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
Why Don’t Catholics Read the Bible?
The independent fundamentalist church I went to as a boy gave me a fantastic amount of Bible knowledge. There were Bible drills in Sunday School, Bible memory contests, and Bible quizzes, not to mention [...]
Ideologies, Ideas and Idols
Is Christianity an ideology? First we have to ask, “What is an ideology?” An ideology is a good idea. But when the good idea is the only idea it becomes not only an ideology, [...]
Confession the Pathway to Mercy
Am I disturbed about all the talk about mercy? You bet I am. This is not because I am opposed to the church being the agent of God’s mercy, but because I am in [...]
Levity and Gravity
C.S.Lewis once quipped, “You can always tell the pillars of the church because their faces look like stone.” I can remember the first time in my first parish when I cracked a joke in [...]
Encounters with Angels
A visit to the local bookstore will reveal a whole shelf of books on angel encounters, angel channelling, and angelology. There’s even a book called The Physics of Angels which tries to blend quirky [...]
Prime Minister Peter
During the London Olympics it was all eyes on Britain, and the unique relationship between the British monarch and the government makes a great illustration of the foundation of the Catholic faith. In the [...]