DR. JEFFREY TIEL

Cultic Captivity A cult is an organization whose advocacy of an ideology coupled to behavioral prescription coercively infringes upon personal, familial, political, and/or epistemic liberty. We usually think of cults as religious organizations, but there are non-religious cults, too, such as the so called “executive success programs” business cult, NXIVM, of Keith Ranieri fame (yes, the now-imprisoned leader who advocated branding his initials above the genitals of his femal

The Church has taught from the beginning that there is only one baptism, namely that baptism in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit that Jesus tasked his apostles with spreading to the four corners of the earth.

Imagine if you knew that Jesus was coming back to judge the world and bring in his kingdom in exactly 17 months. What would you do?

The notion that there might be a sin or sins that are absolutely unforgivable, even by a bishop, is pretty terrifying. Given what the...