This lie (a real whopper) is up there with the most notorious anti-Trump lies (like supposedly calling Neo-Nazis “very fine people”), and there is no way that the people who promulgated it did not know that it was patently untrue. They put it out because they thought it would work to defeat Trump. They couldn’t care less that it was a flat-out lie and full-scale distortion of what actually occurred. It was decisively refuted and exposed for the filth that... Read more
The following is a collection of nine Facebook posts written about this general topic during the 2016 campaign (and two from after that election). Since this issue and President Trump himself remain very controversial “hot topics”, I decided to move them over to my blog. At the end I engage in very extensive debate with Church historian Dr. Edwin Woodruff Tait, who is of the opinion that enthusiastic Trump supporters (not just the ones who plugged their noses when they... Read more
This is greatly abridged version of the original lengthy paper (dated 6-28-03). It was a rebuttal of Anti-Catholic Reformed Protestant polemicist James Swan’s paper, Luther’s Theology of Mary: A Response to Catholic Apologist Dave Armstrong (June 2003), which was in response to my paper, Counter-Reply: Martin Luther’s Mariology (Particularly the Immaculate Conception): Has Present-Day Protestantism Maintained the “Reformational” Heritage of Classical Protestant Mariology? (+ Part II | Part III), which was a reply to his 2003 article, “Martin Luther’s Theology of Mary.” Swan’s words will be... Read more
. . . for the umpteenth time . . . Just Reward for the Most Satanic Pope and His Cardinals: “hanging” woodcut by Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553), commissioned by Martin Luther in 1545. Luther’s accompanying text reads: “If the pope and cardinals were to receive temporal punishment on earth, their blasphemous tongues would deserve what is rightly depicted here.” [James Swan’s words will be in blue] *** Time and again it is seen that a mere polemicist for a point... Read more
There are certain things I have constantly asserted with regard to radical Catholic reactionaries, in the 20+ years I have closely studied them and refuted their errors (including two books written about them, in 2002 and 2012). One of these is that their mentality or spirit of arbitrary “picking-and-choosing” what they will accept or reject of the Church’s teaching and authority is exactly like that of 1) theologically liberal / dissident / modernist Catholics (real or so-called) and 2) Protestants... Read more
[note: the title of this paper is a generalization; not meant to imply that there are no exceptions, but rather, to express a strong correlation] As I’ve been saying for many years now, the endless lies about Pope Francis are almost always accompanied by “anti-Vatican II, anti-Ordinary Form Mass, and anti-ecumenism”: the four hallmarks of radical Catholic reactionaries. I wrote eight months ago: “as always in these matters, ‘it ain’t just about Pope Francis.’ These people have had... Read more
On 5 May 2016, I wrote my prediction paper: 15 Reasons Why Trump Wins in November. On 9 November 2016 I followed up with My Successful May Predictions About the 2016 Election, in which I described how I was correct in 13 out of my 15 predictions (or 87%). I also detailed on Facebook right after the election how I got 46 of 50 states right in the electoral college, and was just seven electoral votes off of the final result. This was... Read more
. . . and his particular animus against the Austrian Jesuit and biographer of Luther: Hartmann Grisar James Swan is an anti-Catholic Reformed Protestant polemicist, with whom I’ve been debating for 17 years. One of his constant themes in his research (mostly regarding Martin Luther) is his loud and repeated insistence on recourse to primary historical source materials. He is unsparing and merciless in criticizing Catholic apologists in this respect. He has made this clear a billion times on his... Read more
And Has Present-Day Protestantism Maintained the Classical “Reformation” Protestant Mariology? In my 1994 article, Martin Luther Was Extraordinarily Devoted to Mary, I observed: Luther indeed was quite devoted to Our Lady, and retained most of the traditional Marian doctrines which were held then and now by the Catholic Church. This is often not well-documented in Protestant biographies of Luther and histories of the 16th century, yet it is undeniably true. It seems to be a natural human tendency for latter-day followers... Read more
Broken homes as the primary factor; with my friend, atheist Marxist Jon Curry (words in blue) [I linked an article about 64 shootings and 13 deaths in Chicago over another weekend] Same old failed liberal / Democrat social & political policies; same old tragic results . . . How about trying conservative politics and Christian social and moral positions for a change? Not much to lose on the south side of Chicago . . . What exactly are you proposing to... Read more
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