The First American Pope
Dr. Matthew Bunson

Jesus’ Revelation of God and Call to Discipleship
What does God “look like”?
Jesus says simply: “Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father… I am in the Father and the Father is in me” (Jn. 14: 9–10).
Jesus is one with the Father (Jn. 10:30), and he is also the way to the Father. That way is discipleship. Dr. Alan Schreck discusses what it means to be a disciple of Jesus: its necessity, its joy, and the sacrifice and suffering—the cross—it requires.
Jesus' promise that the Holy Spirit would guide the Church into all truth is fulfilled in this gift of infallibility: that God's people would know with certainty the…...
Jesus commissioned his Apostles to guide and lead his Church, and they passed on this authority to others. By the beginning of the second century, each local church…...
Dr. Schreck reviews how the Catholic catechesis on the Church follows the order of Vatican II's "Dogmatic Constitution on the Church" (Lumen Gentium). He then describes how the…...