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October 2016

October 11, 2016

When Did the Historic Church Lose its Way?

As an Evangelical Protestant convert to Catholicism one of the most common objections I...

October 07, 2016

Everything I Never Knew About the Rosary

I never thought I'd be the sort of person---the sort of Christian---that prays the Rosary....

September 2016

September 20, 2016

He’s Got the Whole World in His Hands

I am sitting in a hotel room over looking the Detroit River. On the other...

September 08, 2016

Why I Love The Sunday, 7PM Mass

We are an eccentric crew here at the 7PM Sunday night Mass. It's the proverbial last...

September 06, 2016

What Mother Teresa (And Her Critics) Can Teach Us About Saints

I'm not going to lie, I've been intentionally avoiding all the negative press swirling around...

August 2016

August 31, 2016

Congratulations Fr. Roderick (And Thank You!)

Dutch priest and podcaster Fr. Roderick Vonhogen is about to record his 1,000th episode of...

August 24, 2016

I Used To Be A Christian

This post is a part of the Patheos Catholic Channel series, "Catholicity: Identity and Its...

August 08, 2016

Please Stop Planting Churches

A friend of mine is planting a church in Montreal, Canada. He doesn't know I'm...

August 05, 2016

The Audacity of Unmerited Grace

Picture the one person on earth that you like the least. There's gotta be somebody....

August 03, 2016

What If Catholics Are Right?

What if the claims of the Catholic Church are true? What if Catholics are right?...

July 2016

July 29, 2016

Does Doctrine Really Matter Anymore?

Truth seems like such an amorphous thing these days. In the United States, the wife...

July 18, 2016

St. Michael Novena for our Police Officers

Every day my friend Lindsay and her four children pray for the safety of Jason,...

July 18, 2016

The Incredible Satisfaction of Living with the Saints

The belief of in ability of our deceased Christian brothers and sisters to pray for...

July 06, 2016

What Would the Early Church Look Like If I Had a Time Machine?

What would the Early Christian Church look like if through the miracle of time travel...

June 2016

June 02, 2016

The Most Important Thing Non-Catholics Needs to Know About Catholicism

For fifteen years I was an evangelical Protestant. Then, two years ago at Easter I became...

June 01, 2016

Go Home Canada, You’re Drunk.

It's all but too late. Today, much to the shame of our entire country, Parliament...

May 2016

May 23, 2016

So You Think You’re Smarter Than the Early Church Fathers?

If we give the Church Fathers the full weight they deserve, then we need to...

May 12, 2016

Why I Pray to Dead People (And You Should Too!)

It was a Sunday morning after our ten o'clock service. I was in my final...

April 2016

April 26, 2016

The Catholic Church Must Become More Protestant

Dr. Peter Kreeft is a brilliant theologian, philosopher, and a Evangelical Protestant convert to the...

April 25, 2016

Does the Church Need to Constantly Evolve?

When I think about my journey into the Catholic Church an old song by Pedro the...

April 19, 2016

What Canadian Catholics Need to Know About Assisted Suicide

On February 6, 2015, in a unanimous judgment, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled to...

April 06, 2016

Why Catholics Sit, Stand, and Kneel During Mass

My wonderfully witty sister once remarked that I became a Catholic because I love to sit,...

April 05, 2016

How To Not Become a Catholic: A Convert’s Guide

As a Protestant convert to Catholicism whose journey culminated a year ago at Easter I have some...

March 2016

March 23, 2016

Why I’m Becoming a Catholic At Easter

After a radical conversion to Christ at the age of fifteen I lived as a genuinely...

March 15, 2016

Catholics Got It Wrong (Except for the Bible)

Dale Ahlquist is the brother-in-law of the late, great Larry Norman---arguably one of God's greatest gifts...

March 14, 2016

On Lent and Letting Go of Grudges

I've held a grudge for a long time, I'm not proud to say. I'm not...

March 07, 2016

Let’s Not Kill Each Other: Canada’s Euthanasia Crisis

While America entertains itself with the likes of Donald Trump and the Presidential Primaries its...

February 2016

February 20, 2016

What A Tired Priest Taught Me About Humility

It's an open secret for long-time readers of my blog that I experienced my...

February 10, 2016

Giving Up Complaint, Taking Up Mercy

I'm generally a shameful, petty person. I know, I know, it's shocking. How can someone who...

February 09, 2016

No, You Can’t Have the Eucharist (And That’s OK)

A stir was created, a few weeks ago, when a group of Lutheran clergy visiting...

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