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August 2020

August 23, 2020

Does God Cause Miscarriages?: A Farcical Exchange

My opponent goes by "always puzzled": which appears to be a quite apt nickname. He...

August 21, 2020

Objections Re the Catholic Ban on Contraception

This is a compilation of three Facebook posts on this topic, from 2-1-18, 6-7-18, and...

August 21, 2020

Viganò’s Outrageous Lie Re Pope Benedict XVI & Tradition

Unwillingness to Make Even Rudimentary Efforts to Consult Context or to Understand a Pope's Overall...

August 20, 2020

Prayer for the Dead (vs. Calvin #57)

This is an installment of a series of replies (see the Introduction and Master List) to...

August 20, 2020

Mortal and Venial Sin (vs. Calvin #56)

This is an installment of a series of replies (see the Introduction and Master List) to...

August 19, 2020

Douthat’s Pope-Bashing Book Attacks Vatican II

Maike Hickson at One Peter Five, reviewed Ross Douthat's book, To Change the Church on 5...

August 19, 2020

St. Paul’s Rebuke of St. Peter = Francis-Bashing?

Catholic apologist Matt Fradd offered a show (on 6-8-20), where he interviewed my very good...

August 18, 2020

Women Have No Sexual Desire During Infertility?

+ Natural Family Planning (NFP) and Sexual Desire This was repeatedly claimed by a person...

August 18, 2020

Bishop Schneider: No Jesus Better than Hand-Communion

Bishop Athanasius Schneider: Nobody can force us to receive the Body of Christ in a...

August 17, 2020

“Catholic Verses”: Review in “Homiletic & Pastoral Review”

[review from October 2005 by Michael J. Miller] Here is my introduction, written at the...

August 17, 2020

President Trump Never Heard of Frederick Douglass?

[originally 2-1-17 on Facebook] President Trump said, "Frederick Douglass is an example of somebody who...

August 16, 2020

Face Masks: Is Scientific Evidence Unanimous?

[originally a Facebook post from 7-10-20] As usual, we are being told (it seems to...

August 16, 2020

God and “Natural Evil”: A Thought Experiment

This is a portion of a 2002 article that was included (with additional Augustine and...

August 15, 2020

Mary’s Assumption: Patristic Analogy to Protestant Distinctives

Protestant anti-Catholic apologist Jason Engwer wrote the post, "Early Ignorance Of The Assumption Of Mary"...

August 15, 2020

Trump & Children in Cages, Separated from Parents

with Paul Hoffer [compiled from three lengthy Facebook threads, dated 19, 20, and 21 June...

August 14, 2020

Did Trump Call Neo-Nazis & KKK “Very Fine People”?

This whopper of a lie and falsehood and slander is up there with the most...

August 14, 2020

“Black Lives Matter” Includes Blacks Murdered by Blacks

The Elephant in the Room I put a meme up about a 15-year-old black boy,...

August 13, 2020

Martin Luther’s Extraordinary Epithets & Insults

Some Typical Examples Luke 6:45 (Phillips): . . . For a man's words express what...

August 13, 2020

Radical Catholic Reactionary Twitter Update #1

"I'm one of the biggest critics of online traditionalism. There's certainly a lot that could...

August 12, 2020

Defense of Bible Passages vs. Eternal Security & Faith Alone

vs. Anti-Catholic Protestant Apologist Jason Engwer Jason wrote an article (late 90s) entitled, "A Response...

August 11, 2020

Is Vatican II Analogous to “Failed” Lateran Council V?

Reply to Timothy Flanders Timothy Flanders, who calls himself a traditionalist (I call him a...

August 11, 2020

C. S. Lewis Left Christianity Due to Masturbation?

Case Study of the Saying, "Heresy Begins Below the Belt" The above saying expresses the...

July 2020

July 26, 2020

Reply to Protestant Challenges Re Eternal Security

vs. Anti-Catholic Apologist Jason Engwer This is my answer to the questions posed in the...

July 24, 2020

Should We Pray for “All Men” (1 Tim 2:1) or Not?

Bible and Calvin Say Yes; Anti-Catholic Calvinist Ron Van Brenk Sez No In the course...

July 24, 2020

Jay Dyer: Intellectual Limbo Re Catholic Belief in Limbo

with Dr. Robert Fastiggi Jay Dyer is a former Calvinist, former Catholic, currently Orthodox Christian,...

July 23, 2020

Pope Francis Accusers Reject Magisterial Teaching on Popes

The pope's teaching is indefectible and cannot be judged or "overruled" by any man (or...

July 22, 2020

Debate: Trump, Sexual Misconduct, & the Christian Vote

This was originally an amiable, substantive, and constructive discussion on Facebook on 4-28-20, with two...

July 21, 2020

Martin Luther on Suffering, Mortification, & Sanctity

I compiled Luther's thoughts on these topics, as part of my book, The “Catholic” Luther:...

July 21, 2020

Trump: Like King Ahab? Can We Vote for Him? (vs. Dr Edwin Tait)

This is constructed from Facebook discussions of 3 January 2017: still every bit as relevant...

July 20, 2020

Trump Did NOT Mock a Reporter’s Disability

This lie (a real whopper) is up there with the most notorious anti-Trump lies (like...

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