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A popular prophecy, allegedly from the eleventh century, lists 112 future popes . . . and Francis was the 112th. What happens next?

At that time, Jesus came to Jericho and intended to pass through the town. Now a man there named Zacchaeus, who was a chief tax collector and also a wealthy...

Mormons are known for their close community bonds, secured by the ties of common church activities. How are such connections forged? Can Catholics learn...

A few years ago I was invited to speak at a conference held in Midwestern farm country. Although the event was in an out-of-the-way town and required a long...

Protestants claim that Scripture has no evidence of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary. But in fact, the evidence is all over the place.

To reject miracles given in confirmation of the Catholic faith, the Protestant Reformers rejected the idea that miracles continue beyond the apostolic age....

Protestant apologist Todd Baker thinks a literal interpretation of Jesus' words in the Bread of Life discourse puts Catholics in a bind.

Unity in "essentials?" Protestant churches have no effective method of determining which beliefs constitute essentials and which do not.

Yes, Lazarus the poor beggar should show us that we must care for the poor in this life. But he also represents something more important.

Homily for Palm Sunday, Year A Look, we pray, O Lord, on this your family, For whom Our Lord Jesus Christ Did not hesitate to be delivered into the hands of...

Rapture Claptrap Over the past fifteen years or so Catholic apologetics has undergone a remarkable resurgence and growth. Books, articles, and tapes about the...

There are all sorts of crazy theories about who wrote the books of Moses. So what's the real story? Jimmy Akin cuts through all the confusion. Read more.

Fixing the date for Christmas on December 25 had less to do with the winter solstice and more to do with Jewish tradition.

The video has quickly received over 1.5 million views, and Witt was even featured on "Fox and Friends" to discuss his experience.

The next time a skeptic tells you St. Luke was hopelessly confused about his history, you can counter with this scriptural clarification.

The Church marks the feast of the Uganda Martyrs in June, a day that in Uganda is a national holiday. Who were these martyrs, and what is their story? It is...

Fr. James Martin has made a name for himself in Catholic Twitter. Here are four questions in search of clear answers from the celebrated pro-LGBT priest.

Most people might scoff at the idea that angels once had children with human women. But that was once the dominant interpretation of the Book of Genesis!

When Catholics pledge our allegiance to the flag, we must pay close attention to the words for purposes of personal integrity.

The scrupulous person is anxious that he has committed a sin when in fact he has not or is convinced that his venial sins are mortal when they are not.

Have you ever noticed that when a mother smiles at her infant, it will soon smile back? The child is learning how to love. It is like this too for the...

You can find Protestants who reject the Marian title 'Mother of God.' But if Mary is not the mother of God, then we're in a huge doctrinal pickle.

A true Mariology serves as a guarantor against bad Christology. Tim Staples uses the example of Mary as "Mother of God" as an example. Read more here.

Don Quixote joins saints such as Francis of Assisi and Louis Martin in pointing to an out-of-fashion yet rich spiritual path: embracing suffering

What is the Three Days of Darkness? Learn what Catholic prophecy, Scripture, and Church teachings really say about this mysterious end-times claim.

Starting with Holy Thursday and into Good Friday and Holy Saturday, the Church's reliable liturgical routine grinds down to silence.

A popular Protestant defense of sola scriptura leaves two targets for Catholics defending the Church's canon of Scripture.

After several years of study, I decided once and for all to leave Mormonism and to return to the Catholic Church. I formally resigned my membership last year...

We are a pilgrim people, and we long to experience the world in all its glorious variety before we pass into the next. So a popular book suggests a thousand...

By embracing relativism our culture has reached the point of insanity. There can be no false perception of reality because there is no reality to perceive.

Some propose that everything we do, say, or think has been programmed into us by some unknown person or computer. None of them are exhibiting common sense.

In the Bible, Jesus is said to have cast out demons, raised people from the dead, and healed the blind and deaf. But to many skeptics, such things sound like...

With the right understanding, you see why Catholics and Protestants often talk past one another on the topic of Scripture and Tradition.

