Ecumenism & Christian Unity (Index Page)

Last updated on: May 1, 2025 at 12:53 pm By Dave Armstrong

4th World Day of Prayer for Peace, Assisi (Italy), October 27, 2011 (photograph by Stephan Kölliker) [Wikimedia Commons / Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license] *** TABLE OF CONTENTS *** I. CATHOLICS AND PROTESTANTS II. EASTERN CATHOLICISM III. ANTI-PROTESTANTISM IV. INTER-RELIGIOUS / INTER-FAITH DIALOGUE V. SALVATION “OUTSIDE” THE CHURCH / RELIGIOUS LIBERTY VI. JEWS AND JUDAISM VII. ISLAM VIII. ATHEISM AND CHRISTIAN RELATIONS *** *** I. CATHOLICS AND PROTESTANTS * John Wesley’s Ecumenical Letter to Catholics in Dublin [Facebook, 1991]... Read more

Protestantism: Historic Persecution & Intolerance

Last updated on: June 16, 2025 at 1:02 pm By Dave Armstrong

Photograph by Hans [Pixabay / CC0 public domain] ***** TABLE OF CONTENTS *** I. INTRODUCTORY / OVERVIEW II. CATHOLIC MARTYRS OF THE ENGLISH “REFORMATION” III. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT (ON THE CONTINENT) FOR HAVING DIFFERENT BELIEFS IV. PLUNDERING AND THEFT OF CATHOLIC CHURCH PROPERTIES V. OPPOSITION TO CO-EXISTENCE WITH CATHOLICS AND THE MASS (“ANTI-ECUMENISM”) VI. ANTI-CATHOLIC PENAL LAWS VII. ICONOCLASM (DESTRUCTION OF ART AS “IDOLATRY”) / EDUCATION VIII. PROTESTANT INTOLERANCE AND PERSECUTIONS IX. GERMAN PEASANTS’ REVOLT (1524-1525) *** *** I.... Read more

Anti-Catholicism (Index Page for Apologist Dave Armstrong)

Last updated on: June 25, 2025 at 9:44 am By Dave Armstrong

TABLE OF CONTENTS *** I. JIM ANDERSON II. VICTOR ANDRADE III. DR. JOHN ANKERBERG AND DR. JOHN WELDON (BAPTIST) IV. DR. GREG BAHNSEN V. TODD BAKER VI. LUCAS BANZOLI VII. CHRIS BAYACK VIII. RICHARD BENNETT IX. BIBLE AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH X. GABRIEL BRASILEIRO XI. BART BREWER XII. JOHN BUGAY XIII. KEVIN CAULEY (CHURCH OF CHRIST) XIV. CHAT ROOM DEBATE CHALLENGE XV. JACK CHICK XVI. JASON ENGWER XVII. “EXCATHOLIC4CHRIST” (TOM)... Read more

Radical Catholic Reactionaries vs. Catholic Traditionalism

Last updated on: May 1, 2025 at 12:27 pm By Dave Armstrong

(December 2012, 205 pages) [see complete information and purchase options; this book will shortly be available for free online] *** Disclaimer I highly urge more mainstream “traditionalists” who read any of the papers listed below, to first read my paper: Definitions: Radical Catholic Reactionaries, Mainstream “Traditionalists,” and Supposed “Neo-Catholics” (Chapter One of my book, Mass Movements: Radical Catholic Reactionaries, the New Mass, and Ecumenism), and also my Introduction to this book, as well as my article, Radical Catholic Reactionaries: What... Read more

John Calvin: Catholic Appraisal (Index Page)

Last updated on: June 10, 2025 at 10:53 pm By Dave Armstrong

[book and purchase information] ***** TABLE OF CONTENTS *** I. CALVIN’S VIEW OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH HEADED BY THE POPE (AND OF LUTHERANISM) / ECCLESIOLOGY II. SECTARIANISM, CALVINISTS OF HIS DAY, TRADITION, RULE OF FAITH, AND SOLA SCRIPTURA III. PREDESTINATION / SUPRALAPSARIANISM / SOVEREIGNTY / ELECT / PERSEVERANCE OF THE SAINTS / TOTAL DEPRAVITY IV. SOTERIOLOGY / SALVATION / GRACE / FAITH AND WORKS / SIN V. SACRAMENTS (ESP. BAPTISM AND THE EUCHARIST) AND SACRAMENTALS VI. MARIOLOGY VII. CHRISTOLOGY VIII.... Read more

