This is an “outtake” from my book, The One-Minute Apologist. I have expanded it, adding commentary on Jude 7. ***** MARRIAGE AND FAMILY * The Catholic Church is wrong to condemn homosexuality, because it is natural * No Church has any right to tell people what to do with their own bodies * Initial reply * The Bible clearly condemns homosexual acts as intrinsically, gravely sinful. Desperate attempts to explain away this prohibition are futile; the Bible is too clear.... Read more
Romans 1:26-27 (RSV) For this reason God gave them up to dishonorable passions. Their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural, [27] and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in their own persons the due penalty for their error. St. Paul mentions “dishonorable passions.” The next word “for” shows that what follows is an example of what Paul calls “dishonorable.” The example is: “Their women exchanged natural... Read more
Compilation of 348 articles of mine for the National Catholic Register (29 September 2016 to 26 June 2025): enough material for six volumes of 203 + pages each (i.e., about 3 1/2 pages for each 1000-word article). Catholicism Explained (the material below constitutes a free online multi-volume “book” [1218 + pages]: first presented on 18 June 2023. This is a complete catechetical and apologetical explanation of the Catholic faith) I consider this collection to be a virtual book, even though... Read more
This is one of the absolutely classic, textbook marks of the radical Catholic reactionary mindset and mentality. I have observed and commented upon it for over 20 years. It’s mostly used to characterize the Vatican II documents, but also applied to things like the Catechism and utterances of Pope Francis (particularly Amoris Laetitia). Recently (on 11-2-19), Bishop Athanasius Schneider trotted it out, in his criticisms of Vatican II (which I documented): Here, Schneider points to the contradictions in the conciliar texts. At... Read more
[providing a service to my readers: avoid all these like the plague] See my definition explained, and my explanation for coining the term; also, here is my web page on reactionaries, where you can also find my two books on the topic (one / two). The Remnant (Michael J. Matt and Chris Ferrara) One Peter Five (Steve Skojec) Lifesite News Catholic Family News aka Catholic (Louie Verrecchio) Rorate Caeli Church Militant (Michael Voris) Toronto Catholic Witness Vox Cantoris (David Anthony Domet) Robert... Read more
Someone in a private forum asked this, and noted that our society’s ideals in this respect rarely are applied to women over 45 years of age. I’d say it is the opposite of how I have long defined radical secular feminism: “the detestation of men with an odd simultaneous desire to be as much like them in as many respects as possible.” It’s being comfortable in one’s own female “skin” and understanding the sublime greatness of being female, according to... Read more
William Whitaker (1548-1595) was a Calvinist Anglican apologist and Master of St. John’s College, Cambridge. His masterwork was Disputation on Holy Scripture: Against the Papists, Especially Bellarmine and Stapleton, published in 1588. I have utilized an online copy published in 1849 by the University Press of Cambridge. Bishop “Dr.” [???] James White, a zealous Reformed Baptist apologist and prominent defender of sola Scriptura, has sold the book on his website, and wrote about it in one such ad in 2007: Since the Reformation, only a few godly... Read more
The “inside story” (from Hilary White) of what happened among a cadre of well-known fanatical reactionaries on the very night Pope Francis was elected Dr. John Rao, “Rorate Caeli’s first-ever credentialed Conclave correspondent in 2013″ and regular Remnant columnist, signed the objection to the beatification of Pope St. John Paul II (posted at The Remnant). Reactionary Hilary White provides (at One Peter Five: 6-7-16) an utterly fascinating “inside” account about how she was with John Rao, Mike Matt (big shot at The Remnant), the late John Vennari... Read more
. . . So that Anyone Could Come up with the Complete Canon without Formal Church Proclamations? William Whitaker (1548-1595) was a Calvinist Anglican apologist and Master of St. John’s College, Cambridge. His masterwork was Disputation on Holy Scripture: Against the Papists, Especially Bellarmine and Stapleton, published in 1588. I have utilized an online copy published in 1849 by the University Press of Cambridge. Bishop “Dr.” [???] James White, a zealous Reformed Baptist apologist and prominent defender of sola Scriptura,... Read more
I’ve had so much fun tracing my ancestry and also doing DNA tests. It gets really interesting and fruitful when you can manage to tie into some royal lineage. That way, the people are famous, the birth and death records are very good, and the Internet makes it very easy to obtain information even beyond the paid plans of Ancestry.com. I “got into” the lineage of English royalty by means of King Edward IV (1442-1483; r. 1461-1483), and his mistress... Read more
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