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August 2024

August 12, 2024

Reply to Luther’s “On the Councils & the Church”

Martin Luther completed his treatise, On the Councils and the Church in March 1539....

May 2024

May 30, 2024

Eck Vs. Protestantism Chronicles: Church Councils

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May 08, 2024

Calvin & Cranmer: Councils Necessary for Doctrinal Unity

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November 2023

November 24, 2023

Are the Vatican II Documents “Ambiguous”?

Chapter 12 (pp. 99-111) of my book, Reflections on Radical Catholic Reactionaries (December 2002; revised...

November 22, 2023

Is Vatican II a “Modernist” Council?

Chapter 11 (pp. 91-98) of my book, Reflections on Radical Catholic Reactionaries (December 2002; revised...

October 2023

October 25, 2023

“Catholic Verses” #2: Jerusalem Council

Also: the Ten Commandments in the New Covenant; Church Fathers On the Binding Nature of...

September 2021

September 17, 2021

Vatican II: Documentation of Bishops’ Voting on its Documents

Ranked in Order from Most Dissenting Votes to Least Dissenting Votes I am drawing this...

May 2021

May 21, 2021

Did Peter or James Preside at the Jerusalem Council?

And Was it the Prototype of Ecumenical Councils or Merely a Local Synod? This is...

January 2021

January 11, 2021

Steve Skojec’s De Facto Schism is Complete: By His Own Report

All of the following verbal diarrhea took place on his Twitter page, on 1-11-21: *****...

September 2020

September 22, 2020

Hilary White Wants to Trash & Bury Vatican II; I Defend It

Radical reactionary Catholic Hilary White wrote on 7-31-10 at The Remnant / cross-posted on Rorate...

August 2020

August 21, 2020

Viganò’s Outrageous Lie Re Pope Benedict XVI & Tradition

Unwillingness to Make Even Rudimentary Efforts to Consult Context or to Understand a Pope's Overall...

August 19, 2020

Douthat’s Pope-Bashing Book Attacks Vatican II

Maike Hickson at One Peter Five, reviewed Ross Douthat's book, To Change the Church on 5...

July 2020

July 16, 2020

Anti-Francis = Anti-Vatican II (You Heard it Here First)

[note: the title of this paper is a generalization; not meant to imply that there...

July 14, 2020

What’s So Bad About Abp. Viganò? (Traditionalists Ask)

Many traditionalists (and the more radical reactionary Catholics) seem to think that Abp. Viganò is just...

June 2020

June 16, 2020

Ecumenical Councils: Catholic vs. Lutheran Perspective

vs. Pastor Ken Howes (LCMS) This was a discussion on Facebook underneath a link to...

June 14, 2020

Sola Scriptura Can’t Definitively Refute Christological Heresy

The Sad Case of Evangelical Apologist and Philosopher Dr. William Lane Craig and Monothelitism [originally...

April 2020

April 22, 2020

Apocalypse! Steve Skojec’s Pontifications vs. Vatican II

For those who think that radical Catholic reactionaries are simply traditionalists with a bit of...

April 19, 2020

Eastern Orthodoxy, Councils, & Doctrinal Development

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

February 2020

February 20, 2020

Bible on “One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic” Church

From my book, Revelation! 1001 Bible Answers to Theological Topics (Oct. 2013; also available in Spanish and...

February 06, 2020

Salesian Apologetics #4: Infallible Ecumenical Councils

This is one of a series of extensive excerpts (with my occasional commentary) from The...

July 2019

July 30, 2019

Biblical Evidence for Catholic Ecclesiological Claims

From my book, Revelation! 1001 Bible Answers to Theological Topics (2013; available for as low as $2.99...

June 2019

June 09, 2019

C. S. Lewis’ Views on Christian Unity & Ecumenism

I think C. S. Lewis's approach to ecumenism was quite wise. He had many close...

January 2019

January 18, 2019

Authority and Infallibility of Councils (vs. Calvin #26)

This is an installment of a series of replies (see the Introduction and Master List) to...

January 09, 2019

Fathers (Esp. Jerome, Gregory) & the Papacy (vs. Calvin #17)

This is an installment of a series of replies (see the Introduction and Master List) to...

January 09, 2019

Popes & Early Ecumenical Councils (vs. Calvin #16)

This is an installment of a series of replies (see the Introduction and Master List) to...

August 2018

August 22, 2018

Conciliarism: “Orthodox” Option in Medieval Catholicism?

TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introduction II. Pope Gregory VII's (Hildebrand's) Papacy (1073-1085): Radical Novelty or...

August 21, 2018

Was Medieval Ecclesiology “Fallibilist Conciliarism”?

Conciliar infallibility is just as firmly entrenched in Christian and "Roman" (also Orthodox) Tradition as...

August 01, 2018

Conciliar Infallibility: Summary from Church Documents

***** Catechism of the Catholic Church The episcopal college and its head, the Pope 880...

April 2018

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...

February 2018

February 23, 2018

Papal Participation in the First Seven Ecumenical Councils

The following evidence documents papal presence (personally or through legates) at the first seven councils:...

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