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November 2018

November 07, 2018

Catholicism is More Important than Political Differences

I am so blasted tired of controversy and in-fighting among Catholics (mostly about political nonsense...

November 06, 2018

Trump’s Inadequate Rebukes of Rocket Man & Neo-Nazis

I stumbled upon this solution today in a flash of inspiration. It's one of those...

November 06, 2018

Trump is Attila the Hun, Vlad the Impaler, and Stalin

Trump is the worst President ever, nuts, an egomaniac and incompetent stooge who hasn't done...

November 05, 2018

Dialogue w Lutheran Historian on 16th-Century Intolerance

The following exchange was taken from comments concerning an old paper now split into two...

November 05, 2018

John Calvin, Early Calvinism, & Violent Iconoclasm

Calvinists and other Protestants sometimes argue as follows: 1. The Church needed reform (particularly its...

November 03, 2018

Holy Spirit, Procession, & the Father’s & Son’s Love

This is from an exchange on the Coming Home Network forum, where I was staff...

November 02, 2018

Can God Change His Mind?: Four Dogmatic Arguments

Church documents apparently do not specifically say that God doesn't or can't change His mind. It doesn't...

November 02, 2018

Dialogue: Original Sin, Jesus, & Mary’s Immaculate Conception

The following is from the Coming Home Network forum (where I was staff moderator from...

November 01, 2018

“The Last Days”: Meaning in Hebrew, Biblical Thought

I was asked the following question: I would like to ask you what is perhaps...

November 01, 2018

Political Polarization and Demonization: Reflections

[these are my opinions, originally expressed in a private dialogue with a severe critic of...

October 2018

October 31, 2018

Baptism & the Analogy of Circumcision (John Calvin)

[John Calvin's words will be in blue] A Catholic wrote to me: Last week on...

October 31, 2018

Dialogue: Bible on Infant Baptism & Baptismal Regeneration

This exchange stemmed from a critique of Jack DisPennett (of the Churches of Christ or...

October 30, 2018

Why Not Kick Modernist Dissenters Out of the Church?

[written in 2002, so I refer a lot to Pope St. John Paul II] ...

October 29, 2018

Döllinger & Liberal Dissidents’ Rejection of Papal Infallibility

[Cardinal Newman's words will be in blue. Newman biographer Ian Ker's words (heavily citing Cardinal Newman)...

October 29, 2018

Does Papal History Contradict Catholic Ecclesiology?

I would argue that the office of the papacy is explicitly indicated in the Bible itself,...

October 28, 2018

Debate: The Anti-Catholic “Pope as God” Argument

[words of Paul Mansbacher will be in blue] We the Archbishops and Bishops of Ireland,...

October 26, 2018

Seidensticker Folly #30: Small vs. Great Commission?

Atheist and anti-theist Bob Seidensticker, who was “raised Presbyterian”, runs the influential Cross Examined blog. He asked me there, on...

October 26, 2018

Seidensticker Folly #29: Repentance: Part of Salvation

Atheist and anti-theist Bob Seidensticker, who was “raised Presbyterian”, runs the influential Cross Examined blog. He asked me there, on...

October 25, 2018

Inspired & Infallible Prophets: Analogy to Infallible Popes

The fully developed theory of infallibility cannot be "proven" -- it is a matter of...

October 25, 2018

Infallibility of Papal Encyclicals, Etc. (“Irreformable”)

It is incorrect to say that the pope does not possess the gift of infallibility...

October 24, 2018

Papacy & Papal Infallibility: Classic Catholic Reflections

1. The Church's Developing Understanding of Infallibility A. Papal Primacy and the Universal Church (Catholic Statement) "We...

October 24, 2018

Resisting Heretic Popes: Classic Catholic Reflections

The notion of popes possibly being heretics (and what to do in that eventuality) is...

October 23, 2018

Seidensticker Folly #28: Lies About Bible “Contradictions”

1. Christians don't sin? 2. Universalism? 3. "Tomb evangelism". 4. Can human beings see God or...

October 23, 2018

Development of Sacrifice of the Mass: Dialogue w Lutheran

“CPA” attends the Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod (LCMS). He is a Professor of Mongolian...

October 23, 2018

Transubstantiation & Church History: Dialogue w Lutheran

"CPA" was an adult convert; he was baptized on Easter 1994 and attends the Lutheran...

October 22, 2018

Dialogue on Calvin’s & Patristic Eucharistic Theology

. . . Especially St. Cyril of Jerusalem's Theology of the Eucharist My two dialogue...

October 22, 2018

“Unanimous Consent” of Church Fathers: Not Literally All

Does the Phrase "Unanimous Consent of the Fathers" Allow Any Exceptions? The term "unanimous consent"...

October 19, 2018

Dialogue w Lutheran Pastor on Bible & Sola Scriptura

(including St. Irenaeus' View on the Rule of Faith) Rev. Dr. Eric G. Phillips (LCMS)...

October 18, 2018

Lutheran Chemnitz: Errors Re Fathers & Sola Scriptura

-- including analysis of Jerome, Augustine, Origen, Epiphanius, Ambrose, Lactantius, Athanasius, and Cyprian -- This is a...

October 18, 2018

Lutheran Chemnitz Wrong Re Fathers & Sola Scriptura

-- mostly dealing with St. Irenaeus and Tertullian -- This is a reply to one...

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