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Have you ever tried to have a close, loving relationship with someone you don’t know? It’s not easy. (And it’s probably not a good idea!) Most would never dream of attempting such intimacy with a human stranger, yet many of us try to...

“There are some things in them hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other scriptures.”—2 Peter 3:16 Martin Luther and his fellow “Reformers” turned Christendom...

He has debated Protestants, skeptics, and socialists. He has refuted countless atheist arguments and debunked a thousand anti-Catholic myths—without breaking a sweat.  But now Trent Horn has met his match . . . himself. What if the voice of...

When Protestants Strike Back…Thanks to apologetics, millions of regular Catholics have learned to give good reasons for the things they believe, usually to Protestants who challenge their faith with a Bible verse or historical claim. But those...

Is the Mass a meal or a sacrifice? Why did the Mass change after Vatican II? What are the different rites of the Mass, and how did they develop? Why do we have to go to church every Sunday when God is everywhere, and we can just worship him in our own...

Who wrote the book of Revelation and why? How does the Church interpret Revelation’s prophecies? Who or what are the Beast, the Antichrist, and the Whore of Babylon? Does Revelation teach that there will be a rapture and a thousand-year reign of...

Who was Thomas Aquinas, and why is he such a big deal? How does St. Thomas prove the existence of God by reason alone? What is the Summa Theologica, and what are its major parts, topics, and arguments? How can Thomistic teachings on theology, philosophy,...

The Men Were the MissionOne, holy, Catholic… and apostolic Church? Catholics often overlook that last part. And Protestants tend to downplay its importance, treating the apostles as accidental byproducts of Jesus’ ministry rather than key...

When it comes to the history of Christianity, the Catholic Church makes a pretty bold claim: that the earliest Christians were Catholics—and that their beliefs and practices have continued unbroken all the way to the present-day Church. But the...

We seem to be living in an age of insanity. Crimes against children, born and unborn; marriage defiled and redefined; the madness of transgenderism; the looming terror of trans-human-ism . . . the list goes on and on. And it’s getting uglier out...

He’s the Patron of the Universal Church, guardian of the Word Made Flesh, supreme help of fathers and workers, and Terror of Demons. After Jesus and Mary, he’s our single greatest model of holiness and most powerful heavenly friend. Yet the...

Ask Catholics about the crisis in the Church today and you’ll often get one of two responses: The end is upon us! or Everything’s fine—the Holy Spirit is in charge! Neither of those attitudes makes sense from the perspective of history,...