Okay, you know what the right answer is supposed to be, but if the Catholic Church is going to make such a big deal about mortal sins being . . . well, mortal, then it kind of makes venial sins look ...

Mickey Mattox notes some important details that influence our understanding of Luther’s context of Wittenberg, Germany. Mattox says that that city constantly contested religious authority even before ...

One of the most contested religious occurrences in modern times took place a century ago in the mountainous village of Fatima, Portugal. This was a time of political instability and war, causing ...

Everybody knows about stories of ghosts haunting spooky old houses. Catholics are familiar with apparitions of the saints. There are also forbidden practices like going to a medium. What each of these ...

Many of our Protestant brothers and sisters will point to Ephesians 2:8-9 as their “silver bullet” Scripture verse to attack the Catholic understanding of faith and works. See, for example, this blog ...

My work at Covenant Eyes entails helping to educate the Church on the problem of pornography. It is understood, even if not always said explicitly, that more often than not, the use of pornography is ...

I was recently presented with a topic about which I had never given much thought: someone taking a long time for confession, resulting in other people unable to receive the sacrament because the ...

The Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) has ordained new bishops, returned to schism, and incurred excommunication, and the Vatican has announced these facts. The SSPX is a society of priests, founded in ...

In the first part of my series on the biblical roots of the Mass, we examined how Jesus’ one sacrifice of Calvary didn’t end on the cross, but rather culminated in everlasting glory in the heavenly ...

Not everyone in the scholarly community has interpreted the Bible’s vision of the “woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars” (Rev 12:1) in the ...

Many Catholics in the West assume that Islam is simply another Abrahamic religion and therefore shares our ideas about freedom, the individual, and the nature of society. But when you actually study ...

Both Catholic and Protestant Christians believe that Christ’s one sacrifice of Calvary provides atonement for our sins, yet Protestants teach that Jesus “finished” his redemptive work on the cross ...