Important Announcement: Bob Stanley’s “The Catholic Treasure Chest” (www.catholictreasurechest.com) Internet domain name has been restored.

When Bob Stanley passed away almost two years ago, the original Catholic Treasure Chest domain expired and was was subsequently, irretrievably taken over by an Indonesian gambling casino.

That made it necessary to move Bob’s site over to AskMeAboutGod.org
in order to keep it active and available.

We’re happy to announce that a new, simplified domain name for
Bob Stanley’s “The Catholic Treasure Chest”
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How the Holy Bible defines and explains
The Blessed Virgin Mary’s powerful role as the Mother of God

How To Pray the holy Rosary (PDF)

Which Mysteries to pray on what day – “Handy Cheat Sheet” (PDF)

The Rosary and the Scapular are inseparable

Complete Information On The Brown Scapular
Including The Procedure for Priestly Blessing and Investiture – Latin and English

Overcoming the World, the Flesh and the Devil,
In and Through Our Lord Jesus Christ (PDF)
A beautifully illustrated “advanced course” on Christianity that provides
critical insights into what Christians believe, how they practice, and why.
Special emphasis on The Mystery of Our Redemption and The Church.

The “Peculiar” Theology of Our Redemption in Jesus Christ (PDF)
Complete course. How the death of Christ at the hands of man
served to destroy Satan’s power and reconcile sinful mankind with God.
Fully illustrated.

Why Be Catholic?

The fact that Jesus Christ took on flesh, lived a human existence, communicated and confirmed certain divine truths, died, subsequently rose again (and while he still walked the earth) founded the Catholic Church, provides Catholic Christianity with a unique status, as the ONLY constant, living, eye-witness to divine truth and the ONLY CHURCH that Jesus Christ EVER authorized, empowered and eternally guaranteed, for the purpose of our salvation. (MORE)

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of the Catechism of the Catholic Church

A Comprehensive Study of The Sacraments
by Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

The word “sacrament” in Greek means “mystery,” and Christ has been called by St. Paul “the mystery hidden from the ages.” In Him is something divine, something human; something eternal, something temporal; something invisible, something visible.

The mystery of Bethlehem was the Son of God taking upon Himself a human nature to unite human nature and divine nature in one Person.

He Who, in the language of Scripture, could stop the turning about of the Arcturus, had the prophecy of His birthplace determined, however unconsciously, by a Caesar ordering an imperial census.

He Who clothed the fields with grass, Himself was clothed with swaddling bands.

He from Whose hands came planets and worlds had tiny arms that were not quite long enough to touch the huge heads of the cattle.

He Who trod the everlasting hills was too weak to walk…

These are the Sacraments – Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen – PDF
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APOSTOLIC EXHORTATION
CATECHESI TRADENDAE
OF POPE
JOHN PAUL II
ON CATECHESIS IN OUR TIME

Link to Vatican Document

Fundamental problem: Most Christians never re-appropriate the Christian Faith at a mature level.

St. Paul speaks of this phenomenon when he says, “I fed you milk, not solid food, because you were unable to take [the fuller meaning]” (1 Corinthians 3:2). Usually, answering their adult questions with childish answers and understandings, Christian adults and teens lose the faith and become only Christian in name or neo-pagans. They believe they have overcome childish beliefs when in fact they are only rejecting childish presentations of the faith from childhood.

This is all the more true of Catholic Christians who were most often only “fed milk” in Catholic schools and often never got the “meat and potatoes.” The objective of this brief essay is to help them and Christians caught in solely legalistic understandings of justification (how God redeems our souls and makes us holy) to recover an authentic understanding of the faith and maintain its mystery and beauty.

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Fulton Sheen on Our Lady of Fatima, the Atom and Islam

Among the dazzling treasury of more than 70 books he wrote, Venerable Fulton Sheen considered The World’s First Love: Mary, Mother of God, to be his favorite. Reading it you can hear Sheen, probably the greatest preacher in the 20th century, shed light on Mary’s life and role in salvation history.

Considering the precarious position of the world and even, in too many instances, the faith in many parts of it, for this 107th anniversary of our Blessed Mother’s appearance at Fatima on May 13, Sheen’s words about Mary on Fatima, the atom and Muslims remain timely.

