A reader asks: “I have heard a few times that an alarming percentage of Catholics don’t know that Jesus is truly present in the Eucharist. This is arguably the most important belief that Catholics should hold. Why is it not part of
A reader writes: “My spouse, who is an Evangelical, says that Catholics believe the Church rather than the Bible. She thinks the only source of authority is the Bible and that it is wrong to believe in a human institution. What is
A reader asks why the body responds to the Eucharist as bread if it is truly the body of Christ. IMsgr. Charles Pope explains: “The Church’s teaching on the Holy Eucharist is that the substance is changed, but that the accidents remain.
A reader asks: “I understand that Jesus primarily spoke in Aramaic. The New Testament was written in Greek, then translated a couple of times to get to our English language. My question is, where did the language that includes “saith,” “thee,” “knowest,”
A reader asks, “Why does St. Paul say, ‘We proclaim Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to gentiles’ in his first letter to the Corinthians? What does this mean?” In his latest column, Monsignor Charles Pope explains that for
A reader asks about the validity of using gluten-free hosts and alcohol-free wine at Mass. Monsignor Charles Pope explains that neither are allowed, but that low-gluten hosts and low-alcohol wine is permitted. He writes: It is not accurate to say that the
A reader asks: “If there were no original sin, would Christ still have come to save us? And if so, why did the Lord wait so long to come?” In his latest column, Monsignor Charles Pope dives into St. Thomas Aquinas’s answers
Monsignor Charles Pope answers the question of whether or not Jesus actually descended into hell. He writes: “The descent into ‘hell’ does not mean that Christ went down among the damned, or among the demons and Satan. Instead he went to place
A reader asks: “Why did the disciples not recognize the Risen Christ at first? This seems to raise questions with the credibility of the Resurrection.” In his latest column, Monsignor Charles Pope explains that there are both divine and human reasons. For
A reader asks, “Is repentance required for the gift of mercy?” In his latest column, Monsignor Charles Pope dives into Scripture, answering this question through the lens of Jesus’ parables and his words on the cross. He writes: “Yes. Repentance is the