by Guest Author | Sep 7, 2021 | CUP Blog, Our Catholic Faith & Church
Glimpsing Heaven on Earth The hot summer day in our Midwestern town began with no warning that the soft, cozy rug my husband and I had under our feet would suddenly be pulled out from under us. He called in the afternoon to tell me he had lost his dream job, not due...
by Guest Author | Aug 15, 2021 | CUP Blog, Our Catholic Faith & Church
Long ago, after reading a pastor’s note on peace, I asked, “What is peace?” Many will say peace is the lack of war, some will say it’s a feeling of comfort and others will say that Christ is peace. All of these answers are correct but Philippians 4:6 says,...
by Guest Author | Aug 9, 2021 | CUP Blog, Our Catholic Faith & Church
By Matt Rowe Judging by the way the Church hierarchy has publicly responded to political events and the COVID virus, the leadership of the church appears much more concerned with our mortal bodies and earthly issues than our immortal souls. In the US, church...
by Guest Author | Aug 4, 2021 | CUP Blog, Our Catholic Faith & Church
In the 1992 movie, A Few Good Men (1992) there was an explosive exchange in which Tom Cruise’s character, Lt. Daniel Kaffee, is relentlessly cross-examining Col. Nathan Jessep, played by Jack Nicholson, about a tragic incident that left a Marine dead. Kaffee is...
by Raul Zavaleta | Jul 13, 2021 | Blog, CUP Blog, Our Catholic Faith & Church
This week I had a couple of discussions on various topics on which the participants reached different conclusions based on their understanding of faith. That got me thinking: what is faith? Many of us grew up hearing the word in Sunday school classes, church...
by CUP Team Member | Nov 29, 2020 | CUP Blog, Our Catholic Faith & Church
I like the month of November; it is a special month to me as it starts by celebrating the life of saints with All Saints Day. Webster defines the word “Saint” as a holy or godly person, one eminent for piety and virtue. When I was a child, being raised in a Catholic...
