It was a hot dry morning in July at Joint Security Station Sadr City Iraq. I had spent the morning ensuring that Sick Call ran smoothly and all our contemporary missions were being maintained. I made the decision to run by the gym to do some "military press" lifting about 180 pounds 25 times over my head. As I arrived into the workout area there was another Soldier from A Company who was already doing some bench work. I struck up a conversation with him talking about wor

Pope St. Pius X once said, "All the strength of Satan's reign is due to the easy going weakness of Catholics". Pope Felix III once said, "Not to oppose error is to approve it; and not to defend truth is to suppress it, and indeed to neglect to confound evil men, when we can do it, is no less a sin than to encourage them". Pope Leo XIII once said, "To recoil before an enemy, or to keep silence when from all sides such clamors are raised against truth is the part of a man devoi

The seven sorrows of Mary are: 1. St. Simeon’s Prophecy (Luke 2:35) 2. The Flight into Egypt (Matthew 2:13-14) 3. The Loss of Jesus in the Temple (Luke 2:44-52) 4. The Meeting of Mary and Jesus on the Way to Calvary (Tradition Luke 23:26-32) 5. The Crucifixion and Death of Jesus (John 19:16-30) 6. The Piercing of the Side of Jesus, and His Descent from the Cross (John 19:31-37 and Tradition) 7. The Burial of Jesus (John 19:38-42) According to St. Alphonsus de Liguori (

St. Philip was one of the original twelve Apostles who grew up in Bethsaida on the Lake Genesareth (John 1:44). He was raised around the fishing industry and he was very close to the brothers Simon and Andrew the sons of Bar-Jona (House of Bar-Jona) and James and John who were the sons of Zebedee (Matthew 4:21). St. Philip as a boy learned the trade of a fisherman who spent most his early life fishing on the boats constructed for heavy catches. He was strong in his Jewish

After writing an article on President George Washington, a Facebook friend of mine responded to the article telling me that Washington’s apparent conversion story was like that of Oscar Wilde, a famed writer and play producer. I thought that was interesting as I had not read anything about Oscar Wilde but I did find that he was received into the Catholic Faith on his death bed. That is the good news, so as I looked at the Oscar Wilde story, how he lived his life, I began to

Deepertruth with special permission and aid with Franiciscan Media, a great team for the Lord https://deepertruthdon.podbean.com/e/deepertruth-stand-in-the-gap-with-us-and-saint-patrick/ Growing up in mid-America in the 1960's what I remember most about St. Patrick was when March 17 rolled on around, you better wear green or you will spend the day getting pinched. So green became a standard for St. Patrick's Day. As a young person, the St. Patrick's Day parade was always i

Thursday February 5, 2009: I will begin this thread just before I fly because of a couple of things I want to report. This past month there was a lady who began coming to our Bible Study who is genuinely searching for the truth. She is married to a Catholic currently coming from the Southern Baptist (1848) denomination. She has had a great many questions so I encouraged her to come on Wed nights to a presentation I was giving the past two weeks. She was at the past two event

https://deepertruthdon.podbean.com/e/deepertruth-the-virgin-mary-and-the-conversion-of-claude-newman-story/ On 1 September 2019, on Deepertruth Radio, John Carpenter gave the testimony of the conversion of Claude Newman whose story we will share in a few moments. But I feel this story begins with a prayer from a Catholic Priest, Father Malcolm O'Leary, the one time Pastor of St. Mary's Catholic Church in Vicksburg Mississippi. This story begins with a prayer of dedica

https://deepertruthdon.podbean.com/e/deepertruth-reincarnation-is-false/ On December 12, 2021, Deepertruth Member John Carpenter during the "Journey with Mary" Radio series live on Deepertruth quoted the Virgin Mary (July 24, 1982, 12:00 PM) the following message: "You go to Heaven in full conscience: that which you have now. At the moment of death, you are conscious of the separation of the body and soul. It is false to teach people that you are reborn many times and th

Deepertruth with special permission and aid with Franiciscan Media, a great team for the Lord https://deepertruthdon.podbean.com/e/deepertruth-stand-in-the-gap-with-us-and-honor-the-conversion-of-st-paul/ Saint Paul’s entire life can be explained in terms of one experience—his meeting with Jesus on the road to Damascus. In an instant, he saw that all the zeal of his dynamic personality was being wasted, like the strength of a boxer swinging wildly. Perhaps he had never seen J