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December 2019

December 13, 2019

Pope St. John Paul II Respectfully Referred to Pachamama

+ Orthodox Catholic References to "Mother Earth" and Similar Biblical Motifs Many thanks to Francisco...

December 13, 2019

Discussion of Greta Thunberg, OCD, & Polarization

+ 16-year-old public figures, parental responsibilities, liberal sanctimoniousness, Asperger's Syndrome, and Babylon Bee satire [see...

December 12, 2019

Vs. Atheist David Madison #39: Jesus the Xenophobic Bigot?

And did Jesus minister exclusively to Jews and not Gentiles at all (an alleged Gospel...

December 11, 2019

Vs. Atheist David Madison #38: Who is Insulting Intelligence?

. . . with emphasis on the vexing and complex question of the ultimate origins...

December 11, 2019

Taylor Marshall Conspiracy?: 840 Amazon Reviews in Nine Days

Taylor Marshall's Orchestrated Campaign to Flood the Amazon Page for His Book Infiltration with Positive Reviews...

December 10, 2019

Vs. Atheist David Madison #37: Bible, Science, & Germs

Dr. David Madison is an atheist who was a Methodist minister for nine years: with a...

December 10, 2019

Vs. Atheist David Madison #36: Matthew & Christmas

Dr. David Madison is an atheist who was a Methodist minister for nine years: with a...

December 09, 2019

Does the Bible Prohibit Homosexual (Non-Procreative) Sex?

This is an "outtake" from my book, The One-Minute Apologist. I have expanded it, adding...

December 06, 2019

Homosexual Sex and St. Paul’s “Nature” Argument

Romans 1:26-27 (RSV) For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. Their women exchanged natural...

December 06, 2019

“Armstrong’s Handbook of Apologetics”: a Cyber-“Book”

Compilation of 348 articles of mine for the National Catholic Register (29 September 2016 to...

December 05, 2019

“Ambiguity”: Classic Reactionary Talking Point & Mantra

This is one of the absolutely classic, textbook marks of the radical Catholic reactionary mindset...

December 04, 2019

Radical Catholic Reactionaries: People, Organizations, & Websites

[providing a service to my readers: avoid all these like the plague] See my definition...

December 04, 2019

What is “Traditional Femininity”? (Attempted Definition)

Someone in a private forum asked this, and noted that our society's ideals in this...

December 03, 2019

Perspicuity (Clearness) of Scripture (vs. Wm. Whitaker)

William Whitaker (1548-1595) was a Calvinist Anglican apologist and Master of St. John’s College, Cambridge. His...

December 03, 2019

Hysterical Reactionaries Opposed Pope Francis from Day One

The "inside story" (from Hilary White) of what happened among a cadre of well-known fanatical...

December 02, 2019

Bible: Completely Self-Authenticating? (vs. Wm. Whitaker)

. . . So that Anyone Could Come up with the Complete Canon without Formal...

December 02, 2019

My Ancestry (English Royalty, St. Margaret, Cleopatra, Etc.)

I've had so much fun tracing my ancestry and also doing DNA tests. It gets...

November 2019

November 27, 2019

Pope Benedict’s Enthusiastic Approval of Pope Francis

This is from Last Testament: In His Own Words (with Peter Seewald, Bloomsbury Continuum, 1st edition:...

November 27, 2019

“Confusing” Pope Francis & Ignorant, Lazy Lay Catholics

The original Facebook title of the first part of this was: "Has Pope Francis Sometimes...

November 26, 2019

G. K. Chesterton on the Incompetence of Journalists

[all excerpts from The Illustrated London News (Vol. 27: 1905-1907 and Vol.28: 1908-1910) ] The...

November 26, 2019

Is Pope Francis Against Apologetics & Defending the Faith?

[all the words below -- unless indicated otherwise -- are Pope Francis' own; blue highlighting...

November 25, 2019

Viganò, Schneider, Pachamama, & VCII (vs. Janet E. Smith)

On 11-22-19, I posted my article, Bishops Viganò & Schneider Reject Authority of Vatican II (And...

November 25, 2019

James Swan Foolishly Attacks Catholic Conversion Stories

James Swan is a Reformed Protestant anti-Catholic polemicist, who specializes in defenses of Martin Luther....

November 23, 2019

Mary’s Assumption & Death (?): Debunking James Swan

Reformed Protestant anti-Catholic polemicist James Swan wrote a truly ludicrous and clueless article on Bishop...

November 22, 2019

The Sarxon Fallacy, Refuted (A Eucharistic Satire)

Reply to an Evangelical Spoof of Catholic Eucharistic Beliefs Way back in 1991, the year...

November 22, 2019

Bishops Viganò & Schneider Reject Authority of Vatican II

Abp. Viganò is supposedly the "point man" over against Pope Francis? No thank you. I was...

November 21, 2019

Jerusalem Council (Acts 15) Decrees: Universally Binding?

Turretinfan: the colorful, vociferous, and ever-anonymous Reformed Protestant anti-Catholic polemicist, wrote an article on Bishop...

November 21, 2019

Chalice or Host Only Contain the Body & Blood of Christ

Reply to Two Direct Challenges from the Calvinist Anti-Catholic Sophist and Polemicist, "Turretinfan" Turretinfan: the...

November 20, 2019

Can Communion in the Hand be Equally Reverent?

The following was compiled from my comments in a recent Facebook thread. I started it off...

November 20, 2019

Q & A: Catholic Sexual Morality and Contraception

I'm not simply giving my opinions, but seeking to always represent the Catholic Church's teachings. Paraphrases of actual...

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