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Sacramental Graces and Practical Apostasy

Dec 10th, 2010 | By | Category: Blog Posts

If the Catholic view of the efficacy of grace is correct, why are ā€œbad Catholicsā€ so prevalent (and so bad)? As I considered conversion from the Reformed faith, this was a question to which I returned regularly. But since being received into full communion with the Catholic Church, and viewing things from a Catholic frame, […]



David Anders on The Journey Home (Dec 6, 2010)

Dec 8th, 2010 | By | Category: Blog Posts

For those of you who missed David Anders’ appearance on The Journey Home this past Monday evening, here it is:



Mary’s Immaculate Conception

Dec 8th, 2010 | By | Category: Blog Posts

Today is the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, in which we celebrate the conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary, who “from the first instance of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege granted by Almighty God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the Savior of the human race, was preserved free from […]



Mary Without Sin (Scripture and Tradition)

Dec 7th, 2010 | By | Category: Blog Posts

One of the most misunderstood Catholic dogmas is that of the Immaculate Conception, the solemnity that the Holy Church of Jesus Christ observes on December 8th as a holy day of obligation. The Immaculate Conception is the dogma that Mary was saved by God in a singular and unique way. Unlike the rest of us […]



Book Review: Mary Through the Centuries by Jaroslav Pelikan

Dec 7th, 2010 | By | Category: Blog Posts

In honor of the great Marian feast tomorrow, the Immaculate Conception, I would like to repost some material from my personal blog: a book review on one of the best popular level historical surveys of Mary available. “Mary Through the Centuries,” published in 1998, was written by one of the preeminent Church historians of the […]



Dr. David Anders on The Journey Home Tonight

Dec 6th, 2010 | By | Category: Blog Posts

Tonight (Monday, Dec 6) at 8:00 PM EST, Dr. David Anders will be live on EWTN’s The Journey Home. Dr. Anders earned an M.A. from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in 1995, and a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 2002, in Reformation history and historical theology.



Free Books for Reformed Seminarians Closed (except for Covenant Seminary)

Dec 3rd, 2010 | By | Category: Blog Posts

Our “free books for Reformed seminarians” is now closed. We received requests from all the major Reformed Seminaries (and Wheaton), except for Covenant Theological Seminary in Saint Louis. If you won, you’ll be contacted in the next day or so. The books will be mailed out this weekend.



Free Books for Reformed Seminarians

Nov 29th, 2010 | By | Category: Blog Posts

As an act of goodwill and in anticipation for Christmas, Called to Communion would like to give free copies of Taylor Marshall’s new book The Catholic Perspective on Paul.



Mary as Co-Redemptrix

Nov 28th, 2010 | By | Category: Blog Posts

On this first day of Advent, we are reminded to anticipate Christ’s second coming, as we prepare to celebrate His first coming. A woman heavy with Child will soon give birth to the King of kings. In doing so, she will begin another phase in her pilgrimage of faith, one which culminates at the cross, […]



The Catholic Perspective on Paul – a New Book

Nov 24th, 2010 | By | Category: Blog Posts

We ain’t gonna lie. Many of us on Called to Communion were drawn to the Catholic Church after we had reassessed the “salvation issue” through the lens of the “New Perspective on Paul.” Three years ago, a few friends of mine (including Sean Patrick of Called to Communion) were lamenting that there wasn’t a book […]