Eric W. Barr

There’s a Problem with the Virgin Mary There’s a problem with the Virgin Mary. I have that problem, and I think that others do too. I believe all four major dogmas about Our Lady, but I do not feel close to her in my religious experience. As a priest and as a Catholic, that distresses me. Protestants would be happy that I feel distant from her, since they don’t really see why she is important. My Catholic faith tells me that I don’t need to pray the rosary in order to get to heaven.

Is It Moral To Bomb Iran? A week before the United States military action in Iran, I did a TikTok video and Facebook Reel on this question: “Would it be moral to use Bunker Busting Bombs to destroy Iran Nuclear Sites? ” I have a lot of followers who often wonder about these types of questions.

Surprising The World With An American Pope America went bonkers. The world went wild. And all of us papal pundits felt absolutely gobsmacked at the surprising choice. Conventional wisdom held an American from the United States could not be elected pope. Why? Well, then the good old U.S.A. would be a superpower in the secular world and a superpower in the spiritual realm. No Cardinal wanted that to happen.