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Mary
Immaculate, ever-virgin, assumed into heaven. What Catholics believe about the Mother of God, and why.
Explore → TopicThe Eucharist
Is it really Jesus? The Real Presence, from John 6 to the earliest Christians.
Explore → TopicThe Papacy
Peter, the keys, and his successors. What the papacy is, and what infallibility does and does not mean.
Explore → TopicScripture & Tradition
Where did the Bible come from? Sola scriptura, Sacred Tradition, and the Church's teaching office.
Explore → TopicSalvation
Faith, works, grace, and purgatory: what the Catholic Church actually teaches about being saved.
Explore → TopicChurch History
Who founded your church? Tracing Christian traditions back to their origins.
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New questions, answered
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Catholic vs. Protestant: The Real Differences, from Scripture
Catholic vs. Protestant: the real differences on authority, salvation, the Bible, the Eucharist, Mary and the pope, compared side by side from Scripture.
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Did the Catholic Church Change the Ten Commandments?
No. Jews, Catholics, Lutherans and the Reformed number the same ten words differently. Why the image commandment was never deleted, from Scripture.
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Is Lying Ever Okay? The Catholic Answer, Even When a Life Is at Stake
Is lying ever okay, even to save a life? Why the Catholic Church says lying is always wrong, what Rahab and the midwives teach, and how to protect...
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Is Surrogacy a Sin? What the Catholic Church Teaches About Surrogate Motherhood
Is surrogacy a sin? The Catholic Church says yes, paid or unpaid. See why from Scripture and Church teaching, and the real hope she offers infertile couples.
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What Does the Catholic Church Teach About the Death Penalty?
The Catholic Church teaches the death penalty is inadmissible (CCC 2267). Here is what that means, how it fits Scripture and her history, and why it is true.
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Is Cursing a Sin? Swearing, Profanity, and Taking God's Name in Vain
Is cursing a sin? The Catholic answer on blasphemy, God's name in vain, oaths, cursing people, and crude language: what is grave, what is venial, how to stop.
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Protestant
Sola scriptura, sola fide, Mary, the saints, and the papacy.
See answers → DialogueEastern Orthodox
The papacy, the filioque, and purgatory: the Catholic case on what still divides us.
See answers → DialogueOriental Orthodox
Christ's two natures and the Council of Chalcedon.
See answers → ObjectionsLatter-day Saints
The Great Apostasy, priesthood authority, and the Book of Mormon.
See answers → ObjectionsJehovah's Witnesses
The deity of Christ, the Trinity, and the New World Translation.
See answers → ObjectionsOneness Pentecostal
The Trinity and baptism in Jesus' name.
See answers → ObjectionsSeventh-day Adventist
The Sabbath, the Lord's Day, and the state of the dead.
See answers → DialogueJudaism
Jesus the Messiah in the Hebrew Scriptures: Isaiah 53, Daniel 9, and the Shema.
See answers → DialogueIslam
The cross, the divinity of Christ, and whether the Bible was corrupted.
See answers → ObjectionsAtheism
God, the resurrection, and reason.
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