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John Fisher 2.0 on Apostolicae Curae and Anglican Orders

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The Catholic Church has many formidable enemies.  Obviously in a place like Brazil, Evangelical born-agree Christianity is making headway.  In other parts of South America we see similar trends.  Then of course there is secularism which is very successfully at attacking both movements and having much success.  In places like the Middle East, Islam continues to chip away at dwindling populations in places like Syria and Iraq.  So we’re not short of enemies.  However, I wouldn’t consider Anglicanism to be an opponent in the slightest.  Even in the second half of the 16th century it wasn’t the Anglican Church persecuting the Catholics, it was the monarch.

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Refuting Michael J Kruger’s Misuse of St. Jerome

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In late September I joined William Albrecht and Erick Ybarra on Reason and Theology to talk about the monarchial episcopate in the early Church.  Together we looked at the early documents to show that in fact, the Church of Rome had a monarchial bishop from the very beginning.  The idea was to disprove the revisionist theory that the early Roman Church was governed by a college of presbyters as opposed to having one monarchial bishop above the presbyters.

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Pope Francis Contradicts himself on the Death Penalty

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I wish he was still Pope

We all know that Pope Francis has taken it in himself to declare war on the Catholic teaching on the death penalty.  He has changed the catechism and has further expanded on this in his recent encyclical Fratelli Tutti. Sadly though, in his efforts to promote heresy, he contradicted himself.  Let’s be honest, Francis isn’t known for his orthodoxy in terms of Church teaching.  It’s no surprising that in opposing the teachings of the Church(found in scripture, tradition, and magisterial documents), he contradicts himself.

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Islam vs. Baptism

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In November of last year I was honoured to be the best man at my former roommates’ wedding.  Earlier this month, he and his wife welcomed their first child into this world.  On Saturday the child was welcomed into God’s family through the sacrament of baptism.  Baptism saves according to St. Peter and this child was saved when he was baptized in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.  I was the godfather.

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Muslims have to side with Paul over James in Acts 21

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As many of you know, I was privileged to be on a recent episode of Reason and Theology.  What I discussed and refuted was the argument that the Church of Rome did not have a monarchial bishop until the mid-second century.  I of course shredded the argument.  In the weeks leading up to this episode I had written several articles refuting this dumb theory.  I presented them on the show.

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King Philip IV of France was the founder of Protestantism

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When people talk about the reformation in the 16th century they’re eager to find photo-Protestants who lived in centuries prior who had similar ideas.  The names that usually come up are Huss, Wycliffe, and Gottschalk.  There have been attempts to make St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas into proto-Protestants but anyone familiar with their theology can debunk these claims in a second.  So who was the true proto-Protestant?

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Babylon is Rome in 1 Peter 5

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There are those that try to deny that St. Peter was in Rome.  They often point out that in St. Paul’s epistle to the Romans, dozens of names are mentioned but Peter isn’t.  Now, the entire tradition of the Church has St. Peter in Rome.  Is this a contradiction?  Only if you want it to be.  You can simply say that St. Peter wasn’t in the city of Rome when this was written.

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The Ballad of Anthony Buzzard….and Agency

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I remember the first time that I heard Anthony Buzzard talk about Unitarianism.  I won’t lie, I was impressed.  He seemed like a worthy opponent.  If anyone was going to refute the Trinity, it wasn’t the JWs, it was him.  Now I listen to him and I shake my head at how bad his arguments are.  Even his old arguments that seemed powerful really don’t carry that much weight.