The Old Library at Trinity College, Dublin, which displays the Book of Kells (Ireland: c. 800) every year. Photograph by Bro. Jeffrey Pioquinto, SJ (3-16-15) [Flickr / CC BY 2.0 license] *** (2-21-05) *** CPA’s words (he is a Lutheran professor of history) will be in green. Words of Catholics (and/or Catholic apologists – real or alleged) that CPA or I cite, will be in blue. * * * * * CPA has decided to highlight the alleged profound ignorance of “Internet... Read more
Book of Kells (Ireland: c. 800), Folio 291v, Portrait of St. John [public domain / Wikimedia Commons] *** (1996; from my book, A Biblical Defense of Catholicism) *** In order for Protestants to exercise the principles of sola Scriptura they first have to accept the antecedent premise of what books constitute Scripture — in particular, the New Testament books. This is not as simple as it may seem at first, accustomed as we are to accepting without question the New... Read more
Mary Magdalene and the Holy Women at the Tomb, by James Tissot (1836-1902) [public domain / Wikimedia Commons] *** My esteemed Presbyterian friend John E. Taylor argued for this equation in my Facebook combox. I believe I demonstrated that this is untrue; including citing eleven reputable Protestant scholars / scholarly works. His words will be in blue. *** “Are you he who is to come, or shall we look for another?” (Matthew 11:3, Luke 7:19). But which of US wouldn’t have been... Read more
St. John’s Lutheran Church in Zanesville, Ohio [public domain / Wikimedia Commons] *** (4-6-09) *** This is an exchange I had with a friendly Lutheran woman, on the Coming Home Network board; posted with her permission. Her words will be in blue. * * * * * Hi [name], So nice to “meet” you, and welcome to our forum. I hope you enjoy it here and find what you want and need. I hope you all can help me. I... Read more
Church in Malta [PublicDomainPictures.Net / CC0 license] *** (July 2000; some revisions on 12-8-11) ***** Fundamental Epistemological Reasons for Accepting Catholic Principles of Authority When faith is brought in, we can have a “certainty” in the biblical or spiritual sense. But as for “absolute certainty,” I have made the same argument about Protestants (Calvinist and eternal security Baptist-types) and their notion of absolute assurance of salvation. I have argued that one cannot know that with certainty, as they don’t know... Read more
Cologne Cathedral, Germany. Photograph by Vasil Kunchev (7-27-09) [Pexels.com / CC0 license] *** (5-1-99) *** This is a transcript of a May 1, 1999 interview via telephone with Dick Kelley (his words are in blue), host for a Connecticut Catholic apologetics television show called Pillar of Truth (my black-and-white mug shot appeared on the screen :-). The host and the studio crew liked my presentation on development of doctrine so much that they asked me if I would be willing... Read more
[Max Pixel / CC0 public domain] *** (1996) *** [The words in blue are paraphrases of actual dialogue comments or questions from an evangelical Protestant friend] ***** What do you tell the man on the street who is looking for spiritual and theological truth: “we can’t give you any certainty, but at least we’re not [with a grimace] Catholic.”? If you can’t even agree amongst yourselves as to who the legitimate “Reformation” Protestants are, how can you expect us to accept... Read more
[La traduction en français par Benoit Meyrieux s’est terminée le 13 avril 2017 et a été publiée à Lulu le même jour. 268 pages] [French translation by Benoit Meyrieux completed on 13 April 2017 and published at Lulu on the same day. 268 pages] *** Options d’achat / Purchase Options [PAPERBACK: $18.95] *** [see information for the original 2013 English version] [conception de couverture par Dave Armstrong] [Pour plus d’informations sur l’achat, allez au bas de la page] ***** BRÈVE DESCRIPTION... Read more
+ Refutation of a Clueless and Dumbfounded Imaginary Atheist “Biblical Contradiction” for the 3,862nd Time When a massive star exploded in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy to the Milky Way, it left behind an expanding shell of debris (supernova remnant). NASA Hubble Telescope photograph (released on 1-22-15) [public domain / Wikimedia Commons] ***** Awadhesh Kumar Singh appears to be an atheist. He showed up underneath my paper, “Catholicism and Evolution / Charles Darwin’s Religious Beliefs” in order to run down... Read more
Charles Darwin (1809-1882) in 1869. Photograph by J. Cameron [public domain / Wikimedia Commons] *** (8-19-09) *** From exchanges on the Coming Home Network board: *** David W. Emery, fellow moderator: Catholic dogma on creation states only two things: Whatever exists came into being because of God’s creative and providential action; and Adam and Eve were real people, the sole progenitors of the human race. How God created and formed the universe in its present form, or whether some sort... Read more
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