441 results for 'case for catholicism'

Our Culture Is Facing a Reckoning(Post)

Despite the ruins of the Sexual Revolution being all around us, many Protestants are doubling down—not only continuing to support contraception, but starting to embrace other related practices ...

Are We Superior to the Early Christians? (Post)

The Argument for the Great Apostasy If the early Church was the Catholic Church, why can’t we say that Christians just lost their way early on? That’s the argument many Mormon and Protestant the ...

Advent Apologetics: How Does Prophetic Fulfillment Work?(Post)

When a true prophet says something about the future, at some point, it must be fulfilled. This raises the question of how the concept of fulfillment works. In cases of non-symbolic prophecy, it is of ...

Advent Apologetics: How Can You Trust the Gospel Accounts Written Long After Events They Describe? (Post)

Critics of the New Testament often claim that the names of the authors of the Gospels were added after they had already been in circulation in the Church. Instead of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, ...

When Peter Met Jesus(Post)

The first encounter between Jesus and Peter is presented to us in two different ways. Mark, Matthew, and Luke present Peter working as a fisherman in Galilee when Jesus calls him to become one of his ...

Tradition in the Early Church(Post)

At first, the apostles conducted their teaching mission in a purely oral form. Peter preached a sermon on Pentecost.He did not issue a pamphlet.By teaching orally, the apostles followed the example o ...

Why Do Our Protestant Friends Have Smaller Bibles?(Post)

We recently sat down with Catholic Answers Senior Apologist Jimmy Akin, to talk about why the Bible is a Catholic book. Q. Our Protestant friends often speak of “the word of God” as if it ...

The Fisher Pope(Post)

What is a miracle, and how does it differ from magic? Both “miracle” and “magic” are notoriously hard concepts to define, and differing religions demarcate their respective limits differently. The cl ...

The Inseparable Connection Between the Stigmata and the Eucharist(Post)

Let the entire man be seized with fear; let the whole world tremble; let heaven exult when Christ, the Son of the Living God, is on the altar in the hands of the priest.—St ...

Advent Apologetics: Did the First Christians Expect Jesus to Return in Their Lifetimes? (Post)

God did not reveal his plan of the ages all at once. As the centuries rolled on, he sent prophets to his people Israel, and they learned more about the shape of his plan. This is a concept that schol ...

Common Misconceptions: Setting the Record Straight(Post)

From the beginning of the Church, people have wondered what it is. A big part of St. Paul’s work, as reflected in his letters to the early churches, is clarifying what the Church is and i ...

How Can I Believe In God When So Many Reasonable People Don't?(Post)

If most intelligent people you know believed something, would you believe it?For many people who don’t believe God exists, this is one reason why: the smart people they know and respect, such as scie ...