Category: Becoming Catholic

One of the most common objections against the Catholic Church is it is corrupt and full of wicked shepherds. This supposedly justified the protestant revolt, and people leaving the Church

Growing up protestant, I took for granted the idea that there could be many Christian churches who, despite disagreeing on many fundamental issues, could nonetheless be considered part of one

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