Purify Your Bride

You hear a lot about alleged anti-Catholic media bias. Often you hear it talked about as some sort of conspiracy. The main stream media (MSM) is personified as some sort of evil scheming entity. The trouble is there is nobody out there scheming. The evidence is clear that the media is formed from many independent […]

Yesterday I was listening to the first reading and it talked about Abraham’s children being like the dust of the earth. I guess I prefer the translation I am more familiar with which says his children would be like the “sands of the seashore” or the “stars of the heaven” (maybe it was a different text). […]

One of the best ways to produce vocations in a parish is to have a ministry aimed at singles aged 18-30. This happened in my home parish for a few years and it produced 2 vocations. It was a program called Into The Deep which challenged people to learn and live the entire Catholic faith. […]

Dave Armstrong’s new book is getting some attention in the blog world. It tries to give quick answers to common objections and questions Catholics might run into. It tries to get past the Catholic who has a strong interest in theology and get to the average pew sitter who has no clue what the church’s […]

I found a website from a guy named Mike Gendron that has some questions for Catholics. Here are some replies. My words are in purple, Mike’s are in green. 
One of the most effective ways to communicate the Gospel of Jesus Christ is to ask questions. This method is highly effective because it is biblical! It also shows people […]

On Focus on the Family recently Frank Peretti talked about truth. He talked about a chair in a plain, round room. Without the chair you had no reference point. You could not know where you are. Once you have the chair you can always know where you are in relation to it. The key is the […]

So many times you hear vocation directors talk to young people about how great the need for priests is in the church today. There are many statistics quoted and questions about how the sacraments are going to be hard to access if there aren’t enough priests. It strikes me that if a man wanted to […]

When we think of Catholic art we think of pictures of saints and things that go in churches. But it is much broader than that. In general anything that expresses deep Catholic truths in ways ordinary people can understand would be considered Catholic art.  It seems like we have a great need for that. We […]

I have been thinking about the big picture of history a little bit. Where is God leading His church? What is the point of all the division and confusion? Thinking about the medieval world it seems like they had a very strong faith. Certainly in Europe most people sincerely believed the gospel. But it was a […]

Here are some areas I’ve submitted to my church’s teachings: 1) Believer’s baptism. I was baptized as an infant in the RCC, but my church teaches being baptized after becoming a believer, so I submitted. 2) Transubstantiation (or the lack of). My church teaches the bread & wine aren’t the real presence of Jesus, and […]

The Catholic church has been fighting with liberal theology for the past few decades. There is always a battle but the church of the 70’s and 80’s certainly saw a strong increase in Catholics challenging the teachings of the church. One area where this was strong was among Catholic theologians. It seems most of the leading […]

Grubb’s words are in green. My words are in purple.
I was preparing a point by point defence on your post when I realized the crux of the issue. We can discuss pride and arrogance for days, but the true issue is infallibility.
I agree. I think the pride and arrogance is a direct result of […]

I had a discussion with Grubb on Dave Armstrong’s blog. I am trying to use my blog to post a more readable version of it. My first post is in green. Grubb’s reply is in brown. My reply is in blue.
It is not change that is the issue. It is how we arrive at truth. So suggesting a […]

John Allen writes about Michael Root’s address to the CTSA. I think he makes some good points.
Michael Root of the Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary in Columbia, South Carolina, observed that post-Vatican II Catholicism teaches that the one church of Christ is “present and at work” in other Christian bodies such as the Anglican Communion […]

Atheism has never been so trendy. We have one best selling book after another. It’s all over the magazines and talk shows. Everyone wants to take a shot at Christianity. But why? Why now? What is driving it? Well if you listen closely they are really running down one type of Christianity - fundamentalism. What […]