On Saturday I did a show with fellow Catholic apologist Elijah Yasi. He specializes in a book called the Relatio by Bishop Gasser. I had known about this document for years but hadn’t read it until the last few months. It was part of Erick Ybarra’s top 10 books on the papacy that he recommends.
Category Archives: Heresy
Karacay Again; More Didache
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In my last post I talked about the sloppy research of one Burhan Karacay. He said that the Trinitarian formula had been inserted into the Didache. Naturally no evidence was provided but I’m going to give reasons as to why it is genuine. Here is the passage in question from the Didache:
The Ravi Fiasco
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I’m sure by now, most people have at least some idea of what has happened with Ravi Zacharias. The late Ravi’s organization RZIM has completed their report on the allegations against Ravi. They are more than credible. The Evangelical world, particularly the American Evangelical world is in a shattered state. They’re angry, sad, confused and heartbroken.
The Sede Dilemma
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St. Vincent Ferrer
I’m going to do something that I told myself I’d never do when I made this website. I’m going to talk about sedevacantism. For those who don’t know, sedevacantists are a group of Catholics(it may bother some that I say they’re Catholics but they are) who believe that the throne of Peter has been empty since October 9, 1958. They say that John XXIII and all the popes after him are antipopes. I should point out that every Cardinal who voted for John XXIII was made into a Cardinal by a valid pope according to the sedevacantists.
St. Paul, Geography and Islam
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St. Paul The Apostle
As we know, Muslims like to blame St. Paul for Christianity turning out how it did. In other words, if the documents that tell us about Jesus Christ and the early Church tell us something different than what a 7th century illiterate Arab from the Hijaz tells us, St. Paul is the culprit. This wasn’t always the case. Early Muslims didn’t talk negatively about St. Paul. It took a few centuries to put this narrative in place.
Joe Biden…nvm not gonna talk about that…or maybe I will?
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There is an argument that I’ve heard a couple times in my life in terms a supposed contradiction in the Bible. It looks really clever on the surface but deep down it’s a joke. I’m bringing this to your attention because recently a secularist tried to use this one on me. I have heard this from a Muslim apologist as well. I won’t tell you which Muslim but I’ll just add that he’s been exposed as a racist who doxxes people.
St. Robert Bellarmine, Peter Vermigli, and Muhammad
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I’ve been reading a lot of St. Robert Bellarmine lately thanks to the brilliant translating done by Ryan Grant at Mediatrix Press. I’ve been reading his book on Purgatory and think that it tells some pretty interesting things about Church history. I want to comment on one thing that he said and draw some other historical conclusions with other examples.
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.
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.
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.