Brief Overview The Pharisees accepted the full Hebrew Bible of thirty-nine books, and that wider canon directly produced their belief in the resurrection, angels, spirits, and final judgment.…
Brief Overview The Sadducees rejected the resurrection, angels, spirits, and the afterlife because they accepted only the first five books of the Old Testament as authoritative Scripture. A…
Brief Overview The Catholic Mass and the Ethiopian Orthodox Divine Liturgy share more than most Catholics realize, including incense, beeswax candles, ancient liturgical languages, fixed prayer hours, and…
Brief Overview The Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox, and the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church all hold to the same seven Sacraments, while most Protestant traditions reduced the count…
Brief Overview The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church has practiced the same faith, in the same language, with the same eighty-one book Bible, and the same seven Sacraments for…
Brief Overview Every book of the New Testament was written by a member of the early Catholic Church, and the canon was formally defined at Catholic councils in…
Brief Overview The Catholic Church formally defined the biblical canon at a series of councils in the late fourth century, giving Christianity the list of books every Bible…
Brief Overview Atheism raises some of the most serious intellectual and emotional objections to belief in God ever formulated, and the Catholic Church does not dismiss them as…
Brief Overview The Franks and the Jewish people shared a historically complex relationship that swung between genuine cooperation and violent persecution, and Catholics who care about truth cannot…
Brief Overview Jesus founded one specific, structured, historically traceable institution, and he never described it as nameless, invisible, or interchangeable with any other community. The name "Catholic Church"…
