The Church Fathers | Father Jacob Lindle  God is real. You know how I know? Because the Catholic Church still exists. Think about it: the visible Church of God was founded (Mt 16:18) almost 2,000 years ago upon a volatile fisherman from Galilee (approximately nowhere according to the Roman Empire), …

On Oct. 17, the Roman Catholic Church remembers the early Church Father, bishop, and martyr Saint Ignatius of Antioch, whose writings attest to the sacramental and hierarchical nature of the Church from its earliest days. Eastern Catholics and Eastern Orthodox Christians celebrate his memory on Dec. 20. In a 2007 …