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Why I Joined the Catholic Church this Easter
After a radical conversion to Christ at the age of about fifteen years old, I lived as a genuinely devout Protestant, earnestly seeking after Christ in my life as best I could. Sometimes, of course, doing a miserable job. This Easter, after a long journey, I became a Catholic. My...
Are Catholics Less Devout than Protestants?
The notion that Catholics are less devout that Protestants is crazy. There, I said it. I’ve run up against this prejudice though all the time. I’m disappointed in myself to admit that I held it, earnestly, and quite recently, before I began exploring the Catholic Church—and I...
This Protestant Researched Marian Miracles, & What He Learned Blew His Mind
Satan cannot drive out Satan. A house, or a kingdom, cannot be divided against itself. The synoptic gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke all record this profound event in the earthly ministry of Jesus Christ. After healing a demon-possessed man, Jesus is confronted by the Pharisees, the pious religious...
Why Do Catholics Call Priests "Father"? Isn't That Against the Bible?
A common objection to Catholicism is that Catholics ignore the Bible in calling priests Father. After all, in Matthew 23:9, Jesus says, “call no man your father upon the earth: for one is your Father, which is in heaven.” It seems, on the surface, that Catholics are just violating...
Was the 20th Century's Best Evangelist for Catholicism a Protestant?
On November 22, 1963, at 2:30 pm central time, John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. An hour earlier, across the Atlantic, C.S. Lewis had died at his home in Oxford. A few short hours later, in Los Angeles, the English writer Aldous Huxley, author of the dystopian...