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August 2019

August 19, 2019

“Not Infallible” does not mean “Contains Errors.”

Strictly speaking, "infallibility" covers whatever teachings fall under a divine guarantee to be free from...

August 10, 2019

Steve Hays posits false dichotomy between authority and reason.

My advice to the anti-Catholic apologist is: Stop trying to be clever, you just end...

August 10, 2019

Do Catholics think God owes them a debt? Part 6 of a response to John Calvin’s Institutes IV.18.

When John Calvin reaches the "crowning point" of his rant against the "popish Mass," he...

August 05, 2019

Protestant asks: When would Catholics know they’re in a false Church?

Steve "Purple" Hays asks the question at Failablogue. (He calls it Triablogue, for optimistic reasons...

July 2019

July 29, 2019

Of course the Church can ordain women.

Cardinal Müller claims women's ordination is impossible. He has Amazon Synod Derangement Syndrome, and...

July 10, 2019

Does the Mass crucify Jesus another time? Part 4 of a series on Calvin’s Institutes IV.18.

Very early in this chapter, John Calvin is already making claims that are painfully...

July 07, 2019

Infallibility is true, but (almost) useless. With some words about St. Maria Goretti.

Back in 2015 I wrote an article for Epic Pew on the topic of...

July 06, 2019

Does the Mass “banish the remembrance of Christ’s death”? Part 3 of a series on John Calvin’s Institutes IV.18.

Note. This is a long-awaited continuation of a series that I began in December...

June 2019

June 30, 2019

Constantine founded the Catholic Church! Answers to common objections VII, seriatim.

This myth is peculiarly intractable despite the fact that it is also peculiarly easy...

June 30, 2019

On the limits of apologetics.

Ihave suspected for over ten years now that I have Asperger syndrome, but I...