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Anti-Catholicism (Index Page for Apologist Dave Armstrong)

Anti-Catholicism (Index Page for Apologist Dave Armstrong)

Last updated on: October 9, 2026 at 11:35 pm by Dave Armstrong

Anti-Catholicism (Index Page for Apologist Dave Armstrong) 2026-10-09T23:35:13-04:00 Dave Armstrong

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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JIM ANDERSON

JOHN ANDERSON
VICTOR ANDRADE
DR. JOHN ANKERBERG AND DR. JOHN WELDON (BAPTIST)

DR. GREG BAHNSEN

TODD BAKER

LUCAS BANZOLI

CHRIS BAYACK

RICHARD BENNETT

BIBLE AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

GABRIEL BRASILEIRO

BART BREWER

JOHN BUGAY

KEVIN CAULEY (CHURCH OF CHRIST)

CHAT ROOM DEBATE CHALLENGE

JACK CHICK

STEVE CHRISTIE

JASON ENGWER

MATTHEW EVERHARD

EXCATHOLIC4CHRIST” (TOM)
FOXE’S BOOK OF MARTYRS

DR. ROBERT GAGNON

PEDRO FRANCA GAIAO

MIKE GENDRON

STEVE HAYS (REFORMED)

MATT HEDGES
TIMOTHY F. KAUFFMAN
DAVID T. KING
BRUNO LIMA

LEN LISENBEE

LUTHERANISM

DOUGLAS MABRY (aka “GOJIRA”)

DR. JOHN MACARTHUR

YAGO MARTINS

JAMES McCARTHY

PATRICK O’BRIEN

JUAN ROBERTO DE OLIVEIRA

ORTHODOX ANTI-CATHOLICISM

POPE AS “GOD” OR “ANTICHRIST”

AUSTIN REED

“SAINT AND SINNER”

GEORGE SALMON (19TH CENTURY ANGLICAN)

MATT SLICK (PRESBYTERIAN; FOUNDER OF CARM)

DR. ERIC SVENDSEN

JAMES SWAN (REFORMED)

KEN TEMPLE (REFORMED BAPTIST)

EDGAR TREVIÑO

FRANK TURK (AKA “CENTURION”) (BAPTIST)

FRANCOIS TURRETIN (1623-1687)
“TURRETINFAN” (AKA “THE ANONYMOUS ONE” OR “TAO”) (REFORMED)

JERRY WALLS (+ KENNETH COLLINS)

WILLIAM WEBSTER

WILLIAM WHITAKER

BISHOP “DR.” [???] JAMES WHITE (REFORMED BAPTIST)
MIKE WINGER

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CATHOLIC INQUISITION
MISCELLANEOUS REFUTATIONS AND OBSERVATIONS
“ANTI-CATHOLIC” / “ROMANISM”: DEFINITIONAL AND TERMINOLOGICAL CONTROVERSIES
IDOLATRY CHARGE (THE MASS, IMAGES, AND MISC.)

IDOLATRY CHARGE (MARIAN VENERATION)

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JIM ANDERSON

Dialogue on Meritorious Works & the Gospel [6-30-23]

Dialogue: Rich Young Ruler, Works, & Salvation [7-3-23]

JOHN ANDERSON

Bible & Catholicism on Mortal Sin (vs. John Anderson) [10-8-26]

The Wicked Anti-Catholic Technique (Used by John Anderson) of Spouting Gossipy. Grandiose Lies About What “Most” / “Many” Catholic Apologists Supposedly Teach, Without Any Documentation Actually Provided [Facebook, 10-8-26]

VICTOR ANDRADE

Has Lutheranism Avoided Denominationalism? (Widespread Lutheran Compromise & Caving on Abortion & Same-Sex “Marriage”) [8-10-22]

DR. JOHN ANKERBERG AND DR. JOHN WELDON (BAPTIST)

Critique of Ankerberg & Weldon’s Anti-Catholicism [May 1995]

DR. GREG BAHNSEN

Is Sola Scriptura Biblical? (vs. Dr. Greg Bahnsen) [4-1-21]

TODD BAKER

Todd Baker’s Exodus from Rome (Tradition, Mary, Sola Fide) [4-23-18]

Todd Baker’s Exodus from Rome (Attack on My Conversion) [4-24-18]

My Amazon Review of Exodus from Rome, Vol. 2 [4-29-18]

LUCAS BANZOLI

Catholic Church “Above” the Bible? (vs. Lucas Banzoli) [5-25-22]

Seven Replies Re Interceding Saints (vs. Lucas Banzoli) [5-25-22]

Reply to Lucas Banzoli’s 205 Potshots at St. Peter [Pt. 2] [Pt. 3] [Pt. 4] [5-30-22]

Banzoli Sez Origen & Tertullian are Sola Scripturists [5-31-22]

Reply to Lucas Banzoli: 2 Tim 3:16 & Sola Scriptura [5-31-22]

Justin Martyr & Sola Scriptura (vs. Lucas Banzoli) [6-1-22]

Banzoli’s “Church vs. the Bible” Myths Debunked [6-2-22]

“Mother of God”: Refuting Lucas Banzoli’s Absurdities [6-3-22]

1 Timothy 3:15 = Infallible Church (vs. Lucas Banzoli) [6-3-22]

Jesus’ Cousins (Not Brothers) (vs. Lucas Banzoli) [6-6-22]

Unbiblical Denominations (vs. Lucas Banzoli) [6-9-22]

Biblical Evidence for Relics (vs. Lucas Banzoli) [6-10-22]

Banzoli’s 45 “Faith Alone” Passages; My 200 Biblical Disproofs [6-15-22]

Protestants Executed Peaceful Anabaptists (vs. L. Banzoli) [6-20-22]

Did Luther Cause the 1525 Peasants’ Revolt? (vs. Banzoli) [6-20-22]

Mary Clopas & Jesus’ Supposed Siblings (vs. Lucas Banzoli) [9-2-22]

Virgin Mary “Until”? (Matthew 1:25) (vs. Lucas Banzoli) [9-5-22]

Why Doesn’t Scripture Call Jesus an “Only Child”? (vs. Lucas Banzoli) [9-5-22]

James: “Brother” of Jesus: Josephus vs. the Bible & Hegesippus (vs. Lucas Banzoli) [9-7-22]

Did Mary Sin By Thinking Jesus was Crazy? (vs. Lucas Banzoli) [9-8-22]

Lucas Banzoli Wars Against Mariological Straw Men (Was Mary Full of Grace and Therefore Sinless? And If So, Was This Necessary or Only “Fitting”?) [9-9-22]

Lucas Banzoli’s Mindless Denigration of an Imagined “Mary” (Including Extensive Biblical Analyses of Exceptionally “Righteous” and “Holy” People, and Merit) [9-11-22]

St. Ignatius & Eucharistic Real Presence (vs. Lucas Banzoli) [9-12-22]

Justin Martyr, Real Presence, & Eucharistic Sacrifice (vs. Lucas Banzoli) [9-13-22]

Lucas Banzoli Misrepresents Chrysostom’s Eucharistic Theology (+ An Overview of St. John Chrysostom’s Catholic View of the Eucharistic Sacrifice) [9-14-22]

Tertullian’s Eucharistic Theology: Lucas Banzoli vs. J.N.D. Kelly [9-15-22]

Refuting Lucas Banzoli’s “Catholic Slanders of the Reformation” [9-20-22]

Answer to Banzoli’s “Challenge” Re Intercession of Saints [9-20-22]

Bible on Praying Straight to God (vs. Lucas Banzoli) [9-21-22]

Marian “Idolatry”, “Busy God”, Straw Men… (vs. Lucas Banzoli) [9-22-22]

Reply to Banzoli’s “Analyzing the ‘evidence’ of saints’ intercession” [9-22-22]

Reply to Banzoli’s “Questions for Catholics About Prayer…” [9-23-22]

On Whether Required Celibacy is “Biblical” (vs. Lucas Banzoli) [9-24-22]

Lucas Banzoli on Catholic Converts, and My Reply [Facebook, 9-26-22]

NT Baptism of Whole “Households” (vs. Lucas Banzoli) [9-26-22]

Defense of Immortal, Conscious Souls (vs. Lucas Banzoli) [17-Part Series]:

#1 (Preliminaries) [11-1-22]

#2 (Genesis 2:7 and the Hebrew / Biblical Idiom of Synecdoche) [11-4-22]

#3 (Hebrew, Nephesh [Soul]: Massive Figurative Biblical Use) [11-7-22]

#4 (Revelation 6:9: “Souls” in Heaven / 16 Biblical Proofs for Conscious Souls After Death) [11-9-22]

#5 (Revelation 6:9: “Souls” in Heaven Redux) [11-11-22]

#6 (Conspiracy Theories About Bibles and the Many Meanings of “Soul” in Holy Scripture) [11-12-22]

#7 (Banzoli Decides — At Last! — to Reply to My Second Post [#5] About Souls Under the Altar in Heaven) [11-14-22]

#8 (Banzoli’s Soul Sleep Leads Him to Believe That the Soul of Jesus Christ “Died” — Didn’t Exist — Between His Death and Resurrection, and That He was Unconscious in His Human Nature During That Time) [11-14-22]

#9 (Matthew 10:28: Did Jesus Teach That a Soul Could be Annihilated?) [11-18-22]

#10 (The Story of Lazarus and the Rich Man (Lk 16:19-31) in Relation to the Doctrine of Immortal Souls [11-22-22]

#11 (“Second Death” = “Lake of Fire” = Eternal Torment in Hell. Jesus & Luke Believed in Both Hades and Hell) [11-25-22]

#12 (Paul Affirms Three Times That Souls Continue Outside of the Body / Banzoli Claims That Angels Are Material Beings) [11-29-22]

#13 (Dead Biblical Heroes Return to Earth!: Samuel & Saul / Moses & Elijah at Jesus’ Transfiguration) [12-1-22]

#14: Jesus’ Visit (After He Died) to Hades, Preaching to the “Spirits in Prison” and Setting “Captives” Free [12-2-22]

#15: Hebrews 12:23: “the spirits of just men made perfect” [12-3-22]

#16: Sheol (Hades): Merely the “Grave” or “Underground” or the Conscious Abode of Dead Souls? [12-5-22]

