The Catholic Defender: St. Matthias Comes Off The Bench to Become an Apostle
Judas Iscariot betrayed Our Lord Jesus Christ with a kiss in the Garden of Gethsemane for 30 pieces of silver (Matthew 26:15). After Judas committed suicide by hanging himself, the Apostles gathered together to replace him choosing between two Candidates, Joseph called Barsabbas, also known as Justus, and Matthias. St. Peter opened the casting of lots with this forward message, "So one of the men who have accompanied us during all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and o
The Catholic Defender: Apostolic Succession, The Call Of the Priesthood of Christ
"Jesus departed to the mountain to pray, and he spent the night in prayer to God. When day came, he called his disciples to himself, and...
The Catholic Defender: Apostolic Succession and the Deposit of Faith
The Second Vatican Council, in it's Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation (1965) reaffirms the doctrine of revelation as it has been...
The Catholic Defender: God's Authority Handed Down
To really understand the Chair of Peter, we must start from the beginning when God called Moses to lead the people out of bondage. The...
