Should you worship the true Cross? You might be surprised by what St. Thomas Aquinas says, and why…
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Why You Can’t Have St. Augustine Without Relics
Catholics and Protestants alike revere St. Augustine of Hippo, whose feast day is today. But did you know that Augustine (like his mentor, St. Ambrose) claims to have been an eyewitness to several miracles wrought by the relics of the martyrs? Here’s why you can’t have Augustine without believing in relics.
Rome and Relics
For the next few weeks, I’m going to be doing Italian immersion in Assisi, and so I will be monitoring the blog rarely, if at all. In the meantime, I wanted to talk about one of the really striking parts about being a Catholic in Rome: there are relics everywhere. This allows for something amazing… Continue reading Rome and Relics
Is the Shroud of Turin Authentic?
Italian researchers with the National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development are claiming that the Shroud of Turin couldn’t have been a Medieval forgery, because the available technology to forge it wasn’t existent. And what they’re suggesting produced the image (a flash of light) is incredible. From a Telegraph article summarizing the… Continue reading Is the Shroud of Turin Authentic?
What Scripture Says About Using Relics
A while back, a Protestant friend of mine wanted to understand what relics were, and how it was different than magic or idolatry. I think the Catholic belief in relics can be traced to Scripture and to the earliest days of the Church, so I thought I’d do my best to lay that out today.… Continue reading What Scripture Says About Using Relics
The Shroud of Turin
There’s been a big to-do over whether they’ve found a way to duplicate the Shroud of Turin. A group of scientists funded by an athiest group came to the conclusion that they wanted to come to, by trying to forge the Shroud. The end result is so embarassingly bad that I think it’s good evidence… Continue reading The Shroud of Turin
On St. Paul’s Body and the True Cross
Ever since the days of the earliest Christians, there’s been a belief that the relics of Christ and certain of His Saints have healing powers. In Acts 19:11-12, for example, we hear that, “So extraordinary were the mighty deeds God accomplished at the hands of Paul that when face cloths or aprons that touched his… Continue reading On St. Paul’s Body and the True Cross