“the distance between official Church teaching and the lived experience of the average Catholic in the pew can be considerable…. it raises a genuinely interesting empirical question: just how Catholic, in the doctrinal sense of the word, is the average American Catholic?” - Ryan Burge
“The group is called the Society of St. Pius X, or SSPX. It has spent decades claiming to defend the true Catholic tradition against a church it sees as too modern, too open, too willing to change…. SSPX triggered excommunications and pushed its whole society into schism.” - RNS
“Thomas is no siren song with irresistible powers, replacing the grace in the I of TULIP with the Summa. But many seem to think otherwise.
“Gavin Ortlund examines whether Protestant churches—and their Eucharist—are truly valid by critically assessing apostolic succession through biblical, historical, and theological lenses.” - Truth Unites
“On the anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, the two Christian leaders pledged to unify their churches while warning world leaders to halt the spread of war.” - RNS
“Maybe the rosary isn’t widely practiced among professing Catholics. II don’t know. But those who responded about it, they took it very seriously, and they took my objections seriously, too.” - Ward on Words
“I object to the Catholic practice of the rosary and I want to talk through my objections in this video. Now, I believe deeply in representing my opponents in any debate accurately and with charity. This is one of the most basic, obvious, and simple applications of the love command in scripture and of the golden rule.” - Mark Ward
“The two approaches represent differing convictions about Scripture and tradition, and differing understandings of meditation itself. The Protestant practice… esteems the primacy of Scripture, treats meditation as a path for the whole Christian pilgrimage, and far better serves real communion with God.” - Desiring God
“Gavin Ortlund discusses the Protestant canon with @javierperd2604 and @CleavetoAntiquity, considering Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox objections, the testimony of church history, and more.” - Truth Unites
“…a key issue is frequently overlooked by both Protestant admirers of Rome and those who convert to Catholicism—assurance of salvation. The Roman Catholic Church flatly denies that Christians can have certainty of their salvation.” - 9 Marks
