Category: Apologetics

  • The Distinctly Catholic Doctrine

    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.

  • The Church and The Papacy

    Questions and answers about the Church and Papacy. As Catholics, do we have to accept everything the Church teaches?

  • Homily of the Year

    The period following Second Vatican council, there was a sort of dumbing down of the faith, and there was a tendency to present it as a very emotional experience while underplaying the rationale and theological side of the faith.

  • Greater Works Than These

    John 14:12 is the most (stereotypically!) Catholic Bible verse there is. If St. John the Beloved Disciple had not recorded it there in the Savior’s great High Priestly Discourse, who would dare to say such a thing?

  • Why Be Catholic?

    What’s the big difference between being Catholic or any of the other Christian religions? The authority to teach!

  • Did Jesus Make the Apostles Priests at the Last Supper?

    Most Catholics are aware that Holy Thursday commemorates Jesus’ Last Supper as the first Mass. But what some miss is that Holy Thursday also celebrates Jesus’ institution of the ministerial priesthood.

  • Why Do We Believe in God?

    Do we come to belief in God through personal encounter, or arguments, or both?