[see book and purchase information] Words of Bishop “Dr.” [???] James White will be in blue. ***** In an article on his blog, dated 10-31-09 [linked below], he attacked Dr. Francis Beckwith: We get the distinct feeling that despite spending 90 days doing the study that led him back to Rome, Dr. Beckwith somehow missed the best works from the non-Roman Catholic viewpoint. I see no reason to believe he worked through Chemnitz or Whittaker [sic] or Goode or... Read more
[John Calvin’s words will be in blue; Tim Staples’ in green; anti-Catholic Reformed polemicist James Swan’s in brown] **** Catholic apologist and friend Tim Staples has a new book out about Mariology, entitled, Behold Your Mother: A Biblical and Historical Defense of the Marian Doctrines. On 10 October 2014 at the Catholic Answers blog, he wrote a related post, entitled, “Apologists Make Mistakes, Too!” Well, of course we do (as far as that goes)! No argument there. I am questioning, however, whether we have been (hugely) mistaken... Read more
Instead, He Absurdly Blames Catholic Apologists for Historical Errors of Protestant Writers [Anti-Catholic Calvinist polemicist James Swan’s words will be in blue] ***** It’s simply amazing, the amount of misinformation, disinformation and propaganda James Swan dishes out. He can’t help himself. He’s so used to — in his profound anti-Catholic bigotry — lying about and distorting anything that Catholic apologists do (above all, anything I do), that he literally could no sooner stop this than Niagara Falls could reverse its course. His latest farcical entry... Read more
[Martin Luther’s own words below will be in blue; Hartmann Grisar’s footnotes (only) in brown; James Swan’s words in green] *** The big myth under consideration is the commonly heard legend among Protestants (especially of an anti-Catholic bent) of Catholic hostility to the Bible and desire to keep it out of the hands of the people, for fear that its doctrines will be exposed as contrary to the Bible. I have written about the falsity of this charge: Catholic Church: Historic “Enemy” of... Read more
From my book, Bible Proofs for Catholic Truths (2009), except that here I use the RSV version rather than KJV. ***** 1 Samuel 11:6; 18:12 And the spirit of God came mightily upon Saul when he heard these words, . . . Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD was with him but had departed from Saul. Ezekiel 18:24 But when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity and does the same abominable things that... Read more
NBA basketball has been my favorite sport to watch for over 30 years now: ever since the Detroit Pistons, led by Isiah Thomas started becoming very good in the late 80s. I was born and raised in Detroit (till age 17) and have lived in metro Detroit my whole life. So I will obviously have that local bias. But I will make a “case” for the “bad boy” Pistons of that era, over against the bum rap that they seem... Read more
This occurred in a public post on Patrick Coffin’s Facebook page, then later on Leila Lawler’s public Facebook page. ***** Patrick Coffin: Don’t miss next week’s episode of The Patrick Coffin Show —Making Sense of Pope Francis with author Phil Lawler. Mike Mudd: Wanna make it really interesting, have Dave Armstrong on as well. :-) Lawler would never agree, even if I wanted to, so it’s a complete non-starter. Mike Mudd: Even so, it would be a great show to discuss... Read more
[photo source] *** Anti-Catholic Reformed Protestant polemicist James Swan put up “The Beggars All Insultapalooza Post” which documents some insults (and true statements) made about him. He included four of my comments (all of which are quite true and easily able to be massively defended and documented): James Swan Bolsters His Reputation as a Dense Amateur Church Historian and Hypocritical Nitpicker Yet Again. So let Swan play his games and spend his time on trifles and stupid stuff. But a... Read more
I just put up earlier today, a paper dealing with an attempt in 2015 of anti-Catholic Calvinist apologist James Swan, to belittle a mistake regarding Luther’s successor Philip Melanchthon that I made in my research, that actually originates from an erroneous citation made by secular historian Will Durant. I noted in it that this was his frequent methodology, and cited another paper of mine on the Anabaptists, which caused Swan to make a very embarrassing citation error (mistaking a 16th... Read more
Because secularist historian Will Durant misattributed a quote to the Lutheran successor of Martin Luther, Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560) and I cited it in 1991 research, therefore, according to Calvinist anti-Catholic polemicist, James Swan, “Rome’s cyber-apologists” are guilty of “sloppy work” and this is an illustrative example of “Rome’s apologists at their best” and therefore, Catholics aren’t “deep into history.” Huh? This is really how this guy “argues,” believe it or not. It’s from a recent paper by Swan, posted on his Boors All website.... Read more
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