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Do Romanists Pray to Saints?
Sometimes we hear claims that Romanists pray to saints. Then we read blog articles like this one (link) and we realize that, no, we were right. They do pray to saints. They even then give glory for answering prayer to the saints to whom they pray. Here’s a link to the prayer used, reportedly with…
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Two Reasons I’m not a Romanist
Because (1) you can do everything Rome tells you to do and still perish, and (2) the religion of Rome makes no promise to be the unique way to heaven. (link) Now, obviously, these are not the traditional doctrines (pre-Vatican II), but I don’t think I could be a Sedavacantist for other reasons. Warning: the…
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What Place Has the Highest Crime Rate?
According to the Catholic News Service, “Per capita, Vatican City has the highest crime rate in the world.” (read more) I was surprised to hear that. I’m guessing that if one considered violent crime, the ranking would be practically inverted because of the ability to control security there. Then again, who knows. Bottom line: Vatican…
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What’s Not to Like?
At Dave Armstrong’s blog, a post entitled: “Why is the Catholic Church so Hated?” caught my eye (to give you some background, Dave Armstrong is himself a papist). The format of the post is as follows: 1) A “Presbyterian” woman makes a claim that she sees a lot of “hatred” for “the Catholic Church.” 2)…
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First Post of the First Round of Sola Scriptura Debate Posted
The post may be found here (link). I have titled the debate “Sola Scriptura vs. Roman Catholicism,” not because I am unaware of the different rites that exist within what calls itself “Catholicism,” but because I must deny (with all non-“Roman Catholic” Christians) that the church headed by the Pope is the universal church. Thus,…
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Two Interesting Posts on Relics
Erik, the Irish Calvinist, and Dr. James White, of Alpha & Omega Ministries, both have interesting posts today on the topic of relics. Erik’s post (link) focuses on the continued trade in relics, while Dr. White’s post (link) provides some additional comments addressing the fact that this is superstitious nonsense. While the articles focus on…
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When was Purgatory Invented?
PhatCatholic recently addressed a question related to the question above, by posing the following question (link to source): When was Purgatory first talked about? PC answered: The earliest reference to Purgatory that scholars have found so far comes from The Acts of Paul and Thecla, which was written around 160 AD. In that work, we…
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R. Scott Clark on Catholics, Evangelicals, and Rome
While we are on the subject of “Evangelicalism,” R. Scott Clark has recently reposted a couple of articles on the issue of Catholics, Evangelicals, and Rome. Article 1 (link) notes that we should not cede the title of “Catholics” to the sect of Roman Catholics, nor the term “Evangelicals” to the broadly evangelical movement. He…
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Is Mary more Compassionate than Jesus? – Part II
In the previous post (link) we saw how it appears that the criticism of Roman Catholicism as teaching that Mary is more compassionate than Jesus is a justified criticism, despite such a characterization not explicitly appearing in any conciliar documents or allegedly infallible papal writings. There’s another way that we can arrive at the conclusion…
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Did Cyprian Teach the Doctrine of Indulgences?
The answer is, of course not. There was no doctrine of Purgatory in Cyprian’s day, and consequently no doctrine of indulgences either. But occasionally Cyprian’s Epistle XIII is trotted out as evidence of indulgences in the 3rd century (example). A typical presentation of Cyprian’s words is presented thus: “Those who have received a libellus from…