Doug Culp
is the Chief Operating Officer for the Pontifical Mission Societies of the United States.
Theology 101
The Tenth Commandment: You Shall Not Covet Your Neighbor’s Goods
The “tenth word” of the Decalogue brings a close to the Ten Command...
The Eighth Commandment: You Shall Not Bear False Witness Against Your Neighbor
The “eighth word” of the Decalogue continues to reveal to us how Go...
The Seventh Commandment: You Shall Not Steal
The “seventh word” of the Decalogue primarily reveals to us that Go...
The Fifth Commandment: You Shall Not Kill
In the first three commandments, we receive the gifts of God’s self...
The Fourth Commandment: Honor Your Father and Mother
In the first three commandments, we receive the gifts of God’s self...
The Third Commandment: Remember the Sabbath Day, to Keep It Holy
I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. C...
The Second Commandment - You Shall Not Take the Name of the Lord in Vain
"I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. ...
The First Commandment: I Am the Lord Your God
I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. C...
A Roadmap for Our Life in Christ the Beatitudes, Part II
In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus gave us a roadmap for being his f...
A Roadmap for Our Life in Christ – The Beatitudes
As we now move into the “Third Pillar” of the Catechism, we will le...
The Celebration of the Christian Mystery: Sacraments of Initiation
Jesus Christ has made it possible for us to share in the di...
Sacraments - The Way God is Really Present to Us
The story of God and humanity is a story of God’s invitation for us...
Liturgy: Our Grateful Response to God’s Great Gift
In Christian tradition, the word “liturgy” describes the participat...
Pentecost How the Church Began
The Catechism describes the Church as both the “means and the goal ...
We Believe in the Holy Trinity What Does That Mean?
Our being made for communion with God makes perfect sense since God...
What Are the Ways We Know God?
Part 2 of a year-long study of the Catechism
The Catechism begins ...
The Catechism of the Catholic Church
Part 2 of a year-long study of the Catechism
In his 1992 Apostolic...
The Fundamental Truth
Part 1 of a year-long study of the Catechism
Pope Benedict...
What Are the Differences Among Judaism, Christianity and Islam?
Three major religions are rooted in the Abrahamic tradition...
Why Don’t We Have to Follow All the Laws of the Old Testament?
Why don’t we follow all the laws of the Old Testament regar...
What Did Jesus Tell Us About God the Father?
What did Jesus teach us about the Father that represented a radical...
How Are We to Make Sense of God’s Justice in the Old Testament?
In the Old Testament, the people seem to experience God’s justice m...
Can We Read the Old Testament as History? Science? Poetry? Law?
How should we read the Old Testament? Is it history, science, law, ...
What Does the Church Mean When It Says That the Sacred Scriptures Are Inspired?
In plain terms, the notion of the sacred Scriptures as inspired mea...
The New Roman Missal: What’s Changed? What Hasn’t?
In the past several years, a lot of ink has been spilled about the ...