The Church

The Church

Catholic Outlook

Catholic Outlook

“I will build my Church” – Matthew 16:18

 ———— General ————

Articles

Letter to an Anti-Catholic

A letter to Dr. Ed DeVries’ regarding his webpage, “Are We Being Led to Rome” 

A Fundamentalist Tries to Prove That Catholics Aren’t Saved

My answers to the questions posed in a Fundamentalist Protestant tract

Dialogues

On the Creation of the Visible Church

If Jesus didn’t create the visible church, who did?

On Catholic Worldliness

How can Catholicism be true when Catholics are so dead?

On Catholic “Worship” of Statutes

Does the reverence Catholics show toward holy images amount to worship of them?

———— Church Authority ————

Articles

Why Jesus Set Things Up the Way He Did

An explanation of the logic behind the structure of the Church

Dialogues

On the Harmony Between the Church and the Bible

Do Protestants pit Scripture and Church against each other?

On the Church’s Relationship to Scripture

Does the Catholic Church believe itself to be superior to Scripture?

With a “Traditionalist” Catholic

When should a Catholic submit to ecclesiastical authority?

On Anathema and Excommunication

What do these words mean, and how do they apply to modern Protestants?
        Part 2

———— The Pope ————

Articles

Peter, the Rock, and the Keys of the Kingdom

What Jesus meant by “On this rock I will build my church”

Protestant Scholars Agree: Peter Is the Rock

Quotations from Protestant scholars who agree that Matthew 16:18 refers to Peter personally

———— The Early Church ————

Articles

Christianity Before Constantine

Was the early Church Catholic or Protestant?

———— Protestantism ————

Articles

A Catholic Response to the “Five Solas” of Protestantism

Depending on how they’re defined, we can actually agree with most of them

Dialogues

On Protestantism and the Burden of Proof

Because the Protestants broke away from the Church, the burden of proof lies with them

On the Doctrinal Diversity of Protestantism

What is the significance of Protestant divisiveness?

On Bad Protestant Arguments

Are there really 8,000 denominations in Catholicism?