Tag: Catholic Apologetics
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HE CROSS BEFORE CALVARY? — EZEKIEL 9
There is a mysterious scene in Ezekiel that Christians have been reflecting on for centuries. Before judgment falls upon Jerusalem, God commands the man clothed in linen: “Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem: and mark Thau upon the foreheads of the men that sigh, and mourn for all the…
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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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Sunday Worship in the Early Church: The Didache and Saint Justin Martyr
There is a question every Christian should be willing to ask. What did Christian worship actually look like before the divisions of later centuries? Not what do Catholics say it looked like. Not what do Protestants say it looked like. What do the earliest Christians themselves tell us? Because if we can read writings produced…
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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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From Jerusalem To Rome: WHEN The Shadow Gave Way To The Body
Could ancient Jewish tradition have unknowingly preserved signs pointing to Christ? Yoma 39b records that several Temple signs ceased about forty years before Jerusalem’s destruction in AD 70—roughly the time of the Crucifixion. Seen alongside Hebrews, Romans, and the Gospel accounts, these traditions invite a profound reflection on the passing of the old sacrificial order,…
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What Began in Eden Points to Calvary
The Bride From the Side There is a mystery hidden in the opening pages of Genesis that reaches its fulfillment beneath the Cross. In the garden, Adam is cast into a deep sleep. God opens his side, and from his side comes the woman who will become his bride: “Then the Lord God cast a…
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The Catholic Gentleman: Manhood Is Not a Costume
A CatholicG33k Reflection on Sam Guzman’s The Catholic Gentleman: Living Authentic Manhood Today There is a way to read The Catholic Gentleman badly. You could read it as a Catholicized masculinity manual: dress like an adult, drink like an adult, work hard, protect your family, develop some discipline, stop looking at pornography, learn some manners,…
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The “Apocrypha” Points to Christ: The Deuterocanonical Books Protestants Are Missing
If you have ever opened a Protestant Bible and compared its Old Testament with a Catholic Bible, you probably noticed something strange. The Catholic Bible has more books. Tobias. Judith. Wisdom. Ecclesiasticus. Baruch. First and Second Machabees. Plus additional portions of Esther and Daniel. Protestants commonly call these books the Apocrypha. Catholics call them the…
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Is Purgatory Real? Beyond the Myths
The biblical, historical, and Catholic case for purification after death. The small Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Prati, on the banks of the Tiber, houses a most curious collection of artifacts: sixteen pieces of cloth, paper, or wood, each claimed to bear the scorched signs of hands and fingerprints from souls in…