Campaign 2008: The Catholic Church in the Crosshairs

This fall’s Presidential Campaign will more than likely feature a new wrinkle. The Catholic Church will be in the crosshairs. Once again there will be a professed Catholic who supports abortion on a major party’s ticket — this time on… Read More

Saddleback Church’s Presidential Civil Forum: A Harsh Spotlight

The Civil Forum sponsored by the Saddleback Church and its founder and pastor Rick Warren was the first chance for voters to see presidential candidates Senator John McCain and Senator Barack Obama answer questions about faith. What the voters actually… Read More

Is the Tide Turning Toward Catholicism in Politics?

There was a time in the 1970s when Catholic politicians could get away with thumbing their political noses at the Church. There seemed to be few ramifications until New York's John Cardinal O'Connor put a stop to it. He was… Read More

Fulton Sheen, Still a Powerful Witness: An Interview with Fr. Andrew Apostoli

I was contacted by those interested in the Cause of Sainthood for Archbishop Sheen and was then put into contact with Father Apostoli who I had met earlier last year. The following interview began in December 2007 and was completed… Read More

The Tide Is Turning Toward Catholicism: Scripture Study Among the Laity

It had long been a common, but mistaken, belief among Protestants that Catholics did not need to know the Scriptures because they did not carry a Bible into church. However, outsiders often did not realize that both the New and… Read More

The Tide Is Turning Toward Catholicism: The Blessed Mother’s Comeback

As he made his way to the balcony on Saint Peter's Square after his election as pope, everyone could see his devotion to Mary by looking at the new pontiff's stole.  The new Pope, John Paul II, was letting everyone… Read More

The Tide Is Turning Toward Catholicism: The Laity

It started with anti-Catholic flyers on the windshields of cars in a Catholic church's parking lot.  One could argue that the modern post-Vatican II Catholic apologetics movement started with that act.  San Diego businessman Karl Keating became so upset about… Read More

The Tide Is Turning Toward Catholicism: The Clergy

We are told by the mainstream media that there is a priest shortage which will cripple the Church and that empty convents will never be occupied again. These same media organizations float that idea that only non-celibacy can save the… Read More

The Tide Is Turning Toward Catholicism: The Converts

It started with Scott Hahn and it is still going strong.  The number of prominent Protestant clergy and theologians coming to the Catholic Church has been nothing short of remarkable.  Priests like Father Dwight Longenecker and Father Alvin Kimel are… Read More

The Tide Is Turning Toward Catholicism: The Youth

As word leaked out, some in the American Church began quietly to voice their concerns to Rome. It would be a disaster, nobody would come. Denver was not a coastal city near tens of millions of people. Besides, the youth… Read More

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