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 […]
VIDEO: The Protestant Reflex | A Drive-Time Monologue
Everyone has reflexes and automatic responses and even triggers in response to physical, psychological, emotional, and spiritual inputs. In this drive-time monologue, I share what I am calling the “Protestant Reflex.” That is, the automatic response that most Protestants have when discussing theological ideas with Catholics. As someone who spent 33 years in Protestantism and […]
VIDEO: Big Problems with Sola Scriptura | A Drive-Time Monologue
This seemed like a good way to get content out the door vs. trying to do an entire video production with edits, etc. The genre here is a “Drive Time Monologue,” but I invite the listener to imagine a scenario in which we are driving together. Perhaps my passenger is a Catholic who wants to […]
AUDIO BOOK: A Catholic View of Protestantism by Fr. John Hardon, S.J.
In September of 2020 I was encouraged by a friend to listen to a lecture by the late Fr. John A. Hardon, S.J. on the state of American Protestantism. In his six-hour lecture, Fr. Hardon mentioned books that he had written which had gone out of print. One of them was called “Christianity in Conflict […]
Do Catholics believe in justification by faith?
One of the most often-used and erroneous mischaracterizations of the teaching of the Catholic Church is that the Church teaches “salvation by works,” whereas Protestantism “correctly” teaches salvation by grace through faith alone – or, “justification by faith alone.” In order to correct both errors (the error that the Catholic Church teaches salvation by works, […]