Anti-Catholic Attempts to Blame Catholics for a Questionable Luther Citation Passed Down by Three Admiring Protestants Photograph by “Bernd1968” [public domain / Pixabay] * * * (8-20-11) * * I wrote a paper on Luther’s view of the book of Esther (24 March 2007). In it I explained (right at the top) that I had made an honest mistake, and was correcting it (unfortunately, it made it into my book, A Biblical Defense of Catholicism, completed in 1996 and... Read more
An intact human embryo at 6-week embryonic age (or 8-week gestational age), from a ruptured ectopic pregnancy case [Wikimedia Commons / Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license] * * * (8-12-11) * * * Sometimes, in order to justify use of contraception, the advocate will attempt to equate NFP with it, as if there is no essential difference. It’s the same dynamic as running down annulment as “Catholic divorce” as if it is not essentially different, either. I think we can state... Read more
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
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
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
. . . 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
[Originally published with Catholic Answers in 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 6 August 2025 (Bridge Builders Press), with a different front and back cover and a better typescript, since the copyright has now reverted to my own name. 137 pages] *** [cover design by Kenny Burchard and Dave Armstrong] *** Purchase... Read more
[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
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
*** (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
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