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Yesterday, we looked at three common ways of misusing the Church Fathers: (1) ignoring or fearing them; (2) exploiting them; (3) treating them as individually infallible. These may seem like simple points, but a large number of Christians (Catholics and Protestants alike) fall into at least one of these three camps. Given this, what does… Continue reading How to Treat the Church Fathers (According to the Church Fathers)

Woodcut, The Nuremberg Chronicle (1493) What should we Christians make of the Early Church Fathers, the early Christians who preserved orthodox Christianity? After all, these are the men who compiled the Scriptures, organized the early Ecumenical Councils, and warded off dozens of heresies. How much attention should we pay to their writings, and how much… Continue reading Three Ways You Shouldn’t Treat the Church Fathers

Ludovico Mazzolino, The Twelve-Year-Old Jesus Teaching in the Temple (1524) At 7:50 (Central) tomorrow morning, I’m going to be on Son Rise Morning Show, talking about what I learned in my first year of seminary.You’ll only be able to hear me online (unless you happen to live in Cincinnati). So if you want to listen to it live, go to http://www.sonrisemorningshow.com/, and click… Continue reading Son Rise Morning Show: 10 Things I Learned in My First Year of Seminary

St. Augustine of Hippo St. Augustine is one of the few Saints that both Catholics and (most) Protestants admire. Without a doubt, he is the most popular Saint among Protestants, and is the most-cited Saint in the Catechism. As such, he’s a good Saint for Catholics to cite to when explaining the faith to Protestants.… Continue reading Augustine’s Favorite Apologist Explains the Eucharist

There’s a faulty notion that the abortion issue is inherently religious: that one must be a Christian (or at least possess particular subjective beliefs about when life begins) in order to be against abortion.  In fact, the pro-life view is founded squarely on modern science. I wrote about this a couple weeks ago, regarding the scientific… Continue reading How to Establish a Pro-Life Framework

Modern feminism tends to conflate gender equality with gender interchangeability, insisting that women aren’t truly free until they’re indistinguishable from men. In the process, the movement has pitted itself against both science, which finds sexual differences throughout the animal kingdom, and women themselves, who tend to be quite comfortable with the arrangement. I recently wrote… Continue reading Feminism’s War on Women

In some post-election commentary, Nancy Giles (of CBS News Sunday Morning) suggested that pro-lifers were against abortion in order to build up the white race: “It’s been weird to watch white people report on this,” she said. “And, you know, when you just showed that graph of the decline in the numbers, I thought, ‘Maybe that’s why they’re… Continue reading Are Pro-Lifers Racist for Opposing Abortion?

Yesterday, Cardinal Dolan gave his Presidential Address to the USCCB about the need for penance, and the possibility of re-instituting meatless Fridays year-round: ​What an irony that despite the call of the Second Vatican Council for a renewal of the Sacrament of Penance, what we got instead was its near disappearance.  ​We became very good in… Continue reading Why is Fish Allowed on Meatless Fridays?

On Friday, the Anglican Church announced that the next Archbishop of Canterbury would be the current Bishop of Durham, Justin Welby.  This appointment is important, since the Archbishop of Canterbury is the highest-ranking bishop within the Anglican Communion.  Archbishop-elect Welby is a complex man: he’s an Evangelical with an admiration for Catholicism, and a traditional-minded bishop… Continue reading Why Conservative Anglicanism is Doomed