Reasonable people acknowledge the extraordinary array of Catholic charity efforts to bring relief to the suffering all over the world. Read more about it here.

See how the Melchizedek Document, an ancient manuscript from the Dead Sea Scrolls, supports the Christian view of Jesus as the Messiah.

Dec 22, 2025 - To get from St. Nicholas to Santa Claus, you have to take a journey through the Catholic and Protestant West, all the way into modern times.

What is it about Islam that is so antagonistic toward Christianity? Why do Christians fare so poorly in Muslim countries?

The roots of Anglicanism are solidly Protestant, and the claim that Anglo-Catholicism is the genuine Anglican tradition does not stand up in the light of...

Many non-Catholics in America misunderstand the Catholic doctrine of salvation. The Church does not teach salvation by our own good works. Read more here.

The apostles' names can tell us the time period the gospels were written and their true authors. Learn what they reveal and the "how" behind it all.

Obtaining a declaration of nullity (annulments) involves a rigorous legal procedure that gives that couple the opportunity to prove to a tribunal that a real...

The last television station at which I anchored the evening news hired a consulting firm to research audience response to our news product. The consultants...

Confusion over the reception of Communion by pro-abortion politicians is wounding the faithful and must come to the end.

True Education Liberates - It is incumbent on us to take seriously the education we impart to succeeding generations. Readb more here.

What is a novena, and where did it come from? Ascension Thursday, along with the great feast day of Pentecost that follows it, gives us a clue.

The pope raised eyebrows when he recently blessed a chunk of ice from Greenland. Why bother blessing an inanimate object? What benefit does it get?

My wife Jacqueline and I have four sons. Thanks be to God, they never fell victim to the calculating predations of a bishop or priest seeking to gratify his...

It's easy to find images of Jesus' birth featuring an ox and a donkey. What's so special about these animals that makes them prominent Nativity characters?

Shortly before his death, Scott Adams 'accepted Jesus Christ' as a raw calculation to get into heaven. How should Catholics respond?

In the wake of the recent Orlando nightclub attack, many people, including Christians, have superimposed a rainbow flag over their social media profile...

Three letters are attributed to St. John The Evangelist, and another to Jude, surnamed Thaddeus, one of the Apostles. Learn more about these epistles here.

It's easily one of the most famous of Jesus' parables, known to Christians and non-Christians alike. But what are we supposed to do with the Good Samaritan?

The Old Testament shows that women participated in the covenant with God and took active roles in salvation history. During the past four centuries, though,...

As St. Augustine teaches, efficacious grace moves us by means of delight, and this delightful series, The Chosen, is indeed a grace.

One of seven installments bout the historical clashes between the Christian religion and secular powers and how it is often in conflict.

Following the release last September of the Vatican document on ecumenism, Dominus Iesus, the media gave it much publicity. Too frequently its content was...

The Glorious Mysteries of the rosary are a tour de force of the wonders of our faith and a storehouse from which hope can endlessly flow.

If popes are divinely protected from teaching error, then why do we seem to have popes who taught error? And what about when popes contradict one another?

How much of a grade can an engine climb, can I use other scales of equipment outdoors, and other questions are answered here

Arguments about the authority of the papacy eventually return to the question of the primacy of the Bishop of Rome and of the See of Rome. Did early...

The Catholic urban legend of the Crusades is of a ruthless, intolerant Church driving Europe into a barbaric war of aggression and plunder against a peaceful...

In a previous column (April 1997) we looked at the fact that prior to 1930 all Protestant denominations agreed with the Catholic Church in maintaining the...

Why does the Church teach that Mary was immaculately conceived? Her Immaculate Conception is never even mentioned in Scripture. Read more.

Yes, the Faith has a lot to say about being profitable, and you definitely don't want to be unprofitable. But there's more to all this than just money.

If you think you can do religion without morality, then you're trading the God of Christianity for Zeus of ancient Greek polytheism. And it's not pretty.

Charles Chaput discusses radical feminism, women's ordination, while stressing faithful adherence to Catholic teaching and trust in the Church.

Christmas for the 17th-century Puritans was a miserable affair, set in strong opposition to the joyful customs of the Continental Catholics.