Liberal Theology & Modernism (Index Page)

Last updated on: May 1, 2025 at 12:55 pm By Dave Armstrong

Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher (1768-1834), the “Father of Modern Liberal Theology” [public domain / Wikimedia Commons] * * * * * TABLE OF CONTENTS *** I. General II. Deconversions III. Pope Francis: Liberal? IV. Christological Heresy V. Trashing or Questioning the Bible / Theologically Liberal or Skeptical Exegesis / Torah / Documentary Hypothesis VI. Sexual Issues VII. Implications for Ecclesiology? VIII. Modernist Skeptical Historiography *** *** I. General Dissident Catholics: Disproof of Catholic Doctrinal Unity? [6-3-96] * Have Heterodox Catholics... Read more

Conversion and Converts (Catholic) Index Page

Last updated on: May 12, 2025 at 8:24 pm By Dave Armstrong

[published in 2013] [see full book and purchase information] ***** TABLE OF CONTENTS *** I. INDIVIDUAL CONVERSIONS II. MY METHODIST AND PAGAN YEARS / EVANGELICAL CONVERSION (1977) III. MY CATHOLIC CONVERSION (1990) IV. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS AND INFORMATION V. C. S LEWIS AND CATHOLICISM VI. PROTESTANT ANALYSES OF CATHOLIC CONVERSION (AND MY COUNTER-REPLIES) *** *** I. INDIVIDUAL CONVERSIONS G. K. Chesterton’s Conversion to Catholicism (In Brief) [1991; published by The Coming Home Newsletter, Sep. / Oct. 1996] Ronald Knox’s Conversion to... Read more

Inquisition, Crusades, & “Catholic Scandals” (Index Page)

Last updated on: June 5, 2025 at 11:40 pm By Dave Armstrong

* * * * * TABLE OF CONTENTS *** I. Inquisition, Crusades, and “Dark Ages” II. The Sexual Scandal in the Catholic Church III. Sinners in the Church IV. Paganism, Slavery, & Other Real or Imagined Scandals (like Halloween) V. The Galileo Controversy VI. Pope Pius XII and the Nazi Holocaust / Persecution of Jews / Anti-Semitism *** *** I. Inquisition, Crusades, and “Dark Ages” Dialogue on the Crusades, the Inquisition[s], & Slavery [1998; Addendum added on 11-2-03]... Read more

Eastern Orthodoxy & Catholicism (Index Page)

Last updated on: May 1, 2025 at 12:45 pm By Dave Armstrong

[see full book and purchase information] *** TABLE OF CONTENTS *** I. GENERAL / MISCELLANEOUS II. MYSTERY AND REASON III. FILIOQUE / HOLY TRINITY IV. THE PAPACY V. DIVORCE AND ANNULMENT VI. CONTRACEPTION VII. ORIGINAL SIN VIII. BLESSED VIRGIN MARY IX. PRIESTLY CELIBACY X. HOLY EUCHARIST XI. ECUMENISM / ECCLESIOLOGY XII. THEOSIS XIII. PURGATORY AND LIMBO *** *** I. GENERAL / MISCELLANEOUS Roman See as Historic Standard-Bearer of Orthodoxy (+ the Ecclesiological Absurdity of Anti-Catholic-Type Eastern Orthodox Arguments... Read more

The [Catholic] Church and Ecclesiology (Index Page)

Last updated on: July 21, 2025 at 4:34 pm By Dave Armstrong

Strasbourg Cathedral (Alsace, France). At 466 feet, it was the world’s tallest building from 1647 to 1874. It remains the highest extant structure built entirely in the Middle Ages. Photo by David Iliff (2-8-14) [Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-SA 3.0 license] *** This testimony of the universal holy Christian Church, even if we had nothing else, would be a sufficient warrant for holding this article [on the sacrament] and refusing to suffer or listen to a sectary, for it is dangerous and fearful to... Read more