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A Five-Part Test for Your Eucharistic Beliefs(Post)

Understanding the Eucharist How can you tell if you have the right understanding—the biblical interpretation, Jesus’ interpretation—of the Eucharist? I’d suggest five things to look for: your belie ...

What if I Feel That I Have Lost My Faith?(Post)

Faith, in the Christian tradition, is a theological virtue that comes from God as a gift. So any baptized person has received this gift of faith. The gift of faith is a habit that is still present i ...

The Eucharist Is Really Jesus(Post)

The Eucharist: Understanding Through Simple Stories My old pastor gave a homily in which he talked about preparing a girl for First Communion. Her parents had been wondering if she was ready yet, so ...

Are the Saints Alive or Dead?(Post)

Many non-Catholics struggle with the concept of praying to saints because they think prayer and worship are the same thing. Since the Bible says we should only worship God, then shouldn’t we o ...

Marie Antoinette and the Affair of the Diamond Necklace(Post)

“She was the victim of a vicious, shrewdly sustained process of character assassination from the moment she set foot in France, a sinister, carefully orchestrated campaign of calumny, whi ...

Advent Apologetics: Who Is “Mary of Nazareth?” (Post)

Though she became the most famous woman in the history of the world, Mary was born a simple Jewish girl from a poor family in the house of David,i some 2,000 years ago. When she was fourteen or fi ...

Did Old Testament Prophecy Stop for 400 Years?(Post)

Many in the Protestant community discount books not found in their version of the Old Testament on the ground that there were “400 silent years” between Malachi and the ministry of Jesus.This claim i ...

Where Demons Dwell(Post)

And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down ...

How to Spot and Counter the Ambiguity Fallacy(Post)

In our world of argumentation and reasoning, clarity and precision are of vital importance. However, many times, apologists use ambiguous terms to argue points. To do this, they often employ the amb ...

"You Catholics Think You Need to Earn Your Salvation"(Post)

You're talking to your Protestant friend and he drops this one on you.... "You Catholics think you need to earn your salvation" What do you say? Here, we'll help. The Pro ...

Why I Left the Catholic Church for Orthodoxy (And Why I Came Back)(Post)

Fulfilling Our Deepest LongingI still remember feeling betrayed by the Catholic Church.I became a Catholic in 2012 because I was convinced that the Church checked out on paper. I was able to see the ...

Purgatory in the Protestant Traditions (Post)

Purgatory is also found among many non-Catholic Christians. In fact, Christians who reject the doctrine of purgatory, in its consciously articulated form or at least the concepts that undergird it, a ...