The Church teaches that interpretation of the Bible must be done within “the living Tradition of the whole Church”. According to a saying of the Fathers, Sacred Scripture is written principally in the Church’s heart rather than in documents and…
Many (or most, or bunches of) Protestants have the false idea in their heads that the Catholic Church teaches we are saved by our works: that we can merit entrance into heaven somehow based upon something we do. This is…
Many of us have alternately had a good laugh or got our dander up thanks to Limbaugh’s ludicrous assertion that Pope Francis’s Apostolic Exhortation (n.b.: not encyclical; there is a difference) exposed the Pope as a “Marxist [sic]”. One of…
When I was a Protestant I was regularly frustrated by the fact that publishing houses and other non-ecclesial bodies had effectively assumed stewardship of the Bible. Publishers own copyrights on various translations, and Bible societies do the same. I was…
Gaudium et Spes 19§1 says this about why man exists: For man would not exist were he not created by God’s love and constantly preserved by it; and he cannot live fully according to truth unless he freely acknowledges that…
Every so often Protestants suggest that the Church’s ecclesiology basically forbids Catholic laymen from professing or defending their faith, but this suggestion is mistaken. It’s worth acknowledging that this may be an entirely innocent misunderstanding. For example, in a recent…
If you don’t know the Bible, you don’t know the Lord Jesus Christ. So says the Catechism (§133) and Vatican II (Dei Verbum 25). This is why the Church “forcefully and specifically exhorts all the Christian faithful…to learn ‘the surpassing…
Inspired by the remarks of an anti-Catholic, who offers a snippet from the Council of Florence’s Cantate Domino, an opinion about Trent, and an erroneous conclusion that it is somehow impossible for a Catholic to call him a brother in…
Aquinas, Etc. 