Purify Your Bride

James White has observed that Catholic apologists have been less willing to engage him in debate over Marian dogmas then they have over other issues. That seems like it is probably true. In general Catholic apologetics has focused on 2 main issues. Those would be authority and the Eucharist. Authority because it is at the [...]

Mark Shea has an interesting article where he says:
In the same way, when applied to the life of the mind, the Christian insight identifies purity with the union of mind and truth, not with a mind too full of fear of commitment to have contact with any truth at all. To be sure, the Christian [...]

Who is the best player in NFL history. Clearly, it is Barry Sanders. Now I have been a Detroit Lion fan for the past 25 years so you may say I am biased. But I think I am being completely objective. No other star has had to cope with such weak teammates and coaches. He [...]

Just having a conversation about history. Someone who is moving to another part of the world saying he is looking forward to that place because it has history. Of course, North America has history. It is just not recorded. The native tribes that were here were not good record keepers. They did not write things [...]

Heaven and earth will pass away but my words will never pass away.
Mt 24:35 Mk 13:31 Lk 21:33
And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not overcome it. Mt 16:18
Progress requires us to build on what previous [...]

People desire God. They don’t always know that it is God that they desire. They feel a strong attraction to truth, to goodness, and to beauty. These desires can only be satisfied by God. Sin is when we lose these desires and become focused on ourselves. Atheists tend to have very healthy desires for truth. [...]

Jen posted about head coverings for women at mass. It is one of those topics that makes me wonder. Is there something we are doing wrong? Is there something we can change about the way we do church that can cause people to connect with it better? It makes sense that a simple thing like [...]

This line struck me at mass today. Jesus is sleeping in a boat while his disciples are trying to keep it from sinking in a storm. When we suffer and we think God is sleeping. We can ask, “Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?” Our first reaction is, of course. He must [...]

Why don’t protestants venerate saints? The reasons they give don’t add up. Can it lead to idolatry? Lots of things can lead to idolatry. You can idolize pastors or musicians. That is no reason to ban something. Is it because it is not in the bible? The bible talks at least as much about saints [...]

What does a protestant mean when he says “The bible says…”? What he really means is “In my opinion…”. Now that sounds a little harsh. But you have to understand that most protestants do try and conform their opinions to what they think the bible teaches. They get it wrong but they don’t get it [...]

I had a discussion at Dave’s blog about Mithra. It turns out he is one of many pagan parallels to Jesus. More of them are listed here. Atheists try to show how the Jesus story is not really unique and it is quite reasonable to suppose that it might have been made up. Protestants try [...]

Jen over at Conversion Diary wrote a post in which she jokes that she and her husband are bad at NFP. By the reactions in the comments it seems like lots of folks feel that way. There seems to be this idea that NFP means making a decision about children based on cold, hard logic [...]

One of the interesting things about Catholics doctrines that protestants deny is they often come back in some other form. The notion of holiness was like that. As a protestant I would crave a sense of the holy. Whether it was through music or speaking in tongues or through passionate prayer there were moments that [...]

Why do protestants reject the priesthood? One reason is that it makes their Christian walk dependent on another person. If you say the sinner’s prayer and you go buy a bible then you don’t need anybody. Sure you find a fellowship and a place to worship and some teaching that you trust. But the point [...]

Pope Benedict has declared this year to be the year of the priest. We are just coming to the end of the year of focus on St Paul. St Paul is someone that protestants love. They tend to preach on the epistles more and Catholics tend to focus on the gospels more. I think the [...]