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St. Paul said that God has given assurance to all men by raising Christ from the dead (Acts 17:31). This assurance is at the heart of our Christian faith—for without Jesus’ resurrection, Paul adds, our faith is in vain (1 Cor. 15:14)...

Making Sense of Divine Hiddenness We believe that God exists and that he loves us, yet he can feel distant and hidden from our perceptions. Why doesn’t God make himself visible to us? Or at least make his presence undeniable through signs and...

Be honest: even with all the wonderful communications innovations in the last decade—smartphones and endless apps that make your life “better”—you’ve found yourself struggling to make sense of it all, questioning what is...

Raised by a Jewish father and an ex-Catholic mother, Trent Horn was adrift in skepticism in his teenage years and believed religion was “a crutch for the simple-minded.” At the time, Trent: Thought that Christians were...

Today’s popular champions of atheism are often called New Atheists. But there’s nothing really “new” about their arguments. They’re the same basic objections to God that mankind has wrestled with for centuries. We...

Is belief in the devil a relic of a superstitious past? Has science made the devil obsolete? Is Satan merely a metaphor in the Bible for the mystery of evil? Nothing could be farther from the truth. In What You Need to Know About Exorcism: The Devil,...

Reformation or Revolution? There’s a popular version of the Protestant Reformation that goes something like this: By the sixteenth century, the Catholic Church had become thoroughly corrupted. Its doctrines were tainted by superstitions and false...

Nobody talks about the Inquisition—unless the Catholic Church is being bashed. After all, images of religious oppression, gruesome torture, and burning heretics fit so perfectly with the modern world’s preconceived idea (unwittingly...

Have you heard the story about the Crusades? You know, the one about how medieval Europe’s greedy kings and intolerant popes launched bloody wars of conquest on the peaceful and enlightened Muslims? Of course you have. Today’s media,...

These days we hear a lot about “death with dignity,” but what does the dignity of human life demand? As the lobbyists for euthanasia and assisted suicide grow in influence, and as we face a healthcare future more murky and frightening than...

Catholics believe that Christ instituted a ministerial priesthood specially ordained to teach and sanctify his people. Most Protestants think that the only priesthood—at least the only one taught in the Bible—is the common priesthood made up...

Catholic Answers apologist Tim Staples heads Down Under to defend the Real Presence in this stirring debate with Rev. Peter Barnes, Australia’s leading Evangelical controversialist. Recorded live in the city of Blacktown, New South Wales,...