In 745, eight angel names were read aloud before a church council in Rome. By the end, only one name in the prayer was still ...

The history of the Catholic Church so far spans about 2,000 years. That’s a wide swath of history, a vast amount of time, and an organization that covers the entire world. The Church has been at the ...

Tim Staples draws on his new School of Apologetics course — Evidence for the Church — to address the growing reluctance of some Catholics to accept the authority of church councils. Where do councils ...

Jesus did not reserve teaching authority to himself, but assigned it to the leaders he put in charge of his Church (see Day 281). He thus created a Magisterium (Latin, “teaching authority”) within his ...

Highland Park UMC challenged the bishop's authority. The conference said the council can't decide for an entire congregation that the local church will no longer recognize its authority.

Anyone familiar with church history will know that Jesuit Fr. John W. O'Malley is one of the greatest Catholic Church historians of the last century. Currently University Professor in the Theology ...

This was a discussion on Facebook underneath a link to my post, “Sola Scriptura Can’t Definitively Refute Christological Heresy (The Sad Case of Evangelical Apologist and Philosopher Dr. William Lane ...

St. Peter presided at the Council of Jerusalem in the Acts of the Apostles, and the Catholic Church has followed that biblical model ever since. Pope Pius IX (center, seated on throne) convenes the ...

In the past week, scientists announced the discovery of ancient Roman ruins underneath the surface of the lake in Iznik, Turkey. But this was not just any archaeological discovery. They have may have ...

The National Council of Churches was formed in 1950 to coordinate such matters as foreign mission support and development of Christian education programs. In the last two years council leaders have ...