#17: Ecclesiastes 9:5: “The Dead Know Nothing” / Psalm 146:4: “His Thoughts Perish,” Etc. [12-6-22]

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Clergy Celibacy: Back-and-Forth with Lucas Banzoli [11-16-22]

Lucas Banzoli Holds to a Seventh-Day Adventist Eschatology and Christology [11-22-22]

Lucas Banzoli’s “Answer” to My Critique of His Caricatured “Mary” (Textbook Anti-Catholic Sophistry Tactics) [12-7-22]
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Josephus, Adelphos, & James, “Brother of Jesus” (vs. Lucas Banzoli) [12-16-22]

Lucas Banzoli is a Young Earth Creationist [Facebook, 1-18-23]

Further Replies to Lucas Banzoli: I’ve Changed My Mind [Facebook, 2-7-23]

Dead Saints Interceding (vs. Lucas Banzoli) [2-8-23]
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Bible & the Intercession of Saints (vs. Lucas Banzoli) [2-8-23]

Church = Foundation of the Truth (1 Tim 3:15) (vs. L. Banzoli) [2-9-23]

Mary and “Crazy” Jesus, Pt. II (vs. Lucas Banzoli): In Which Our Quixotic Anti-Catholic Warrior Desperately Savages Several Highly Reputable English Bible Translations in Order to “Prove” That Mary Thought Jesus was Out of His Mind [2-9-23]

Defending 20 Biblical Proofs for the Papacy (vs. Lucas Banzoli) [+ Part II] [2-13-23]

Josephus & “Brothers of Jesus” Redux (vs. Lucas Banzoli) [2-18-23]

Weird Lucas Banzoli Errors: Jesus’ References to Heaven [Facebook, 2-21-23]

Retraction and Apology to Lucas Banzoli for Wrongly Classifying Him as a Non-Christian and Non-Trinitarian [Facebook, 2-21-23]
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Lucas Banzoli vs. Biblically Venerated “Catholic” Mary [2-22-23]

Biblical Catholic Confession & Absolution (vs. Lucas Banzoli) (+ The Church Fathers on Auricular Confession to a Priest) [2-23-23]

Elizabeth I and 512 Catholic Martyrs (vs. Lucas Banzoli) [3-4-23]
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Lucas Banzoli’s Mythical, Asinine “Catholic Dream Bible”: An Opportunity to Dismantle 24 Garden Variety Anti-Catholic Whoppers in One Article [3-23-23]

Two Brazilian Protestant Apologists and Their Wildly Divergent Opinions of My Work (Including a Full Survey of Banzoli’s Endless & Mindless Personal Insults) [Facebook, 9-12-23; greatly expanded on 9-10-26]
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Banzoli Lies About Jaw-Dropping Luther Quote [1-22-24]

Reply to Lucas Banzoli’s 30 “Common” (?) Protestant Views [4-24-25]

Lucas Banzoli Sez the Archangel Michael is Jesus [4-29-25]
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VIDEO: 11 Flawed Protestant Objections to Papal Authority Debunked (Protestant “Pope Fiction”) [+ initial transcript] [Catholic Bible Highlights, with Kenny Burchard, 7-17-26]

VIDEO: Was Peter Just One of the Apostles? 10 More Anti-Papal Arguments Debunked [+ initial transcript] [Catholic Bible Highlights, with Kenny Burchard, 9-11-26]

CHRIS BAYACK

Reply to Anti-Catholic Chris Bayack vs. Steve Ray (+ Part II) [8-22-00]

RICHARD BENNETT

Sola Scriptura: Unbiblical!: Refutation of Dr. Richard Bennett [9-15-03]

BIBLE AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

The Freedom of the Catholic Biblical Exegete / Interpreter + Bible Passages that the Church has Definitively Interpreted [9-14-03]

Were Vernacular Bibles Unknown Before Luther? (Luther’s Dubious Claims About the Supposed Utter Obscurity of the Bible Before His Translation) [6-15-11]

Dialogue: “Obscure” Bible Before Luther’s Translation? [7-24-14]

Catholic Church: Historic “Enemy” of the Bible? [9-11-15]

Catholic Church: Superior to the Bible?: Does the Catholic Church Claim to be ‘Above’ the Bible and Its “Creator”? [9-14-15]
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Was the Catholic Church Historically an Enemy of the Bible? [National Catholic Register, 3-27-17]

Armstrong vs. Collins & Walls #5: The Church “Gave” the Bible? [10-19-17]

Did Luther Rescue the Bible in German from Utter Obscurity? [National Catholic Register, 10-30-17]

The Catholic Church Does Not Claim Superiority Over the Bible [National Catholic Register, 8-13-18]

Catholic Biblical Interpretation: Myths and Truths [National Catholic Register, 12-3-18]

Did Pope Innocent III Forbid the Bible in 1199? (+ Does the Bible Itself Teach That it Should be Read Without Need of Any Authoritative Interpretation?) [5-11-21]

Did Medieval Catholicism Forbid All Vernacular Bibles? [5-11-21]

Council of Trent: Anti-Bible or Anti-Bad Bible Translations? [5-12-21]

“Unigenitus” (1713) vs. Personal Bible Study? (+ Other Supposed “Anti-Bible” Catholic Proclamations & Analogies to Calvinist “Dogmatism” at the Synod of Dort) [5-14-21]

GABRIEL BRASILEIRO

Brazilian Protestant Gabriel Brasileiro Wants to Debate Me Oh So Badly . . . [Facebook, 1-15-23]

BART BREWER

Fr. Bart Brewer’s Initial “Reason” for Ditching Catholicism [8-15-00]

JOHN BUGAY

The Inquisition Killed 4.9 Million? (John Bugay’s Whoppers) [6-4-10]

Pope Benedict XVI and Eucharistic Adoration: A Response to the Libel of the Holy Father by the Lapsed Catholic Controversialist, John Bugay, and Others (Paul Hoffer) [4-25-11]

Do Catholic Sexual Scandals Disprove Catholic Truth Claims? [11-10-11]

Anti-Catholic “Humor”: St. Thérèse of Lisieux as Hitler (John Bugay Tries to Justify it Based on Historic Anti-Semitism) [11-24-11]

Odd Trio: Jerry Walls, Ken Collins, & Anti-Catholic John Bugay [10-24-17]

John Bugay a Bitter Anti-Catholic? Who Woulda Thunk It?! (Mary May be Promoted to Godhood? / Pope Benedict XVI was a Pantheist?, Etc., Ad Nauseam) [4-1-19; expanded on 3-6-20]

KEVIN CAULEY (CHURCH OF CHRIST)

Refutation of “Catholicism Refuted” (K. Cauley), Pt. I [12-9-04]

Refutation of “Catholicism Refuted”: Pt. II (Tradition, Papacy) [12-10-04]

“Catholicism Refuted” (?): “Father” / Purgatory / Statues / Confession (Pt. III) [12-11-04]
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“Catholicism Refuted”? (K. Cauley): Pt. IV: Mary / Eucharist [12-11-04]

“Catholicism Refuted”? (Kevin Cauley): Pt. V: Salvation (+ Purgatory Again) [12-11-04]
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CHAT ROOM DEBATE CHALLENGE

Six Anti-Catholics Challenged: “Is Catholicism Christian?” Wouldn’t a real debate be nice for a change? (All Declined) [10-8-07]

JACK CHICK

Jack Chick’s Lies: The Real Alberto Rivera Exposed (including a letter from an Alberto supporter and counter-reply) [7-9-03]

STEVE CHRISTIE

Covering the Perpetual Virginity, Immaculate Conception, & Bodily Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary) [7-12-23]

Reply to Steve Christie on Catholic Mariology, Pt. 2: Steve’s Seven-Minute Rebuttal: Mary’s Immaculate Conception, Bodily Assumption, Perpetual Virginity, and Calling God Her “Savior” [7-15-23]
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Reply to Steve Christie on Catholic Mariology, Pt. 3 (Adelphos for “cousin” & “nephew” in the LXX; kecharitomene; Joseph & Mary’s abstinence; prototokos; Jesus alone is called Mary’s “son”) [7-12-23]

Proof That Calvin Affirmed Mary’s Perpetual Virginity . . . Contrary to the Claims of Protestant Apologist Steve Christie & Catholic Apologist Trent Horn / St. Basil the Great and Almost All of the Church Fathers Held to Mary’s Perpetual Virginity / Early Protestantism Virtually Unanimously Agrees [4-4-26]

Catholics R Christians! DUH! (vs. Steve Christie) [4-6-26]
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JASON ENGWER

Dialogue on Development of Doctrine (Esp. the Papacy) [2000]

Dialogue on Doctrinal Development (Papacy & NT Canon) [2-26-02]

Reply to Critique of “50 NT Proofs for the Papacy” [3-14-02]

Development of Doctrine: Esp. the Canon (vs. Jason Engwer) [3-19-02]

Debate: Church Fathers & Sola Scriptura [8-1-03]

Ten Church Fathers & Sola Scriptura: Reply to Jason Engwer’s Catholic But Not Roman Catholic Series on the Church Fathers [8-1-03]

Refutation of a Satirical “Pauline Papacy” Argument [9-30-03]

Judaizers: “Proto-Catholics”? (Alleged Works-Salvation) [12-14-09]
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Bible on Faith, Works, and Judgment [12-16-09]

Papias, Scripture, and Tradition (Round Two): Dialogue with Protestant Apologist Jason Engwer / Sadly Typical End of Discourse with Anti-Catholics [1-14-10, at Internet Archive]

James White is Correct About One Preferable Aspect of Oral Debate (Relevant to Jason Engwer’s Recent Systematic Fleeing from My Opposing Arguments) [1-14-10, at Internet Archive]

Proof That Anti-Catholic Apologist Jason Engwer Ignores an Average of 80% of Catholic Opponents’ Arguments (Four Exchanges With Bryan Cross and Myself) [1-14-10, at Internet Archive]

Evidence That Anti-Catholic Apologist Jason Engwer Mostly Ignores Catholic Arguments in “Debate”: Exactly What He Cited From Two of My Recent Papers [1-14-10, at Internet Archive]

Catholic Development of Doctrine: A Defense (Emphasis on the Canon of the Bible & Church Infallibility) (+ Pt. II / Pt. III / Pt. IV) [1-15-10]

