Catholicity - Apologetics For Our Time

📜 .... AND WHY THEY 𝗥𝗘𝗠𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗗 IT ALTOGETHER Among the most revealing moments in the early years of the Protestant revolt is the Leipzig Debate of 1519 between Martin Luther and the Catholic theologian Johann Eck. This decisive debate exposed a deep weakness in Luther’s new theology: it did not agree with the historic biblical canon used by the Apostles and preserved by the Church. 🔹 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐞𝐢𝐩𝐳𝐢𝐠 𝐃𝐞𝐛𝐚𝐭𝐞: 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐋𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐖𝐚𝐬 𝐃𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐒𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 During the debate, Johann Eck defended the Catholic doctrines of purgatory and prayers for the dead. To support his argument, he appealed directly to Scripture—specifically 2 Maccabees 12:43–46, which explicitly describes prayers and sacrifices offered for the souls of the dead so they may be purified from sin. Luther was instantly trapped... ⚠️If Maccabees is Scripture, then prayer for the dead and purgatory are biblical. ⚠️Because he was eager to deny purgatory, he had to deny Maccabees... and ...

  +++ I. WHY A CATHOLIC - AND ANY CHRISTIAN - MUST PURGE THE HOME OF OCCULT AND SPIRITUALLY HARMFUL ITEMS      A Catholic/Christian home is meant to be a dwelling place of the Holy Trinity — a space filled with peace, purity, and the blessing of God. Yet many households unintentionally harbor objects, books, symbols, and decorations that invite spiritual confusion or even demonic influence.           The First Commandment requires us to belong to God alone: “You shall have no other gods before Me.” (Exodus 20:3)          When we allow objects tied and devoted to other gods, false spiritual systems, the occult, or impurity into our living spaces, we unintentionally grant spiritual territory to the Enemy. +++ A. Why Objects Matter Spiritually      Sacramentals (holy water, blessed images, crucifixes) invite grace.  Occult or spiritually compromised objects, on the other hand, can invite oppressi...

  Today (November 23, 2025 The Catholic Church marks, "The Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe," a feast in the liturgical year which emphasises and reminds us of the TRUE kingship of Christ. It is celebrated in The Catholic Church, where it originated, and also in the Lutheran, Anglican, Moravian, Methodist, Nazarene, some Reformed and United Protestant churches, where it known by various names such as Feast of Christ the King, Christ the King Sunday or Reign of Christ Sunday. After the upheavals resulting from the First World War and the collapse of all four major monarchies in mainland Europe, a response was needed to counter the growth of negative cultural changes, such as: - Atheism - Socialist movements like communism - Rising ultra-nationalism - Globalism - Godless secularism These all followed on the heels of the Great War, and it was obvious that people needed to be reminded just who is REALLY the ultimate ruler of the world. In the Catholic Chu...

     You know how it goes...we complain. We complain especially about ‘medieval’ cellphone coverage, poor connectivity, and our much-vaunted tech - when it has gone wonky.       When that happens, people love to compare NOW to, "back then." And somewhow we always seem to imagine it was the very worst in the period we call the Middle Ages: between 500–1500 in Europe... Medieval Times.     Paradoxically, t his is because there is actually quite a lot of recorded information from that time, and most of our cultural norms arose then - it's a communal history for us all. Yet, we call them the, "Dark Ages" where we imagine it was all superstition, and leaders scorned scientific expertise.     H owever, modern research shows it wasnt total stagnation at all; it was also a period of impressive innovation and ingenuity.       For example, it’s still commonly assumed that medieval people thought the earth w...

  From where do we get purgatory?     There are many today that  like to argue about purgatory. Since they cannot see the word, “purgatory” in the Bible, they reckon it cannot exist.... so they argue over it. This is often the case  with vocal, fundamentalist Protestants, aka, “Bible-only” Christians. They handily ignore that the words, “Bible,” “Incarnation,” and “Trinity,” among others, are likewise nowhere found in the Bible,... but they eagerly pounce upon purgatory for not seeing it there!     Yet friends, while the word, “purgatory, may not have made it into the writings that form the Bible - the reality of it certainly did!  Note:      “On the next day [after the battle with Gorgias]...Judas [Maccabee] and his men went to take up the bodies of the fallen and to bring them back to lie with their kindred in the sepulchers of their ancestors. Then under the tunic of each one of the dead they found sacred tokens of the ido...

Recently, it was heard from a Catholic that the Protestant “Reformers” were justified in rebelling against the Catholic Church, because there was a lot of sin and corruption back then. That is merely a too-common notion in our day, one derived from the modern sense of entitlement. Essentially, it says that if you don't like something, you can do whatever you want to satisfy yourself. In response, however, we must distinguish between genuine reform and what was really schism and heresy. We Catholics admit there was recognized sin and corruption in the Catholic Church in the 1500’s, such as the selling of indulgences, which is the sin of simony. This is a liturgical and ecclesiastical abuse which should never have happened, though the Catholic Church itself never supported nor taught her support of simony. So it was never, the “policy,” of the Church itself. That is a modern, and often deliberate, misunderstanding after the fact. So it is crucial to recognize that these actions ...