The purpose of this article is not to show that Carmelite saints believed in the dogma outside the Church there is no salvation in the same sense that Father Leonard Feeney believed it. That would be too easy, and this … Continue reading
Category: Apologetics
If Jesus Had Believed in ‘Faith Alone’…
It is an issue of perennial controversy between Catholics and Protestants: faith and good works (or “faith versus good works,” with its built-in prejudicial notion that the two are opposed). Saint Matthew’s melancholy account of the rich young man who … Continue reading
Saint Augustine Condemning Faith without Works
The following comes from the Matins lessons in the traditional Roman-rite office for the Monday of the First week of Quadragesima. Twelve-hundred years in advance, Saint Augustine here condemns most emphatically the unbiblical notion of sola fides propagated by the … Continue reading
The Ontological Argument for God’s Existence
First, a word from me. Saint Anselm was a great theologian and doctor of the Church who was a light in the eleventh century. Let us not forget that.The argument he espoused is simple. He said it came to him as … Continue reading
Reconquest: ‘Papacy, Divine and Limited,’ with Brother Andre and Charles Coulombe
In April of 2016, when Reconquest was still in its infancy, I interviewed Charles Coulombe on the papacy. Calling the show, “The Papacy, Divine and Limited,” we wanted to set some things straight about this divinely established office, contrary both … Continue reading