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January 2023

January 05, 2023

Hegesippus (2nd c.) and the “Brothers” of Jesus

Including a "New" Argument from How Jesus is Described in Relation to Mary and Joseph...

January 03, 2023

Dialogue w a Protestant on Mary’s Perpetual Virginity (II)

Biblical Proof That Three Named "Brethren" of Jesus Are Non-Siblings + Harmonious 2nd Century Evidence...

January 02, 2023

Dialogue w a Protestant on Mary’s Perpetual Virginity

"Iceman2525" is some sort of Protestant. His Disqus profile offers no further information about him....

December 2022

December 28, 2022

Jesus’ “Brothers”: Anti-Catholic Lies from a Tiny Lutheran Sect (ELS)

The Evangelical Lutheran Synod has all of 19,394 members. In a little tract called "Jesus'...

December 26, 2022

Jesus at Twelve in the Temple & Mary’s Perpetual Virginity

The Nature & Force of Arguments from Silence, Plausibility, Probability, & Cumulative Effect Explained [words...

September 2022

September 07, 2022

James: “Brother” of Jesus: Josephus vs. the Bible & Hegesippus

vs. Lucas Banzoli Lucas Banzoli is a very active Brazilian anti-Catholic polemicist, who holds to...

September 05, 2022

Why Doesn’t Scripture Call Jesus an “Only Child”?

vs. Lucas Banzoli Lucas Banzoli is a very active Brazilian anti-Catholic polemicist, who holds to...

September 05, 2022

Virgin Mary “Until”? (Matthew 1:25) (vs. Lucas Banzoli)

Lucas Banzoli is a very active Brazilian anti-Catholic polemicist, who holds to basically a Seventh-Day...

September 03, 2022

Why Protestants Reject Mary’s Perpetual Virginity / “In Partu”

I think a lot of the objection is sheer overreaction against Catholicism and a manifestation...

September 02, 2022

Mary Clopas & Jesus’ Supposed Siblings (vs. Lucas Banzoli)

[see book and purchase information] Lucas Banzoli is a very active Brazilian anti-Catholic polemicist, who...

June 2022

June 06, 2022

Jesus’ Cousins (Not Brothers) (vs. Lucas Banzoli)

Lucas Banzoli is a very active Brazilian anti-Catholic polemicist, who holds to basically a Seventh-Day...

November 2021

November 07, 2021

Anti-Perpetual Virginity Arguments Debunked (vs. J. Engwer)

Jason Engwer is a Protestant and anti-Catholic apologist, who runs the Tribalblogue site. I will...

October 2020

October 17, 2020

Jason Engwer, Hippolytus, & Mary’s Perpetual Virginity

Protestant apologist Jason Engwer wrote: Tertullian and Helvidius are often named as early opponents of...

June 2020

June 19, 2020

Dialogue: Mary’s “In Partu” Virginity (During Birth)

with Ryan Grant The following is from a Facebook discussion (3-9-17) about the paper, Mary’s Perpetual...

June 17, 2020

Mary’s Perpetual Virginity: Bombshell from Matthew 1:25

Matthew 1:24-25 (NRSV) . . . Joseph . . . took her as his wife,...

January 2020

January 29, 2020

Reply to a Rationalist Objection to Mary’s Perpetual Virginity

Essay 41 (my original manuscript, with some differences) from my book, Proving the Catholic Faith is...

November 2019

November 16, 2019

Mary’s “In Partu” Virginity: Reply to False Charges

My article, "Biblical and Patristic Evidence for Mary's 'In Partu' Virginity" was published in National...

July 2018

July 20, 2018

John Armstrong vs. Church Fathers Re Perpetual Virginity

This is an example that Reformed Protestant scholar Dr. Armstrong provides in support of his...

April 2018

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 13, 2018

Perpetual Virginity: Not “Intuitive” But Still True

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

December 2016

December 07, 2016

James the Lord’s “Brother” (i.e., Cousin)

+ Who Wrote the Book of James? Icon: Saint James the Just [public domain

December 06, 2016

Catholics: “SO Dogmatic About the Perpetual Virginity of Mary!”

+ Lutheran Confessional Agreement The Annunciation (1850), by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) [public domain

September 2015

September 29, 2015

Mary’s Virginity During Childbirth: Ott’s Revision & Latin Analysis

Madonna and Child (c. 1655-1660), by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617-1682) [public domain / Wikimedia Commons] *...

September 24, 2008

Mary’s Perpetual Virginity “In Partu” (a Miraculous, Non-Natural Childbirth)

It's a Binding Catholic Dogma The Adoration of the Shepherds (1622), by Gerard van Honthorst...

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