dissenters

June 2021

June 22, 2021
My frequent sparring partner, atheist anti-theist Jonathan MS Pearce (from A Tippling Philosopher) wrote a...

March 2021

March 23, 2021
On 15 March 2021, AP News published the article, "Vatican bars gay union blessing, says...
March 05, 2021
Phil Lawler is the author of Lost Shepherd: How Pope Francis is Misleading His Flock (2018)....

October 2020

October 22, 2020
I've seen this process take place over and over, in my seven-and-a-half years of defending...

September 2020

September 25, 2020
This is a response to Ferrara's article, "The Importance of Not Being Us" (The Remnant,...

May 2020

May 06, 2020
This occurred in a public post on Patrick Coffin's Facebook page, then later on Leila...

February 2020

February 04, 2020
This is one of a series of extensive excerpts (with my occasional commentary) from The...

January 2020

January 02, 2020
First posted on Karl Keating's Facebook page. His words will be in blue. ***** Mine...

February 2019

February 21, 2019
This is an exchange with my frequent atheist debating partner, Anthrotheist. It began in the...
February 15, 2019
This took place in the combox of my blog post, "Catholic Sex & Heterodoxy Scandals:...
February 12, 2019
A lot more people than just Pope Francis are implicated in lack of action to...

September 2018

September 15, 2018
Back in 1997, a Protestant correspondent, who was considering conversion to Catholicism asked me about...

July 2018

July 31, 2018
Explanation of the Subtleties of Church Teaching and Debate with Several Radical Catholic Reactionaries [words...

April 2018

April 28, 2018
. . . That is, He Deliberately Sows Confusion, When it Need Not Be So At...
April 06, 2018
In October 2017, papal critic Sandro Magister wrote an article in L'Ezpresso Magazine (reprinted at the...
April 02, 2018
I've come to expect lame arguments from fundamentalist anti-Catholics and atheists about Scripture: wooden literalism,...

March 2018

March 31, 2018
All the usual suspects are now coming out of the woodwork, given the latest press...
March 30, 2018
Now there is another stink about Pope Francis supposedly not believing in hell (flat-out denying...
March 27, 2018
This series of mini-dialogues (most, frustratingly incomplete and "left hanging," in my opinion), occurred in...
March 24, 2018
Is Douthat's book of strong criticism of Pope Francis a good or bad thing? This...
March 24, 2018
It's Ross Douthat who is being used as a puppet of the devil, not Pope...
March 12, 2018
I've noticed these motifs coming up again and again in reviews of this book and...
March 10, 2018
Stephen Phelan is vice president of family initiatives for the St. John Paul II Foundation, based...
March 08, 2018
This is the mindset of radical Catholic reactionaries today, directed not only against Blessed Pope Paul...
March 06, 2018
These exchanges occurred underneath a related post of mine, and under my review of Phil...
March 06, 2018
[the following is a fictional dialogue, but carefully based on existing widespread opinions about the...

February 2018

February 26, 2018
[the following is a bit disjointed because it is an initial post (originally on Facebook),...
February 26, 2018
[See the review at Amazon. Here the original italics are restored and I have added...
February 22, 2018
Sin in the Church and Dreher's Inadequately Explained Rejection of Catholic Doctrine Rod Dreher, over...

January 2018

January 29, 2018
Fresh new approaches to old Catholic truths are suspected to be intended heterodoxy. ***** I think of, for...
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