Becoming Catholic #21—What Did the Ancient Church Believe? Baptismal Regeneration
Baptism was one of the topics that did the most to convert me to the Catholic Faith. After all, in the Great Commission, it is one of the primary actions
Baptism was one of the topics that did the most to convert me to the Catholic Faith. After all, in the Great Commission, it is one of the primary actions
In Part 1 of my series examining the Jewish roots of Catholic authority, I explored how God not only appointed Moses, but a priesthood by which to govern His people,
By Whose Authority? On a practical level, the core dispute between the Catholic Church and protestants resolves around one question: did Christ establish a Church with authority to teach in
Based on the many questions I’ve received from so many about what the Church Fathers believed, and how that led to my conversion, I’ve decided to do another mini-series within
Since becoming Catholic, I have sometimes been accused of holding Catholic assumptions, which necessarily lead to Catholic conclusions. Ironically, this accusation is sometimes made by various protestant friends who know
This is the second in a “mini-series” within my Becoming Catholic series about the numerous examples from the Church Fathers that show how they described heresy—and how their descriptions matched
One of the key moments in my conversion was reading An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine, by the famous Anglican convert John Henry Cardinal Newman. Published in 1845,
One of the most striking discoveries I made in the writings of the Church Fathers is that every time they spoke about heresy and heretics, they were describing me and
St. Justin Martyr was one of the Church’s first great apologists, utilizing the power of philosophy and Scripture to argue in favor of Christianity. He was martyred during the reign
There are few parts of the Bible that played a bigger role in bringing me to the Catholic Church than Acts 15—the account of the “Council of Jerusalem.” There is