Birth Control Pills Often Cause Early Abortions (Links)

Last updated on: May 30, 2017 at 3:54 pm By Dave Armstrong

Model of a contraceptive pill, Europe, c. 1970 [Wikimedia Commons / Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license] * * (8-12-11) * * * “Birth Control” Pills Cause Early Abortions (J. T. Finn, updated April 23, 2005) [Pro-Life America] The Pill – How it Works and Fails (John Wilkes) [distributed by American Life League] Postfertilization Effects of Oral Contraceptives and Their Relationship to Informed Consent (Walter L. Larimore, MD; Joseph B. Stanford, MD, MSPH) [Archives of Family Medicine, February 2000, Volume 9 Number 2,... Read more

Catholic Lay Apologetics: Long “Magisterially Approved” History

Last updated on: May 30, 2017 at 3:58 pm By Dave Armstrong

Sketch of G. K. Chesterton (unknown, c. 1920) [public domain / Wikimedia Commons] G. K. Chesterton was a lay apologist with no theological education and no college degree (yet he was the most successful Catholic apologist of the 20th century) * * * (8-2-11) * * * Silly, Foolish Pronouncements by Anti-Catholic Polemicists: TAO (The Anonymous One): But in practice, that top-down management Rome provides allows loose cannons like Armstrong to do what they do, even when what they do... Read more

“Science vs. Catholicism” Myths Refuted

Last updated on: May 30, 2017 at 4:01 pm By Dave Armstrong

Original title: “Typical ‘Science vs. Catholicism’ Criticisms (and Myths) from an Agnostic Scientist Refuted” (7-29-11) Lavoisier: line engraving by Louis Jean Desire Delaistre, after a design by Julien Leopold Boilly [public domain / Wikimedia Commons] Antoine Lavoisier: the Father of Chemistry (1743-1794) was the real “martyr for science”: not Galileo or the rank heretic Bruno. Galileo was sentenced to comfortable house arrest by a Catholic tribunal. Lavoisier was not nearly so lucky: he got his head cut off by... Read more

Massacres and Subjective Unwarranted Conclusions

Last updated on: May 30, 2017 at 4:05 pm By Dave Armstrong

. . . Drawn from So-Called “Symbolic” Evil Acts Candlelight vigil in London for the victims of the Peshawar school massacre, in which 141 people were killed. Photo by Kashif Haque (17 December 2014) [Wikimedia Commons / Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license] * * * (7-28-11) * * * I wrote the following in a personal letter today; thought I’d share it with you (with a few little additions, as I read it over): What frosts me about things like this... Read more

Armstrong: “100 Biblical Arguments Against Sola Scriptura”

Last updated on: February 27, 2025 at 12:41 pm By Dave Armstrong

[Originally published with Catholic Answers in mid-May 2012 (completed on 11-4-11) and edited by Todd Aglialoro, who also edited A Biblical Defense of Catholicism, The Catholic Verses, and The One-Minute Apologist (all bestsellers). This is a slightly revised edition from January 2025, and the copyright has now reverted to my own name. The book is 135 pages long] *** [cover design by Devin Schadt] *** — For purchase information, go to the bottom of the page — *** TABLE OF CONTENTS... Read more

My “Orthodoxy & Catholicism” Read by Czech Bishops & Priests

Last updated on: May 30, 2017 at 4:21 pm By Dave Armstrong

[see book and purchase information] *** (6-16-11) *** I received a letter from Bishop Ladislav Hučko: Bishop – Apostolic Exarch of the Greek-Catholic Church, in Prague (Byzantine Rite). He asked for permission to reprint up to 200 copies of my book, Orthodoxy and Catholicism: A Comparison [1st edition] (already translated into Czech) for his priests and fellow Czech bishops. There are eight Bohemian bishops in the Czech Republic and five Moravian bishops. The country has eight dioceses and an Apostolic Exarchate.... Read more

Quibble About Lutheran Dislike of the Term “Consubstantiation”

Last updated on: September 21, 2017 at 2:00 pm By Dave Armstrong

Allegoric representation of Sacramental union, the Lutheran doctrine of Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist, after a woodcut by Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553). In the front Communion under both kinds is pictured with (on the left) Martin Luther giving the chalice to John, Elector of Saxony. [public domain / Wikimedia Commons] *** (4-20-11) *** A former Lutheran, not-sure-what-he-believes-now-but-attends-Mass friend of mine stated in my comboxes: Catholics have this bad tendency to try to label other people. E.g., Catholics call... Read more

Anglican Newman on the Falsity of Perspicuity (Clearness) of Scripture

Last updated on: May 30, 2017 at 4:24 pm By Dave Armstrong

*** (3-7-11) *** The following are excerpts from my book of quotations from Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman: The Quotable Newman. The first selection is from his book, Arians of the Fourth Century (1833). The second is from Tracts for the Times #73: On the Introduction of Rationalistic Principles into Revealed Religion (1836). All of the remaining excerpts are from Tracts for the Times #85: Lectures on the Scripture Proof of the Doctrines of the Church (September 1838). * *... Read more

Newman on Theological Liberalism (“Tracts of the Times” No. 73)

Last updated on: May 30, 2017 at 4:26 pm By Dave Armstrong

(3-5-11) *** See the online version of Tract 73 (On the Introduction of Rationalistic Principles into Revealed Religion): dated 1836. Newman nails the theologically liberal / dissident / heterodox / “progressive” mentality in this tract. In the aspects he deals with, the thinking is no different today. Error and disbelief and self-contradictory worldviews are seen to be boringly repetitive (and for that matter, boorish), as always. * * * * * Rationalism is a certain abuse of Reason;... Read more

Books by Dave Armstrong: “The Quotable Newman” (2012)

Last updated on: March 18, 2023 at 12:16 pm By Dave Armstrong

“. . . A Definitive Guide to His Central Thoughts and Ideas“ [completed on 19 August 2011; accepted for publication by Sophia Institute Press on 28 September 2011. 415-page version edited down on 29 February 2012. Paperback published on 12 October 2012] *** [cover design by Carolyn McKinney]— For purchase information, go to the bottom of the page — [see also The Quotable Newman, Vol. II] *** Foreword by Joseph Pearce EXCERPT *** Cardinal Newman on Rationalistic Theological Liberalism vs.... Read more