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No True Scotsman is a type of logical fallacy that involves making exceptions when a claim is contradicted in order to prevent the claim from being falsified. It’s called the No True Scotsman fallacy because it follows a pattern of reasoning along these lines: Person A: No Scotsman puts sugar on his porridge. Person B: But my friend Donald is a Scotsman, and he puts sugar on his porridge. Person A: Ah, yes, but no true Scotsman puts sugar on his por …

The Protestant Reformation was launched when a Catholic priest named Martin Luther thought he’d discovered something in the Bible that the Church had been missing for centuries. That discovery was salvation by faith alone—that is, apart from doing good works. This core Reformation doctrine of sola fide is a major dividing line between Catholics and Protestants.Just like sola scriptura, this doctrine ends up dividing Protestants from each other just as much (and s …

There are seven implications that baptism has for our lives as a Christian, each of which arises from a particular dimension of the sacrament. This is a great day to remember those!First, we must daily respond to God and his Word in faith. Baptism is “the sacrament of faith” (CCC 1253), which gives us entrance into “the life of faith” (1236). “Faith,” as defined by the Catechism, “is the theological virtue by which we believe in God and believe all …

We have returned to the Levant, we have returned apparently more as masters than ever we were during the struggle of the Crusades—but we have returned bankrupt in that spiritual wealth which was the glory of the Crusades. - Hilaire Belloc, The Crusades, 1937 In our age the Crusades are described as barbaric, wasteful, shameful, and even sinful.​​​​​Rarely are they called glorious. This is because the modern world embraces a false narrative about the Crusades. This false story, h …

The apostle Paul said in 1 Corinthians 13:11, “When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became a man, I gave up childish ways.”Well, when I was a child, I thought you got to heaven by just being a nice person. My parents never took me to church, and the closest “Sunday school education” I received was from old Bible cartoons produced by the same animation company that made The Flintstones. I thought they …