Papias (c. 60-c. 130) & the Rule of Faith [1-18-10]

Papal Passages Lk 22:31-34 & Jn 21:15-17 [5-12-20]

My Four Ballyhooed Debates w Anti-Catholics (All Forfeited): My Opponent Split Before It Was Over, Every Time (!) [5-21-20]

Invocation of Saints and Angels (Luke 16 [Lazarus & the Rich Man & Abraham] is One of the Most Unanswerable Arguments in Catholic Apologetics) [5-26-20]

Jesus’ “Brothers” Were “Unbelievers”? (Jason Engwer also claims that “Mary believed in Jesus,” but wavered, and had a “sort of inconsistent faith”) [5-27-20]

Dialogue: Galatians 3 & Justification [5-29-20]

Baptismal Regeneration and Justification [6-4-20]

Invocation of Saints: Jesus Allegedly “Calling on Elijah” [6-8-20]

Reply to Protestant Challenges Re Eternal Security [7-26-20]

Defense of Bible Passages vs. Eternal Security & Faith Alone [8-12-20]

Mary’s Assumption: Patristic Analogy to Protestant Distinctives [8-15-20]

St. Peter Listed First in Lists of Disciples: A Debate [10-12-20]

Anti-Catholic Hypocrisy Re the Term “Anti-Catholic” (Jason Engwer Sez Catholicism is Not Christian & Teaches a False Gospel) [10-14-20]

Jason Engwer, Origen, & the New Testament Canon [10-15-20]

Jason Engwer, Origen, & Intercession of Saints [10-16-20]

Jason Engwer, Hippolytus, & Mary’s Perpetual Virginity [10-17-20]

Peter’s Primacy is Disproved By His Personality? (Protestant Apologist Jason Engwer Continues His All-Out War on St. Peter & the Papacy) [10-18-20]

Jason Engwer and a Supposedly Sinful Mary (Doubting Jesus’ Sanity? / Inconsiderate (?) Young Jesus in the Temple / “Woman” and the Wedding at Cana) [11-16-20]

Reply to Engwer’s Alleged “Absence of a Papacy” [8-25-21]

Jesus’ “Brothers” (Not Siblings) 0101: vs. Jason Engwer (The Actual Biblical Data Brought to Bear, Rather Than Late (Post-Luther and Post-Calvin) Protestant Traditions of Men) [9-23-21]

I Timothy 3:15 vs. Sola Scriptura & Jason Engwer [10-4-21]

Anti-Perpetual Virginity Arguments Debunked (vs. J. Engwer) [11-7-21]

Was Mary Sinless? (vs. 3 Church Fathers & Jason Engwer) [11-9-21]

Was Jesus Unclear in John 6 (Eucharist)? [11-16-21]

Refuting Jason Engwer’s “Real Absence” Argument (Including Biblical Evidence of Analogous Miracles of a Supernatural Change of a Substance Minus Outward Physical Evidence) [11-18-21]

Mary’s Assumption & Biblical Evidence (Analogies) [11-30-21]

James Listed Before Peter (Gal 2:9)? (vs. Jason Engwer) [12-3-21]

Anti-Catholic Argument (!) for Mary’s Assumption [3-11-22]

Is First Clement Non-Papal? (vs. Jason Engwer) [4-19-22]

Sinning Mary in the Bible? (vs. Jason Engwer) [6-21-22]

Jason Engwer, Trent Horn, & My 50 NT Petrine Proofs [7-28-22]

No Papacy in the NT? Think Again (vs. Jason Engwer). With Special Emphasis on the Protestant Exegesis of “The keys of the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 16:19) [8-1-22]

Jason Engwer’s Anti-Papalism Refutes Denominationalism [8-2-22]

A Lot of Patristic Problems with Sola Scriptura [Facebook, 8-17-22]

Debate: Early Catholic Authority & Development of Ecclesiology [12-10-22]

Polycarp vs. “Faith Alone” (vs. Jason Engwer) [1-27-23]

Protestant Anti-Catholic Apologist Jason Engwer Denies Direct Biblical Proof of Sola Scriptura [Facebook, 2-18-23]

Prayers to and for the Dead (vs. Jason Engwer): Did Jesus & Peter Talk to Dead People Before They Rose from the Dead, and — Along with Elijah and Elisha — Pray for the Dead, or Only Ask Them to Move After They Were Raised? (+ Part 2) [3-13-23]

Jason Engwer vs. the Biblical Case for Invoking Saints [4-22-23]

Invocation of Saints: Jason Engwer Still Out to Sea [7-19-23]

Does Baptism Save or Only Sanctify (1 Pet 3:21)? [9-19-23]

St. John Chrysostom Rejected “Faith Alone” (Contra Jason Engwer) [Facebook, 9-22-23]

Reply to Jason Engwer on Justification [9-23-23]

Reply to Jason Engwer Re Eternal Security [9-26-23]

Vs. J. Engwer Re Church Authority, #1: Preliminaries (Including St. Augustine on the Visible Catholic Church; St. Irenaeus on Church Infallibility; Biblical Data Regarding Infallibility & Indefectibility; Peter & the “Keys”; Jesus’ Prayer for St. Peter) [10-12-23]

Vs. J. Engwer Re Church Authority, #2: St. Irenaeus (In Particular, His & Other Fathers’ — and Luther’s and Calvin’s — Views on Church Infallibility & Indefectibility) [10-13-23]

St. Jerome: Honor The Relics Of The Dead [4-15-24]

“Baptism” & Romans 10 (Engwer’s Silly Word Games) [5-14-24]
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Reply to Commentary On Engwer’s “Pauline Parody” [5-15-24]
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Jesus & Baptism: Jason Engwer’s Ridiculous View [5-28-24]

Short but Effective Reply on “Brothers of Jesus” [Facebook, 9-19-24]

Baptismal Regeneration & “Washing” (vs. Jason Engwer): Prominent Scholarly Protestant Reference Sources (Kittel, Robertson, Vincent) Largely Support Baptismal Regeneration Views [10-28-24]

Baptismal Regeneration: Refuting Jason Engwer’s Attacks [12-19-24]

Jason Engwer’s War Against Baptismal Regeneration in Acts [1-21-25]

Anti-Catholic Evangelical Protestant Apologist Jason Engwer’s Ironic Blindness to His Own Hypocrisy in Being Unwilling to Defend His Own Beliefs [Facebook, 1-25-25]

Reply to Jason Engwer’s “Siblings of Jesus” Arguments [6-25-25]
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MATTHEW EVERHARD

Reply to “Gospel” Preaching Directed to Catholics [4-20-26]

“EXCATHOLIC4CHRIST” (TOM)

“Catholic Verses” #1: 1 Tim 3:15 (Church) (Also, the Biblical Definition of the Gospel) [10-24-23]

“Catholic Verses” #2: Jerusalem Council (Also: the Ten Commandments in the New Covenant; Church Fathers On the Binding Nature of the Council of Nicaea) [10-25-23]

“Catholic Verses” #3: Tradition, Pt. 1 (Including the Church Fathers’ Opinion Regarding Authoritative Apostolic Oral Tradition) [10-26-23]

“Catholic Verses” #4: Sinners in the Church (Including the Biblical Conception of “Saints” and “Sinners”) [10-26-23]

“Catholic Verses” #5: Denominationalism (Including “Straight Talk” on the Catholic and Protestant Inquisitions) [10-27-23]

“Catholic Verses” #6: Interpreting Scripture (Including: How Far Away Were the Cities that the Jerusalem Council Bound to its Decrees?) [10-30-23]

“Catholic Verses” #7: Tradition, Pt. 2 [11-1-23]

“Catholic Verses” #8: Tradition, Pt. 3 [11-1-23]

“Catholic Verses” #9: The Papacy [11-2-23]

FOXE’S BOOK OF MARTYRS

Inaccuracies of Anti-Catholic Foxe’s Book of Martyrs [2-10-11]

DR. ROBERT GAGNON
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Jesus Rebuked Mary at Cana? (vs. Dr. Robert Gagnon) [8-24-24]

Mariolatry in Ubi Primum (1849)? (vs. Dr. Robert Gagnon) [8-24-24]

Why So Little Mention of Mary in the New Testament? [Facebook, 9-14-24]
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Dr. Robert Gagnon vs. the Immaculate Conception (Examination of Various Failed, Fallacious, & Misguided Arguments) [9-16-24]
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Robert Gagnon: Fathers Accepted Sola Scriptura (?) (St. Thomas Aquinas Didn’t Believe in it, Either. Nice Try . . .) [9-16-24]
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Jesus Rebuked His Mother (Jn 2:4)? (Robert Gagnon) (“What have you to do with me?”) [9-16-24]
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Jesus Disparaged Mary (“Woman”)? (vs. Robert Gagnon) [9-19-24]
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Mary Wasn’t a “Believer”?: Robert Gagnon’s Ignorance [9-20-24]
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Mary’s Spiritual Knowledge and Belief in Jesus [10-31-24]

PEDRO FRANCA GAIAO

Material Sufficiency of Scripture & Anti-Catholic Sophistry [5-23-22]

Exchange with Brazilian Calvinist and sophist Pedro França Gaião, who is obsessed with the topic of images. He refused my repeated invitations to debate the issue from the Bible, and engaged in obfuscation and slander [Facebook, 8-3-22]

How Brazilian Anti-Catholic Protestant and World-Class Liar Pedro França Gaião “Copes” with My Voluminous Defenses of Catholicism / Shades of the Old Tired Ad Hominem Tactic of Bishop “Dr.” [???] James White [Facebook, 9-17-22]

Pedro França Gaião Lies About My Supposedly Calling Josephus a “Liar” [Facebook, 12-16-22]

MIKE GENDRON

VIDEO: Early Church Baptismal Regeneration (vs. Mike Gendron) [see also the transcript of the initial presentation] [Catholic Bible Highlights with Kenny Burchard, 11-14-25]

STEVE HAYS (REFORMED)

White’s & Hays’ Anti-Catholic Analyses of My Catholic Conversion [Dec. 2004; rev. 2-21-17; rev. 2-24-18]
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My Supposed “Hybrid” Post-Conversion Faith [9-19-06]

Masturbation Remains a Grave Sin (Debate w Steve Hays) [1-6-07; links added on 8-13-19]

