No Rapture For Rome:The Anti-Catholics Behind the Best-selling Left Behind Books
Carl E. Olson In 1970 a youth pastor from southern California published a book titled The Late Great Planet Earth. It would become the best-selling nonfiction book of the 1970s, going through more than one hundred printings totaling thirty-five million copies and making Hal Lindsey a household name among those who had an interest in “Bible […]
Church and State – The New Anti-Catholicism
Ryan McMaken The New Anti-Catholicismby Philip JenkinsOxford University Press, 2003 The unmitigated rage that has abounded on the American Left since Abe Foxman’s buddies stole a copy of Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ” should hardly produce anything more than a shrug from anyone who has spent any significant amount of time observing the […]
Book On Church Is Seriously Flawed
Bill Donohue August 7, 2025 This is a shortened version of an article that appears in the July/August 2025 edition of Catalyst, our journal that is available to members. Every now and then along comes a book on the Catholic Church that causes quite a stir. This is certainly true of Jesus Wept: Seven Popes and […]
Whatever Happened to Manhood?
Louis Markos| – August 5th, 2025| Wayne Braudrick spares no punches in calling men to live up to a biblical ideal: one which expects them to be focused servant leaders who are true to their word, who fight for the right, who commit themselves to life-long learning, and who form strong, lasting friendships. Whatever Happened […]
Is There a Final Option at the Moment of Death?
Some think that at the moment of death everyone has one last chance to dispose of himself or herself forever. Ladislaus Boros, S.J., has been a leading proponent of this idea. Nothing in Scripture supports the idea of a final option, and there is much against it. The gospel’s warnings emphasize the importance for eternity […]
Introduction: The Lost World of Moral Common Sense
J. BUDZISZEWSKI We are passing through an eerie phase of history in which the things that everyone really knows are treated as unheard of, a time in which the elements of common decency are themselves attacked as indecent. But J. Budziszewski sets out to explore the lost world of common moral truths — what we […]
Catholicism and Fundamentalism — Food for the Mind
KARL KEATING Keating’s book provides an impressively researched and eminently readable defense of Catholicism against the critical attacks of fundamentalists. We are pleased to offer Chapter 25, “Food for the Mind” from this masterful book. In it, the author suggests a number of approaches which might be adopted and books that have proved particularly useful […]
Called to Knighthood – The Sacrament of Confirmation in the Kingdom Family of God
Thomas K Sullivan Pb 70 pgs The Catholic Church tells us Confirmation is the sacrament that empowers us “to spread and defend the faith by word and action as true witnesses” (CCC 1303) which is why every Christian’s job description is to be nothing less than a soldier of Christ. This new book has proven to […]
Review of “Welcome Home!”
Fallen Away Catholics Who Came BackAuthor: Victor R. Claveau (ed.)AVAILABLE FROM IGNATIUS PRESS 318 pages Here are the compelling stories of eleven “reverts”, Catholics who fell away from the Church and eventually came back home. Some of the people are very well-known, like Fr. John Corapi, Rick Strom, Victor Claveau, and Jesse Romero, and others are […]
Scripture Through History: From the Patriarchs to the Protestant Revolt
The Bible is a Catholic book, a product of the Church, written by Catholics, for Catholics, which has been jealously guarded throughout the centuries. There is but one truth, one Gospel, and one Church founded by Jesus Christ.Since the Bible is a primary source of God’s revelation, it is vital that we understand the Bible’s […]