Patrick Madrid has a good post here with very informative links covering his debates with the LDS.
Category: Heresies and Errors
Is the False Apparition in Medjugorje Finally to Be Condemned?
[March 5, 2010 – Rome Reports (with hat tip to Rorate Caeli)] Benedict XVI has formed a commission to investigate if Our Lady truly appeared in Medjugorje, a small town in Bosnia. The commission is part of the Congregation for … Continue reading
Yet Another Defense of Pius XII
When the enemies of the Church, the enemies of Christianity in general, and those who want to “hold” the Catholic hierarchy’s “feet to the fire” constantly jabber about Pius XII’s supposed complicity in the Nazi murder of Jews, it becomes … Continue reading
And You Thought Joseph Smith’s Magical Crystal Glasses Were Weird
Catholic Online reports: The Church of Scientology was founded in 1953 by science fiction author L. Ron Hubbard as an extension of his self-help book Dianetics. That book claimed that all of a person’s psychological problems can be traced back … Continue reading
Sedevacantism and Schism
A recent little talk I gave on the sin of schism — part of my comments on the Chair of Unity Octave — prompted a question from one of my auditors: “Is sedevacantism schism?” I had to reply in the … Continue reading
Umberto Eco, Meet Fyodor Dostoevsky
With a hat tip to Tancred at the The Eponymous Flower, I bring your attention to Umberto Eco‘s op-ed piece in the New York Times, The Lost Wisdom of the Three Wise Men. Eco is a secularized Italian who was … Continue reading
Homosexual Activists Censure ‘Gay’
“That’s so gay!” Not nice. It offends. It shouldn’t be used. So say the folks who coopted the innocent word “gay” and transmogrified it to mean “homosexual.” Now these same folks don’t want others to coopt their coopted word and … Continue reading
To Saint Felix of Valois, the Prayer of a Modernist
Saint Felix, Oh nonexistent founder of the Trinitarians! Pray for the Christian captives whose cause thou so admirably took up, despite the fact that thou art a mere pious legend. Pray for France, the cradle of thy Order, and whose … Continue reading
The Even Darker World of Scientology
After losing a lawsuit in France filed by former members, and barely escaping being outlawed there for its extortionist tactics, the strange “religion” of L. Ron Hubbard is now being charged with pressuring inner circle members of its elite “order” … Continue reading
Inscription on Dome of the Rock Attacks the Incarnation
InsideCatholic.com Catholic Journalist David Warren writes: In Jerusalem, on the Dome of the Rock — situated on top of what is almost certainly the Holy of Holies, within the ancient Temple precincts — is an inscription, in their earliest angular … Continue reading
Exonerating Pope Liberius?
The traditional Transalpine Redemptorists have built a case that could rewrite the history of Pope Liberius as it has come to us (they allege) only since the sixteenth century. I haven’t the time to examine into their cause, but it … Continue reading
Father McBrien Finds Eucharistic Adoration Useless for Educated People
Father McBrien just keeps marching on, treading new paths, looking for new frontiers so to expand his evolving theology. Of course I don’t read his column, but occasionally some traditional Catholic writer whom I do read takes him to task … Continue reading
The Root of Evil
Brought up as we American Catholics are in Protestant traditions, surrounded on every side by Protestant culture, compelled to approve and applaud Protestant values, any attempt on our part to resist being engulfed by this flood-tide will appear insanely anti-social. … Continue reading
How Do Liberal Catholics Talk
Since the Reformation, back in the dawn of modern times, the heresies which it ushered into the world have always been fought by the Church. In spite of that, some Catholics have been intoxicated by the political consequences that naturally … Continue reading