Steve Hays, Man of Science, Sez the Universe is 6000-10,000 Years Old [Facebook, 1-21-07]

Judaizers: “Proto-Catholics”? (Alleged Works-Salvation) [12-14-09]

Dave Armstrong Fan Club #1: Anti-Catholic Protestant Polemicist Steve Hays [Facebook, 3-3-19]

2 Thessalonians 2:15 & Tradition [5-12-20]

John 20:22-23 & Formal Absolution [5-12-20]

On the Title “Mother of God” / Theotokos [5-14-20]

1 Timothy 3:15 = Church Infallibility [5-14-20]

Does Sola Scriptura Create Chaos? [5-15-20]
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The Childish and Cowardly Dishonesty of Anti-Catholic Polemicist Steve Hays (Posting Only One Side of a Debate of Mine with No Link) [Facebook, 6-4-20]

Hays’ Calvinist Prooftexts #1: “Hardening Hearts” [10-23-21]

Hays’ Calvinist Prooftexts #2: Eli’s Sons (1 Sam 2:25) [10-25-21]

Hays’ Calvinist Prooftexts #3: Absalom’s Judgment [10-27-21]

Hays’ Calvinist Prooftexts #4: Judgment of Assyria [10-27-21]

Debate: Matthew 16:18-19 & the Papacy (vs. Steve Hays) [10-30-21]

Steve Hays, Onan, Bible Commentary, & Contraception [1-11-07, 2-28-14; revised & expanded on 12-14-21]

Sola Scriptura: Self-Refuting? (vs. Steve Hays) [12-14-21]

All in a Day’s Work: The Late Anti-Catholic Polemicist Steve Hay’s Amazing and Colorful Variety of Ultra-Slanderous, Lying Insults Sent My Way (+ “Dr.” James White’s & James Swan’s Childish, Ridiculous Insults) [Facebook, 12-10-22]

Reply to Steve Hays’ Caricatures of the Papacy [2-28-23]

Tackling Steve Hays’ 695-page Catholicism [Facebook, 5-11-23]

Reply to Hays’ “Catholicism” #1: 6-10,000-Year-Old Universe (?); “Myths” in Genesis; Straw Men; Protestant Scholarly “Authorities”; Exorcism; Symbolic Interpretation of Scripture [5-12-23]

Reply to Hays’ “Catholicism” #2: Asking Patron Saints to Intercede; Miracles Among Catholics & Protestants [5-14-23]

Anti-Catholic Steve Hays’ Remarkable Change of Mind Regarding Me as a Person and Apologist [Facebook, 5-14-23]

Reply to Hays’ “Catholicism” #3: Catholic Miracles Unfairly Criticized & Biblically Defended; St. Padre Pio; St. Joseph Cupertino [5-15-23]

Reply to Hays’ “Catholicism” #4: Miracle of the Sun at Fatima [5-15-23]

Reply to Hays’ “Catholicism” #5: Our Lady of Fatima [5-16-23]

Reply to Hays’ “Catholicism” #6: Purported Cures from Lourdes [5-17-23]

Reply to Hays’ “Catholicism” #7: Bogus Charges of Catholic Eisegesis; Biblical Types & Symbols; Mystical Church; “Full of Grace”; Protestant False Dichotomies [5-17-23]

Reply to Hays’ “Catholicism” #8: Tradition & Authority; Bankruptcy of Sola Scriptura [5-18-23]

Reply to Hays’ “Catholicism” #9: Rule of Faith; Catholic Mariology [5-18-23]

Reply to Hays’ “Catholicism” #10: Conversion Paradigms; Dispensers of Sacraments; Salvation Outside the Church; Catholicism: Bible Totally Inerrant [5-20-23]

Reply to Hays’ “Catholicism” #11: Visible Church; Eucharist in Acts 2:42; Ever-Changing Catholicism? [5-22-23]

Reply to Hays’ “Catholicism” #12: Church, Seven Sacraments, Papacy, Saints, Priesthood, & Mariology in the Gospels [5-22-23]

Reply to Hays’ “Catholicism” #13: Denominationalism; Salvation Outside the Church; Catholic & Protestant Baptism; Catholic Scholars; Doctrinal Development [5-23-23]

Reply to Hays’ “Catholicism” #14: Canonicity; God’s Guidance; Ancient Contraception; Relics; Intercession of Saints [5-24-23]

Reply to Hays’ “Catholicism” #15: Eucharist & Sacrifice; Baptism; Salvation of Non-Christians(?); Confession; Theological Liberals (& Pope Francis); Ordination; Church Indefectibility [5-25-23]

Reply to Hays’ “Catholicism” #16: Theological Presuppositions; What Was Apostolic Teaching?; “Church” Defined; Christian Unity; Faith Isn’t Philosophy [5-26-23]

Reply to Hays’ “Catholicism” #17: Visible Church; Apostolic Succession; Protestant “Dogmatism”; Ever-Changing Rome?; Vatican II “Conciliarism”?; Doctrinal Development; Mary’s Assumption in Catholic Thought Prior to 1950 [5-26-23]

Reply to Hays’ “Catholicism” #18: St. Vincent Lerins & Development; Catholicism & Suicide; Subjective Mortal Sin; Immaculate Conception: Necessary or “Fitting”?; Catholic Converts & Philosophers; Spiritual Experiences; Holy Church in Scripture [5-28-23]

Reply to Hays’ “Catholicism” #19: Catholic Conversion; Why Infallibility?; Limbo; Catholicism & Exegesis; Salvation(?) by Faith Alone?; St. Cardinal Newman & Pope St. Pius X [5-30-23]

Reply to Hays’ “Catholicism” #20: St. Peter the Rock; Hades; Peter & the Keys; Peter’s Betrayal & Jesus’ Prayer for His Faith; One Church vs. Denominationalism; Baptism in Acts [5-30-23]

Reply to Hays’ “Catholicism” #21: Jerusalem Council & Authoritative Bible Interpretation; Protestant Canon Conundrums; Hays’ Obsession with Dissident Catholic Scholars; Bible, Tradition, & Church [5-31-23]

Reply to Hays’ “Catholicism” #22: Jewish Canon Not Closed in 1st C.; Catholic Canon & Protestant Criticisms; “Fallible List of Infallible Books” [6-1-23]

Reply to Hays’ “Catholicism” #23: Lay Catholic Apologists; Orthodoxy Defined; Rule of Faith; Canon Redux; Protestantism’s Magisterium of Scholars & Ever-Changing Sexual Morality; Comparative Exegesis [6-2-23]

Reply to Hays’ “Catholicism” #24: Authority & Magisterium; Papal Development; Jn 17 & Doctrinal Unity; “OT Magisterium”?; Christ’s Descent Into Hades; Protestants & the Church Fathers [6-3-23]

Reply to Hays’ “Catholicism” #25: “Faith in Rome”; “Robber Council” (449); Bishops; “Intimidation Tactics”; 1 Tim 3:15; Catholicism & Non-Believers; Augustine & Aquinas & Evolution; Precursors to Newman’s Development; Fathers & Capital Punishment; Pope Clement of Rome [6-5-23]

Mary’s Immaculate Conception (vs. Steve Hays) [6-5-23]

Reply to Hays’ “Catholicism” #26: Choosing to Pursue Truth; Received Tradition; Carnal Man & the Bible; Venial Sin; Newman No Innovator; Immaculate Conception; Mary’s In Partu Virginity; Catholic Prooftexts = Sola Scriptura?; Bible & Mary’s Perpetual Virginity [6-7-23]

Reply to Hays’ “Catholicism” #27: Historic Exodus; NT & Jesus’ Blood; Hays vs. Omnipresence; God & Matter; Hays’ Anti-Biblical Hyper-Rationalism; Holy Eucharist & Other Miracles; Luther & the Real Presence; Manna & the Eucharist [6-7-23]
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Reply to Hays’ “Catholicism” #28: Nicodemus & Baptism; Symbolic Baptism?; Universal Atonement; Relics; Hay’s Disbelief & Jn 6; Biblical Analogies to Transubstantiation; God & the Supernatural Eucharist; Eucharist & Dark Matter [6-9-23]

Reply to Hays’ “Catholicism” #29: Sola Scriptura: Self-Defeating; Church Hierarchy; Jerusalem Council [6-9-23]
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The James White vs. Steve Hays Anti-Catholic Civil War [Facebook, 9-26-23]
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Debate on the Jerusalem Council (vs. Steve Hays) [9-27-23]
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Paul & Dead Onesiphorus (vs. Steve Hays) [10-10-23]
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Series: Reply to [Steve] Hays’ “Biblical Calvinism”: the many replies are posted on my Calvinism & General Protestantism web page in the first section at the top (starting on 6-12-23)

MATT HEDGES

Dialogue on St. John Chrysostom & Sola Scriptura (Includes a Discussion of the Proper Definition of Sola Scriptura) [2-23-21]

Did Pope Gelasius (r. 492-496) Deny Transubstantiation? [3-24-21]

Pope St. Clement of Rome & Papal Authority [7-28-21]

St. Augustine, St. Basil the Great, & Veneration of Images (+ St. Augustine’s Enthusiastic Advocacy of Relics) [8-3-22]

Biblical Defense of Images and Icons (vs. Matt Hedges) [8-3-22]

TIMOTHY F. KAUFFMAN

St. Ignatius, Bishops, & the Rule of Faith (vs. T.F. Kauffman) [7-14-23]

Is All Bowing Before Images “Idolatry”? (vs. T.F. Kauffman) [7-14-23]

Catholics Think Mary is “Co-Creator”? (vs. T.F. Kauffman) (Refuting a Distortion of What St. Alphonsus de Liguori Actually Teaches in The Glories of Mary) [7-17-23]

Bible on Imitating Saints (vs. T.F. Kauffman) [7-17-23]

Sinless(?) Joseph, John the Baptist, Anne, & the Incarnation [7-18-23]

Mary, Not Jesus, is the Catholic “Savior”? (Response to More Misrepresentation of St. Alphonsus de Liguori’s Book, The Glories of Mary) [7-21-23]

PASTOR DAVID T. KING (REFORMED)

“Romanists” Killed 100 Million? David T. King & Other Geniuses [6-29-00]

