Bishop Robert Barron recently released a Youtube commentary on the question of “Who Can Be Saved”? The problem here is…
Holy Phinehas – The Death Penalty and Expiatory Satisfaction (Numbers 25)
There are many discussions going on around the world concerning Pope Francis’s recent revision of the Catholic Catechism which asserts…
Holy Ephrem the Syrian on The Blessed Virgin Mary, 306-373 AD
St. Ephrem [ܡܪܝ ܐܦܪܝܡ ܣܘܪܝܝܐ, literally “fruitful”] was a 4th-century Deacon, Hymnographer, Poet, and Theologian whose beautiful encomiums to the Blessed…
St. Augustine of Hippo – Procession of the Holy Spirit From the Father and Son
After reading through St. Augustine’s De Trinitate, I’ve made it a commitment to finally write out a thorough article on…
A Reasonable Hope That All Mankind Will Go To Heaven?
It is unfortunate that people officially qualified to speak are not silencing clerics who espouse dangerous speculations which confuse people,…
The Apostolic and Patristic Tradition on Validity of Baptism Outside Ecclesial Bounds
In the 3rd-century a dispute broke out between Pope St. Stephen of Rome (245-257) and other churches on the matter…
The Primitive Church: Scripture Superior To Tradition?
I had received an anonymous email from a reader in a different country, and his question pertained to whether the…
Ecclesial Catholics vs Fundamentalist Catholics?
Despite my strong disagreement with the argument of his recent blog post at “Where Peter Is” (see the link), I…
The Sleeping Magisterium?
I give much credit to those remaining hopeful in a moment of history like ours. From one set of disappointing…
Suspending Ecclesial Communion from the Pope – First Millennium Witnesses
There are early instances in ecclesial history where either canonized saints or Episcopal synods were ready to enter into a…
