New to the site? These three articles lay the groundwork — epistemology, authority, and revelation.
From Testimony to Faith: Why the “Burning in the Bosom” Is Not Enough
The fundamental difference between the LDS testimony system — built on subjective emotional experience — and the Catholic understanding of faith as an act of the intellect and will, sustained by grace. Why Moroni’s Promise is circular, and how the Dark Night of the Soul reveals a sturdier foundation for certainty.
Read Article → 2The Rock and the Sand: Doctrinal Continuity vs. Doctrinal Instability
Catholic doctrinal permanence across two millennia set against the persistent revision of core LDS teachings — the nature of God, polygamy, the Book of Abraham, blood atonement, and the authority of living prophets.
Read Article → 3Angels, Revelation, and the Closed Canon
Why no angelic visitation after the apostolic age carries authority to introduce new scripture — and why Paul’s anathema in Galatians 1:8–9, the Christological finality of Hebrews 1, and Jude’s “once for all delivered” together foreclose the claim of Moroni’s revelatory commission.
Read Article →The nature of God, the purpose of the covenants, and what salvation actually means.
One God, Unchanging and Eternal: The Catholic and Mormon Views of God in Contrast
The chasm between the Catholic understanding of God — infinite, eternal, and absolutely unique — and the LDS doctrine of a God who was once a man, infinite regression of gods, and human exaltation to godhood.
Read Article →Covenant Theology — Catholic vs. LDS
Catholic covenant theology reads salvation history as one progressive story — each covenant expanding in scope and deepening in intimacy, culminating in Christ. The LDS dispensational model of cyclical loss and restoration cannot account for what Hebrews, Jeremiah, Galatians, and Isaiah actually say.
Read Article →Baptism for the Dead vs. the Communion of Saints
The LDS concern for deceased ancestors is sincere — but proxy baptism rests on a single ambiguous verse. Catholic prayers for the dead, purgatory, indulgences, and the Communion of Saints address that same love on a foundation two thousand years deep.
Read Article →The Holy Eucharist: The Real Presence of Christ in the Blessed Sacrament
A biblical and patristic defense of Christ’s true Body and Blood in the Eucharist, tracing the doctrine from the Upper Room through the earliest centuries of the Church.
Read Article →A House Divided Against Itself
A research paper examining how modern LDS doctrine contradicts the Book of Mormon on the nature of God, salvation, polygamy, post-mortem repentance, and temple ordinances — the very book the tradition was built to restore.
Read Article →Theosis Without the Heresy
Many LDS are drawn to the idea of becoming like God. The Church Fathers taught genuine divinization — participation in the divine nature — without the metaphysical problems of LDS exaltation theology. Here is the difference.
Read Article →A Different Jesus
A systematic examination of how the Latter-day Saint conception of Jesus Christ differs from the Jesus revealed in Scripture, the Creeds, and the Catholic theological tradition.
Read Article →Justification: Catholic vs. LDS
A rigorous comparison of the Catholic and Latter-day Saint doctrines of justification — tracing each view to its scriptural, patristic, and theological sources.
Read Article →Apostolic succession, patristic witness, and the question of who speaks for Christ.
The Rock and the Sand: Doctrinal Continuity vs. Doctrinal Instability
Catholic doctrinal permanence across two millennia set against the persistent revision of core LDS teachings — the nature of God, polygamy, the Book of Abraham, blood atonement, and the authority of living prophets.
Read Article →The Ante-Nicene Church Fathers and Their Catholic Doctrines
A comprehensive survey of the earliest post-apostolic writers — Ignatius, Justin, Irenaeus, Tertullian, and others — demonstrating their unanimous witness to distinctly Catholic teaching on the Eucharist, apostolic succession, and ecclesial authority.
Read Article →Clement of Rome & Apostolic Succession: A Living Chain of Authority
How 1 Clement — written while the Apostle John still lived — confirms that the Apostles deliberately established an unbroken chain of episcopal succession to preserve the faith.
Read Article →The Apostolic Office: Foundational, Not Perpetual
Why the office of Apostle was a unique, once-for-all foundational role — not a perpetually replenished quorum. Drawing on Revelation 21:14, the death of James without replacement, and the testimony of the earliest Church Fathers.
