Jeanie Hannaman

By Casey Chalk, Crisis Magazine - On June 22, a suicide bomber attacked the Greek Orthodox Church of the Prophet Elias in the Damascus suburb of Dweila, killing 25 members of the congregation. The Syrian government blamed the attack on the Islamic State, which has been murdering Christians for well over a decade. Though many prominent corporate media outlets such as CNN, The New York Times, and The Washington Post covered the story, the incident elicited little commentary on the plight of Christians in their ancestral homelands, despite the fact that Christians are suffering such severe persecution ...

A couple of posts back I briefly mentioned “motives of credibility” that can draw a person to faith in Christ and entry into the Catholic Church. These “motives” operate at a potentially deeper or at least more personal level than the basic apologetical arguments which establish the necessity of God and the soul, the Divinity of Christ, and the role of the Catholic Church in continuing to make Christ present down through history.