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April 2018

April 16, 2018

Church Fathers: God is Immutable, Simple, & Outside of Time

God the Father is Immutable (Unchangeable) and Doesn't Change His Mind Aristides of Athens (fl. c....

April 16, 2018

Thoughts on God’s Omniscience, Immutability, & Timelessness

Foreknowledge and determination are two different things. I have a pretty good knowledge that the...

April 14, 2018

Chappaquiddick: Four Theories Briefly Considered

I've already seen the film. It was good. As an eleven-year-old in 1969 (when I...

April 13, 2018

Perpetual Virginity: Not “Intuitive” But Still True

The perpetual virginity of Mary "matters" because it was fitting and proper, and preserved the...

April 13, 2018

Are Pope-Critics Evil? Reply to Karl Keating

This exchange with my friend Karl Keating: the father of the modern Catholic apologetics movement,...

April 12, 2018

Pope’s Chilean Abuse Apology Troubles Simcha Fisher

Simcha writes in her article, "Pope Francis’ troubling apology" (4-11-18): The Pope’s apology is encouraging,...

April 11, 2018

Replies to Critiques of Pope Francis (Dave Armstrong)

I have written a book defending Pope Francis as well, called Pope Francis Explained: Survey of...

April 11, 2018

St. Paul: Far More of an “Insulter” Than Pope Francis

One hears this theme again and again from critics of Pope Francis. For example, my...

April 10, 2018

Olson’s Nitpicking, Persnickety Guide to Gaudete et Exsultate

Carl E. Olson is the editor of The Catholic World Report and Ignatius Insight. I like...

April 09, 2018

Pope Francis: All Life: Preborn and Born, is “Equally Sacred”

Pope Francis, in his Apostolic Exhortation, Gaudete et Exsultate, dated 3-19-18, stated: 101. The other harmful...

April 09, 2018

Satan Referenced 24 Times in Gaudete et Exsultate

The following words, up to the five asterisks (with my blue highlighting), are all from...

April 06, 2018

Council of Constance (1414-18): Triumph or Death of Conciliarism?

Did the popes in fact ratify, confirm, accept, approve the conciliarist decrees of the council...

April 06, 2018

“Everything Saved”: More Dim-Witted Bashing of Pope Re Hell

In October 2017, papal critic Sandro Magister wrote an article in L'Ezpresso Magazine (reprinted at the...

April 05, 2018

Perpetual Virginity of Mary Mocked by James White

Don't stretch the truth to the breaking point, or make it the reverse of what...

April 05, 2018

William Lane Craig’s Christological Errors (Monothelitism +)

Also: Biblical Evidence Against Monothelitism (Denial of Jesus' Possession of Both Human and Divine Wills)...

April 05, 2018

Baptismal Formula: Trinitarian or in Jesus’ Name Only?

It is often argued by those who deny the Trinity (groups such as the United...

April 04, 2018

Conversion to Catholicism: Reflections on its Complexity

Rationales for conversions might be consistent and even quite respectable, but (now I speak as...

April 04, 2018

“Re-Presentation” vs. “Re-Sacrifice” in the Mass: Doctrinal History

This dialogue with my highly esteemed friend, Lutheran pastor Ken Howes (LCMS), took place on...

April 03, 2018

Lutheran View of the Mass / Catholics & Lutheran Worship

Pastor Ben Maton (Lutheran – Missouri Synod [“LCMS”] ) serves at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Charlottesville, Virginia. His...

April 03, 2018

The Nature of the Church: Lutheran-Catholic Dialogue

Pastor Ben Maton (Lutheran - Missouri Synod ["LCMS"] ) serves at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Charlottesville,...

April 02, 2018

My Coined Term, “Radical Catholic Reactionary”: Clarifications

Jim Brown: Don't take this personally. But your use of the word "reactionary" seems designed...

April 02, 2018

Lame Reactionary Anti-Francis “No Hell” Argument

I've come to expect lame arguments from fundamentalist anti-Catholics and atheists about Scripture: wooden literalism,...

March 2018

March 31, 2018

Reactionary Chris Ferrara’s Lies Re Pope Francis & Hell

All the usual suspects are now coming out of the woodwork, given the latest press...

March 30, 2018

“I complete what is lacking in Christ’s afflictions” (Col 1:24)

"Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I complete...

March 30, 2018

Pope Francis, Hell, Phil Lawler, Lies, Damned Lies, . . .

Now there is another stink about Pope Francis supposedly not believing in hell (flat-out denying...

March 29, 2018

Jesus & God the Father: Sinful Due to Being Tempted?

Someone asked me: Dave, if Jesus could not have sinned, how is it that he...

March 29, 2018

Did Jesus Have Children? (“Offspring”: Isaiah 53:10)

Someone (I believe, an atheist or agnostic) wrote in the comments for this blog: DaVinci...

March 28, 2018

Martin Luther vs. Nestorius Regarding “Mother of God”

Nestorius began to defend his priest Anastasius, who had preached that the Holy Virgin should...

March 28, 2018

Catholic Doctrine of Mary: Introductory Biblical Guide

[book and purchase information] Mother of God The ecumenical council of Ephesus in 431 declared...

March 27, 2018

Pope-Criticism: Vigorous Exchanges w Karl Keating

This series of mini-dialogues (most, frustratingly incomplete and "left hanging," in my opinion), occurred in...

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