In support of the Catechism in a Year podcast with Fr. Mike Schmitz, Ascension Press – the publishers of the Great Adventure Catholic Bible – has released a new edition of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. The first of its kind, this beautiful edition has special “Foundations of Faith” contents and color coding that…
In this episode of The Cordial Catholic, I’m joined by one of our favourite guests of all time, Dr. Douglas Beaumont, to talk about Evangelical Christian conversions to Catholicism. Doug is a convert himself and a former student, then instructor, at Southern Evangelical Seminary where he worked, as a graduate student, under the late Evangelical…
Here I respond to the top hit in my search for “Defense of Sola Scriptura” – a video by Dr. Jordan B. Cooper titled “A Defense of Sola Scriptura.”
Are you a Protestant who’s considering becoming Catholic? Dr. Gavin Ortlund would have you consider some things first – and here I respond to his advice.
Due to modern ailments, there are many today who cannot physically tolerate ingesting gluten or alcohol. How, then, can they receive our Lord’s body and blood in the Eucharist during Communion? There are two errors that come from misunderstanding the Church’s teachings on the Eucharist. On one end of the spectrum (especially among Protestants, but…
Does Anything Follow from Sola Scriptura? In what follows I will show that it would not matter if a Catholic were to affirm the foundational Protestant principle of Sola Scriptura (“Scripture Alone”). In fact I will argue that nothing relevant to the Catholic/Protestant debate actually follows from Sola Scriptura at all. What Is Sola Scriptura?…
HERE is my recent interview on Catholic vs. Protestant views of Communion (the Eucharist)! In this episode of the Catholic Challenge, we discuss: What is the teaching of the Eucharist and how did it influence my conversion? What are the Old Testament roots for the Eucharist? How do we understand John 6? How do Protestants…
I had a fun conversation (not “debate”!) with Reed Uberman on his show Indie Thinker. Check it out HERE!
Protestants like to call themselves the “Bible” Christians as opposed to Catholics because they can often produce many scriptural proof texts to support their unique beliefs. But what happens when Catholics show that there are also Catholic proof texts – and some of them undermine foundational traditions of Protestantism itself? Click HERE for full video!
Douglas Beaumont 