Catholic essays & theology
A simple public archive of Catholic essays, apologetics, theology notes, Church Fathers commentary, Scripture studies, and personal reflections.
The Catholic Church teaches that the Son is the eternal Word and perfect Image of the Father, equal to Him in divinity and never created. The language of divine self-knowledge can help explain this eternal generation, but only when it is carefully distinguished from creation, change, and temporal becoming.
Catholicism neither worships pain nor pretends that tragedy can be explained by a simple formula. It contemplates human suffering in the light of creation, the Fall, the Cross of Christ, the communion of saints, and the promised resurrection of the body.
Dispensationalism separates Israel and the Church in ways Catholic teaching does not. The Church sees one saving plan fulfilled in Jesus Christ.
Why did the Son of God become man, and what did the Incarnation accomplish for humanity?
Grace does not erase human nature or replace it with something foreign. It heals the wounds caused by sin, restores the proper order of the human person, and elevates us beyond our natural powers into a real participation in the life of God.
Romans 6 reveals that grace does more than pardon the sinner. Through Baptism, Christ brings the old life under sin to an end, joins the believer to His death and resurrection, and calls the Christian to live as one who now belongs entirely to God.
The Son of God did not begin at Bethlehem, nor was He created before the universe. He is eternally begotten of the Father, equal to Him in divinity, and the eternal Word through whom all things were made.
The renewed SSPX controversy has brought questions of schism, excommunication, Vatican II, and papal authority back into focus for Catholics attached to tradition.
Catholics do not worship Mary or treat her as a substitute for Jesus Christ. They ask her to intercede because she is the Mother of the Lord, the foremost member of the communion of saints, and a living witness in heaven whose entire mission is to lead believers to her Son.
In this post I will be analyzing the Papacy and the justification for it through the analysis of scripture, previous teachings, and church history.
In this post I will be analyzing the origins of sin and where it comes from.
From the outside, human life can look like a storm of chance. But the Catholic faith teaches that history is not ruled by blind accident, nor by a cold impersonal fate. Creation is governed by the providence of the living God.
This is an analysis on the Catholic Church and slavery
In this post we will be analyzing whether or not the Catholic Church teaches if dogs and pets go to heaven
Many people misunderstand the Trinity. Some think Catholics believe in three gods. Others think the Trinity was invented centuries after Jesus by Church councils. Both claims are wrong.