One thing many people can’t quite get their heads around is the Catholic Church’s claim that there is one Church founded by Jesus and that one this Church, according to the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965), “constituted and organized as a society in this present, world, subsists in the Catholic Church, governed by the Successor of Peter and by the Bishops in communion with him.” Or as Richard John Neuhaus liked to put it, “The Catholic Church is the Church of Jesus Christ most fully and rightly ordered through time.”

When stating their objections to the Catholic Church, most Protestant Christians have two impressions. First, the Catholic Church is thought to be somewhere on a scale from hating the Bible to

At the beginning of the Easter Vigil twice we heard this strange outburst: “O happy fault, O necessary sin of Adam which gained for us so great a Redeemer!” The joy of these words is surprising, since we’re accustomed to think of Adam and Eve’s sin as a great tragedy.