Category: Roman Catholicism

by Michael Houdmann

The issue concerning any church and its practices should be “Is this Biblical?” If a teaching is Biblical, it should be embraced. If it is not, it should be rejected.

by Matt Slick

It is necessary to write a page on Roman Catholicism because there are significant differences between Protestant and Roman Catholic doctrines. Protestants accuse the Catholics of being unscriptural and the Catholics state that the Protestants do not have the true faith carried through the centuries by the Catholic Church. On which ever side you fall, the real issue is whether or not the Roman Catholic Church is representing true Christianity.

by Matt Slick

Transubstantiation is the teaching that during the Mass, at the consecration in the Lord’s Supper (Communion), the elements of the Eucharist, bread and wine, are transformed into the actual body and blood of Jesus and that they are no longer bread and wine, but only retain their appearance of bread and wine.

by Matt Slick

Roman Catholicism teaches that when Jesus said “Do this in remembrance of me,” he gave the apostles and hence his future priests the power to change bread and wine into his body and blood. Therefore, during the ceremony of the Mass during the part of the liturgy known as the consecration, the priest changes of bread and wine into Christ’s body and blood.

by Matt Slick

From the earliest times the Blessed Virgin is honored under the title of Mother of God, whose protection the faithful take refuge together in prayer in all their perils and needs.

by Matt Slick

The Roman Catholic Church puts a great deal of emphasis on Peter and claims that Jesus said he would build his church on him.

by Matt Slick

Roman Catholics often mention that the Bible never says we are saved by faith alone and that the phrase “faith alone” occurs only once in James where it says that we are not saved by faith alone. If this is so, then why do the Protestants say we are justified by faith alone and not by works?  Because the Bible teaches that we are justified by faith alone, and not by works.

by cuttingedge

“All who die in God’s grace and friendship, but still imperfectly purified, are indeed assured of their eternal salvation; but after death they undergo purification, so as to achieve the holiness necessary to enter the joy of heaven. The Church gives the name Purgatory to this final purification…”

by Matt Slick

We see that this so-called sacrament is a works based means of gaining forgiveness of sins from God.  This is in contradiction to scripture.  A right relationship with God is achieved through faith in the sacrifice of Jesus Christ and not by our works, or combination of our works.

by Rebekka A. Sexton

Although there are many different kinds of rosaries, there is one in particular that I wish to discuss. The one that was familiar to me as a Catholic, the one that I prayed thousands of times. It’s the same rosary that “St.” Dominic alledgedly introduced to Roman Catholicism in 1214