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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 24, 2025

A Clarification on Constantinople IV and Luke 10:16

In the previous article, I discussed Luke 10:16, the question of authority, and how...

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...

February 2024

February 12, 2024

The Donation of Constantine and the Papacy:

A little way back, I had set my mind to writing a series of...

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...

January 2023

January 30, 2023

Does 1 Corinthians 10 prove that St. Peter is not the “rock” upon which Christ built His Church?

“ [2] And all in Moses were baptized, in the cloud, and in the sea: [3] And did all eat...

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 17, 2022

Rome, Babylon, and 1 Peter 5:13 Revisited

"The church that is in Babylon, elected together with you, saluteth you: and so...

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...

August 2020

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...

January 2019

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...

January 05, 2019

A Primer on the Crusades

Urban II Preaching the First Crusade (Wikimedia Commons) The Historical Context In the wake...