About This Blog

Complete Christianity is the Catholic blog of Shane Schaetzel — author, apologist, catechist and Evangelical convert to the Catholic Church through Anglicanism. If you prefer to follow me on social media, you can follow me on Gab and X.

The first name, Shane, is the Anglicized (English) version of Sean or Shawn, which is the Celtic way of saying John. Because people ask all the time, the last name Schaetzel (pronounced shet-zel) is Swiss-German. My father’s side of the family (Swedish & Swiss) came to America between 1840 and 1929. My mother’s side (British and Irish) started out as colonists in the New World, and have been on this continent for the last 400 years.

My family is staunchly Protestant — mostly Baptist and Lutheran. However, two members of my extended family began converting to Catholicism as early as the 1960s. As for me, I was baptized Lutheran in 1970, but raised as an American Baptist. My wife was baptized and raised Methodist. We converted to the Catholic Church in 2000, following a brief stay in Anglicanism.

I’m a practicing Catholic layman. When I say layman, that means I’m not ordained as a priest or deacon. I’m just a regular Catholic. When I say practicing, that means I actually believe what the Catholic Church teaches in the Catechism of Trent, the Baltimore Catechism and the Catechism of the Catholic Church. In other words, I believe what the Catholic Church has always taught historically. What makes me “practicing” is my adherence to the Catholic Faith as always taught throughout history, praying the rosary regularly, and my insistence on attending reverent Catholic worship. I’m a member of the U.S. Catholic Church, in full communion with the Pope of Rome, and I’m a card-carrying member of the Knights of Columbus, 4th degree.

Here in the pages of this blog, I will explain commonly misunderstood Catholic teachings, as well as comment on politics, news and current events, as they relate to the Catholic Church, Christianity and the world. If you like what you read here, please buy my books. This is the best way you can support my online apostolate (informal ministry). I don’t take donations, and I have no plans to start. I want my readers to have access to information. That’s what this apostolate is all about. Getting my books for yourself, and others, helps this apostolate grow, and it helps the financial side of keeping it going. Give my books a read, and if you like them, buy another copy for a friend. That’s how you can support me and this apostolate. Thanks!

Politics

Any and all political views I may post on this blog are part of my Catholic religious beliefs. That’s because my Catholic religion does not influence my political views, it defines them. My religious views ARE my political views, and my political views ARE my religious views. There is no distinction between them in my mind. Principally, I am a Catholic Integralist, and as an Integralist, I hold to the Catholic Christian teachings of Solidarity and Subsidiary.

Solidarity means we’re all in this together, so principally, government should be used to help our neighbors, bringing about a more stable and just society.

Subsidiarity, however, means this should be done at the local level, and that it is against nature for higher governments to do the job that lower governments can and should do. That means the primary government involved in people’s lives should be the city, county and state governments. While the federal government should play the most minimal role possible.

To learn more about Integralism, read my essay I am a Catholic Integralist.

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I’m also a columnist and author. My articles have been featured on LifeSiteNews, The Remnant Newspaper, Forward in Christ, and Catholic Online.

If you wish to contact me, I can be reached only through this blog by clicking here. Please note, if you are a member of the press, I am extremely selective of who I talk to. I generally only grant interviews, or make statements, to specific Catholic news outlets, such as EWTN, the National Catholic Register, or any of the news outfits mentioned above. If you are a Catholic blogger or podcaster, please cite some of your recent work before asking me to do an interview. Thank you.