Was Cardinal Newman a Modernist? Pope St. Pius X vs. Anti-Catholic Polemicist David T. King (Development, not Evolution of Doctrine) [3-6-02]

Absurd Anti-Newman Rhetoric in Anti-Catholic Polemics [3-19-02 and 9-27-05]

Chrysostom & Irenaeus: Sola Scripturists?: Refutation of Anti-Catholic Polemicist and Reformed Protestant Pastor David T. King [4-20-07]

Mary’s Assumption vs. Material Sufficiency of Scripture? (Refutation of Anti-Catholic Polemicist & Reformed Protestant Pastor David T. King) [4-22-07]

“Podunk” & Self-Publishing Efforts of Leading Anti-Catholics: David T. King, William Webster, and Eric Svendsen [4-17-09]

Anti-Catholic Double Standards on Self-Published Books (James Swan and His Love of the Ridiculous Self-Published Books of David T. King and William Webster) [8-1-11]

John Henry Newman’s Alleged Disbelief in Papal Infallibility Prior to 1870, and Supposed Intellectual Dishonesty Afterwards (Classic Anti-Catholic Lies: George Salmon, James White, David T. King et al) [8-11-11]

Answer to Sola Scriptura “Prooftexts” 2 Timothy 3:16-17 & Romans 16:15-16 (vs. Reformed Pastor David T. King) [6-26-12]

David T. King and William Webster: Out-of-Context or Hyper-Selective Quotations from the Church Fathers on Christian Authority: Introduction to the Series [11-8-13]

David T. King and William Webster: Out-of-Context or Hyper-Selective Quotations from the Church Fathers on Christian Authority: Part I: St. Cyril of Jerusalem [11-9-13]

David T. King and William Webster: Out-of-Context or Hyper-Selective Quotations from the Church Fathers on Christian Authority: Part II: St. Basil the Great [11-11-13]

David T. King Ignores Sola Scriptura Biblical Disproofs (Incl. lengthy analysis of 2 Peter 1:20: “no prophecy of scripture is a matter of one’s own interpretation”) [11-13-17]

David T. King: No Father Believed in an Infallible Church [6-18-24]
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BRUNO LIMA

Is Sola Scriptura Self-Refuting? (vs. Bruno Lima) [10-12-22]

Did Athanasius Accept Sola Scriptura? (vs. Bruno Lima) [10-14-22]

LEN LISENBEE

St. Alphonsus de Liguori: Mary-Worshiper & Idolater? Does He Teach in The Glories of Mary that Mary is “Above God” and Can “Manipulate God”? (vs. Anti-Catholic Len Lisenbee) [8-9-02]

LUTHERANISM

Is Lutheranism Officially Anti-Catholic?: The Book of Concord and the Catholic Mass [4-26-05]

DOUGLAS MABRY (aka “GOJIRA”)

Communion of Saints, Scripture, & Anti-Catholic Doug Mabry (With Emphasis Particularly on the Saul and [Dead] Samuel Incident) [7-8-07]

DR. JOHN MACARTHUR

Refutation of Dr. John MacArthur’s Sola Scriptura Defense: “The Sufficiency of the Written Word” [9-15-03]

YAGO MARTINS

I Will be Offering Rebuttals of the Videos of Brazilian Protestants Rodrigo Silva and Yago Martins [Facebook, 2-25-23]

JAMES McCARTHY

Catholic Merit vs. Distorted Caricatures (James McCarthy) [1997]
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PATRICK O’BRIEN

VIDEO: 1 Peter 5:13: Babylon = Rome (Protestant Scholars Agree) [see also the transcript of the initial portion] [Catholic Bible Highlights, with Kenny Burchard, 1-16-26]

VIDEO: Can Catholics Pray to Saints? YES! This Bible Passage Proves It! [see also the transcript of the initial portion] [Catholic Bible Highlights, with Kenny Burchard, 2-6-26]

VIDEO: “Are Catholics Even Christians? Wait…Are Protestants?” [see also the transcript of the initial portion] [Catholic Bible Highlights, with Kenny Burchard, 2-13-26]

1 Thessalonians 4 = Rapture? (vs. Patrick O’Brien) [4-14-26]

Confirmation: Biblical Evidences (vs. Patrick O’Brien): Including Documentation of Protestant Espousal of the Rite of Confirmation & Brief Clarification of Anathemas [4-16-26]

JUAN ROBERTO DE OLIVEIRA
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Next Brazilian Protestant to be Refuted: Juan Roberto de Oliveira [Facebook, 9-27-23]

Reply #1 to J. Oliveira: Jesus & Extrabiblical Tradition [9-27-23]
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Vs. J. Oliveira #2: Is Veneration Worship? [9-28-23]
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Vs. J. Oliveira #3: Mediating Saints [9-28-23]
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Vs. J. Oliveira #4: Liguori’s Mary [9-30-23]
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Vs. J. Oliveira #5: Talking to Dead Saints [10-3-23]
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Vs. J. Oliveira #6: Bible & Purgatory [10-3-23]
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Vs. J. Oliveira #7: Canon Fantasies [10-4-23]
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Vs. J. Oliveira #8: Rule of Faith [10-5-23]
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Vs. J. Oliveira #9: Salvation & the Church [10-5-23]

Vs. J. Oliveira #10: Confession [10-6-23]
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Say it Ain’t So, Juan! Very Serious Questions Raised About What is Ostensibly “His” [?] Book [Facebook, 10-6-23]
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ORTHODOX ANTI-CATHOLICISM

Roman See as Historic Standard-Bearer of Orthodoxy (+ the Ecclesiological Absurdity of Anti-Catholic-Type Eastern Orthodox Arguments Against Roman Primacy & Apostolicity) [1997]

Attempted “Dialogue” with an Anti-Catholic Orthodox [1997]

Reflections on the Sack of Constantinople in 1204 and Lesser-Known Byzantine Atrocities [1998]

Dialogue w Anti-Catholic Orthodox Christian (ROCOR) [1998]

Anti-Catholic Orthodox Claims of Exclusive Apostolic Succession [Nov. 1998; revised in 2004]

Mike Frost Trashes Me Regarding St. Athanasius [6-6-20]

POPE AS “GOD” OR “ANTICHRIST”

Debate: The Anti-Catholic “Pope as God” Argument [1-1-99]

Popes Claimed to be God? / Pope as Antichrist (vs. Calvin #23) [6-30-09]
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What Year Did Popes Become Antichrist? (vs. John Calvin) [3-11-10]
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Pope St. Pius V Claimed to be God (Say Anti-Catholics) [2-11-11]

Did a Bishop Say Pope St. John Paul II was God? [2-11-11]

“Pope is God”? Similar Rhetoric from Luther & Bullinger [2-24-11]

AUSTIN REED

On the Definition of “Christian” and Whether Luther and Calvin Regarded Catholicism as Christian (vs. Anti-Catholic Calvinist Austin Reed) [6-4-13]

“SAINT AND SINNER”

Six Anti-Catholics Challenged: “Is Catholicism Christian?” Wouldn’t a real debate be nice for a change? (All Declined) [in effect, S&S declined on 10-27-07 by saying “amen” to “Turretinfan’s” decline and giving no indication otherwise after five previous related comments (one / two / three / four / five) ] [10-8-07]

GEORGE SALMON (19TH CENTURY ANGLICAN)

Absurd Anti-Newman Rhetoric in Anti-Catholic Polemics [3-19-02 and 9-27-05]

Next Big Project: Replies to Anglican Anti-Catholic Polemicist George Salmon (1819-1904) [Facebook, 3-10-23]

Irish Ecclesiastical Record vs. Anti-Catholic George Salmon, Pt. 1 [3-10-23]

Irish Ecclesiastical Record vs. Anti-Catholic George Salmon, Pt. 2 . . . In Which Dr. Salmon Accuses Cardinal Newman of Lying Through His Teeth in His Essay on Development, & Dr. Murphy Magnificently Defends Infallibility and Doctrinal Development Against Gross Caricature [3-12-23]

Irish Ecclesiastical Record vs. Anti-Catholic George Salmon, Pt. 3 . . . In Which Our Sophist-Critic Massively Misrepresents Cardinal Newman and Utterly Misunderstands the Distinction Between Implicit and Explicit Faith [3-12-23]

Irish Ecclesiastical Record vs. Anti-Catholic George Salmon, Pt. 4 . . . in which Dr. Salmon Sadly Reveals Himself to be a Hyper-Rationalistic Pelagian Heretic, and Engages in Yet More Misrepresentation of Development of Doctrine and Cardinal Newman’s Statements and Positions [3-15-23]

Irish Ecclesiastical Record vs. Anti-Catholic George Salmon, Pt. 5: Private Judgment, the Rule of Faith, and Dr. Salmon’s Weak Fallible Protestant “Church”: Subject to the Whims of Individuals; Church Fathers Misquoted [3-15-23]

Irish Ecclesiastical Record vs. Anti-Catholic George Salmon, Pt. 6: The Innumerable Perils of Perspicuity of Scripture and Private Judgment [3-16-23]
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Irish Ecclesiastical Record vs. Anti-Catholic George Salmon, Pt. 7 [3-16-23]

Bp. Butler’s Refutation of Anti-Catholic George Salmon, Pt. 1: Doctrinal Development; St. Cardinal Newman’s Views on Papal Infallibility & the Immaculate Conception; St. Irenaeus & Tradition [3-22-23]
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Bp. Butler’s Refutation of Anti-Catholic George Salmon, Pt. 2: The Nature of Papal Infallibility & the Obligatory Discussion of Galileo [3-25-23]

Bp. Butler’s Refutation of Anti-Catholic George Salmon, Pt. 3: Gallicanism, Ultramontanism, and Petrine Primacy in the New Testament [5-12-23]

Bp. Butler’s Refutation of Anti-Catholic George Salmon, Pt. 4: Roman Primacy in the Early Church; First Clement; Ignatius & Cyprian on the Papacy; Pope Liberius; Sozomen & Socrates on Papal Primacy; Pope Honorius [7-6-23]
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MATT SLICK (PRESBYTERIAN; FOUNDER OF CARM)

“If You Died Tonight”: Debate w Matt Slick of CARM [5-22-03]

My Pal Talk Runaround w Anti-Catholic Matt Slick (CARM) [9-2-03]

2nd Live Chat Debate w Matt Slick. Oops! He Cancelled…. [3-12-07]

