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
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 [...]
Understanding Anglicanism
Oxford and Anglophilia I caught a bad case of Anglophilia or ‘the love of all things English’ when I was a college student in South Carolina. I was attending Bob Jones University and we [...]
Tinkerbell Theology
Do You believe in fairies?… ...then clap your hands. You may remember that episode in Peter Pan when Tinkerbell is about to perish and all the children in the audience are asked to clap their hands [...]
The Mouse That Roars
Fighting the Good Fight Chapter Six of The Romance of Religion C.S.Lewis, himself a romantic warrior, invented a classic hero in his valiant mouse Reepicheep. Reepicheep, who only comes up to a man’s waist [...]
Out of the Frying Pan Into the Fire
Chapter Nine from Quest for the Creed. …he descended into hell … Someone once asked the famous mystic Padre Pio, what he thought of modern people who didn’t believe in hell. His terse reply [...]
Is Dialogue Dead?
For many Catholics “dialogue” is a dirty word. In their mind it’s code for the kind of ecumenism and inter faith relations that emphasize similarities and dismiss differences. “Dialogue” means “we’re all climbing the [...]