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August 2025

August 05, 2025

Why the Assumption of Mary Stands on Biblical Ground

In the previous article, it was argued that there is a Scriptural foundation for...

May 2025

May 27, 2025

The Canon, Papal Infallibility and the Assumption of Mary

A number of weeks back, I responded to a post on a Protestant,...

February 2025

February 17, 2025

Luke 10:16 and the Question of Authority

In the roughly fifteen years since I have become Catholic, I have become aware...

August 2024

August 01, 2024

Three Reasons to Believe that St. Peter Went to Rome

Way back when, I started a series of articles revolving around a few objections...

April 2024

April 03, 2024

The Donation of Constantine and the Papacy (Pope St. Leo I)

In the previous article, the 8th c. forgery known as the Donation of Constantine...

October 2023

October 10, 2023

Catharism, Calvary Chapel, and Catholicism (Some Primary Sources)

The following is meant to be a companion to the previous post “Catharism, Calvary Chapel,...

September 2023

September 02, 2023

Catharism, Calvary Chapel, and Catholicism

So, I was listening to another debate. This one was called Catholicism meets Calvary...

August 2023

August 01, 2023

Some Thoughts on a Recent Debate

As I was scrolling through my Facebook feed the other day, a post...

July 2023

July 06, 2023

Modern Scholarship on Peter in Rome

When discussing the question of whether or not St. Peter ever came to the...

May 2023

May 08, 2023

In What Sense is Scripture Sufficient? (Part III)

Introduction: In the previous post, some advancement was made towards answering and...

March 2023

March 02, 2023

In What Sense is Scripture Sufficient?

Introduction: Although there seems to be some variation within contemporary Protestant explanations of their...

December 2022

December 07, 2022

Ethiopian Orthodoxy and the Immaculate Conception

Background: December 8 marks The Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception in the...

November 2022

November 23, 2022

Mark of Ephesus and Purgatory (Part II)

Introduction: In a previous article, I laid the groundwork for the introduction of a...

October 2022

October 23, 2022

Mark of Ephesus and Purgatory (Part I)

Introduction: As the feast of All Souls Day (November 2nd) fast...

October 15, 2022

Did St. Basil the Great Teach Sola Scriptura?

Such appears to be the claim in a meme (above) that was posted in...

October 08, 2022

The Apostolic Foundation of the Roman Church

The dual apostolicity of the Roman church was a fact well known...

October 01, 2022

Patriarch Kirill and the Idea of Combatants as Martyrs

Comments that the primate of the Russian Orthodox Church made earlier this week caused...

September 2022

September 25, 2022

The “Ascension of Isaiah” and the Martyrdom of St. Peter

Background: According to tradition, the Apostle Peter eventually came to the imperial capital, labored...

September 04, 2022

The Origins of the Denial of Peter’s Roman Sojourn

Background: For the first thirteen centuries of Christianity it was accepted as a...

January 2022

January 02, 2022

Mary, Mother of God and the Council of Ephesus:

St. Cyril of Alexandria at the Council of Ephesus, Francisco Meneses Osorio, Museo de Bellas...

January 04, 2021

Francis Dvornik on Canon XXVIII of Chalcedon

Pope St. Leo the Great, by Francisco de Herrera el Mozo, Museo de Prada. (Wikimedia...

December 2020

December 23, 2020

Political Polarization at the Dawn of the Spanish Civil War

José María Gil Robles, 1933.(Wikimedia Commons) In his monograph on the Spanish Civil War, Stanley...

August 2020

August 09, 2020

Rome, Babylon, and 1 Peter 5:13

Madonna and Child with Saints Peter and Mark and Three Venetian Procurators, by Giovanni Bellini...

August 01, 2020

Some Musings on Papal Infallibility

Pope Innocent III (r. 1198-1216).(Wikimedia Commons) In his work Innocent III and the Crown of...

December 2019

December 09, 2019

Sahih Muslim and the Immaculate Conception

Inmaculada, Alonso Vázquez, Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla(Wikimedia Commons). This past summer, I was...

April 2019

April 14, 2019

Saladin in Muslim Memory

Saladin, 16th c. (Wikimedia Commons) In my very first blog post, “A Primer on the...

January 2019

January 26, 2019

The New Testament Canon in the Fourth Century

Symbols of the Four Evangelists, Book of Kells, (Wikimedia Commons) This article will explore the state of...

January 12, 2019

Theodore Abu Qurrah and the Papacy

Icon of St. Peter, St. Catherine's Monastery, 6th c. (Wikimedia Commons) Theodore Abu Qurrah was...