Intense Immigration Dialogue (w John Cavanaugh-O’Keefe)

Last updated on: September 23, 2017 at 4:21 pm By Dave Armstrong

See the previous installment. We had a little blow-up, but we reconciled (which was a beautiful thing). So here we are again. He first wrote these words on his Facebook page, and I respond here. His words will be in blue. * * * * * A few days ago, I started an exploration of views on immigration and related issues with Dave Armstrong. We got as far as a clear and explicit agreement that the Catholic Church teaching on... Read more

Martin Luther Condemns Masturbation (“Secret Sin”)

Last updated on: January 4, 2020 at 1:25 pm By Dave Armstrong

Photo credit: Martin Luther, Bust in Three-Quarter View (1520), by Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553) [public domain / Wikimedia Commons] (6-2-10) *** This post has been re-uploaded under the title, Martin Luther Condemned Masturbation (“Secret Sin”). *** Read more

On Feminine Metaphors, Pronouns, & Attributes of God

Last updated on: September 22, 2017 at 10:09 am By Dave Armstrong

This is a discussion that took place on Scott Eric Alt’s Facebook page (public post). Henry Karlson’s words will be in blue, Sam Urfer’s in green; that of all others in brown. My words are in regular black. ***** [Rebecca Bratten Weiss; henceforth “RBW”] I was attacked for referring to the HS as “she.” These folks are ignorant of tradition. Of course they are. [Laura Grantham Broussard: LGB] Are they really this stupid? I thought these people obsessed over Classical Education? Hagia... Read more

“Absurd” Protestant Divisions: Calvin’s Revealing Lament to Melanchthon

Last updated on: September 21, 2017 at 4:31 pm By Dave Armstrong

*** (2-6-06) *** Letter of John Calvin (1509-1564): the second most important leader of the Protestant Revolt or so-called “Reformation” to Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560): Protestant founder Martin Luther‘s right-hand man and successor; dated 28 November 1552: But it greatly concerns us to cherish faithfully and constantly to the end the friendship which God has sanctified by the authority of his own name, seeing that herein is involved either great advantage or great loss even to the whole Church. For you... Read more

Eucharistic Real Presence: Luther’s Magnificent Defense

Last updated on: November 22, 2021 at 1:48 pm By Dave Armstrong

He simply believed in the miracles of the literal presence of Jesus’ body and blood alongside the bread and wine. Read more

Dialogue on Rebecca Bratten Weiss’ Teaching on Sexuality

Last updated on: September 20, 2017 at 4:32 pm By Dave Armstrong

I have written three articles on the controversy swirling around Rebecca Bratten Weiss, and her dismissal as an adjunct professor from Franciscan University of Steubenville (for supposedly not being “pro-life enough”). Today, I talked about something a little different. It was said that she denied Church doctrine, and I repeatedly pressed her critic and it moved into this subject matter. I was in my full “socratic method” mode. We seemed to have accomplished at least a little mutual understanding and constructive... Read more

Conniving Dirt-Gatherers & Gossips vs. Rebecca Bratten Weiss

Last updated on: September 20, 2017 at 12:41 pm By Dave Armstrong

I wrote an initial defense of “leftist” pro-lifer and English professor Rebecca Bratten Weiss, taking on the LifeSiteNews hit piece against her. Then I wrote a second, pondering seemingly unsavory (and related?) aspects of her dismissal as an adjunct professor from Franciscan University of Steubenville. I reiterate again that it’s not my intent at all to bash the entire university. Rebecca herself didn’t even do that on a podcast yesterday. I’m a huge fan of it. We don’t know enough... Read more

Pope St. Leo the Great (r. 440-461) and Papal Supremacy

Last updated on: September 19, 2017 at 4:31 pm By Dave Armstrong

Pope St. Leo the Great, who reigned from 440 to 461, considered by many Protestant and secular historians as the first pope, and revered as a saint by the Orthodox, spoke perhaps more clearly than anyone up to that time concerning Roman primacy and papal duties, prerogatives, and supremacy, yet his views were merely the culmination and more advanced development of what had been the essential beliefs of the universal (that is, Catholic) Church from the beginning. All the words... Read more

New Info on Bratten Weiss Controversy (National Catholic Reporter)

Last updated on: September 20, 2017 at 12:52 pm By Dave Armstrong

I recently wrote a post on this blog entitled, “Defending Rebecca Bratten Weiss at LifeSiteNews” (9-16-17). My perspective was not to defend everything she writes about and believes. To me, that was quite beside the point. Indeed, we have many profound disagreements, and I’ve written several critiques of the New Pro-Life Movement and leftist pro-life outlook in general (see that section on my Life Issues web page). My expressed opinion was that she was savaged unfairly without being given the simple... Read more

My Conversion: Apathy, Occult, Evangelicalism, & Catholicism (Pt. 3)

Last updated on: November 5, 2017 at 4:37 pm By Dave Armstrong

Part Three: Evangelical “Born-Again” (?) Experience, More Lukewarmness, and Personal Revival (1977-1982) This is the ten-part story of my complete religious history, from nominal Methodism (1958-1967), to the occult and practical atheism (1968-1976), through evangelical Protestantism, counter-cult, pro-life, evangelistic, and apologetics work (1977-1990), and finally on to the fullness of the Catholic faith in 1991. It is found complete (75 pages) in my 2013 book, Catholic Converts and Conversion. See All Ten Parts: Part One: Nominal Methodism, Occult, and the Seeds of a... Read more

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