Can Mary Hear “Simultaneous” Prayers of Millions? [9-30-20]

Prayer to Creatures Proven from Holy Scripture [10-1-20]

Why Would a Sinless Mary Offer Sacrifices? [10-29-20]

Catholics Do Not Worship Mary Like God [11-13-20]

Debate on Mary’s Assumption & the Bible [11-17-20]

DR. ERIC SVENDSEN

“Perspicuous Apostolic Message”? (vs. Eric Svendsen) [May-June 1996]

Have Heterodox Catholics Overthrown Official Doctrine? (vs. Eric Svendsen, James White, Phillip Johnson, & Andrew Webb) [6-3-96]

Dialogue on the Logic of Catholic Infallible Authority [6-4-96]

Apostolic [Quasi-] Protestantism?: Dialogue with Eric Svendsen [6-26-96]

Debate on the Nature of the Church and Catholicism [7-5-96]

Dialogue on “Tradition” in the New Testament [1996]

Dialogue with Protestants on Various Aspects of Development of Doctrine (Particularly Concerning the Canon of Scripture) [vs. Jason Engwer & Eric Svendsen] [3-19-02, at Internet Archive]

Eric Svendsen: Catholics Raise Mary to the Holy Trinity [4-2-04]

What is it With Anti-Catholics & Written Debate? (The Sad Case of Eric Svendsen as a Typical Example) [10-4-04, at Internet Archive]

“It’s Greek to Me”: Illuminating Exchange w Eric Svendsen [6-5-03 and 1-10-05]

James White’s, Eric Svendsen’s, and Jason Engwer’s Glowing Tributes to Pope St. John Paul II [4-5-05, at Internet Archive]
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Eric Svendsen Sez Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, and Dr. James Dobson Betray the Gospel and R Lousy Evangelicals, in Distinct Danger of Damnation [4-28-05, at Internet Archive]

“Podunk” & Self-Publishing Efforts of Leading Anti-Catholics: David T. King, William Webster, and Eric Svendsen [4-17-09]

Follies of Anti-Catholic Former Apologist Eric Svendsen [4-25-10]

Dave Armstrong Fan Club #2: Anti-Catholic Protestant Polemicist Eric “the Yellow” Svendsen [Facebook, 3-3-19]

Svendsen’s Dissertation on Mary: 1. Preliminaries (Including Explicit Biblical Indications or Analogies for Mary’s Universal Intercession and the Notion of “Fittingness”) [2-2-23]

Svendsen’s Dissertation on Mary: 2. “Brothers” of Jesus (Including a Handy, Nine-Point Summary of Solid Exegetical Arguments for the “Cousins” Theory of Jesus’ “Brothers”) [2-2-23]

Anti-Catholic Eric Svendsen Blasphemes Mary & Claims She (the Mother of God Whom an Angel Declared was “Full of Grace”!) Didn’t Have the “Light of Faith” During Jesus’ Ministry [Facebook, 2-3-23]

Debate on Religious Images [9-20-23]
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Eric Svendsen Entertainingly Plays the “Dave Writes Too Much” Card in 2004 / He and James Swan Have Zero Interest in Substantive Dialogue [Facebook, 12-19-24]
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JAMES SWAN (REFORMED)

Martin Luther’s Mariology: Reply to James Swan: . . . Particularly the Immaculate Conception / Has Present-Day Protestantism Maintained the Classical “Reformational” Heritage of Mariology? [4-26-03; rev. 4-6-23]

Luther’s Mariology: the Protestant View [4-26-03]

Use of Primary Citations: James Swan’s Double Standards (and his particular animus against the Austrian Jesuit and biographer of Luther: Hartmann Grisar) [4-26-03; expanded on 7-15-20]

Anti-Catholic Caricatures of Catholic Mariology [4-26-03]

Vs. James Swan #2 Re Luther’s Mariology (+ Part 2) [original full dialogue: 6-28-03; uploaded on 4-29-24]

2nd Reply to James Swan Re Luther’s Mariology [6-28-03; abridged on 7-19-20]

Defense of Critique of Jame’s White’s Misinformed Mariology (particularly with regard to the differing views on early Mariology of Protestant Church historians J.N.D. Kelly and Philip Schaff) [3-15-04 and 9-7-05]

Biblical “Ass” (Donkey) & Holier Than Thou Anti-Catholics (subtitle: It Matters Not to Anti-Catholics Like James Swan Whether “Ass” is a Legitimate Term in the Bible, Shakespeare, & Even John Calvin) [2007; abridged & revised: 1-19-19]

Luther: Death Penalty for Anabaptists & 1525 Peasants’ Revolt (Critique of James Swan’s Misrepresentation on the Radio Show, Iron Sharpens Iron, with Chris Arnzen) [11-6-07]

Anti-Catholic James Swan’s Goofy Anonymous “Reviews” of My Book [6-30-10]

How Anti-Catholic Apologists “Argue” and “Reason”: Documentation of James Swan’s Avalanche of Childish Personal Insults and Ridiculous Flat-Out Lies About Yours Truly [6-30-10]

Luther & the Previously Obscure [?] Bible [6-15-11]

Anti-Catholic Double Standards on Self-Published Books (James Swan and His Love of the Ridiculous Self-Published Books of David T. King and William Webster) [8-1-11]

James Swan Ignores Protestant Errors on Luther’s Canon (Instead, He Absurdly Blames Catholic Apologists for Historical Errors of Protestant Writers) [8-27-11]

Am I a Psychotic Madman? Diagnoses from Reformed Protestant Anti-Catholic Polemicist James Swan [2-8-13]
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John Calvin’s Objection to the Term, Mother of God (and anti-Catholic James Swan’s Related Vapid Swipes at Catholic Apologists) [5-19-13]

Did the Older Luther’s Illness and Frustration Significantly (and Negatively) Impact His Writing? Four Major Luther Historians, Calvin, Bullinger, and I Say Yes; Anti-Catholic Polemicist James Swan Says No [6-12-13]

Calvin & Mary Ever Virgin (w Tim Staples vs. James Swan) [6-5-14]

Reply to Reformed Luther Apologist James Swan’s Request for Documentation of Executions of Anabaptists Sanctioned by Luther, in the 1530s [8-17-14]

Martin Luther’s Belief in the Perpetual Virginity of Mary (+ Reformed Apologist James Swan’s Belittling Contempt of Luther) [9-23-14]

James Swan Silliness, Melanchthon, Bishops, & Princes [2-4-15]

Ultra-Hypocritical James Swan Insultapalooza Post [2-17-15]
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Luther & Veneration of Mary: James Swan’s Revisionism (His Anti-Catholic Nonsense with Regard to Martin Luther’s Mariology & Also My Related Research) [4-22-16]
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Debates with Anti-Catholic James Swan [compiled on 4-20-16]

My Luther Research Lied About Again (James Swan & CARM) [8-22-17]
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Calvin the “Destroyer” of Servetus: James Swan Misses Forest for Trees [8-24-17]

Catholic Ecumenism + Apologetics (James Swan’s Cluelessness) [11-18-17]

How Many Sacraments: According to Martin Luther? (+ Luther Expert James Swan’s and Luther’s Works Editors’ Confusion as to Luther’s Position) [11-17-18]
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Was Luther Excommunicated Due Partly to Sola Scriptura? [11-26-18]
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Mary’s Assumption & Death (?): Debunking James Swan [11-23-19]

James Swan Foolishly Attacks Catholic Conversion Stories [11-25-19]

Luther & Mary’s Virginity (James Swan’s Silly Tactics) [4-22-20]

James Swan Attacks My 1991 Paper (Calvin & Bucer) [5-6-20]

Luther & Killing Catholics: James Swan Butchers My Views (. . . for the umpteenth time . . .) [7-19-20]

Luther & James Swan Blaspheme (Christ’s Sinlessness) [9-10-20]

Catholic Obsession with James White or Vice Versa? (Reformed Protestant Anti-Catholic Apologists James White’s and James Swan’s Own Obsessions) [3-23-21]

Anti-Catholic Luther Polemicist James Swan Seems to Have Retired [Facebook, 9-9-21]

James Swan, St. Augustine & “This Rock” [4-19-22]

Luther’s Translation of “Faith Alone” in Romans 3:28 (Also: Did “Early Erasmus” Agree with Luther?) [12-7-22]

Armstrong Fan Club #6: Reformed Protestant Polemicist James Swan [Revised version with partial replies to the emptyheaded insults, in brackets] [Facebook, 1-6-23]
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James Swan, the Immaculate Conception, Luther, & Lutherans: He Still Refuses to Admit that Many Eminent Lutheran Scholars Contend that Luther Believed in Mary’s Immaculate Conception for His Entire Life [6-22-23]

James Swan Also Played the James White Disappearing Act Regarding Yours Truly. Now I Don’t Exist [Facebook, 6-23-23]
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Luther Meme and James Swan’s “Clarifications” [Facebook, 8-21-23]
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Peter’s Wife, James Swan, Celibacy, & Catholicism (The Perfectly Sensible and Explicit Biblical Rationale for Priestly Celibacy) [3-15-24]

James Swan Continues His Ridiculous Caricatures of Catholicism (Exorcisms of Calvinists) [Facebook, 3-16-24]

Anti-Catholic Reformed Polemicist James Swan Attacks Most Professional Catholic Apologists as Pretentious Lazy Bums [Facebook, 4-27-24]
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Luther: I Was a Better Christian as a Catholic [6-5-24]

Did Grisar Characterize Luther as a “Psychopath”?: James Swan’s Utterly Unfounded, Outrageous Misrepresentations of the Great Catholic Historian [6-6-24]
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End of Mary’s Life & James Swan’s Ignorance of Catholicism [6-7-24]
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Luther Okayed Polygamy? No, But . . . [6-10-24]

Luther, Church Offices, + Swan’s & White’s Ignorance [6-11-24]

There are Bans & There are Bans (James Swan, Double Standards, & His Cowardly Refusal to Link to Opponents) [Facebook, 6-12-24]
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Grace-Caused Faith is Catholic Teaching, Too! (Please, Someone Tell James Swan and Get Him Up to Speed) [6-12-24]
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Luther’s Odd Take On Mary & Jesus in the Temple at 12 (And James Swan’s Unwarranted Conclusion from Luther’s Sermon, That He Was Accusing Her of Sin) [6-14-24]

