Teens in    Spirit

Top Ten

The Teens In Spirit “Top Ten” for 2007–2008. The “Get started” links go to the Catholic Encyclopedia at Catholic Online

1. Exorcism
   • Questions
     • Why do demons follow you?
     • How do demons “possess” you?
     • Where do demons come from?
     • How can God allow “possession”?
   • Get started
     • “Exorcism”
     • “Exorcist”
     • “Demonology”
     • “Demonical Possession”
2. Abortion
   • Questions
     • What is the Church's official stand and why?
     • “Right to Life”: what is it really?
     • What relationships exist between Church teaching and secular positions?
   • Get started
     • “Abortion”
3. Evolution
   • Questions
     • “Creationism” versus “Darwinism”
     • What is the idea of “Intelligent Design”?
     • What is God's role?
   • Get started
     • “Catholics and Evolution”
     • “Evolution (History and Scientific Foundation)”
4. Divorce versus annulment
   • Questions
     • Why is the Church “down” on divorce?
     • What does an annulment imply for a non-Catholic?
     • What are the effects on a family?
   • Get started
     • “Divorce (in Moral Theology)”
     • “Divorce (in Civil Jurisprudence)”
     • search on “marriage”
5. Apocalypse
   • Questions
     • Does “apocalypse” include the return of Jesus?
     • What does “Revelations” tell us about these events?
     • How does Catholicism differ from evangelical teaching?
     • What will happen to humans not taken to heaven?
     • What will happen to other species?
   • Get started
     • “Apocalypse”
     • “General Judgment” (or “Last Judgment”)
6. Catholicism compared to other religions
   • Questions
     • Which religion is “right”?
     • How do you get to heaven?
     • Can non-Christians go to heaven?
     • What are the implications of a “waxing-and-waning” faith?
     • What if a person dies “outside a state of grace”?
     • Purgatory?
     • Can't you just live a “good life” and get to heaven?
   • Get started
     • “Salvation”
     • “Grace”
       • “Actual Grace”
       • “Sanctifying Grace”
       • “Supernatural Adoption”
     • “Purgatory”
7. Catholic conspiracy theories (for example, The DaVinci Code)
   • Questions
     • Why do different Christian faiths have different “versions” of the Bible?
     • Why are some groups like the Knights Templar and Masons controversial?
   • Get started
     • “The Bible”
       • Authenticity
       • “Coptic Versions”
       • “Editions”
       • “Inspiration”
       • “Manuscripts”
       • “Versions”
     • “The Knights Templars”
     • “Masonry (Freemasonry)”
     • Movie review: “The Da Vinci Code”
8. God (the general ideas of His existence and His identity)
   • Questions
     • What is He?
     • What are the origins of Jesus?
     • How can three be one?
   • Get started
     • “Etymology of the Word ‘God’”
     • “The Existence of God”
     • “The Nature and Attributes of God”
     • “Relation of God to the Universe”
     • “The Blessed Trinity”
9. Saints
   • Questions
   • Get started
     • New Making saints
     • “Beatification and Canonization”
     • “Legends of the Saints”
10. The Church's view on sex
    • Questions
      • Same sex marriages?
      • Why don't we have married clergy?
      • Why don't we have women priests?
      • How could there be evil within the papacy?
    • Get started
      • “Celibacy of the Clergy”

Last update: Thursday, February 28, 2008