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Bellisario vs. Strawman – A Response of Sorts to Bellisario
Over at his blog, the Catholic Champion, Matthew Bellisario has decided to characterize his latest assault on a straw man as a response to one of my recent posts (link to Bellisario)(link to my recent post). Bellisario’s headline reads: “Vatican II and the Papacy- No Redefinition.” Well, no kidding. Formally speaking, Vatican II didn’t define…
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The Thomas Jefferson + Creed Hermeneutic
I was (at first) amused to read a post by Mark Olson (Orthodox Church in America) titled “Noetic Noah and the Fluffy Hermeneutic.” Olson rejects large swaths of the historical text of the Old Testament with fluffy statements like “Giants are mythic or noetic creatures” and, referring to the location of the garden of Eden,…
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Typo in English Translation of Canon Law
I happened to be reading through the Vatican website’s English translation of the Code of Canon law and came across an interesting typographic error that appears in numerous places in the code. In those places “over” has been replaced by “offer” (in one instance “offerly” replaces “overly”) – the error even affects Canon 333, the…
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Calvin and the Perpetual Virginity (?) of Mary … plus the Real Francis Turretin
In his commentary on the synoptic gospels, Calvin wrote: And knew her not This passage afforded the pretext for great disturbances, which were introduced into the Church, at a former period, by Helvidius. The inference he drew from it was, that Mary remained a virgin no longer than till her first birth, and that afterwards…
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Rescuing Roman Catholicism from Papalism?
James Carroll has an interesting article in the Boston Globe, in which he argues that Roman Catholicism needs to be rescued from what he perceives as Roman Catholic fundamentalism (link to article). Carroll views Joseph Ratzinger, now Benedict XVI, as a sort of ringleaders of excessive emphasis on the papacy. Carroll makes some often-overlooked observations.…
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Ergun Caner – Son of a Devout Muslim Father
Some new evidence regarding Ergun Caner’s background has come to light (link to evidence). The evidence appears to confirm the central point of my previous discussion (here) namely that Ergun Caner is a real ex-Muslim, the son of a devout Muslim father. While I do invite folks to compare the new evidence above with Caner’s…