Becoming Catholic Blog

#2 | The “Big ‘C’” Catholic Church in the Church Fathers
#11 | Which “gospel”? Which “biblical”?
#12 | Why Acts 15 Led Me to the Catholic Church
#15 | “To be deep in history is to cease to be a Protestant”
#28 |  Former Calvinist Theologian and Historian Set out to Disprove the Catholic Church, and Becomes Catholic—The Story of Dr. David Anders
#38 |Protestantism’s Mormonism Problem (to be re-posted soon)

#17 | How I Concluded “Scripture Alone” Was False While Still a Protestant
#27 | No One in Scripture Interpreted it On Their Own

#1 | The Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist in the Church Fathers
#9 | The Church Fathers, and the Christian Sacrifice of the Eucharist
#13 | St. Justin Martyr, the Mass, and the Church’s Early Eucharistic Doctrine

#39 | The Biblical Roots of Apostolic Succession, Infallibility, and the Indefectibility of the Church, Part 1: When Jesus Began to Reign as King
#45 | St. Augustine: Apostolic Succession Prophesied in the Psalms (Exposition of Psalm 45)

#35 | Victorian Protestant Scholar Praises the Papacy as the Most Enduring Institution in World History
#44 | Papal Snapshot: Origen Repents to St. Pope Fabian (mid 200s)
#40 | Papal Snapshot: Pagan Historian Acknowledges “the higher authority of the bishop of the Eternal City” (c. 355)
#41 | Papal Snapshot: St. Jerome, and the One True Church Built on the Rock of Peter and His Successors in Rome (c. 376/377)
#42 | Papal Snapshot: St. Peter Chrysologus Says the Pope is Required to Settle Doctrinal Disputes (448)
#43 | Papal Snapshot: Papal Authority Affirmed in Emperor Justinian’s Civil Code of Law (533-34)

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#29 | Where is the True Church? St. Augustine, Part 1: Against the Fundamental Epistle of Manichaeus
#31 | Where is the True Church? St. Augustine, Part 2: Of True Religion

#18 | What Did the Ancient Church Believe? The Unity and Necessity of the Church for Salvation
#21 | What Did the Ancient Church Believe? Baptismal Regeneration
#22 | What Did the Ancient Church Believe? The Catholic Church is the One True Church

#19 | The Jewish Roots of Catholic Authority, Part 1: Moses and the Priesthood Speak for God
#20 | The Jewish Roots of Catholic Authority, Part 2: Urim and Thummim
#26 | The Jewish Roots of Catholic Authority, Part 3: “Apostolic Succession” in the Old Testament
#24 | Where is the True Church? A Typological Connection Between Ancient Israel and the Catholic Church
#34 | Jewish Roots of Catholic Authority, Part 4: What Was the Jewish Understanding of Jesus’s Words About “Binding and Loosing”?

#7 | The Day of Judgment, and Works, Part 1

#32 | Purgatory Taught by Jesus in a Parable

#30 | The Prophecy That Convinced Me the “Apocrypha” Was Part of the Bible

#3 | Church Authority, and Saint Ignatius the Red Pill, Part 1
#5 | Church Authority, and Saint Ignatius the Red Pill, Part 2
#6 | Church Authority, and Saint Ignatius the Red Pill, Part 3
#8 | Church Authority, and Saint Ignatius the Red Pill, Part 4
#10 | Church Authority, and Saint Ignatius the Red Pill, Part 5: Roman Finale

#33 | Family Matters, Part 1: Christ and the Apostles Forbade Divorce and Remarriage

#14 | This Looks Familiar: Protestantism and Ancient Heresies (#1: St. Athanasius)
#16 | This Looks Familiar: Protestantism and Ancient Heresies (#2: St. Epiphanius of Salamis)
#37 | This Looks Familiar: Protestantism and Ancient Heresies (#3: St. Isidore of Seville)

#4 | Wicked Shepherds: A Comedy on Why a Medieval Jew Became a Medieval Catholic
#23 | Wicked Shepherds: St. Augustine on Remaining in the One True Church

#25 | Setting the Record Straight: The Pope Repents of the Priesthood’s Sins, and Predicts Disastrous Consequences of Luther’s “Evangelical Liberty”
#36 | Setting the Record Straight: How Protestantism Laid the Foundations of Modern Secularism (atheist convert Dr. Alan Fimister)

#47 | St. Augustine’s “Hall of Miracles,” Part 1 (City of God, Book 22, Ch. 8)

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#46 | Most Christians, Including Catholics, Already Embrace Antichrist’s Agenda

Quote Archive | The Catholic Church and Faith in the Church Fathers
Quote Archive | The Canon of Scripture
Quote Archive | Apostolic Tradition
Quote Archive | Apostolic Succession
Quote Archive | The Papacy
Quote Archive | Holy Mary, Mother of God
Quote Archive | Mortal Sin: Christians Can Lose Their Salvation
Quote Archive | The Communion of Saints
Quote Archive | Purgatory
Quote Archive | Development of Doctrine

The Seven Sacraments
Quote Archive | The Sacrament of Baptism
Quote Archive | The Sacrament of Confirmation
Quote Archive | The Blessed Sacrament of the Holy Eucharist
Quote Archive | The Sacrament of Marriage, Divorce, and Contraception
Quote Archive | The Sacrament of Holy Orders, and the Authority of the Priesthood
Quote Archive | The Sacrament of Confession
Quote Archive | The Sacrament of Last Rites

The Moral Order
Quote Archive | Abortion
Quote Archive | Homosexual and Gender-Confusing Behavior
Quote Archive | The Roles of Men and Women, Husbands and Wives

Christendom
Quote Archive | A Great Mountain: Christendom
Quote Archive | America and Christendom

The End Times
Quote Archive | Antichrist, Katechōn, Jerusalem, the Jews, and the Temple

The Rise and Fall of Civilizations
Quote Archive | The Ancients on Music

Study Bank | “Grace” in the New Testament
Study Bank | Baptism in the New Testament
Study Bank | Justification in the New Testament
Study Bank | Church Unity Commanded in the New Testament
Study Bank | The Holy Spirit
Study Bank | The Kingdom in the New Testament
Study Bank | The Ancient Lists and Testimonies of Popes Succeeding from Peter
Study Bank | The Kings and Queen Mothers of the Davidic Kingdom in the Old Testament
Study Bank | The Davidic Covenant in the New Testament
Study Bank | The Parables of Christ
Study Bank | Pagan Attempt to Rebuild the Temple Thwarted