Did St. Paul Pray for the Dead? Yes!
St. Paul wrote 2 Timothy shortly before his martyrdom. He spent the last days of his life in the Mammertine Prison in Rome, north of the Roman Forum. While in that…
Who Are the Poor I’m Supposed to Care For?
A few years ago as we left our rented apartment in Rome and walked towards St. Peter's Square I notice a ragged, filthy woman sitting on a piece of cardboard…
Mary a Mediatrix? Isn’t there just One Mediator?
The Bible says, “For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus” (1 Tim 2:5). Yet Catholics refer to Mary as a Mediatrix (feminine form of the word mediator). So, isn’t that prima facie evidence that Catholics make up doctrines, worship Mary and disregard the Bible? […]