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May 2017

May 25, 2017

Conciliar Infallibility / Council of Constance & John Hus’ Execution

Jan Hus before the Council of Constance (1883), by Václav Brožík (1851-1901) [public domain

May 24, 2017

Veneration of Images, Iconoclasm, & Idolatry (An Exposition)

Christ and Saint Mina. 6th-century icon from Bawit, Egypt [public domain / Wikimedia Commons] ***...

May 24, 2017

Why Do Protestants Reject the Notion of “One True Church”?

Leipzig New Town Hall. The tower is a remnant of the old Pleissenburg building: where...

May 23, 2017

Catholic Inquisition Murdered “50-68 Million”?

One person [who has since changed his mind on this issue, by the way:...

May 23, 2017

Trump Doesn’t Know that Israel is in the Middle East?

Street art: photograph taken by Matt Brown (1-25-16) [Flickr / CC BY 2.0 license] ***...

May 22, 2017

Belief in One True Church: Is it “Breathtakingly Arrogant”?

Something called "my church" was built by Jesus upon St. Peter (meaning, "Rock"), who was...

May 20, 2017

“Ad Orientem”: A Defense of Priests Facing the Altar at Mass

The Mass of St. Giles, detail, by Meister des Saint Gilles (c. 1500) [public domain / Wikimedia...

May 17, 2017

Dialogue on Oral Tradition & Apostolic Succession

Jesus referred to "Moses' seat" as the basis upon which the Pharisees had teaching authority....

May 17, 2017

Fasting for the Dead in the Old Testament (Not Unlike Praying)

Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem (1630), by Rembrandt (1606-1669) [public domain / Wikimedia Commons]...

May 16, 2017

Reply to “CPA” on Catholic Apologists & the Biblical Canon

The Old Library at Trinity College, Dublin, which displays the Book of Kells (Ireland: c....

May 16, 2017

The New Testament Canon & Historical Processes

Book of Kells (Ireland: c. 800), Folio 291v, Portrait of St. John [public domain

May 14, 2017

Virgin Mary = Mary Mother of Joses & James & “the Other Mary”?

Mary Magdalene and the Holy Women at the Tomb, by James Tissot (1836-1902) [public domain...

May 14, 2017

Dialogue with a Lutheran, on Lutheran-Catholic Differences

St. John's Lutheran Church in Zanesville, Ohio [public domain / Wikimedia Commons] *** (4-6-09) ***...

May 13, 2017

Church Authority & Certainty (The “Infallibility Regress”)

Church in Malta [PublicDomainPictures.Net / CC0 license] *** (July 2000; some revisions on 12-8-11) *****...

May 12, 2017

TV Interview: On Catholicism, Over Against Protestantism

Cologne Cathedral, Germany. Photograph by Vasil Kunchev (7-27-09) [Pexels.com / CC0 license] *** (5-1-99) ***...

May 12, 2017

Denominationalism and Sectarianism: An Anti-Biblical Scandal

[Max Pixel / CC0 public domain] *** (1996) *** [The words in blue are paraphrases of...

May 11, 2017

Livres de Dave Armstrong: Révélation !

[La traduction en français par Benoit Meyrieux s'est terminée le 13 avril 2017 et a...

May 11, 2017

Genesis Contradictory (?) Creation Accounts & Hebrew Time

+ Refutation of a Clueless and Dumbfounded Imaginary Atheist "Biblical Contradiction" for the 3,862nd Time When a...

May 10, 2017

Catholicism and Evolution / Charles Darwin’s Religious Beliefs

Charles Darwin (1809-1882) in 1869. Photograph by J. Cameron [public domain / Wikimedia Commons] ***...

May 10, 2017

Old Earth, Flood Geology, Local Flood, & Uniformitarianism

Was the Grand Canyon formed from one deposit after Noah's Flood? Photograph by Antoine Taveneaux...

May 09, 2017

Reply to Muslim Apologist Shabir Ally on Trinitarianism

Dave Armstrong at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem; Dome of the Rock (the third...

May 09, 2017

Review of “The Book of Non-Contradiction” (Phillip Campbell)

[Amazon image] *** The full title of this book is, The Book of Non-Contradiction: Harmonizing the...

May 09, 2017

Dialogue on Sheol / Hades & the Rich Man and Lazarus

vs. Baptist "Grubb" The Descent into Hell (1568), by Jacopo Tintoretto (1518-1594) [public domain

May 08, 2017

Debate: How Pro-Life is the Republican Party (Esp. the Leadership)?

Embryo: 9-10 weeks. Photograph by "lunar caustic" (12-20-07) [Flickr / CC BY-SA 2.0 license] *****...

May 08, 2017

The Rapture End-Times Scenario: Catholic Refutations

Image by Ivan Cujic [Pexels.com / CC0 public domain] ***** See the following articles and...

May 06, 2017

Dialogue on the Crusades, the Inquisition[s], & Slavery

Fernando Niño de Guevara, Grand Inquisitor of Spain, 1600-02, by El Greco (1541-1614) [public domain...

May 06, 2017

The Crusades: a Lot Like World War II (Mark Shea)

Photograph by "blitzmaerker" (June 2016) [Pixabay / CC0 public domain] *** The following exchanges took...

May 06, 2017

Is Christianity Unfalsifiable? Is Empiricism the Only True Knowledge?

Photograph by JD Hancock (5-17-09) [Flickr / CC BY 2.0 license] *** "daniel" wrote underneath...

May 06, 2017

Dialogue on Samuel Appearing to Saul (Witch of Endor)

The Shade of Samuel Invoked by Saul (1857), by Nikiforovich Dmitry Martynov (1826-1889) [public domain

May 05, 2017

Dialogue on Sacramentalism, Holy Objects, and Relics

Incorrupt body of St. Joaquina Vedruna de Mas (1783-1854) [public domain / Wikimedia Commons] *** (2-26-09) ***...

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