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March 2019

March 17, 2019

Fair Ecumenical Discussion & Catholic First Principles

I've touched on this question many times before, in various papers. Recently, as part of...

February 2019

February 28, 2019

Protestant & Catholic Holiness, Miracles, & Reform

Catholics don't deny at all that Protestants can and do have miracles in their midst....

October 2018

October 07, 2018

“Doing Something” for Salvation: Dialogue w Evangelical

Craig Kott was a friend of mine at the non-denominational, evangelical Arminian church that I...

July 2018

July 30, 2018

Anathemas of Trent & Excommunication: An Explanation

The vivid Greek term anathema, meaning "accursed," is directed by the Council of Trent and other...

May 2018

May 07, 2018

“Novelties” of Vatican II (Religious Liberty & Ecumenism)?

I disagree that Vatican II taught novelties. I think they are developments; rather striking, but...

April 2018

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,...

March 2018

March 27, 2018

Henry Sire of “Dictator Pope” Infamy: Reactionary Extremist

Currently, there are three pope-bashing books tearing up the charts at Amazon: The Dictator Pope:...

February 2018

February 26, 2018

Reactionary Errors as Bad or Worse Than Modernist Ones

[the following is a bit disjointed because it is an initial post (originally on Facebook),...

February 21, 2018

My Conversion: NOT Due to Hostility to Evangelicalism

I converted precisely for the reasons that I have explained in my four or five...

February 21, 2018

Catholic-Protestant Common Ground (Esp. Re Good Works)

A Lutheran wrote, in response to my paper, "Gratefulness For My Evangelical Protestant Background and...

January 2018

January 25, 2018

No Salvation Outside the Church: Reply to Pastor Bill Keller

Catholics think that Protestants are fully incorporated into the Body of Christ by virtue of...

January 24, 2018

Radical Catholic Reactionaries: Overview of Their Essential Errors

Reactionaries are our present-day Pharisees and rigorist Donatists and Montanists. [see further information for the book above,...

December 2017

December 11, 2017

Reply to Pastor Steve Schlissel’s Reflections on “Romanism”

This is my response to Steve Schlissel's article: "What Thinkest Thou?" (no longer online). I initially replied:...

November 2017

November 22, 2017

Why I am Critical of Radical Catholic Reactionaries

(8-20-13) *** [reply on another page from a mainstream "traditionalist" who objects to these writings...

November 22, 2017

Dialogue on “Mere Christianity” and “THE Church”

Dave Scott is a "low church" / evangelical / non-denominational Protestant, who is a good...

November 18, 2017

Catholic Ecumenism + Apologetics (James Swan’s Cluelessness)

[Anti-Catholic reformed Protestant polemicist James Swan wrote about the stamp put out by the Vatican...

November 10, 2017

Luther’s Fascinating Correspondence from 1518 to 1520

(6-11-08) *** Let's briefly review the relevant timeline and background for these events. Martin Luther...

October 2017

October 25, 2017

Martin Luther’s Remarkably “Pro-Tradition” Strain of Thought

(1-18-08) *** It's inaccurate to contend that Luther despises councils altogether. Rather, he denies their infallibility and...

October 25, 2017

Condemnation of the Anti-Protestant Spirit (A Sad Dialogue)

This took place on my Facebook page, with a Catholic woman, under a post called,...

October 24, 2017

Odd Trio: Jerry Walls, Ken Collins, & Anti-Catholic John Bugay

Walls and Collins Hurt Their Pro-Protestant Cause and Ecumenical Effort by Enlisting John Bugay as...

October 15, 2017

Pope St. John XXIII & Pope Benedict XVI on “Prophets of Doom”

Pope Benedict XVI: Statement to the Seminarians of Rome: 8 February 2013: The second term:...

August 2017

August 17, 2017

Vatican II on Effectively Sharing the Fullness of Catholic Faith

St. Peter's Basilica at sunset (Vatican City) (Photograph by Livioandronico2013: 4-14-15) [Wikimedia Commons / Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike...

August 11, 2017

Baptismal Ecumenism: A New Evangelistic Paradigm (Rod Bennett)

Brass baptismal font (1590) in "St. Stephen" Lutheran church in Helmsted, Germany. Photo by "Times" (5-17-10)...

August 10, 2017

Defending Ecumenism & Vatican II vs. Reactionary Catholics

Straw man fallacy, anyone? Photograph by DomenicBlair (6-28-16) [Pixabay / CC0 Creative Commons license] ***** I...

August 09, 2017

Ecumenism vs. No Salvation Outside of the Church?

Jesus and the Centurion (c. 1571), by Paolo Veronese (1528-1588). Jesus was quite "ecumenical" with...

February 2017

February 10, 2017

Defense of 2nd Ecumenical Gathering at Assisi (Mark Shea)

President and Mrs. Reagan meet Pope St. John Paul II, The Vatican, 1982. [public domain...

February 10, 2017

Ecumenical Gatherings at Assisi: A Defense (Fr. Alfredo M. Morselli)

Ecumenism in St. Thomas Aquinas Thomas Aquinas, by Fra Bartolomeo (1472-1517) [public domain / Wikimedia...

January 2017

January 03, 2017

Sack of Constantinople (1204) & Unknown Byzantine Atrocities

The Taking of Constantinople: 1204, by Palma Giovane (1544-1628) [public domain / Wikimedia Commons] *** (1998)...

January 03, 2017

Reply to Michael Spencer’s “Five Questions For Roman Catholics”

First Baptist Church of Ossining, New York (1874). Photograph by Daniel Case (2-9-09) [Wikimedia Commons...

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