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Follow Mary to Christ
Certain of those who engage in Marian devotion, insist that Mary leads them to Christ. Allow me to suggest that Mary’s example is better followed than anything else, if one wishes to be led by Mary to Christ. One thing seems fairly certain: Mary never prayed the Rosary. On the other hand, do you suppose…
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Reading Material for Mr. David Armstrong
It may be that, for some reason or other, Mr. Armstrong still pops by my blog. If so, I think he’ll get get a kick out of this post (link). Mr. Armstrong’s policy of labeling those who say that Rome teaches another gospel “anti-Catholics,” leads to a conflation between what the author of the linked…
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Criticism of Rome’s Celibate Priesthood – Rebuttals to Objections
A while back I had blogged a post on the Married Priest Movement (link), which garnered a variety of criticism, from one guy who insists that I must use the word “dissent” the way he says his church does – to several more interesting comments that I’d like to discuss below. The people are being…
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Same Church? We report, you decide.
Example 1Pope John Paul II: “[It] is everyone’s duty to work to ensure that the poor have access to credit on equitable terms and at affordable interest rates.” (source) (1 January 1998) Example 2Pope Sixtus V famously declared interest to be “detestable to God and man, damned by the sacred canons and contrary to Christian…
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Question to Romanists
Given the statement: “Religious minorities are entitled to be respected in their own religious convictions and practices. They are also entitled to their own places of worship, and their founding figures and symbols they consider sacred should not be subject to any form of mockery or ridicule.” a) Do you agree with the statement? b)…
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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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Galileo – Heretic or not?
A recent article (link) suggests that further attempts are being made at trying to rehabilitate Galileo. Almost all papists today would agree that Galileo was right and the Vatican was wrong. Most, however, would argue that the Vatican doesn’t claim any infallibility in areas of science. Here’s the problem, Galileo was tried not for science…
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Airport Philosophy and Sola Scriptura
“Life is not about the destination, it’s about the journey.” Steve Ray (a Romanist) responds to the above airport signage, with the follow: All of life is a profound journey but with very definite destinations: Heaven or Hell! If you’re on the travel through life ONLY for the thrill of the trip you’re in BIG…
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Clarification on the Tri-Partite Division of the Law
I have received a few comments from readers on my previous post on the three-fold division of the law given by Moses (link). A first comment comes from Stephen Garrett, who asked: Where is your scriptural support for dividing the law into those three categories of moral, ceremonial, and civil?Are we under the lawgiver Moses…
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Acorn Located!
You know that saying that even a blind squirrel eventually finds a nut? After two documented failures (one) (two), Mr. Matthew Bellisario has finally done it! He has located a “Protestant” service with some inappropriate material (in this case a mime show – link to Bellisario’s post) Mr. Bellisario finds this sort of thing absurd,…