John Calvin Dr. David Anders received his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 2002, in Reformation history and historical theology. He ...

Today, on this eighth and last day of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, we will look at what St. Thomas Aquinas says about the unity ...

Today, the seventh day of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, is the feast day of St. Francis de Sales , (1567-1622), bishop of Geneva...

Jim Tonkowich has written a must-read article titled " Evangelicals and the Crisis of Authority ." The article describes a prese...

Yesterday Professor Feingold (Ave Maria University) gave a lecture titled "Clement of Rome: First Known Exercise of Papal Primacy....

"The Sacrament of Ordination" Nicolas Poussin (1636-40) (click on the painting for a larger image) Today is the seventh day ...

Moses and the Brazen Serpent Sebastian Bourdon (1653-1654) What Fr. Williams says here fits with what St. Thomas Aquinas says here ab...

Today is the feast day of St. Ignatius, bishop of Antioch, who was martyred in Rome in 107 AD under the Emperor Trajan. St. Ignatius shows ...

In The Great Divorce , C.S. Lewis describes "grey town" as a place that is constantly expanding at its outskirts as people perpet...

I intend to continue the series on the fathers on the Church. But I was prompted to write this after reading the ongoing discussion over at ...

I received a good question in the combox of a prior post on sola scriptura , and the matter is important enough, I think, to warrant a post...

Here is a quotation from the Catholic encyclopedia article on " Protestantism ": [BOQ] Again, it is illogical to base faith upon t...

I recently read Michael Brown's " Sola Scriptura or Scriptura Solo ". What I say below is a reply to his post. (On a related n...

Today in the United States we celebrate "Independence Day", and our freedom as a nation. But our conception of freedom has shifted...

" Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery " Rembrandt, 1644 In my opinion, the Donatistic conception of ecclesial authority is...

" Adoration of the Trinity " Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) Today's Gospel reading includes some of the verses that serve as ...

In my conversations with Protestants it is not uncommon for me to hear or read a statement like this, "I'd come back to the Ca...