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May 2018

May 07, 2018

How Much Can Catholics Disagree with the Church?

A Protestant asked: "Is my understanding correct that, as long as there is submission and...

May 04, 2018

Ethics of Hiroshima & Nagasaki: Catholic Reflections

I have produced many popes, bishops, conciliar statements, leading theologians, well-known priests, and apologists who...

May 04, 2018

U2: We Choose Legal Abortion Over Christianity

John Lennon (1966): "The Beatles are more popular than Jesus" [which was indeed sadly true...

May 02, 2018

Analyzing Luther / Protestant Traditions of Men Inevitable

Catholics & Protestants tend to have very different views of Luther & of the nature...

May 02, 2018

Prayer for the Dead & Retroactive Prayer (Luther & Protestants)

I happened to notice a very interesting piece on the Lutheran blog Here We Stand,...

May 01, 2018

Protestant Principles of Authority are Self-Defeating

Some Protestants claim to have the "fullness of truth," just as Catholics do. But how...

May 01, 2018

Catholic Predestination, Molinism, & Thomism in a Nutshell

The Catholic teaching is neither Pelagian (basically, "salvation by works") nor semi-Pelagian (saved partially by...

April 2018

April 30, 2018

“Official” Catholic Use of “Convert” to Describe New Catholics

This was originally posted on the Coming Home Network board, where I was head moderator...

April 30, 2018

Potential Catholic Converts: My “Hands Off” Approach

It seems that I am sometimes unjustly associated with others who do not share my...

April 29, 2018

Agree & Be Loved / Think for Yourself & Disagree & Be Hated

In our postmodern culture today, the notions of "tough love" or a rebuke done in...

April 28, 2018

Lawler Hypocritically Acts Like He Claims Pope Francis Does

. . . That is, He Deliberately Sows Confusion, When it Need Not Be So At...

April 27, 2018

Dialogue: Contraception & Natural Family Planning (NFP)

This is a follow-up discussion with "Grubb" (Reformed Baptist), concerning my previous post, Biblical Evidence Against...

April 27, 2018

Use of “Anti-Catholic” in Non-Catholic Scholarly Works

Many Protestant polemicists (themselves not coincidentally also often anti-Catholic) have contended that the use of...

April 26, 2018

Mary’s Death Before Her Assumption: Required Belief?

Short answer: no. I explain why, and why I personally believe that she did die....

April 26, 2018

Mary’s Immaculate Conception: Necessary or “Fitting”?

This is a follow-up to my article for National Catholic Register: "Was Mary's Immaculate Conception...

April 25, 2018

Crusades Controversy & “Discussion” (?) w Orthodox

OrthodoxChristianity.Net had a field day with this meme about the Crusades, posted on my Facebook Author...

April 25, 2018

Difficulty of Catholic-Protestant Marriage: Some Thoughts

It’s very difficult to be in this situation, because both sides have heartfelt beliefs and...

April 25, 2018

Catholic Fundamentalism & “Insufficiently Converted Catholics”

[chapter 7 of my book, Reflections on Radical Catholic Reactionaries] *** 130. There is a...

April 24, 2018

Todd Baker’s “Exodus from Rome” (Attack on My Conversion)

Exodus From Rome, Volume 2: A Biblical and Historical Critique of Roman Catholicism (The Scofield Institute...

April 23, 2018

Todd Baker’s “Exodus from Rome” (Tradition, Mary, Sola Fide)

Exodus From Rome, Volume 2: A Biblical and Historical Critique of Roman Catholicism (The Scofield...

April 21, 2018

Primacy of St. Peter Verified by Protestant Scholars

[From the 1994 early manuscript (750 page) version of my first book, A Biblical Defense of...

April 20, 2018

Absurd Anti-Newman Rhetoric in Anti-Catholic Polemics

David T. King Anti-Catholic author Pastor David T. King has tried to cast aspersions on...

April 20, 2018

Sacrifice of the Mass: A Biblical Overview

I. DEFINITION OF SACRIFICE OF THE MASS The re-presentation, re-enactment, and effective application of the...

April 19, 2018

On Descriptive Adjectives for “Catholic”

Should Catholics ever add anything to the title "Catholic" in our self-identifications? *** Deacon Raymond...

April 19, 2018

This “Old” Pro-Lifer [Mostly] Agrees with “New” Ones

Sarah Babbs is a fellow writer at Patheos. She wrote an article entitled, "Pro-Life: Have...

April 19, 2018

Abortion in the Bible?: Debate w Zealous Agnostic

[Agnostic Ed Babinski's words will be in blue] *** In an earlier paper I made...

April 18, 2018

Mary Was a Virgin During Jesus’ Birth (“In Partu”)

[for the necessary background, see my paper, Mary’s Perpetual Virginity “In Partu” (a Miraculous, Non-Natural Childbirth)...

April 18, 2018

Virgin Birth & Perpetual Virginity: “Anti-Sex”?

[this started on a thread under an article of mine on the perpetual virginity of...

April 17, 2018

Dialogue on the Logic of Catholic Infallible Authority

Eric Svendsen is a prominent anti-Catholic polemicist. This discussion took place on Bishop "Dr." [???] James...

April 17, 2018

Church Fathers on God & Emotions, & Anthropomorphism

[see the related paper, Anthropopathism and Anthropomorphism: Biblical Data] *** St. Ignatius of Antioch (50 -...

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