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April 2020

April 19, 2020

Eastern Orthodoxy, Councils, & Doctrinal Development

I've been told by Orthodox that it is actually possible to call an Ecumenical Council,...

April 18, 2020

Dietrich von Hildebrand & Legitimate Traditionalism

(originally uploaded on 27 February 2002; terminology and a few other minor things revised on...

April 17, 2020

Seidensticker Folly #40: Craig, Trinity Definition, & Analogies

Atheist and anti-theist Bob Seidensticker, who was “raised Presbyterian”, runs the influential Cross Examined blog. He asked me there, on 8-11-18: “I’ve got...

April 16, 2020

Seidensticker Folly #39: “The Sun Stood Still” (Joshua)

Atheist and anti-theist Bob Seidensticker, who was “raised Presbyterian”, runs the influential Cross Examined blog. He asked me there, on 8-11-18: “I’ve got...

April 16, 2020

2nd Conversion? Reactionary Absurdities Satirized

Introduction: The following is an exercise in the logical, argumentative method of reductio ad absurdum,...

April 16, 2020

Seidensticker Folly #38: Eternal Universe vs. an Eternal God

Atheist and anti-theist Bob Seidensticker, who was “raised Presbyterian”, runs the influential Cross Examined blog. He asked me there, on 8-11-18: “I’ve got...

April 15, 2020

Seidensticker Folly #37: “What is a Contradiction?” 0101

Atheist and anti-theist Bob Seidensticker, who was “raised Presbyterian”, runs the influential Cross Examined blog. He asked me there, on 8-11-18: “I’ve got...

April 15, 2020

Taylor Marshall vs. Timothy Gordon (Hatfields & McCoys Redux)

The basic trouble with going far right on the ecclesiastical spectrum: radical right; radical Catholic...

April 14, 2020

Famed Atheist Champion Antony Flew Became a Deist

Studies in Flew's Justification of His Change of Mind and the Predictable Reaction of Atheists...

April 14, 2020

Communion Posture: Examples from the Book of Revelation

Matthew DuBroy (his words in blue below) commented on Dan Burke's public Facebook thread, and the...

April 13, 2020

Is God Judging the World for Communion in the Hand?

This is one of the new conspiracy theories that people are foolishly sopping up like...

April 13, 2020

Dialogue: Is Coronavirus the Way that God Judges?

This was a stimulating, challenging follow-up discussion of my post, Priest Blasphemes God (Coronavirus = Judgment?) "Heinz"...

April 13, 2020

“Why Did God Kill 70,000 Israelites for David’s Sin?”

1 Chronicles 21: 1, 5-14 (RSV) Satan stood up against Israel, and incited David to number...

April 12, 2020

Jesus’ Resurrection: Scholarly Defenses of its Historicity

Easter: Myth, Hallucination, or History? (Edwin M. Yamauchi, 1974) Was the Tomb Really Empty? (Robert H....

April 12, 2020

“Three Days and Nights” in the Tomb: Contradiction?

Many people think that Jesus Christ was crucified on a Wednesday (or sometimes Thursday), in...

April 11, 2020

“Radtrad”: Origins, History, & Debates on Definition

Radtrad (or sometimes, Rad-Trad, Rad Trad, etc.) is shorthand for “radical traditionalist”. For background (at least from...

April 11, 2020

The Timeless Crucifixion & the Sacrifice of the Mass

Jesus is both God and Man. He has a human nature and a Divine Nature....

April 10, 2020

Priest Blasphemes God (Coronavirus = Judgment?)

Fr. Carlos Martins wrote a blasphemous piece on a public Facebook post, right before Good...

April 10, 2020

Visiting Golgotha: A Sublimely Moving Spiritual Experience

The “Place of the Skull”; Calvary; Golgotha. It's the epicenter of Christianity: our “holy of...

April 10, 2020

Archaeology: Jesus’ Crucifixion, Tomb, & the Via Dolorosa

["pre-trip" / archaeological portion of a chapter from my book, Footsteps that Echo Forever: My Holy...

April 09, 2020

Hydroxychloroquine: Logic, Evidence, & Irrational Opposition

One (despite the "politically correct" thought police so prevalent today) is entitled to have an...

April 09, 2020

Dialogue on Method of Communion & Liturgical Development

In the course of vigorous discussions over my defense of the Pauline Mass (aka Novus Ordo or...

April 09, 2020

Bible on Reverent Posture for Worship & Communion

The following comments were taken from a Facebook thread; further below, I collect a large number...

April 08, 2020

Why is Pope Francis So Loved by Theological Liberals?

See book and purchase information. *** It's because they are desperate for [one they wrongly...

April 08, 2020

Abp. Viganò Whopper #289: Pope Forbids All Evangelism (?)

In the latest of a relentless, ever-more-extreme series of unhinged, reality-denying slanders of the Holy...

April 07, 2020

Will US Coronavirus Deaths Be Far Less than Predicted?

Dr. Anthony Fauci has been saying all along that models regarding coronavirus and epidemics in...

April 07, 2020

Coronavirus: Chris Ferrara vs. Science & Historical Precedent

Social Distancing Was Used in the 1918 Flu Pandemic and Has Been Shown Again and...

April 06, 2020

Abp. Viganò, the Pope, & the “Vicar of Christ” Nothingburger

With Catholic Theologian Dr. Robert Fastiggi and Apologist Karl Keating On 3 April 2020, Archbishop Carlo...

April 04, 2020

Ronald Knox’s Conversion to Catholicism (In Brief)

[edited with my introduction in 1991; later published in The Coming Home Newsletter, Jan/

April 04, 2020

Reply to Unfair Criticisms of Trump Re Coronavirus

These replies, amounting eventually to a general and multi-faceted defense, started when I read a...

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