Articles on Apologetics
“Wherever the bishop shall appear, there let the multitude of the people also be; even as wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church.” Ignatius of Antioch—Letter to the Smyrnaeans, Ch 8
The Centrality of Sacrifice
Watching Mel Gibson’s movie Apocolypto is not for the fainthearted or squeamish. Set among the Mayans in the sixteenth century, the film portrays their customs of human sacrifice with unsparing realism. Heads roll, blood [...]
Mother of God – Defender of Orthodoxy
I can remember soon after I moved to England (and still a convinced Evangelical) hearing a German Catholic refer to Mary as Mutter Gottes. I don’t know German and thought he was calling Mary [...]
Can Evangelicals and Catholics be Friends?
This article dates from 2014 when there was a sudden rapprochement between the Vatican and some charismatic Evangelical leaders. Last week Evangelical Anglican Bishop Tony Palmer spoke to a gathering of Pentecostal Christian leaders [...]
Doubts, Difficulties and Disobedience
One of the most frequent conversations I have as a parish priest is with a parishioner who worries that they have started to doubt their faith. It could be that they have encountered a [...]
From Bob Jones University to the Catholic Church
Taking dramatic steps of faith runs in the family. In the eighteenth century my Mennonite ancestors left Switzerland for the new colony of Pennsylvania to find religious freedom. Seven generations later my part of [...]
Fatima and the Atheists
Atheists love to mock miracles, and the miracle of the sun at Fatima is one of their favorite objects of derision. The high priest of the atheists, Richard Dawkins dismisses the miracle of the [...]