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All the Answers You’re Looking For . . . All in One Place Our Catholic religion is big and complex. Its doctrines are old and often mysterious. Its detractors like to spread confusion with caricatures of Catholic teaching; and even some of our...

You’ve heard Anti-Catholic Argument X a thousand times before—maybe it’s about how Catholics “added books” to the Bible, or how we supposedly worship Mary and the saints. Even if you don’t know all the facts, your...

Everyone agrees that baptism is part of Christianity, right? It says so in the Bible. Not so fast. Among different Christian groups, questions and arguments about baptism abound. Who should get baptized? How should it be done? What happens to unbaptized...

It’s the one thing we all should be doing but probably aren’t. (Or not enough.) Exercising? Eating right? Calling Mom? No: spreading the good news about Jesus Christ and his salvation. This job isn’t optional. It’s an explicit...

The Word of Apologetics The work of apologetics—the reasoned explanation and defense of the Faith—is certainly a work of the mind. It requires disciplined study, patient practice, and the cultivation of logical and rhetorical skills. But it...

In the long, wonderful, and sometimes weird history of supernatural phenomena in the Catholic Church, perhaps the most stunning example is the stigmata: the miraculous appearance of Christ’s holy wounds on the bodies of ordinary believers. For...

We have to admit it, right? Certain Catholics were some of the most villainous characters in history. Or were they? In Canceled, historian Steve Weidenkopf (The Real Story of Catholic History) digs into some of the most controversial Catholics ever to...

What is the Catholic Church? It seems everybody has an opinion. It’s a dictatorship! say liberal secularists. Indifferent observers may glance over and conclude it’s some sort of club. Ask a Catholic and he’ll probably explain that, no,...

Like many young women of her generation, Christine Flynn never had much use for “organized religion.” But she sure was spiritual. In fact, she considered herself spiritually advanced. Unlike her peers who sat in church pews on Sunday, blindly...

All the Answers You’re Looking For, All in One Place  Our Catholic religion is big and complicated. Its doctrines are old and often mysterious. Its detractors like to spread confusion with caricatures of Catholic teaching; and even some of our...

When you think of saints, what image comes to mind? Maybe halos and angel wings, or maybe a football team from Louisiana. Or maybe you think of one of the most difficult stumbling blocks that Catholic belief presents for Protestants: the doctrine of the...

Discipleship?? Isn’t that a Protestant thing? If you think that, you’re not alone. The concept of Christian discipleship gets stressed so much in Evangelical culture that many Catholics assume that—like “altar calls” or the...