Gary Sullivan

A Christmas Tale: Infant Jesus and the Tabby Cat

The Christmas tale of how baby Jesus met the tabby cat on that holy night in Bethlehem deserves to be told once again.

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The Subversive Baptism Card

‘What a perfect card!’ I thought as I pulled it out and examined it closely. It was square and had a white background. Inside was one glistening blue feather glued near the upper right hand corner. It was perfect because whiole others saw a peacock, I saw Christ.

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An Ardent Atheist, a Demonic Dog and the Miraculous Medal

He left the church in tears, clutching his Miraculous Medal and repeatedly put it to his lips to kiss the image of his newly found mother.

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My Experience at the ‘Shroud of Turin: An Immersive Experience’

I sensed that the adventure was reaching a climactic moment. Like an amateur Indiana Jones, I was then led into the torch lit, replica burial cave where we sat behind a stone slab on which the 3D shape of the body of Christ was laid... I don’t want to spoil it so let’s just say we ‘experienced the burst of light of the resurrection’ and ‘witnessed the body escape the shroud’. It was pretty cool.

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20 Hidden Ways the Ghent Altarpiece Teaches About the Eucharist

The Ghent Altarpiece more than any other work of sacred art, depicts the mystery of the Eucharist in every section, panel and detail. It is a catechesis on the Mass and on the Eucharist.

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Google AI Confirms Earliest Church Fathers Held Catholic Beliefs on Eucharist and Mary

Catholic Apologists can say, "See I told you. Even Google AI knows that the Apostolic Fathers believed in the Real Presence, Mary as the New Eve, Immaculate Mother of God and Perpetual Virgin and even the Assumption". All of those are more or less denied by non-Catholic Christians.

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Five Reasons we should bring Mary with us into the Confessional

Mary loves with a mother’s heart and she loves what we might consider the 'unloveable ‘ Sometimes we feel as though we are the type of sinners’ only a mother can love’. Here are five reasons we should bring Mary with us into the confessional.

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The Chosen Features the Apparition of Five Saints

The Chosen Season 5 finale featured Catholic theology in three ways. 1. the affirmation of extra-biblical private revelation 2.the communion of saints and 3. the interpretation of scripture which see, the New Testament hidden in the Old and the Old Testament is unveiled in the New.

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The Last Things and the Lamb

Now all is ending, all is dying. The fading warmth of summer’s light, the once verdant leaves all poured out to the last drop, slip away with each second. We know that everything before us and after us will culminate in the great gathering of everyone made holy in Christ. All Saints day is about the call to eternity at whose center stands a Lamb that appears to be slain.

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'Lex Orandi Lex Credende': Why we bow and kneel

Ther's a very important Latin maxim that we all should be aware of. It is called, 'Lex Orandi Lex Credende'. It means, 'How we worship is based on what we believe'.

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Candace Owens: “I don’t ‘know’ know, but I know”

What does Candace Owens 'know-know' that we don't know?

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Baptismal Font Shapes & What They Mean

Baptismal fonts are designed with a theological intention in mind. Usually we can tell from the shape of the baptismal font what the particular church or parish wanted to stress about the theology of Baptism..

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Saint Therese the Demon Slayer

The humility of Therese stands in contrast to the pride of the demons. Her littleness crushes and consumes the largeness of the demon’s ego one rose petal at a time.

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How I 'Read' My Church

A church is the place where time and space collapse into one single event. In the liturgy, we are at the Last Supper, we are at Calvary, we are in the future New Heaven and New Earth and we are in the present moment. Jesus’ once and for all sacrifice, resurrection and ascension are being made present. Heaven and earth are touching and the veil is opened. This is the language of our sanctuary at Sa

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Finding Nemo (in the Sacrament of Baptism)

“But we, little fishes, after the example of our ??T?S Jesus Christ, are born in water, nor have we safety in any other way than by permanently abiding in water; so that most monstrous creature, who had no right to teach even sound doctrine, knew full well how to kill the little fishes, by taking them away from the water!”- Tertullian

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