Are We Willing to Defend Our Faith? by Regis Martin 

By Regis Martin, Crisis Magazine, June 20, 2023

Regis Martin is Professor of Theology and Faculty Associate with the Veritas Center for Ethics in Public Life at the Franciscan University of Steubenville. He earned a licentiate and a doctorate in sacred theology from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome.  …

If Catholic conviction about Christ, grounded in history from the time of the first stirrings of the Church’s life on the day of Pentecost, is true, then we’re all obliged to defend it.

Not since the fourth century, when the Arian crisis, like a cannon ball aimed at the heart of faith, nearly destroyed the Christian world, has the Church been so beset by basic distortions of the truth entrusted to her by Christ. Moreover, the odds of her not succeeding in vanquishing the enemy seem every bit as dicey today as they were back when poor Athanasius stood alone against the world. It was scarcely an exercise in hyperbole, therefore, when St. Jerome, surveying the wreckage wrought by one upstart priest from Alexandria, Egypt, declared that “the whole world groaned, and was astonished to find itself Arian.” …

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