Articles about the One Apostolic Church

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John Corapi — Innocent or Guilty? I analyze the evidence and present my conclusions.
Three Popes What happened when there were three popes at once.
Galileo Galilei To assess the case of Galileo vs. the Catholic Church to determine who was right and who was wrong.
Church Reform In every age the Catholic Church is in need of reform. But what kind of reform is needed?
Catholic Life What's it's like being Catholic. A practical guide for those who are unfamiliar with Catholicism.
Elements of a Devotional Life To live a life in Christ requires that we have a balance of various aspects of spiritually.
Church History I provide a sociological and historical perspective of the development of the church to demonstrate why she became the way she was at various stages of her history.
A World Without Contraception What would the world be like if everybody followed the Catholic teaching against the use of contraception? Would there be overpopulation with famine, plague, and war?
Errors of Catholicism Critics of the Catholic Church claim that her teachings are untrue because she has made errors.
Catholic Abuses The Church has "officially" done some bad things
The Catholic Church Embraced Astrology Evidence that some popes and doctors of the church actually believed and practiced astrology.
The church has changed her views Examples from church documents.
Catholic Problems To present a few problems with the Catholic Church using church documents as evidence.
Contradictions Some are major, some are minor.
False Catholic Teachings These Simply Can't Be True
Apostolic Succession is Broken According to Catholic teaching, only bishops can ordain new bishops — this is how the apostolic succession is passed-on from generation to generation. If there are examples of invalid bishops ordaining other bishops, these new bishops are not valid bishops either and the chain of apostolic succession is broken.
How to know what is true In my 16 years as a Christian I encountered many truth-claims.
I Believe This article addresses the topic of whether doctrines can be determined from scripture and the writings of the Early Church Fathers without the need to refer to an infallible teaching authority.
Doctrines of Church Fathers An examination of what the Early Church Fathers wrote about various topics.
Scientific Philosophy Philosophers such as Socrates, Plato, Aristotle.
Christian Philosophy Various Christian topics.
What I Believe Still a Spirit-filled, born-again, conservative Christian.
Lamentations What I believe about the claims of the Catholic Church after having been Catholic for seven years.
One Holy Catholic Apostolic Church Jesus clearly established a church, a unified church, a holy church, the apostolic church. I discuss this using quotations from the Bible.
Doctrines Various doctrines such as apostolic succession. The doctrine of apostolic succession is a cornerstone of Catholic teaching. If it's flawed the whole structure collapses.

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John Shepard

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