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January 2018

January 25, 2018

No Salvation Outside the Church: Reply to Pastor Bill Keller

Catholics think that Protestants are fully incorporated into the Body of Christ by virtue of...

January 24, 2018

Reactionary Influence: Correctio & June 2016 Criticism of the Pope

Reactionaries are disproportionately influential in criticisms of Pope Francis. *** The document from 29 June 2016,...

January 24, 2018

Radical Catholic Reactionaries: Overview of Their Essential Errors

Reactionaries are our present-day Pharisees and rigorist Donatists and Montanists. [see further information for the book above,...

January 23, 2018

Dialogue with an Atheist: Are Mormons Christians?

Christianity has an objective meaning, and it is trinitarian. Words of Richard Cranium will be...

January 23, 2018

Dialogue w Mormon Apologist: God & Doctrinal Development (Pt. 2)

Mormonism holds to “another Jesus” (2 Cor 11:4) and many gods (polytheism). (vs. Dr. Barry...

January 22, 2018

Mormonism & Joseph Smith’s Polytheism (Many gods)

Mormonism holds to polytheism (many gods rather than One). The polytheism of Joseph Smith is...

January 22, 2018

Dialogue w Mormon Apologist: God & Doctrinal Development

Mormonism holds to "another Jesus" (2 Cor 11:4) and many gods (polytheism). *** PART ONE...

January 21, 2018

Mormonism Isn’t Christian / Definition of Christianity

Mormonism denies the Trinity, which is essential to Christianity; therefore it is not Christian. I'm...

January 19, 2018

Dialogue w Jehovah’s Witness on Christology & Trinitarianism (IV)

Very in-depth discussion on whether Jesus is God or not. PART FOUR GO TO PART ONE GO...

January 19, 2018

Dialogue w Jehovah’s Witness on Christology & Trinitarianism (III)

Very in-depth discussion on whether Jesus is God or not. PART THREE GO TO PART ONE GO...

January 18, 2018

Dialogue w Jehovah’s Witness on Christology & Trinitarianism (II)

Very in-depth discussion on whether Jesus is God or not. PART TWO GO TO PART ONE GO...

January 18, 2018

Dialogue w Jehovah’s Witness on Christology & Trinitarianism

Very in-depth discussion on whether Jesus is God or not. My opponent (who wished...

January 17, 2018

2nd Live Chat w Matt Slick. Oops! He Cancelled….

Pre-debate negotiations revealed one party utterly unwilling to be flexible. We just agreed to do...

January 17, 2018

My PalTalk Runaround w Anti-Catholic Matt Slick (CARM)

Account of a farcical live spoken "debate" with a well-known anti-Catholic. On 28 August 2003...

January 16, 2018

Merit and Cooperating with God for Salvation

Merit is, as St. Augustine said, "God crowning His own gifts." My understanding of Catholic...

January 16, 2018

“If You Died Tonight”: Debate w Matt Slick of CARM

"If you died tonight, why should God let you into heaven?" [see the earlier, extremely...

January 15, 2018

Jackie Robinson & Branch Rickey: Methodists & Conservatives

The political and religious views of these two great men are little-known. As anyone in...

January 15, 2018

Dialogue w Protestant: “One True Church” vs. Ecumenism?

Catholics believe their Church is the one true one (i.e., contains the "fullness"). The Congregation for...

January 13, 2018

Did Cardinal Burke Criticize Pope Benedict’s Resignation?

It seemed clear enough to me that he did, but in today's "hyper-charged" atmosphere regarding...

January 12, 2018

Sophistry: Reflections on “Debating” Anti-Catholic Polemicists

A series of ruminations, from correspondence about this general topic . . .* * *Sophism:...

January 12, 2018

Did a Bishop Say Pope St. John Paul II was God?

All Christians are to identify with Christ in His sufferings on our behalf. This is...

January 11, 2018

Luther (Unlike Lutheranism) Taught Double Predestination

Lutherans deny this, but it's evident in Luther's "Bondage of the Will." I recently re-posted...

January 11, 2018

Luther: “Ex Opere Operato” Eucharistic Principle is True

Martin Luther: "a thing is not destroyed simply by being misused." Ex opere operato is...

January 10, 2018

St. Catherine of Siena Received Communion in the Hand

Will anyone dare to accuse a Doctor of the Church of irreverence? [or so it sure...

January 10, 2018

Holy Eucharist: Replies to a Protestant Inquirer

Questions are good! Apologists are happy to answer, as best we can. The words of...

January 09, 2018

Luther: God Predestines Reprobation of the Damned

Luther: "he damns the undeserving, . . . they cannot prevent themselves from being ungodly." ***...

January 09, 2018

Dialogue on Luther’s “Getting to a Gracious God”

Martin Luther struggled with accepting God's grace, his entire life. "CPA" (a Lutheran historian)...

January 08, 2018

Ethics of Internet Discourse: Some Basic Observations

We don't need new ethics to properly talk online. The NT is quite sufficient. At The...

January 08, 2018

Now I’m a Radical Feminist and an Anti-Catholic?!

I am characterized as "anti-male, anti-family, anti-Catholic feminist" in this bizarre "discussion". Just when I think...

January 07, 2018

Dialogue on (Supposedly Fallible) Pope Honorius

Pope Honorius possibly was personally a heretic, but infallibility isn't involved. My evangelical Protestant friend's words...

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