James Swan & His Standard Anti-Catholic Erroneous and Unbiblical Definition of the “Gospel” [Facebook, 6-16-24]

James Swan’s Silly Double Standard Regarding “Self-Published” Books [Facebook, 6-16-24]

Luther: “As Many Sects And Creeds As Heads” (James Swan Misses the Forest for the Trees / Calvin & Melanchthon Embarrassed & Scandalized by Protestant Sectarianism) [6-17-24]

Luther & Mary’s Assumption + James Swan’s Silliness [6-19-24; expanded on 8-3-24]
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James Swan’s Double Standards Concerning Insults [6-19-24]
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James Swan: Loose Cannon Regarding NT Canon [6-20-24]

Luther Grasped “Faith Alone” on a Toilet: “Myth”? [6-20-24]

Luther’s Devotion to Mary (James Swan vs. History) + Luther’s Wonderful Commentary on the Magnificat (March 1521) [6-21-24]

St. Ambrose vs. Faith Alone & James Swan [Facebook, 6-27-24]

Did Luther’s Excommunication Misrepresent Him? [7-1-24]
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Pelagian Erasmus? (Fr. McSorley’s False Accusations) [7-2-24]

James Swan is Clueless Re Purgatory & Development [7-5-24]

Is the Onan Story About Contraception? [7-8-24]
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1 Esdras, Trent, the Canon, & James Swan [7-8-24]
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James Swan Futilely Tries to Pit Lay Catholic Apologists & Apologetics Against the Catholic Clergy & Magisterium [Facebook, 7-8-24]
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Martin Luther’s Early Radicalism and Later Traditionalism / Defense of the Book of James (Reply to James Swan) [Facebook, 10-24-24]

St. Augustine & Extrabiblical Infallibility [11-13-24]

James Swan Rationalizes Luther’s Intolerance Again [11-22-24]

Eric Svendsen Entertainingly Plays the “Dave Writes Too Much” Card in 2004 / He and James Swan Have Zero Interest in Substantive Dialogue [Facebook, 12-19-24]

Luther’s “Table Talk”: How Historically Accurate Is It? [4-7-25]
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Luther: Execute Frigid Wives; Torture & Burn Witches: Including Two Examples of Luther’s Espousal of Capital Punishment for Wrong or Aberrant Behavior Prior to 1530 [4-7-25]

My 19 Imprimaturs vs. James Swan’s Slanders (He Comically Blows up His Own “Argument” About My Supposedly Being “My Own Pope” and Not Accountable to the Church) [2-5-26]

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A Deeper Dive Response to James Swan’s “Luther Believed in Mary’s Perpetual Virginity?” [Paul Hoffer, 5-11-20]

KEN TEMPLE (REFORMED BAPTIST)

Dialogue: Luke 1:28 & Immaculate Conception (vs. Ken Temple) [7-11-06]

“Working Out” Salvation & Protestant Soteriology (vs. Ken Temple) [4-9-08]

Anti-Catholics & Alleged Catholic Idol-Worship at Mass [4-11-11]

Reply to Ken Temple’s Extensive (Anti-Catholic) “Review” of Rod Bennett’s Book, Four Witnesses: Part I: The Amazon Review (+ Part II / Part III) [4-27-14]

Venerating & Bowing Before Angels & Men: Biblical? [11-10-14]

Did I Take St. Irenaeus Out of Context (Rule of Faith)? [11-29-17]
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EDGAR TREVIÑO

Treviño Misrepresents My “Peter the Rock” Argument (Why I Cited Protestant Scholars Who Believe that Jesus Thought Peter Himself was the “Rock”) [9-13-24]
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FRANK TURK (AKA “CENTURION”) (BAPTIST)

Salvation by Works in the Catholic Catechism? [5-8-02]

Proper Theological Application of the Term “Anti-Catholic” [9-24-05]

Frank Turk and Phil Johnson Reply to My Critique With Christlike Examples of Charity and Reason / James White’s January 2001 Resolution to Avoid All Interaction With Me (!!) [7-21-11, at Internet Archive]

FRANCOIS TURRETIN (1623-1687)

For many counter-replies, see the section, “Replies to Francois Turretin” on my Calvinism & General Protestantism: Catholic Critique web page.

“TURRETINFAN” (AKA “THE ANONYMOUS ONE” OR “TAO”) (REFORMED)

Six Anti-Catholics Challenged: “Is Catholicism Christian?” Wouldn’t a real debate be nice for a change? (All Declined) [Tao Declined to debate as proposed on 10-27-07, after lengthy ruminations and maneuverings (Link One / Link Two); see additional related puerile inanities] [10-8-07]

Final Exchange with TAO on the Silliness of His Debate Refusal and Also James White’s Refusal [1-31-08]

Are All Protestants “Saved”? (“TurretinFan” Insanity) [8-4-09; abridged with new intro. on 7-25-25]

Anti-Catholics & Alleged Catholic Idol-Worship at Mass [4-11-11]

Does God “Want” Men to Sin? Does He “Ordain” Sin? [2-17-10 and 3-16-17]

Did Jesus Commission the New Testament (or the Disciples?) [5-31-18]

Armstrong Fan Club #5: Reformed Protestant Fanatic “Turretinfan” [Facebook, 3-5-19]

Rome, the Biblical Canon, & Tradition (vs. Turretinfan & James White) . . . Observed in the Views of John of Damascus (aka John Damascene: c. 676-749) [11-7-19]

Chalice or Host Only Contain the Body & Blood of Christ (Reply to Two Direct Challenges from the Calvinist Anti-Catholic Sophist and Polemicist, “Turretinfan”) [11-21-19]

Jerusalem Council (Acts 15) Decrees: Universally Binding? [11-21-19]

“Turretinfan” Calls a Statue of Jesus Christ an “Idol” (While His Buddy Bishop James White Praises the Statues of “Reformers” Calvin, Farel, Beza, and Knox) [6-8-10; rev. 6-24-20]

Origen & the Rule of Faith (vs. “Turretinfan”) [12-2-21]

Is the Catholic Definition of “Christian” Deceptive? (Vs. “TurretinFan”: Including Some “Reminiscing” About Past Interactions with the Major Anti-Catholic Apologists Online) [7-26-25]

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A Discourse on The Discourse on the Holy Theotokos (Anti-Catholic Distortion of St. Athanasius) (Paul Hoffer) [4-10-09]

TAO’s Continued Use of the Pejorative Papist (+ Part Two) (Paul Hoffer) [6-23-09]

What Saint Augustine, Bishop, Saint and Doctor of the Catholic Church Actually Held Pertaining to Transubstantiation: A Response to Turretinfan (+ Part Two) (Paul Hoffer) [8-20-11]
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JERRY WALLS (+ KENNETH COLLINS)
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Series of Critiques of Kenneth Collins’ and Jerry Walls’ Book, Roman but Not Catholic: What Remains at Stake 500 Years after the Reformation (Oct. 2017):

My Amazon Review (good overview of #1-#10 below) [10-21-17]

Defense of My Amazon Review [10-23-17]

Odd Trio: Jerry Walls, Ken Collins, & Anti-Catholic John Bugay [10-24-17]

#1: Newman’s Mariology [10-17-17]

#2: Queen of Heaven [10-18-17]

#3: Necessity of Immaculate Mary? [10-18-17]

#4: Mary “Not a Genuine Human Being”? [10-19-17]

#5: The Church “Gave” the Bible? [10-19-17]

#6: Assumption, Queen Redux [10-19-17]

#7: Unbiblical / Non-Patristic Purgatory? [10-19-17]

#8: Heretical Tobit? (Alms & Salvation) [10-20-17]

#9: “Apocrypha” (Jerome, Athanasius, Etc.) [10-21-17]

#10: St. Peter & the Papacy [10-21-17]

#11: Good & Bad Monothelite Heretics [10-22-17]

#12: Salvation (Soteriology) [10-22-17]

#13: “Reformed” Censorship & Intolerance [10-26-17]

VIDEO: “Mary Queen of Heaven — What Protestants Get Wrong About This Catholic Title” [see also the initial transcript] [Catholic Bible Highlights, with Kenny Burchard, 3-20-26]

WILLIAM WEBSTER

William Webster’s Misunderstanding of Development of Doctrine [2000]

William Webster vs. Tradition, Development, & Truth [4-10-03]

“Podunk” & Self-Publishing Efforts of Leading Anti-Catholics: David T. King, William Webster, and Eric Svendsen [4-17-09]

Anti-Catholic Double Standards on Self-Published Books (James Swan and His Love of the Ridiculous Self-Published Books of David T. King and William Webster) [8-1-11]

David T. King and William Webster: Out-of-Context or Hyper-Selective Quotations from the Church Fathers on Christian Authority: Introduction to the Series [11-8-13]

David T. King and William Webster: Out-of-Context or Hyper-Selective Quotations from the Church Fathers on Christian Authority: Part I: St. Cyril of Jerusalem [11-9-13]

David T. King and William Webster: Out-of-Context or Hyper-Selective Quotations from the Church Fathers on Christian Authority: Part II: St. Basil the Great [11-11-13]

WILLIAM WHITAKER

Refutation of William Whitaker’s Disputation on Holy Scripture on Sola Scriptura [in a book]

BISHOP JAMES WHITE (REFORMED BAPTIST)

The material formerly listed here has been moved to a new page: Bishop “Dr.” [???] James White: Anti-Catholic Extraordinaire

MIKE WINGER

Reply to Mike Winger on Sola Scriptura [4-30-22]

Symbolic Adult Baptism? (vs. Mike Winger) [5-2-22]

Papal Authority In The NT And The Fathers (Vs. Mike Winger): Incl. “Papal” & Patristic Exegesis of Matthew 16 and John 21; Relationship of the Bible & the Church [3-9-24]

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CATHOLIC INQUISITION

“Romanists” Killed 100 Million? David T. King & Other Geniuses [6-29-00]

The Inquisition Killed 4.9 Million? (John Bugay’s Whoppers) [6-4-10]

Catholic Inquisition Murdered “50-68 Million”? [April 2014]

Were “50-68 Million” People Killed in the Inquisition? [8-21-15]