Read Article →The Iron Scepter and the Eternal City: Why Christ’s Church Had to Be Roman
Drawing from Dr. Alan Fimister and Dr. Taylor Marshall, this essay argues that the Romanitas of the Catholic Church is not a historical accident but a providential necessity rooted in Daniel’s prophecy of the four kingdoms.
Read Article →The Church of Prophecy Fulfilled
An examination of how the Catholic Church — visible, universal, sacramental, and enduring — fulfills the prophetic vision of Scripture, and why the LDS restoration narrative contradicts the Bible’s own testimony.
Read Article →From the Temple to the Cathedral
Why Latter-day Saints find a truer home in Catholicism than in Protestantism — a careful examination of shared structural, sacramental, and theological instincts that point toward Rome.
Read Article →The “Dark Ages” Myth
A Catholic defense against the LDS claim that the post-Roman “Dark Ages” prove God’s Spirit had departed from the Church. The historical record tells exactly the opposite story.
Read Article →The Priesthood Question
A comprehensive comparison of Catholic and Latter-day Saint priesthood theology, succession, and the historical problems with Joseph Smith’s priesthood restoration claims.
Read Article →How we know what we know — the canon, the evidence, and the logic of progressive revelation.
From Testimony to Faith: Why the “Burning in the Bosom” Is Not Enough
The fundamental difference between the LDS testimony system — built on subjective emotional experience — and the Catholic understanding of faith as an act of the intellect and will, sustained by grace. Why Moroni’s Promise is circular, and how the Dark Night of the Soul reveals a sturdier foundation for certainty.
Read Article →Misquoted: LDS Proof-Texts Examined
A Catholic examination of Bible verses commonly cited by Latter-day Saints to support LDS doctrines. Each proof-text is analyzed in its proper biblical context with responses from Scripture, the original languages, and the Church Fathers.
Read Article →Angels, Revelation, and the Closed Canon
Why no angelic visitation after the apostolic age carries authority to introduce new scripture — and why Paul’s anathema in Galatians 1:8–9, the Christological finality of Hebrews 1, and Jude’s “once for all delivered” together foreclose the claim of Moroni’s revelatory commission.
Read Article →The Fullness of Time: Progressive Revelation vs. Primordial Dispensationalism
Contrasts the Catholic model of salvation history building toward Christ with the LDS framework of a primordial gospel repeatedly lost and restored.
Read Article →Historicity of Scripture: The Bible vs. The Book of Mormon
An archaeological, linguistic, manuscript, and historical analysis comparing the evidentiary foundations of the Bible and the Book of Mormon.
Read Article →Polygamy, feminine dignity, and the documented record of the Latter-day Saint founding era.
The Marriage Dilemma: Christ’s Law vs. Joseph Smith’s Covenant
A biblical examination of the irreconcilable conflict between Jesus Christ’s teaching on marriage — indissoluble, monogamous, and earthly — and the doctrines introduced in D&C 132.
Read Article →Crowned in Glory, or Threatened with Destruction?
A comparative study of feminine dignity in Catholicism and the Latter-day Saint tradition — from Mary’s queenship and the female Doctors of the Church, to Emma Smith’s threatened destruction in D&C 132 and the enforced silence of Heavenly Mother.
Read Article →The Church, Chastity, & Celibacy
A Catholic defense of celibacy, monasticism, and the consecrated life, drawing on Scripture, the Church Fathers, and the words of Christ and St. Paul.
Read Article →Behind the Veil
An examination of the LDS temple endowment ceremony, its documented Masonic origins, the secret second anointing, and how these practices clash with biblical Christianity.
Read Article →The Double Life of Joseph Smith: A Timeline
A documented chronological examination of Joseph Smith’s plural marriages — their secrecy, their subjects, and their implications for claims of prophetic authority. Drawn from the LDS Church’s own Gospel Topics essays.
Read Article →The Polygamist Prophets: LDS Presidents & Their Wives
A documented accounting of the plural marriages of Latter-day Saint presidents — the number of wives, the ages, and the patterns that defined polygamy at the highest levels of Church leadership.
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