and evil. Why does evil exist? Why did God create a world in which evil exists?

The church can be described as a field hospital, but I didn’t expect the fields to be quite so literal.

Isn’t there a broader lesson in the Coldplay kiss-cam scandal for the rest of us? When our sins are found out, we can try to hide under a fig leaf or bravely acknowledge our transgression and repent. It would spare us and our loved ones a lot of suffering.

I have friends in the charismatic movement who speak of healing the family tree, when there has been serious sin in a previous generation which has supposedly affected a descendant. I can’t understand the logic of this practice. Is there any basis for it?

Like many Catholics, I often find myself asking why I commit the same sins over and over again. This Lent, I wanted to see if I could change—but how do we go about conquering habitual sins?

  I promised you some joy this week. But bear with me - it’s all connected with why Catholics need to be different, and why...

Last time in this space, we discussed Virtue Signalling, the rather common human tendency to do good things for selfish reasons. We discussed the...

Have you seen the memes showing Jesus and Satan as musclebound arm wrestlers? Sometimes people share it sincerely and sometimes as a joke, but either...

Adult converts sometimes sheepishly admit that confession scares them. What they may not know is cradle Catholics often feel the same way. Very often,...