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Complete Text – The World’s First Love (PDF)

What every Christian should understand about the great Feast of Pentecost

… the Jewish Feast of Pentecost—which literally means “Fifty”, taken from the fifty days counted after Passover—was the Jewish liturgical celebration of the Giving of the Law at Sinai.  If one makes a careful count of the passing of time in the Book of Exodus, one discovers that the Sinai theophany (appearance of God) occurs exactly fifty days after the Israelites departed from Egypt.  So, Pentecost was not only an agricultural festival celebrating the end of the harvest, but also a sacred historical memorial of the day of the establishment of the Old Covenant.

This parallel and its significance is missed by modern readers, but not by ancient Jewish readers of Acts!  At Sinai the Law was given in a fearsome storm, and on tablets of stone.  At Pentecost, there is a “peaceful storm” of the Spirit (the rushing wind, the lightning-like tongues of flame) and the giving of the Law on the Heart.

As St. Thomas says in his treatment of the Old Law in the Summa, “the law of the New Covenant is nothing other than the Holy Spirit.”  The Spirit is the Law written on the heart promised with the New Covenant…

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Manifestations Of The Holy Spirit Throughout Human History (PDF)

Bishop Robert Barron: Real Deal or Cult of Personality?

Barron is one of numerous faith leaders sifting through the rubble left by the rise and rapid decline of a particularly anti-religious movement in the previous decades.

“I think the ‘New Atheist’ wave came and went. It left behind a lot of very unhappy and directionless people,” Barron told Fox News Digital.

The movement he referenced was a short-lived phenomenon in the early 2000s led by the so-called “Four Horsemen” of atheism — writer Christopher Hitchens, neuroscientist Sam Harris, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins and cognitive scientist Daniel Dennett.

More than a decade from the New Atheists’ peak in relevance, not much is left of their march against organized religion.

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Editor’s note: Little old Catholic ladies always loved Bishop Robert Barron, while his Catholicism video series remains very popular with Catholics and non-Catholics, the world over.

Bishop Barron’s Word On Fire Institute

You really can’t make this stuff up!

At UCLA, the intimidating, very butch protesters, quaffed in man buns, short pants, socks and Birkenstocks are demanding vegan and gluten free food. As a reminder that beggars can, in fact, be choosers, they are further specifying that no bananas or nuts are welcome. The kvetches who took away honey roasted peanuts from Airplanes are not exactly the typical example of badassery.

If the poor parents of these wannabe radicals were not largely responsible for the mindset of their children, they ought to be eligible for a refund of the outrageous tuitions. But this environment is known, and was in many ways cultivated, by those 1960s left-wing radicals who now comprise the customers, educators, administration and donors to these Universities.

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It’s NOT triumphalism. It’s NOT hubris. It’s intellectual integrity based on divine truth.

Lies and false religions surround the truth about the Catholic Church’s divine origin. But if we have numerous pieces of good evidence to support the Church’s claim, and we weigh that evidence against the statements of our detractors, then we have no rational choice but to accept the reality that Jesus Christ established the Catholic Church and gave it His preeminent authority.

Full story by Nate Guyear

Why Be Catholic? (PDF)

Papal apology in error: No bodies found at Kamloops Residential School in Canada after extensive $8 million search.

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Prophecies, Revelations, and Apparitions

With the pending release of the new Vatican document on private revelations, it might be a good time to take a look at what the Catholic Church has always taught about such things.

Visit The Our Lady of the Rosary Site

Visualizing The Tax Burden Of Every US State

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Bishop Paprocki condemned Biden’s use of the sign of the cross at an abortion rally as sacrilege and appeared to suggest that the Democratic president and nominal Catholic may have excommunicated himself.

SPRINGFIELD, Illinois (LifeSiteNews) — Springfield’s Bishop Thomas Paprocki has stated President Joe Biden “mocks our Catholic faith,” following Biden’s latest pro-abortion move making the sign of the cross when hearing about restrictions on abortion in Florida.

