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May 2018

May 01, 2018

There Was Something Wrong With How I Read My Bible

As a result of my writing, I end up getting a lot of e-mails and...

April 2018

April 27, 2018

Evangelicals, the Ancient Church, and the Liturgy as a Love Song

As an Evangelical convert to Catholicism I've been deeply interesting in the growing movement within...

April 16, 2018

Why Does the Priest Do The Dishes?

At the end of the Liturgy of the Eucharist, the Lord's Supper, the Priest does...

April 07, 2018

The Incredible Biblical Basis for Relics

As someone with a more than passing interest in the world of the paranormal and...

March 2018

March 29, 2018

The Liturgy Is Not Me: Why We All Should Worship Like Catholics

As an eager Evangelical, I once wrote an article about tradition in the context of a...

March 18, 2018

Was Peter the First Pope?

Before we even begin to discuss Peter as Pope we need to get one thing...

March 14, 2018

Did the Catholic Church Just “Deliver” the Bible?

I was once asked the question by a friend of mine, "Which is more important:...

February 2018

February 25, 2018

You Should Receive Communion Kneeling, On the Tongue

If you're at all a Vatican watcher like me then you'll have heard something of...

January 2018

January 31, 2018

What Is Lacking in Christ’s Afflictions?

As a Christian of no real denominational or theological affiliation, I always struggled with Paul's...

December 2017

December 17, 2017

How Many Times Do We Have to Go to Church this Christmas?

Because of the wackiness that is this year's liturgical calendar many Catholics in North America...

December 16, 2017

Why Do Catholics Kiss the Pope’s Ring?

The Catholic Church, sprawled across every corner of the globe, is full of some truly...

October 2017

October 17, 2017

How to Explain Purgatory to Everyone

One of the most responding, human impulses that St. Paul describes in his letters to...

September 2017

September 11, 2017

The Reformation Was Stupid

How we understand our own history shapes almost everything about how we live out our...

September 05, 2017

We Don’t Need No Nashville Statement

If your Facebook news feed is anything like mine then its been busting at the seams...

February 2017

February 06, 2017

If the Bible Is Infallible Then So Is the Church

A paradigm shift occurs when the number of compelling facts and figures from a competing...

November 2016

November 09, 2016

So You Want to Move to Canada: A Field Guide for American Catholics

Hello, America. So, for whatever reason you've suddenly got your heart set on making the move...

November 03, 2016

The Thing I Love About Padre Pio

I've written before about the laudable Catholic practice of praying for the dead---and that the...

October 2016

October 26, 2016

Five Things You Need to Know About the Protestant Reformation

The Lutheran church down the street from our house has a sign that proudly proclaims,...

October 25, 2016

Why Does the Catholic Church Have So Many Rules?

Easily one of the most frequent objections to Catholicism that I hear is that it's...

October 12, 2016

Did Jesus Rise From the Dead (and Does It Matter)?

I am the world's greatest teacher. I have a mug that says so. In fact...

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....

August 2016

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 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...

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 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 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,...