Pope Francis Accusers Reject Magisterial Teaching on Popes

Last updated on: March 8, 2024 at 12:49 am By Dave Armstrong

The pope’s teaching is indefectible and cannot be judged or “overruled” by any man (or even an ecumenical council) The thesis of this paper is simple and easily understood: 1) Various papal bashers and critics such as Abp. Vigano, Bp. Schneider, Dr. Taylor Marshall, Phil Lawler, Henry Sire, Peter Kwasniewski, and a host of reactionary sites such as One Peter Five, The Remnant, Lifesite News, Rorate Caeli, Church Militant, and even (very sadly) an increasing number of otherwise orthodox Catholics... Read more

Debate: Trump, Sexual Misconduct, & the Christian Vote

Last updated on: July 22, 2020 at 1:07 pm By Dave Armstrong

This was originally an amiable, substantive, and constructive discussion on Facebook on 4-28-20, with two female critics of President Trump (words in green and blue [Jennifer Benjamin]). It branched out into what I thought was a very helpful and thought-provoking discussion of the nature of sexual assault and abuse and what we as a society can do to lessen the occurrences of these outrages. ***** Did you post this much about Trump’s mistreatment and lack of respect for women when he... Read more

Martin Luther on Suffering, Mortification, & Sanctity

Last updated on: July 21, 2020 at 6:05 pm By Dave Armstrong

I compiled Luther’s thoughts on these topics, as part of my book, The “Catholic” Luther: An Ecumenical Collection of His “Traditional” Utterances”: published in 2014. ***** Suffering and Sanctification [B]aptism makes all sufferings and especially death, profitable and helpful, since these things can only serve baptism in the doing of its work, i. e., in the slaying of sin. (Treatise on Baptism, Nov. 1519; tr. C. M. Jacobs; in W1) Who must not be terrified at these words of Paul,... Read more

Trump: Like King Ahab? Can We Vote for Him? (vs. Dr Edwin Tait)

Last updated on: July 21, 2020 at 4:27 pm By Dave Armstrong

This is constructed from Facebook discussions of 3 January 2017: still every bit as relevant and “controversial” or as “hot” of a topic now three years later. Church historian Dr. Edwin Tait‘s words will be in blue. A few current comments of mine (7-21-20) will be bracketed. *** I think that if American [politically] conservative Christianity is not under God’s wrath, then there is no meaningful way to say that any group of people has ever been under God’s wrath. This... Read more

Trump Did NOT Mock a Reporter’s Disability

Last updated on: July 20, 2020 at 1:37 pm By Dave Armstrong

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

How Much Sin Disqualifies a Politician / President?

Last updated on: July 20, 2020 at 12:24 pm By Dave Armstrong

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

2nd Reply to James Swan Re Luther’s Mariology

Last updated on: July 19, 2020 at 3:49 pm By Dave Armstrong

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

Luther & Killing Catholics: James Swan Butchers My Views

Last updated on: July 19, 2020 at 2:38 pm By Dave Armstrong

. . . 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

Bp. Schneider Evokes Luther’s Disdain for Councils

Last updated on: July 17, 2020 at 4:08 pm By Dave Armstrong

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

Anti-Francis = Anti-Vatican II (You Heard it Here First)

Last updated on: July 16, 2020 at 2:24 pm By Dave Armstrong

[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