My EWTN Live Show on the Papacy now on YouTube
On August 14, I was in Birmingham Alabama to do the EWTN Live show with Fr. Mitch Pacwa. He’s a classy guy, by the way, and I really enjoyed my time with him again. He’s a hunter and outdoorsman and a...
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Did the Church Ever Support Slavery?
By Steve Weidenkopf September 18, 2017 Many years ago I attended a conference organized by a national Catholic organization on the topics of marriage and human sexuality. One of the speakers was a...
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Aztecs, Human Sacrifice, Abortion and Our Lady of Guadalupe
Today we visited the Aztec Temple in Mexico City. The cathedral of Mexico City was built right next to the 500-year temple. I did a lot of study on the Aztecs and their massive human sacrifices and...
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Did St. Ignatius of Antioch REALLY Believe in Transubstantiation in the 1st...
A friend and fellow pilgrim got in a row with a friend on Facebook and asked for my help. You might enjoy the question and the answer. My friend wrote: “I have a quick apologetic question. A...
View ArticleImagine the Music in Hagia Sophia, Largest Church for 1,000 Years
For 1,000 years the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople (today’s Istanbul) was the largest church in the world. What would it have sounded like to attend the Easter Vigil with all those newly baptized...
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Catherine of Siena and Leaving the Church
What this 14th-century mystic can teach us about fidelity to Christ and to a Church in crisis Thomas McDermott, OP In the wake of so many clerical sex abuse scandals, too many people the Catholic...
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The Dark Side of Luther – by Steve Wood
The Dark Side of Luther (View online version at Steve Woods site here) This is the last of my newsletters responding to the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. I’m sending you some of...
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Baptists at the Council of Nicea?
Written by Fr. Hugh Barbour, O.Praem. Nicea, August 24, A.D. 325, 7:41 p.m. “That was powerful preaching, Brother Athanasius. Powerful! Amen! I want to invite any of you folks in the back to...
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Peter and the Primacy in Scripture and the Early Church Discussion
Had another great evening with William Albrecht and Michael Lofton on their popular and wide-ranging Reason & Theology show. It was a great time of discussion, challenge and digging deep into the...
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The Catholic Church: the First Abolitionist, Church Never Endorsed Slavery
Crisis Magazine has come out with a good and insightful article debunking the idea that the Catholic Church endorsed and promoted slavery. The modern anti-Christian, anti-history narrative takes it for...
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The Catholic Church and Her 23 Liturgical Rites
I was recently asked if there was a difference between the “Catholic Church” and the “Roman Catholic Church”. Are they the same thing? What is the correct name of our Church? So I provided this simple...
View ArticleResponding to an Eastern Orthodox Christian who challenged me about the...
When I was last on Catholic Answers Live last week Constantine Regas called in to defend the Eastern Orthodox position against the Catholic Church’s teaching on Peter and the Primacy of Rome....
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Dear Protestant: Where Did You Get Your Bible?
From Little Catholic Bubble website Leila@LittleCatholicBubble Dear Protestant: Where did you get your New Testament? At least a couple of times every week, Protestants use New Testament verses to show...
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Delivered “500 Reasons to Be Catholic” to Luther at Wittenburg Door
I was thinking about Martin Luther and the great schism of the Western Church and thought I would share again our visit to the Castle Church in Wittenberg Germany three years ago. Janet and I took a...
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St. Ignatius of Antioch (my favorite Apostolic Father) and the Star of Bethlehem
It is not an understatement to say the St. Ignatius of Antioch, who was eaten by lions in Rome in AD 106 is one of my favorite men of all time. He was a link to help me grasp the Catholic Church. He...
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My Video Talk: “How can a John Paul II Catholic Survive in a Pope Francis World”
At the 20219 investiture of new Knights and Dames into the North Central Lieutenancy of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre, I was asked to give the keynote talk on Sunday morning with a good...
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Article and Video to Debunk: “The Trail of Blood: Baptist Successionism”
The Trail of Blood by Steve Ray What is the history of Baptists? Can they trace their roots back to the 1st century? Many “fundamentalist” Baptists believe they can. Are they correct? There is a...
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Getting Science and Religion Wrong (plus Covid Vaccines)
Jimmy Akin does a marvelous job demonstrating how to deal with arrogant “academic” nonsense. There is the maxim: “If you say things often enough, people assume they are true.” But if you are going to...
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Quiz: Did Jesus Found a Church on Pentecost and If So, Where Is It?
I am sharing this from John Martignoni’s e-mail and website at www.BibleChristianSociety.com. Thanks for your good work John! 1) Did Jesus found a church? A) Yes; Matt 16:18 2) How many churches did...
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