Celebrating Mary, Mother of God
Image: “Madonna and Child” (detail) by Sassoferrato | Restored Traditions...
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Tag: apologetics
Is it okay to call a Catholic priest “Father”?
[NB: Do not miss the video at the end of this article. You will be blessed. —Deacon Mike] Call no...
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Seven Ways Devotion to Saints makes a Difference
One good way of understanding my belief is to ask: What differences does it make? Devotion to...
Read MoreSeven Aspects of Mary’s Sanctity
Now, except on the one issue of “praying to” saints, most of the differences between us [Catholics and Fundamentalists] are matters of emphasis or sensibility rather than doctrine. But when it comes to Mary, the greatest saint,...
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Why Accompaniment Involves Apologetics
I recently granted an interview to the National Catholic Reporter concerning the upcoming Synod on...
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An Evening with William Lane Craig
Ten years ago, when I was a visiting scholar at the North American College in Rome, I fell into a...
Read MoreThe Mormon Fallacy
It was a beautiful spring day in Dublin Ireland. I was finished with my work meeting and decided to walk through the park near my hotel. The park was crowded with people, sitting on the grass, playing catch near a pond, reading...
Read MoreChrist’s Divinity is the Key
The doctrine of Christ’s divinity is the central Christian doctrine, for it is like a skeleton key that opens all the others. Christians have not independently reasoned out and tested each of the teachings of Christ...
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Why it Matters Who Jesus Is
I have been reading, with both profit and delight, Thomas Joseph White’s latest book, The...
Read MoreEvangelizing Through the Good
Anyone even vaguely acquainted with my work knows that I advocate vigorous argument on behalf of religious truth. I have long called for a revival in what is classically known as apologetics, the defense of the claims of faith...
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The Feast that is the Sacraments
Four elements stand out in the traditional Catholic doctrine of what a sacrament is....
Read MoreDaily Catholic Quote — from G. K. Chesterton
“The difficulty of explaining ‘why I am a Catholic’ is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true.” (G.K. Chesterton, Twelve Modern Apostles and Their Creeds) Print this...
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