Were 50 Million People Really Killed in the Inquisition? [National Catholic Register, 5-30-18]

The Inquisition, as Medieval Catholics Would View It [National Catholic Register, 7-31-19]

MISCELLANEOUS REFUTATIONS AND OBSERVATIONS

Classic Anti-Catholic Polemicists (Chick, Boettner, & Hislop) [1-25-91]

Anti-Catholicism: Classic Catholic Replies and Retorts [1-25-91]

Are Catholics Christians? (vs. James White) [May 1995]

Dialogue on Grace (vs. Anti-Catholic Phil Johnson) [1996]

“Xmas” & the Christian “Fish”: Etymology & History (vs. Matthew Bell) [12-22-98]

Sophistry: Reflections on “Debating” Anti-Catholic Polemicists [11-27-00]

Oral vs. Written Debates About Theology: Which is Better? [Jan. 2001; rev. 9-30-04]

Anti-Catholics Are Catholics’ Brothers in Christ [4-18-02; reposted on 4-22-24]

Books by Dave Armstrong: Twin Scourges: Thoughts on Anti-Catholicism and Theological Liberalism [June 2003]

Latest Anti-Catholic Theory on Catholic Converts: Filthy Lucre (Scott Hahn and Steve Ray Supposedly Were Motivated Primarily or Solely by Financial Gain, to Become Catholics?) [7-15-04; rev. 1-27-17]

Absurd Anti-Newman Rhetoric in Anti-Catholic Polemics [3-19-02 and 9-27-05]

“Moderate” Heinrich Bullinger: “Reformation” Anti-Catholicism [1-16-07]

Old website editions of the Anti-Catholicism Page preserved at the Internet Archive (much material later deleted or modified: choose from between the dates of 6-11-04 and 2-11-07)

Prayer For Our Non-Catholic Brothers and Sisters (Especially Those Who Do Not Regard Us As Their Brothers and Sisters in Christ) [6-2-07, at Internet Archive]

The “Adolescent Theory” of Pervasive Anti-Catholic Mindsets and Behavior [Facebook, 10-4-07]

Zwingli, Bucer, Oecolampadius: Luther & Lutherans Not Christians [1-10-08]

Anti-Catholics: Sincere & Ignorant or Malicious? [10-7-08]

Why Folks Like the New Catholic Answer Bible (+ Clueless Anti-Catholic Attacks On It) [4-5-09; slightly revised on 8-5-21]

“Podunk” & Self-Publishing Efforts of Leading Anti-Catholics: David T. King, William Webster, and Eric Svendsen [4-17-09]

Clarification of Why I No Longer Attempt Debate With Anti-Catholic Protestants [7-4-09, at Internet Archive]

Mary as a Guide & Model of Holiness: Mutual Monologues with Several Anti-Catholics + One Real Dialogue [10-14-09]

Is the Anti-Catholic Myth of Total Catholic Apostasy Analogous to the Jewish-Christian Split in the 1st Century? [12-8-09]

Judaizers: “Proto-Catholics”? (Alleged Works-Salvation) [12-14-09]

Amazing Grace: “Anti-Catholic” Hymn? [11-1-10]

How Anti-Catholics Often Argue (Massive Use of Ad Hominem, Personal Insult, Smear Tactics) / My Humorous, Satirical Retorts [2-24-10, at Internet Archive]

Young Earth Creationism of Notable Anti-Catholic Protestants [9-18-10]

High Praise from a Protestant Critic of Mine [sarcastic title: Facebook comment on an anonymous critic who claims that no Protestant apologist takes me “seriously” at all; 12-22-11]

C. S. Lewis’ Belfast Childhood & Contra-Catholicism [6-26-12]

Pitting Paul Against Peter (Pathetic, Pitiful Pedantry): Reply to Failed Anti-Catholic Protestant Attempts to Tear Down St. Peter and His Papal Authority [8-10-12]

Dialogue on Newman’s Kingsley / “Apologia” Controversy [11-27-12]

Multiple Meanings of “Paradise” in Scripture and Anti-Catholic Cluelessness About Literary Genre [see also the accompanying Facebook discussion] [12-1-14]

Bizarre Anti-Catholic Junk Refuted (Series) [compiled on 4-7-16]

Debates with Anti-Catholic Polemicists [compiled 4-20-16]

Brief Exchange with an Anti-Catholic Regarding Whether Catholicism Teaches a False Gospel [Facebook, 3-18-17]

A Friend of 34 Years (Who is Anti-Catholic) Would Rather End Our Friendship Than Read and Discuss One of My Papers [Facebook, 8-11-17]

“Church Sign” Regarding Anti-Catholic Willful Ignorance [Facebook, 3-22-19]

St. Cardinal Newman on English Anti-Catholic Prejudice [2-17-20]

Defining “Church”: “Exchange” w Anti-Catholic Zealot [3-9-20]

More of that Profound Anti-Catholic Calvinist Love (Gene “Troll” Bridges) [Facebook, 8-15-20]

Is it Wrong to Celebrate and “Make Merry” About the Birth of Jesus and God Becoming Man? No! Clear Biblical Models [Facebook, 12-15-20]

Christmas: Theological (Reformed / Calvinist) Opposition . . . With My Biblical and Historical Refutations [12-16-20]

Discussion with Brazilian Catholics About the Leading Brazilian Anti-Catholic Protestant Apologists [Facebook, 5-24-22]

Does Lucas Banzoli Intend to Ignore My Critiques [So Far, Ten] of His Writing? [Facebook, 6-7-22]

Just a Coincidence (Five Influential Anti-Catholics Who — After Years of Debates With Me — Suddenly Pretended That I No Longer Existed) [Facebook, 9-19-23]

My 29-Year Experience with Anti-Catholic Protestant Debate Opponents: Notice Any Pattern Here? [Facebook, 4-3-24]

Does “The Whore of Babylon” in the Bible Depict a Corrupt, Apostate Catholic Church? [Facebook, 4-8-26]

Quick & Effective Refutation of Anti-Catholicism . . . from Luther and Calvin! [Facebook, 4-17-26]

Anti-Catholic Fool’s Reiterated Ludicrous Claims That I am “Highly Critical” of the “Insufficient” Bible Are (Like Mark Twain’s Prematurely Reported Death) “Greatly Exaggerated”. See How I Respond . . . [Facebook, 7-20-26]

Replies to the Belittling Bashing of Catholic Authority from Commenters on Baptist Gavin Ortlund’s Video Channel [Facebook, 8-22-26]

G. K. Chesterton’s Dead-On Criticisms of the Anti-Catholic Mentality [Facebook, 9-12-26]

VIDEO: Top Ten Anti-Catholic Lies (#10-7) [+ my initial transcript] [Catholic Bible Highlights, with Kenny Burchard, 10-2-26]

VIDEO: Three More Anti-Catholic Lies About Catholicism (#6-4) [+ my initial transcript] [Catholic Bible Highlights, with Kenny Burchard, 10-9-26]

“ANTI-CATHOLIC” / “ROMANISM”: DEFINITIONAL AND TERMINOLOGICAL CONTROVERSIES

Dialogue on the Anti-Catholic Definition of “Christian” (vs. Matthew Bell) [1-11-99; new introduction added on 3-16-11]

Use of “Anti-Catholic” in Non-Catholic Scholarly Works [10-7-02; revised 5-17-03]

Proper Theological Application of the Term “Anti-Catholic” (vs. Frank Turk) [9-24-05]

Futility: Explaining Anti-Catholicism to an Anti-Catholic (Peter Pike) [9-21-06]
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Theological / Doctrinal “Anti-Catholicism”: Scholarly Use [7-8-08]

“Anti-Catholic”: Scholars Use it Both as a Noun & Adjective [8-4-08]

Dialogue: Definition of “Christian” (vs. Reformed Pastor) (+ Did Trent Anathematize all Protestants?) [6-5-10]

Debates on the Controversial Term, “Anti-Catholic[ism]” [compilation of old archived discussions, from 5-11-16]

Anti-Catholic Hypocrisy Re the Term “Anti-Catholic” (Jason Engwer Sez Catholicism is Not Christian & Teaches a False Gospel) [10-14-20]

Quick and Handy Definition of “Anti-Catholic” [Facebook, 7-29-24]

“Romanist”: Dialogue with a Protestant [12-3-24]

IDOLATRY CHARGE (THE MASS, IMAGES, AND MISC.)

Is the Mass Equivalent to OT Golden Calf Worship? [1996]

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Why Transubstantiation Isn’t Idolatry At All [11-22-96]

Dialogue: Is the Mass Similar to Jeroboam’s Idolatry? [8-7-04]

Ten Commandments: Changed by Catholics to Uphold Idolatry? [9-4-04]

Is Lutheranism Officially Anti-Catholic?: The Book of Concord and the Catholic Mass [4-26-05]

Catholic Mass: Can’t Possibly be Idolatrous [12-15-08]

Anti-Catholics & Alleged Catholic Idol-Worship at Mass [4-11-11]

Dialogue on Jihadist & 16th Century Calvinist Iconoclasm (vs. David Scott) [9-27-13]

Biblical Idolatry: Authentic & Counterfeit Conceptions [2015]

Newsflash!: Catholicism Utterly Opposes Idolatry, Too [1-18-17]

The Absurdity of Claiming That the Mass is Idolatrous [National Catholic Register, 6-17-19]

St. Newman vs. Inconsistent Protestant Iconoclasts [3-21-20]

IDOLATRY CHARGE (MARIAN VENERATION)

Mariolatry?: Is Mary Actually Worshiped by Catholics? (The Latria / Dulia Distinction) [3-8-99]

St. Alphonsus de Liguori: Mary-Worshiper & Idolater? [8-9-02]
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Blessed Virgin Mary Will Soon be Promoted to Godhood? (vs. Douglas Wilson) [11-7-04]

Was St. Louis de Montfort a Blasphemous Mariolater? (cf. abridged National Catholic Register version) [2009]

Maximilian Kolbe’s “Flowery” Marian Veneration & the Bible [2010]

Defense of Allegedly “Idolatrous” Marian Devotions [1-11-13]

Honoring Jesus Thru Mary: 50 Biblical Reasons [4-21-15]

Marian “Idolatry”, “Busy God”, Straw Men… (vs. Lucas Banzoli) [9-22-22]

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