The Five Most Important Catholic Books

Top 5 Catholic Books The Church has created a massive number of texts over her 2,000 year lifespan, and it can be overwhelming to even consider reading them all! The good news is that among the millions of volumes of writing the Church has produced, many of them are summaries or collections with which one…

The Breakthrough Bible Reviewed

Introduction Becoming Catholic meant learning about Catholic Bibles, and when it was time for my first born to have his own, I did some extensive shopping for a children’s Bible. I settled on The Catholic Children’s Bible from St. Mary’s Press, and have enjoyed it for years.  When he outgrew it and gifted it to…

Biblical Perspicuity and the Book of Jude

The idea that the Bible possesses inherent interpretative clarity (“perspicuity“) persists among Evangelicals and other “Bible Only ” Christians. Indeed, it must – for if the Bible is not sufficiently clear for the average person, then the specter of authoritative interpreters is raised which opens the door to the need for an infallible Magesterium. That…