A Catholic Apologetics Ministry

Did Christ's Church Really Fall Away?

Tracing the unbroken thread from the Apostles to today — defending the Faith once delivered to the saints.

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The Question Every Seeker Must Face

If Christ founded a Church against which the gates of Hell would not prevail (Mt 16:18), where is that Church today? This site exists to pursue that question with intellectual rigor, charitable honesty, and fidelity to the historical record.

Here you will find careful examinations of Latter-day Saint doctrine measured against Scripture, the early Church Fathers, and the unbroken tradition of Catholic Christianity — not to condemn, but to illuminate.

Every argument is tested against primary sources. Every critique is offered in a spirit of genuine dialogue, grounded in the conviction that truth, followed honestly, leads to one place.

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"The Church of the living God, the pillar and bulwark of the truth."

— 1 Timothy 3:15

"Where the bishop is present, there let the congregation gather, just as where Jesus Christ is, there is the Catholic Church."

— St. Ignatius of Antioch, c. AD 107

Our Method

Three Pillars of Inquiry

Sound apologetics demands more than proof-texting. We examine every question through three complementary lenses.

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Biblical Exegesis

Every doctrinal claim is weighed against the full witness of Sacred Scripture — read within its literary, historical, and canonical context, not in isolation.

Historical Continuity

The Church Fathers, early councils, and two millennia of unbroken tradition provide a witness that no restoration movement can replicate or explain away.

Internal Coherence

We test doctrines on their own terms — showing where competing systems create logical contradictions, and where Catholic teaching resolves them with unity and consistency.

Scholarly Articles

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Each article examines a distinct area of Catholic and Latter-day Saint theology through biblical exegesis, patristic scholarship, and rigorous historical analysis.

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, succession, and ecclesial authority.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The Rock and the Sand: Doctrinal Continuity vs. Doctrinal Instability

A comparative theological analysis of 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.

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Whether you are a Latter-day Saint seeking honest answers, a Catholic wishing to understand your faith more deeply, or simply a seeker drawn by the great questions — you are welcome here. Follow the argument wherever it goes.

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