Author: Joshua Charles

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. As indicated in The Martyrdom of

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

I am set to be received into the Catholic Church in July 2019.  I made the decision to convert in February 2018.  I only considered the Catholic Church as a

This blog post is the fifth, and final part of Church Authority, and Saint Ignatius the Red Pill. The individual parts are linked above. Part 1 covered Ignatius’ idea of

As I have outlined, the key catalytic moment when, for the first time, I had to seriously consider the proposition that the Catholic Church is the true Church founded by

This blog post is Part 4 of Church Authority, and Saint Ignatius the Red Pill. The individual parts are linked above. Part 1 covered Ignatius’ idea of Church authority in

Many years before I even consciously considered becoming Catholic, I had many questions about the broadly protestant theologies I was exposed to and took for granted.  As long as I