Confession to a Priest? 10 Bible Verses Catholics Should Highlight
Can a priest forgive sins? Many Protestants say no—but the Bible says otherwise. These 10 passages reveal how confession to a priest is not just tradition—it’s Scripture.
Can a priest forgive sins? Many Protestants say no—but the Bible says otherwise. These 10 passages reveal how confession to a priest is not just tradition—it’s Scripture.
Is 2 Timothy 3:16–17 proof of sola scriptura? Not so fast. Learn how Paul’s words—and the rest of Scripture—point to a Church with both Scripture and apostolic authority.
Why do Protestants and Catholics often read the same Bible verse and come to completely different conclusions? This post explores the “broken fourth wall”—a hidden key to understanding the divide.
Andrew Voigt’s recent article at The Gospel Coalition, Roman Catholic Apologetics Is Surging Online. Intended Audience? Protestants, reads like a Protestant reconnaissance report, alarmed at the rising tide of Catholics who (gasp!) actually defend their faith online. According to Voigt, Catholic apologetics is growing, influential, and—perhaps worst of all—persuasive. But instead of wrestling with why…
I grew up in an irreligious family. It’s not that my parents didn’t have religious beliefs; they did. They both grew up in nominally Catholic families but rejected their Catholic faith in their early teens. My dad eventually came to believe that religious people were mostly superstitious idiots, and my mom — on the other…
If you reject Apostolic Tradition, you do not get to keep Scripture. A walk through five New Testament passages on paradosis and the canon of the Bible itself.
When I first became a Christian, my King James Bible had as the title for the book of Acts, “The Acts of the Apostles.” Soon after this, I found myself in the Charismatic and Pentecostal traditions and learned that it should hr-hr-rEEeeally be called “The Acts of the Holy Spirit.” In some early Greek manuscripts…
I am interviewing ChatGPT about a variety of things as though it was a real person. Thus, the way I input my questions is conversational, dialogical, and interactive just as I would attempt to do if I were talking to another person in a conversation. Here is the first conversation we just had regarding the…
One of the things most people notice about converts to the Catholic Church is that they have almost always discovered and become very familiar with the Church Fathers and their incredible writings. Because of this, many of them come to learn (and often quote) what St. Cardinal John Henry Newman discovered in his own deep…
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