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So much for Ian Paisley!
It’s about time the Free Presbyterian church had a new moderator, and yet I extend my sympathies to them at what must be a difficult moment. One only wonders if this news report that Paisley has joined in a Catholic prayer service will be followed in a few months by an announcement that he has…
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Methodist Pastor Jumps Ship
A man who was, until recently, a senior pastor at what is the third largest Methodist church recently made the move from non-Catholic synergism to Catholic synergism (link). To God be the Glory!
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Luther Citation Discussion – Status Report
Data: 1. Partial “original” from Cochlaeus.2. English translation of Luther, apparently from the German original.3. Armstrong has the German original of Luther as produced in his “works,” which we expect will simply reveal that the English translation is accurate.4. We also have a practically illegible (to me) photograph of a single page from a manuscript…
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Selection from “That These Words of Christ, ‘This is My Body,’ etc., Still Stand Firm Against the Fanatics,”
Once Scripture had become like a broken net and no one would be restrained by it, but everyone made a hole in it wherever it pleased him to poke his snout, and followed his own opinions, interpreting and twisting Scripture any way he pleased, the Christians knew no other way to cope with these problems…
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Speculative Luther Citation Tree
LutherGerman Original statements in “These words, ‘this is my body,’ etc.”toCochlaeus’ inaccurate gloss on a single sentence from that work.toBellarmine and Chrismann (independently of one another)with Bellarmine serving as major node, with many Catholic apologists (possibly including Gregory Martin, de Sales, and so forth) and Leibniz obtaining it from Bellarmine or from someone who relied…
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A Quick Footnote to the Luther Citation Dialogue
UPDATE: I note that as of this update, Armstrong has micharacterized this post as: ” that [] Robert Bellarmine is the original Latin source (at least for the quote in isolation, if not its translation) .” That’s not what this post says or means. I invite readers to read the post for themselves. I’m not…
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Gene Stirs the Pot
Gene, over at Triablogue, has stirred the Holy Water pot with a recent post (link) that addresses some of the issues he sees with the post presented by Dave Armstrong (link provided via this earlier post), generally approving (and minorly editing) PhatCatholic’s opening argument in the Holy Water Debate. Carrie adds (at least) a few…
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More Nepalese darkness and a Disappointing Response
I was saddened to read this report of Nepalese darkness in the form of animal sacrifices to non-existent gods. Here’s the link (link). Almost equally upsetting was the response I read at the Catholic blog to which this next link points (link). It’s not the right thing to do, it’s not a good thing to…
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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…
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Man Behind Curtain of Holy Water Emerges
Apparently, PhatCatholic, my current opponent over at the debate blog, has been getting help in the Holy Water debate from popular Catholic blogger Dave Armstrong (link). -Turretinfan To God be the Glory!