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December 2017

December 15, 2017

Did God Command Jephthah to Burn His Daughter?

This is an exchange from the Coming Home Network forum, with a Catholic who was...

December 14, 2017

Dialogue on Development of Doctrine (Esp. the Papacy)

vs. Protestant apologist and anti-Catholic polemicist Jason Engwer The following is a reply to Protestant...

December 14, 2017

“Romanists” Killed 100 Million? David T. King & Other Geniuses

"Many historians on both sides have said Rome killed as many as 35 million, others say...

December 13, 2017

The Inquisition Killed 4.9 Million? (John Bugay’s Whoppers)

This was drawn from a discussion on the Inquisition (that is, a gross caricature of...

December 13, 2017

“Working Out” Salvation & Protestant Soteriology (vs. Ken Temple)

Philippians 2:12b-13 (RSV) . . . work out your own salvation with fear and trembling; for God...

December 13, 2017

Martin Luther’s Belief in the Perpetual Virginity of Mary

+ Reformed Apologist James Swan's Belittling Contempt of Luther 1) From: That Jesus Christ Was Born...

December 12, 2017

Dialogue on Tradition: Good or Bad, How Much?, Etc.

Kim Bishop is a member of the Charismatic Episcopal Church. We have been friends online...

December 12, 2017

Christmas Trees: Where & When Did They Originate?

Catholic Encyclopedia ("Christmas", 1908, C. C. Martindale): [T]he tradition that trees and flowers blossomed on this night...

December 11, 2017

Reply to Pastor Steve Schlissel’s Reflections on “Romanism”

This is my response to Steve Schlissel's article: "What Thinkest Thou?" (no longer online). I initially replied:...

December 11, 2017

December 25th Birth of Jesus?: Interesting Considerations

Fr. William Saunders, in one of his consistently excellent articles for The Arlington Catholic Herald...

December 10, 2017

Is Facebook Beyond All Hope As Regards Dialogue?

(6-2-14) *** I totally agree that there are very serious problems in the blogosphere,...

December 10, 2017

G. K. Chesterton and Charles Dickens on Christmas

(12-14-06) *** G. K. Chesterton On Christmas and its Modern Detractors * If ever a...

December 08, 2017

Sinless Mary: Dialogue w Old Testament Professor

(12-8-14) *** Jonathan Huddleston (see Facebook / resume) is an ordained Church of Christ minister,...

December 08, 2017

Immaculate Conception of Mary and Protestantism

(12-7-06; final two paragraphs added on 12-8-17) *** Many of our esteemed Protestant brethren have a...

December 07, 2017

Treatise on Transubstantiation in Reply to Protestants

(2-4-05; abridged and very slightly edited / added to otherwise, on 12-7-17) *** This is...

December 06, 2017

Romans 13:4 & Capital Punishment (Contra Ed Feser)

See the previous related papers: Capital Punishment: I've Changed My Mind Genesis 9:6 & Capital...

December 06, 2017

Genesis 9:6 & Capital Punishment (Contra Ed Feser)

Preliminaries and Whether Genesis 9:6 is Proverbial Literature My post, "Capital Punishment: I've Changed My...

December 04, 2017

Indiscriminate Nuclear Destruction: Condemned by the Magisterium

(1-23-06) ***** Every act of war directed to the indiscriminate destruction of whole cities or...

December 04, 2017

Capital Punishment: I’ve Changed My Mind

My position for as long as I can remember has been against the death penalty,...

December 02, 2017

Catholic “Three-Legged Stool”: Scripture, Tradition, & Church

Dialogue with an Anglican on the Catholic Rule of Faith (vs. Jon Jacobson) (10-31-02) [Jon's words...

December 02, 2017

The Freedom of the Catholic Biblical Exegete / Interpreter

+ Bible Passages that the Church has Definitively Interpreted [I wrote 44 apologetics inserts one-page articles...

December 01, 2017

1 Corinthians 4:6: Is it a Prooftext for Sola Scriptura?

[Book and purchase information] *** (5-7-13; expanded on 12-1-17) *** [This analysis was part of my...

December 01, 2017

Bibles & Catholics, Sunday School?, Memorization, Etc.

[Book and purchase information] (9-25-08) *** These thoughts of mine come from a (requested) critique...

November 2017

November 30, 2017

John Calvin’s Erroneous Mystical View of the Eucharist

(4-9-04, 9-7-05, abridged and re-edited on 11-30-17) *** [see the original series of three debates...

November 30, 2017

Are We Allowed to Rebuke and/or Mock the Devil?

I received some comments regarding my article for National Catholic Register: "Satan is Highly Intelligent—and...

November 29, 2017

Pope St. Pius V Claimed to be God (Say Anti-Catholics)

(2-11-11) *** "The Pope and God are the same. So he has all [the] power...

November 29, 2017

Limited Atonement, Free Will, & Failed Prayers of Jesus

(Book and purchase information) (7-18-14) *** I was informed in correspondence that James White (the...

November 29, 2017

Did I Take St. Irenaeus Out of Context (Rule of Faith)?

(Book and purchase information) *** Ken Temple is an anti-Catholic polemicist, whom I have debated...

November 28, 2017

“Catholicism Refuted”? (Kevin Cauley): Pt. V: Salvation

(Book and purchase information) *** (12-11-04) *** This is a counter-reply to a response to...

November 28, 2017

Reply to Comments Re: My Article on Catholics & the Bible

[see book and purchase information] *** "Why Are Catholics So Deficient in Bible-Reading?" was published...

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