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The “bottom line” regarding the Ascension of Jesus Christ

Much has been taught and written about the Ascension of Jesus Christ,
but there’s one thing that makes it especially significant:

As the sin prone, all too human descendants of Adam and Eve,
we remain susceptible to backsliding, falling away
and possibly, even ending up in Hell.

On the other hand, Jesus’ perfect humanity and his awesome divinity
was never compromised by sin,
making possible his total defeat of Satan, sin and death,
on our behalf.

Then, Jesus, the triumphant and impeccable, “New Adam”,
took his resurrected and glorified human body back to Heaven,
where he was enthroned at the right hand of God the Father,
making all that he accomplished for us
both permanent and eternal,
with absolutely NO possibility
of BACKSLIDING or REVERSAL,
by any means.

A pure and perfect man now reigns in Heaven.
Not merely a divine advocate, but a divine man, indeed!

That same divine man loves us with an inestimable love
and desires only the best for us,
having already shed the very last drop of his precious blood,
for the purpose of our salvation.

That should give us all something which to faithfully aspire
and it’s just one of many wonderful things
that make Jesus Christ
the sure and certain, blessed hope of eternal salvation,
for every Christian, of every generation.

USCCB issues new, updated initiation standards for “new” Catholics (OCIA)

UNITED STATES CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC BISHOPS
NATIONAL STATUTES FOR THE CHRISTIAN INITIATION OF ADULTS
PERIOD OF EVANGELIZATION AND PRECATECHUMENATE

Norm 1 The evangelization of unbaptized persons during the Period of Evangelization and Precatechumenate will lead them through Scripture, prayer, and friendly conversation to an encounter with the person of Jesus Christ as the fullness of God’s revelation.

Norm 2 Early in the Period of Evangelization and Precatechumenate, a parochial minister will meet inquirers individually to hear of their “first faith” (see The Order of Christian Initiation of Adults [OCIA] 42), discern the continuing impact of their encounter with the Lord, and discuss any issues (e.g., an irregular marriage) that could affect their eventual celebration of the Sacraments of Initiation.

Complete document (PDF)

Re: That Major Statement on Pope Francis – “These greater and lesser crimes give reason to believe that his heretical assertions are truly a stubborn and deliberate rejection of the Catholic faith.”

For the person, who, admonished once or twice, does not repent, but continues pertinacious in an opinion contrary to a manifest or defined dogma – not being able, on account of this public pertinacity to be excused, by any means, of heresy properly so called, which requires pertinacity – this person declares himself openly a heretic. He reveals that by his own will he has turned away from the Catholic Faith and the Church, in such a way that now no declaration or sentence of anyone whatsoever is necessary to cut him from the body of the Church.

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Today’s “Gem” from Bob Stanley’s “The Catholic Treasure Chest”: How to be a good Catholic.

Here are some very basic obligatory rules that all Catholics should know. However, some Catholics are either ignorant of them, or knowingly fail to abide by them.
*Attend Mass every week. To deliberately miss Mass on Saturday vigil or on Sunday, is a mortal sin.
*Attend Mass on Holy Days of obligation. We are obligated to do so on certain Feast Days of the year. The Church bulletin and a good Catholic calendar lists these obligatory days.
*Go to Confession at least once a year. If in mortal sin, go as soon as possible. A mortal sin is a sin against any one of the Ten Commandments. The CCC has distinct references to mortal and venial sins.
*Believe with all your heart in the True Presence, Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity, of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Holy Eucharist.
*Do not receive Holy Communion if you know you have a mortal sin on your soul. That would be yet another and worse mortal sin called a Sacrilege. Examination of Conscience is suggested each day and especially before Confession.

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Local Carpenter Continues To Spread Disinformation Deemed Harmful By Religious Experts

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Less than 1 percent of Catholics agree with Church teaching on abortion, euthanasia and the death penalty.

2022 data collected by the Global Social Survey (GSS) and compiled by the Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA).

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“The Church Militant” still exists and YOU need to be an essential part of it.

Demons are strong. They hate you. They never rest. And they pack a powerful punch that could destroy our souls.

We must defend ourselves.

But how does one take on a spiritual warrior?

They become one themselves.

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Exorcist Diary #290: A Generational Curse Lifted

The “Pray With Me” video: “Lifting All Curses“– https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbsClF1dink.

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