A priest of the Archdiocese of Washington has told a Pennsylvania newspaper that the decision over whether to establish a personal ordinariate of former Anglicans in the United States is now in the hands of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Read the whole story here.

Some 600 members of the Church of England are preparing to be received into the Catholic Church this Easter as members of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham. Read the rest of the story here.

Did Jesus provide for the continuing transmission of the Christian faith? What a simple and foundational question! And yet, oddly, it is one that Protestant apologists rarely ask. In the history of Protestant apologetics, great emphasis is placed on how we recognize the inspiration of Scripture (Church authority vs. internal witness of the Spirit), the […]

I would like to introduce our newest contributor at Called to Communion, Marc Ayers. We are thrilled to have Marc join us and look forward to his contributions, as we know our readers will.

Protestants often caricature the Catholic doctrine on sacramentalism as if it taught that a sacrament was something like a magic wand waved over the recipient regardless of his disposition. But this is not an accurate description of the Catholic doctrine.   In this short article, I will explain why. On this day, March 7, 1274, St. […]

Thomas Aquinas and Karl Barth: An Unofficial Protestant-Catholic Dialogue • June 19-22, 2011  @ Princeton Theological Seminary Lectures: Divine Being: Robert Jenson  • Richard Schenk Trinity: Guy Mansini, OSB • Bruce McCormack Christology: Keith Johnson • Thomas Joseph White, OP Grace and Justification: Amy Marga • Joseph Wawrykow Divine and Human Action: Holly Taylor Coolman […]

Readers of this website are by now thoroughly familiar with Keith Mathison’s book The Shape of Sola Scriptura. His thesis has already received ample criticism (see articles by Cross & Judisch, Liccione, and Judisch), and I do not wish to add to that particular discussion. In this post, I would like instead to grant Mathison […]

Auxiliary Bishop Peter Elliott of Melbourne, a former Anglican who now serves as the Holy See’s delegate for the Australian ordinariate, is urging Anglo-Catholics to “lay down [their] weapons” and seek full communion with the Holy See. Read the whole story here.