Can you confess your sins over FaceTime, a phone call, or a text message?
In this episode of Ask A Priest, Father Tim explains the crucial difference between confessing sins and receiving absolution. While you can tell your sins to anyone, the sacrament of confession requires physical presence because the sacraments are tangible encounters with Jesus Himself.
From Jesus healing with touch, to showing His wounds after the Resurrection, to forgiving sins through the priest. Catholic faith is earthly, physical, and real.
God doesn’t want to stay distant. He wants to be close, really close.
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Holy Tuesday (Holy Week Retreat)
Is your faith everything to you or just kind of “there”?
On this Tuesday of Holy Week, Father Tim reflects on a quiet but powerful moment from the Gospel, when John leans back against Jesus’ chest. It’s a simple image, but it reveals something deep: real faith isn’t distant or casual, it’s close, personal, and all-in.
Drawing from C.S. Lewis, this episode explores a bold truth: if the Resurrection isn’t real, Christianity means nothing. But if it is real, it changes everything. There’s no middle ground.
Faith isn’t “kind of important”. It’s either everything or it’s not. This Holy Week, where do you stand?
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Palm Sunday (Holy Week Retreat)
Ever feel like you have to prove your worth, or stand out just to matter?
In this Palm Sunday reflection, Father Tim connects our modern desire to be “unique” or successful, like a rare startup unicorn, with something deeper in the human heart: the desire to be seen, valued, and to belong.
But the Passion of Jesus reveals a different truth. Your worth isn’t something you have to create or earn. It’s already been given to you. Your value is the Cross. Your identity is found in Him.
You don’t have to invent your worth. Jesus already showed it. This Palm Sunday, don’t just hear the Passion, take it personally.
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Are Science and God At Odds?
Is believing in science incompatible with believing in God? What about evolution, the age of the universe, or the Big Bang? In this episode of Ask A Priest, Father Edward explains why faith and science don’t contradict each other and never have. From the biblical account of Creation to modern scientific discoveries, learn how the Church understands time, truth, and the role of science in revealing the work of our Creator. Faith doesn’t fear science. When science is at the service of truth, it helps us better understand God.
