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Leading your Protestant friends into the Catholic Church can seem like a hopeless task. Your friend may seem too far away, too biased against Catholicism, or even too apathetic. I would have loved to have had Jimmy Akin as my wingman in discussions with Protestants about Catholicism more times than I can count, but he is usually busy and, last I checked, hadn’t mastered the art of bilocation. I was sitting at lunch one day with friends: one Catholic, two Protestants, and we were having a …

  Identifying Infallible TeachingsSometimes people ask, “Is this document infallible?”The question is problematic because the Magisterium doesn’t issue documents whose teaching is infallible from beginning to end. Instead, it issues documents that contain individual propositions that are infallible.In Ineffabilis Deus (1854) and Munificentissimus Deus (1950)—the documents that defined the Immaculate Conception and Assumption of Mary—only a single sentence …

In 1983, at thirteen years of age, I walked into a United Pentecostal church and had the experience of “speaking in tongues.” I was then taken, along with my mom and sister, to a baptismal tank and baptized “in the name of Jesus.” All of this took place at a “revival” service we attended at the invitation of a lady my mother knew from work.My family attended a Southern Baptist church in those days. Although we were not associated with a church in my earliest …

A major new book from Catholic Answers Press promises to help parents address the challenging sexual subjects that modern society forces on kids. Made This Way: How To Prepare Kids To Face Today’s Tough Moral Issues by Leila Miller and Trent Horn is the first-ever book to help concerned parents and educators equip children with a natural law understanding of morality that’s based on the inherent design of our human nature. It doesn’t come a minute too soon. “The culture t …

In this excerpt from his new book, What the Saints Never Said, Trent Horn tells you exactly why and how misquotations of the Saints can lead to problems, and even the spreading of heresy.The villain clad in black raises his fist at the hero and says, “Luke, I am your father!” The dashing captain unfolds his communicator and gives the order, “Beam me up, Scotty.” A mysterious jungle man sets down the woman he’s rescued and she teaches him to say, “Me Tarzan, yo …