Church History & Apologetics
Why Sola Scriptura Failed Against Every Early Heretic
Brief Overview Every major heresy in the first five centuries of Christianity was, in form, a Sola Scriptura heresy that built its case on a careful reading of…
Category
Scripture and Sacred Tradition
Church History & Apologetics
The Vincentian Canon: Catholicism’s Quality Control
Brief Overview Catholic Tradition is sometimes caricatured as an open door for any pious novelty, which is the opposite of what the Church has actually taught for nearly…
Church History & Apologetics
The Protestant Doctrines That Secretly Run on Tradition
Brief Overview Most Protestants who reject Sacred Tradition actually rely on Traditional decisions every Sunday morning without realizing it. The New Testament canon, the doctrine of the Trinity,…
Church History & Apologetics
The Five Faces of Apostolic Tradition You Should Know
Brief Overview Sacred Tradition is not a single thing handed down on paper, which is why Protestant attempts to dismiss it as one category usually miss the point…
Church History & Apologetics
Did Jesus Keep Jewish Tradition? Hanukkah Says Yes
Brief Overview Protestants who quote Mark 7 against tradition rarely notice that Jesus Himself observed Jewish customs found nowhere in the Old Testament. Hanukkah, the Passover seder, the…
Church History & Apologetics
Tradition vs tradition: The Equivocation No Pastor Names
Brief Overview Most Protestant rejection of Tradition rests on a single word played in two different senses, and almost no one points this out from the pulpit. Lower…
Scripture & the Canon
The Book of Enoch and What Catholics Should Know
Brief Overview The Book of Enoch is directly quoted in the New Testament at Jude 1:14-15, making it one of the most significant non-canonical texts in Christian history.…
Scripture & the Canon
Luther’s Scissors and the Seven Missing Books of the Bible
Brief Overview Martin Luther removed seven Old Testament books from the Protestant Bible not because they lacked ancient support but because they contradicted his new doctrines. The deuterocanonical…
Bible Interpretation & Hermeneutics
What Lectio Divina Does to You and Why Most People Quit
Brief Overview Lectio divina is a four-stage method of praying with Scripture that the Church has practiced since the early centuries, and the Catechism explicitly names it as…
Bible Interpretation & Hermeneutics
Is the Bible Really Flawless?
Brief Overview The Catholic Church definitively teaches that the Bible is inspired by God and free from error in everything it affirms for the sake of human salvation,…
