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How Protestant Ideology Killed My Mother’s Chances of Becoming Catholic
I do not really wonder why my mother has never become Catholic. I know one of the major reasons. What I have wondered about, especially since becoming Catholic myself in 2011, is how someone like my mother could in so many ways make a great Catholic and yet see Catholicism as something fundamentally incompatible with… Read more
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Mystery or Confusion
There is a quote often attributed to Archbishop Fulton Sheen that has stuck with me ever since I first heard it: “There are not one hundred people in the United States who hate the Catholic Church, but there are millions who hate what they wrongly believe to be the Catholic Church.” Whether the exact number… Read more
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Why I Stopped Debating
Tears, Adoration, and a Calling People are often surprised when I tell them I don’t enjoy debating anymore. That’s probably because for years I was known as “the Catholic guy” who was always reading theology, studying Church history, and digging into apologetics. The truth is, there was a season of my life when I thought… Read more
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What Denomination Are You?
There’s a reality I keep running into over and over again in conversations about Christianity. The second someone hears the words “Roman Catholic Church,” walls go up. Guards come up. Assumptions come up. People stop listening before the conversation even begins. And honestly, I think if we removed denominational titles for just a moment and… Read more
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Faith That Moves: What the Blind Man Shows Us About Works
There’s a common claim you hear all the time: works don’t matter, just believe. It sounds simple. It sounds clean. But when you actually open Scripture, that idea starts to fall apart pretty quickly. The tension usually shows up when Catholics talk about works. The response is almost automatic: “That’s legalism,” or “you’re trying to… Read more
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Who Told You Which Books Belong In The Bible?
Quite a few years ago I was at a party when the conversation turned to religion, I forget how, but it was about a certain teaching that dealt with the deuterocanonical books. It always turns religious with me, haha. Someone asked what I believed, and after I answered, a lutheran buddy jumped in with confidence… Read more
