Category: Catholic Church
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God Became Man So That Man Might Share in the Life of God
Understanding the Astonishing Teaching of Catechism 460 There are certain sentences in the Catechism of the Catholic Church that should make us stop reading for a moment. CCC 460 contains one of them. The Catechism teaches that: “The Word became flesh to make us ‘partakers of the divine nature.’” That is not merely poetic language.…
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Understanding the Parts of a Catholic Church
A Deep Guide to the Sacred Architecture, Theology, Liturgy, and Spiritual Meaning of God’s House A Catholic church is not simply an auditorium in which Christians happen to gather. It is a sacred place set apart for divine worship, a visible expression of the mystery of the Church herself, and a building whose arrangement is…
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Are All Religions Paths to God?
Francis, Leo XII, Leo XIII, and the Catholic Distinction We Keep Missing When Pope Francis said in Singapore in 2024 that “all religions are paths to God,” Catholics understandably began debating what exactly he meant. Some reacted as though Francis had formally declared every religion equally true and equally salvific. Others reacted in the opposite…
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When a Civilization Loses Its Horror of Abortion
There are moments when a society does not merely change its laws; it changes what it is capable of seeing. Abortion is one of those questions. The Catholic Church does not oppose abortion because of political fashion, nostalgia, or hostility toward women. She opposes it because an innocent human life is deliberately destroyed. Beneath every…
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The World Hated Him First
The Richmond Catholic Memo, the machinery of suspicion, and why the Church Christ founded will always be an enemy of the spirit of the age “If the world hate you, know ye, that it hath hated me before you.”— John 15:18, Douay-Rheims There is a temptation whenever Catholics discover something like the FBI’s Richmond Catholic…
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Michelangelo, the Catholic Church, and the Mysteries Hidden in His Art
Michelangelo Buonarroti was not simply one of the greatest artists who ever lived. He was also a man whose life became inseparably connected with the Catholic Church. Born in AD 1475, Michelangelo lived during one of the most dramatic periods in Church history. Renaissance Rome was filled with extraordinary beauty, political struggle, corruption, reform movements,…
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Amen, Amen: Faith, Works, Sacraments, and the Gospel of John
Brothers and sisters in Christ, and especially my Protestant brothers and sisters, I want to begin with a simple question. If every outward action connected with salvation is dismissed as a “work,” then what do we do with the Gospel of John? When we read John carefully, we find that Jesus repeatedly presents divine grace…
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The Papacy: A Claim Every Christian Must Examine
Can we first agree on two basic principles? First, if the Catholic Church is right that Jesus Christ established the papacy, then every Christian should seek full communion with the Catholic Church. We would not be free to reject an authority that Christ Himself established. Second, if the papacy is an invention built upon a…
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Why Be Catholic?
If Christianity Is True, What Comes Next? Suppose for a moment that Christianity is true. Suppose Jesus of Nazareth really is who He claimed to be. Suppose He truly rose from the dead. A new question immediately emerges: Which Christian Church did Christ establish? This question matters because Jesus did not simply leave behind a…
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Babylon, the Beast, and the Shepherd Who Would Not Flee
A Meditation on Empire, Martyrdom, and the Victory of the Lamb When the Book of Revelation is read carefully—not as a codebook for modern anxieties, but as a first-century Christian text written for suffering believers—its world comes sharply into focus. This is not a book written in abstraction. It is written in blood and fire,…