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Am I Safe from Rome’s Anathemas?
A pseudonymous blogger under the penname Reginald de Piperno (RdP), responding to my opening post in my series on Trent (link to post), stated: For example, TF claims that he is under the anathema of Trent. But unless he is or was formally Catholic, this is flatly impossible. I do not understand the seeming fondness…
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Reginald Tries Again
I was glad to see that Reginald took another shot at the issue of important Roman Catholic bishops publicly going wildly wrong on doctrine (link). Unfortunately, he still doesn’t quite get it. First, he argues that fallibility of bishops does indeed explain why they sometimes get doctrine wildly wrong. No doubt. Again, no one suggested…
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Reginald di Piperno Misses the Point
Apparently Reginald di Piperno (a pseudonym – like my own) has missed the point (link). Reginald seems to have mistakenly concluded that I imagine the Roman Catholic position to be that individual bishops (other than the bishop of Rome) are infallible. Of course that’s not what I think or what my previous post suggested (link…
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Comparing the Mass to Animal Sacrifices
Reginald, who had been providing some interaction on 2 Thessalonians 2:15 appears to have lost interest in that discussion because he didn’t like this comment I made in passing in another (completely unrelated) discussion: As to (1), the application to transubstantiation is too easy. So, I’ll leave it at that. Reginald doesn’t really explain why…
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2 Thessalonians 2:15 – Additional Clarification
This is the third post in a series on 2 Thessalonians 2:15 (main post) (comment answered – additional examples). Reginald has provided some additional comments in a new post (link). Preliminary Clarifications Before going through Reginald’s comments in detail, I think it would be worthwhile to address a couple matters briefly and generally. 1. I…
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2 Thess 2:15 – Comments Answered
Introduction “Reginald de Piperno” has provided a post that appears to be aimed at objecting to my previous post on 2 Thessalonians 2:15, available here. I appreciate that he read my post and took the time to respond. DiscussionAs best I understand, RdP grants 1(a) and seems to grant 1(b) although he wants to define…
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Reginald Suggests that Roman Catholics Deny the Subjective Sinfulness of Involuntary Sin
Reginald (a Roman Catholic blogger) in a recent comment on his own blog suggested that Roman Catholics do not believe that involuntary sin is subjectively sinful (although they would agree that it is objectively sinful). In this regard they are clearly contrary to the Orthodox who routinely pray for God to forgive both their voluntary…