Month: August 2018

• Catholic Sex Scandal: An Explanation and Warning to Protestants

  Since I happen to live in the Bible Belt of the United States, I am surrounded by Evangelicals and Baptists all the time. So if you happen to be an Evangelical, Baptist, Charismatic or Pentecostal Christian, this essay is for you. Other Protestants may find this interesting as well, and I’m sure some non-Christians may […]

  Shane Schaetzel

  August 30, 2018

  Social Commentary

  Abuse, Catholic Church, In the News, Pope, Protestantism

• Catholicism versus Hyper-Papalism

  There is a word in the Catholic lexicon, and most Catholics are unfamiliar with it. It’s called ultramontanism. Briefly, the word means “beyond the mountains” and it’s a European reference to the Italian Alps that act as a natural northern border between Italy and the rest of Europe. Following the Protestant Revolution, wherein great portions […]

  Shane Schaetzel

  August 27, 2018

  Apologetics, Social Commentary

  Abuse, History, In the News, Orthodoxy, Pope, Scandal

• Our Lady’s Work Has Begun

  Praise be to God, Our Lady’s work has finally begun! The prophecies of Fatima are coming to their fulfillment. Many Marian prophecies are now coming to fulfillment, all at the same time. Saint John Paul II’s prophecy of the Springtime of Evangelization is not to be understood in the present tense, but rather a future tense, […]

  Shane Schaetzel

  August 24, 2018

  Renewal, Social Commentary

  Abuse, America, Bishops, Catholic Church, Eschatology, History, In the News, Modernism, Scandal, Violence

• Why Do I Go To Mass?

  I am a Catholic. The reason why I go to mass is pretty simple. I go to mass solely for one reason and one reason only. It is to worship God. I don’t really go for any other reason. That’s pretty much it for me. I go to mass because I know that is the […]

  Shane Schaetzel

  August 21, 2018

  Apologetics, Renewal, Social Commentary

  Catholic Church, Ecclesiology, In the News, Israel, Jesus Christ, Liturgy, Logic, Sacraments

• Europe is Catholic

  The so-called “European Union” or EU is failing because it is not based on the one and only thing that could possibly hold it together — Catholicism. By ditching its Christian heritage, the EU was doomed to failure before it ever really began. A union based on Secularism is doomed to fail. Such will be […]

  Shane Schaetzel

  August 20, 2018

  Renewal

  Catholic Church, Europe, History

• #CatholicMeToo – Where Does It End?

  Many Catholics, God knows how many, have signed on to the #CatholicMeToo movement. Many more will in the days ahead. What is it? Simply put, it is a twofold effort to bring pressure on the US Catholic bishops, so that true and genuine reform will take place in the US Catholic Church on the issue […]

  Shane Schaetzel

  August 16, 2018

  Renewal

  Abuse, America, Catholic Church, In the News

• An Open Letter to Pope Francis

  Your Holiness, I entered the Catholic Church in the year 2000 as an Evangelical convert through Anglicanism, and I come from a family line of Protestants that stretches back 500 years to the days of Martin Luther and Henry VIII. Words cannot describe the joy I felt on the Easter Vigil of 2000, upon being […]

  Shane Schaetzel

  August 14, 2018

  Renewal

  Abuse, In the News, Pope

• What I Haven’t Told You Yet

  In a previous essay I relayed the personal difficulty the 2002 homosexual-abuse and paedophilia scandal brought upon my wife and I just a few years after our conversion to the Catholic Church. We nearly lost our Catholic faith over it, but we managed to survive. Others weren’t so lucky. Here in the Bible Belt, I hear […]

  Shane Schaetzel

  August 13, 2018

  Renewal

  Abuse, America, Catholic Church, Ecclesiology, In the News, Liturgy

• Volvamos a la Religión de Nuestros Padres

  Lamento que mi español sea pobre. Soy un hablante de inglés y este es un blog en inglés. Hoy les escribo en español para llamar a todos mis hermanos y hermanas católicos, no solo a mi familia de habla inglesa. Confío en que me disculparán por mi mala traducción al español y relacionaran el espíritu […]

  Shane Schaetzel

  August 13, 2018

  Renewal

  America, Catholic Church, Liturgy

• The Heresy of “Don’t Judge”

  It’s a popular narrative from the eighth chapter of John’s gospel (John 8:1-11). A woman is caught in the very act of adultery. She is dragged before Jesus by the scribes and Pharisees, so as to put Jesus to a test. They wanted to see what he would do with her. The Torah (Law of […]

  Shane Schaetzel

  August 2, 2018

  Apologetics, Renewal

  Abuse, Jesus Christ, Lessons