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Rome Teaches?
Mr. Shea seems to think that because Rome’s teaching on the painlessness of Mary’s birth is not explicit in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, it’s not one of Rome’s teachings (link). To put that issue to bed, let’s provide him with that teaching from a bishop of Rome. Sorry it’s not Benedict XVI or…
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Mark Shea and the Revelation 12 Woman
Over at his own blog, Mr. Shea has provided comments on what he calls: “For My Money, One of the Weakest Arguments Against the Immaculate Conception” (link). One of the reasons its such a weak argument against the immaculate conception is that it’s not actually an argument against the immaculate conception. Someone with average reading…
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Flattening Flimsy Flim-Flam
Mr. Mark Shea (link) seems to think that Dr. White’s post (link) is so much “huff-puffery.” Thankfully, the flim-flam from which Mr. Shea’s argument is constructed is so flimsy that it is flattened by even fairly rudimentary analysis. Mr. Shea seems to have forgotten the important lesson of the story of the three little pigs.…
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Rosary Power!
The superstitions associated with the Rosary are just tremendous, but a sincere belief in the power of the Rosary throughout Catholicism cannot be denied. I recall reading that the SSPX had prayed 1.7 Million rosaries (source – with critical Romanist commentary) from the time that they had come under Rome’s excommunication until the time the…
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Evangelicals – Could This be Your Child?
I was directed by Mark Shea to the blog of someone who Mr. Shea claims is “Another Protestant Start[ing] on the Whole ‘Going Deeper into History and Ceasing to be a Protestant’ Thing” (link to the person’s blog) (link to Shea’s blog). This person is someone who married a Romanist and is now in the…
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Islam’s Number One Enemy? Hardly.
Recently, a popular Catholic blogger (Mark Shea) described Coptic priest Zakaria Botros as Islam’s Public Enemy #1 (link to description). Among the reasons given were nine demands that Botros has made of the Islamic world. The demands appear to me to be purely polemical. I’ve rewritten them in my own words based on the presentation…
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Apologetics in the Information Age – a Response to Mark Shea
I’ve posted a new article at the Team Apologian blog. The general topic is the relevance and importance of apologetics. In some sense it is meta-apologetics – a defense of a defense of the faith. Here’s the first paragraph: The printing press revolutionized apologetics. Suddenly it became possible for books to be widely disseminated with…
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>Just for the Record on Reformed Catholicism
>As this Catholic blogger (Mark Shea, apparently) points out, “Reformed Catholicism,” is not Catholic, but for the record, it’s also not Reformed – it’s simply out there. It seems highly sympathetic to the Federal Vision and the CREC, which are, as at least one writer pointed out, not Reformed at all. Also, this means that…