What Is Truth?

Did the early Christians just make everything up? Did Constantine paganize Christianity and found the Catholic Church? Did the Catholic Church usher in the "Dark Ages?" On today's episode of "What Is Truth?" historian Steve Weidenkopf sits down with us to expose many anti-Catholic history myths many of us were raised to believe including myths about Galileo, the canon of S...

What is mental prayer? Why is it necessary for a Christian? How does it build our relationship with God? On today's episode of the podcast, Dan Burke joins us to answer all of these questions and more as we discuss the topic of mental prayer and our personal stories of the transformative power of it. Got any questions about today's show? Contact me via email at pilatewhatistruth@gmail.co...

Why would a Protestant Bible teacher who grew up believing Catholics were bound for hell end up becoming a Catholic himself? How can Christians be unified and what does Christ's establishment of a Pope with the apostle St. Peter have to do with that? On this week's episode of "What Is Truth?" we have the incredible privilege to sit down with Steve Ray and discuss his conversion...

Why does the Catholic Church have priests? Are they biblical? Did the early Church have priests? What about the "priesthood of all believers?" On today's episode of the podcast, Dr. John Bergsma, a reformed Protestant pastor turned Catholic Bible scholar, will be answering these questions as we talk about his book "the Old Testament Roots of the Priesthood." We will also d...

In today's episode, the second part of our interview w/ Pat Flynn, we discuss a famous argument for the existence of God: the Contingency Argument. We will dive deep into the metaphysics (first principles) of reality and discuss key philosophical terms such as act and potency on the way to answering the most important question in life: Does God Exist? Contact me via email: pilatewhatistruth@g...

For thousands of years, humans have wrestled with the problem of evil. On today's episode of "What Is Truth?" Pat Flynn and I discuss how evil does not disprove the existence of an all-knowing, all-loving, and all-powerful God. We discuss the logical problem of evil, evidential problem of evil, and how the evil we experience in the world actually points to the existence of God. Cont...

Does the Catholic Church teach with authority? If you are looking to find the correct "communion" or "denomination" of Christianity, your quest will ultimately come down to the question of authority. So, does the Catholic Church teach with authority? Is Scripture our only infallible authority? Today on the podcast Michael Lofton (who specializes in the Magisterium) sits down wi...

Who are our Christian ancestors? On today's episode, Mike Aquilina and I sit down to discuss the Church Fathers; the most influential teachers of early Christianity. We specifically discuss the earliest fathers. These are the Christians from the age right after the apostles themselves, many of whom knew the apostles. We also discuss what the early Church looked like and believed and the lesso...

What does the Catholic Church teach about salvation? In today's episode, I sit down with Catholic apologist Jimmy Akin to answer this question. We also discuss why the Protestant understanding of "faith alone" is not supported by Scripture, Romans 4, the role of baptism in salvation, the concept of mortal sin, and what the phrase "outside the Church there is no salvation"...

Why would somebody convert from nondenominational evangelicalism to Catholicism? In today's episode, we will sit down with K. Albert Little of the Cordial Catholic podcast to talk about his conversion to the Catholic faith.  Follow "What Is Truth?" on Instagram: @whatistruthpod Contact me via email: pilatewhatistruth@gmail.com Resources from today's episode: Church Fathers http...

Why does the Catholic Church have a Pope? In this month's episode, we will discover how Jesus Christ, as the New David, established a Kingdom through his life, death, resurrection, and ascension. In so doing, he left "the keys to the kingdom of heaven" in the hands of the apostle Peter and his successors (Matthew 16:19), establishing the papacy. Follow "What Is Truth?" on...