It was my pleasure to interview Mr. Ryan Grant, of Mediatrix Press, for my most recent Reconquest. Our topic was, “The Mass is a True Sacrifice,” for which Saint Robert Bellarmine’s On the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass provided … Continue reading
Category: Apologetics
The ‘Egalitarian’ Argument for Jesus Christ and His Church
Egalitarianism is one of those -isms that we here at Catholicism.org are very much against. Yet, as even the great French Counter-Revolutionary Catholic, Ven. Emmanuel D’Alzon, argued, there are certain ways in which we humans are all radically equal. Inspired … Continue reading
One Path to Salvation: We Must Be Members of His Body
Ignitum Today, Dr Matthew Tan: Someone once told me that in order to be Catholic, one had better conform. Maybe he was not aware of it, but implicit in that argument was the idea that salvation is dependent upon sameness. … Continue reading
Misreading the Book of Nature: Intelligent Forests?
“Then shall the trees of the wood give praise before the Lord: because he is come to judge the earth.” — I Par. 16:33 Trees of different species, acrobatic bugs, and hunter-gatherer fungi all form a sort of underground “brain,” … Continue reading
Queen of Heaven
As I noted in my article defending Padre Pio’s miraculous stigmata, if the belief is Catholic and traditional, you can bet that my friend, Pastor Joe, a Pentecostal minister, will be against it. The latest missive I received from him … Continue reading
One of the Great Paradoxes of Catholicism
The philosophical definition of truth is “the conformity of the mind to reality.”1 Truth is, therefore, a conformity. And as the etymology of that word suggests, it is the mind being “shaped,” — or bent into the shape of — … Continue reading
Father Schall’s Review of Robert Spencer’s ‘The History of Jihad’
Catholic World Report, Father James V. Schall, S.J.: What we see, in reading Robert Spencer’s The History of Jihad is an on-going clash that rises and falls in intensity according to the tides of war and the energy of the Islamic nations … Continue reading
The Truth About Padre Pio
“Did You Know That Padre Pio’s Stigmata Was Self-Inflicted? My ‘Pastor’ Friend Says It Was.” I have a friend who left the Church many years ago and is now a pastor of a small Pentecostal community in my home town. … Continue reading
Dr. Edward Feser on the Proofs of God’s Existence
Dr. Edward Feser is an accomplished Catholic philosopher whose work is worthy of attention. While preparing a class on the proofs of God’s existence, I happened upon a great piece he wrote for his blog, as well as this interview … Continue reading