Before the liturgical reforms following Vatican II, the Western Catholic Mass had only one Eucharistic Prayer: the Roman Canon. Now there are many more.

How we talk about marriage matters. And we can be honest about marriage without utterly discouraging everyone to pursue it.

Historically, Christians always have condemned contraceptive sex. The two forms mentioned in the Bible, coitus interruptus and sterilization, are condemned...

I recently got a call at Catholic Answers from a woman who had fallen away from the Church many years ago but had come back home after watching EWTN and...

Polygenism is the view that different races of humans evolved independently of one another, and it directly contradicts the literal interpretation of the...

How can LiDAR-based security solutions increase effective threat response while reducing false readings that frequently hamper camera and radar based...

Readers ask questions about climate change; Gonzaga experts respond.

Hollywood has a lot of opinions about what the Catholic Church is. Even if a director sometimes gets close to the real thing, it's hard to hit the mark.

St. Ignatius of Antioch was a student of the apostle John. His writings are a valuable tool for demonstrating how the aerly Church was Catholic. Click here.

Catholics put the Church before the Bible because the Church existed first and wrote and compiled the Bible. The authority of the Bible depends on that of the...

In debates with Christians, atheists commonly raise the problem of evil. They aim to show that evil and suffering count against the existence of a perfectly...

The Gospels provide accounts of things that Jesus said and did during his earthly ministry. But how did the Evangelists themselves come by this evidence?

Beth Anderson was introduced to Reiki in 2004, while attending college. Handling the stress and pressures of university life was challenging, and she started...

Athanasius, Augustine, Anselm, and Aquinas all asserted that creatures can become God. This idea is also reflected in the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

Society's embrace of transgenderism comes from three perverse inclinations of the human heart. The first is rejection of God.

The theory that physics exhausts all there is to be known of reality is only a dubious assertion . . . and it can't disprove the truth of free will.

What does it mean to become like a little child? What does it mean to say marriage is indissoluble? These are the themes of today's readings.

Adding Joy to the New Evangelization - Preaching and spreading of the gospel must be carried out with the joy that should come from believing and trying to...

Recently, I and about a dozen others sat in a cavernous stadium-seating movie theater to watch a special screening of Patterns of Evidence: The Moses...

Disgruntling a Humanist Yesterday in the Oval (the main center of Ohio State), nationally known preacher Jed Smock was preaching. I stopped to listen (good...

The Church Fathers have many different, fascinating, and spiritually enriching suggestions as to what Jesus' loaves and fishes represent.

Our respect for the totality of the human person necessitates that we treat the dead with dignity and charity. Here's why human composting doesn't qualify.

Many Protestants will argue for their doctrine of salvation by faith alone by quoting Philippians 3:9. Here's why this strategy can't get off the ground.

I recently came across an interesting YouTube video of the final minutes of a presentation given by the widely recognized Argentinian Evangelical Salvador...

My entry into the Catholic Church was not a Damascus Road conversion. Although God can work like that, my journey to the historic faith was a gradual learning...

'Why confess your sins to a priest when you can just confess them straight to God?' It's a common question with a solid Catholic answer.

Many preachers today are silent on the topic of hell. What does the Catholic Church teach about this it? Click here for a thorugh explanation.

If God fully favored or graced the Blessed Virgin Mary, she needed to be free of sin. And so Mary is fully graced, as she is fully a virgin.

In his 1929 book Survivals and New Arrivals, Hilaire Belloc examined the forces attacking the Catholic Church and its role in society. He put them into two...

My conversion in a nutshell: infant baptism; reception of First Communion, confession, and confirmation without having a clue what they were about; raised in...

'Protestants adhere to tradition just as much as Catholics do!' the Protestant insists. 'We're not each our own pope!' Except . . .

Long ago and far away, before I started in apologetics, before I had even an inkling that I would eventually embark on a career as an author and public...

Homily for the Seventh Sunday of Easter, Year A A shout-out to our Australian readers: happy Feast of Mary, Help of Christians, Patroness of Australia...