Category: Apologetics

Do Catholics and Muslims worship the same God?

On Catholic Answers, Father Hugh Barbour explains the roots of the devotion to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus.

Announcing the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, declaring that Jesus is divine, celebrating the deep humanism of Christianity, and explaining the indispensability of the Church as the mystical body of the Lord. How do we practically do all this?

God didn’t HAVE to die for us, so why did He choose to do that?

As a Catholic, how do we defend our faith when someone tells us that Catholicism is not based on true history and has copied pagan traditions?

We don’t do good works to get into a state of justification; good works flow from the state of justification, and ultimately God rewards us for having done those in the next life.

This denial of Jesus of Nazareth as the divine Son enfleshed laid the groundwork for all the “historical Jesus” reconstructions that are standard within popular media.

Sometimes we need to walk away and pray, other times we simply just plant a pebble, and other times we need to argue vigorously.

The ministerial priesthood is at the service of the common priesthood. The priest does not stand in Jesus’ way, but acts as His instrument. He acts in persona Christi.

There is one doctrine in particular that you need to get right: the papacy. If Catholics are right about the papacy, everyone should be Catholic. If Catholics are wrong about the papacy, nobody should be Catholics.