Ron asks: "If it's shady to determine when the soul leaves the body, shouldn't it be shady for us to speculate when the soul enters the body?" Not at all....
Albert, In regard to the tree/board question, I would not call the ability (power) of a plant to grow "free will". It is natural law, the nature or design of...
Dear Shawn, You approvingly quote Jean Guitton's assertion: "The Church is going through a terrible crisis. But crisis is its essential condition. God WISHES...
"Albert, how many times have I gone over with you the historical track record of the general councils??? Forty to sixty years is the norm historically for...
Assuming Shawn's historical claim is true (that problems perdure for 40 to 60 years after a general council), how can one possibly apply this standard to...
Ron wrote: "What we call life is just a synonym for complexity." Then why don't we think of the weather as being alive? Even supercomputers can't unravel its...
Shawn provides the following justification for obeying bishops who insist that we stand rather than kneel for communion: "Much as the Vatican declared in the...
The following is part two of a four-part formal debate I was invited to on the Internet Infidels web site, a message board devoted to atheism and secular...
Steve wrote: "Give me your thoughts/arguments on the issue of the 5 senses." I think an argument can be made that our intellect is our sixth sense, so to...
Steve invited me to respond to a 5,500-word article by Dr. W. Robert Godfrey entitled "What Do We Mean by Sola Scriptura?" posted on the Sola Scriptura...
Dr. Godfrey wrote: "As the Roman theologian John Eck said, 'The Scriptures are not authentic, except by the authority of the church.'" [John Eck, Enchiridion...
Dr. Godfrey contends: "The institution of an infallible pope has not created theological unity in the Roman church. Rather, Roman theologians are constantly...
Shawn responded as follows: We could indeed say that intellect or cognition is the sixth sense. And by blending the 5 traditional senses and the intellect in a...
Steve asks: "Vatican II: Did they make De Fide doctrine. If so, how can it be ignored by the Traditionalists?" Traditionalists ignore no de fide doctrine,...
Steve wrote: "I know you said that Vatican II was more 'pastoral,' but what defines pastoral vs. doctrinal." A doctrine is an infallible moral or dogmatic...
Steve wrote: "I know you said that Vatican II was more 'pastoral,' but what defines pastoral vs. doctrinal." Hi Steve: I explain the distinction between the...
Steve asks, "Was Peter really the first Pope of Rome?" No. As the preeminent apostle, he was the first bishop of Rome, the preeminent city in the Apostolic...
Steve asks: "Vatican II: Did they make De Fide doctrine. If so, how can it be ignored by the Traditionalists?" Albert replies: "Traditionalists ignore no de...
Shawn, you note the following: "The Fathers and Doctors considered anyone who refused submission to the resolutions of an ecumenical council -once ratified by...
Steve asks: "Where do you disagree (with Shawn and other non- Traditionalist Catholics)?" In a word, what separates Traditionalists from the conservative good...
David wrote: "I think that what the 'good and decent Catholics' are teaching contains a nugget of truth." Every lie can contain some truth just as every dose...
Jerry wrote: "Marriage in the United States shall consist of a union between one man and one or more women. (Gen 29:17-28; II Sam 3:2- 5). Marriage shall not...
Ron wrote: "Too bad it's (Catholicism) all goin down the drain, eh?" Yes it is too bad Catholicism has followed the world down the same secular drain. Ron...
With all due respect, Christine, I must disagree with Peter Kreeft. He's a great guy, but his remarks about time are internally inconsistent. Allow me to...
Steve, Sproul's attempt, (in "Sola Scriptura") to distinguish between the Bible's INFALLIBLE books and the Bible's FALLIBLE collection of books is a...
Atheist: We can't possibly affirm God's existence through reason or sensory evidence, and since the burden of proof lies on the shoulders of the theist we...
Atheist: Matter is neither created nor destroyed so I think that it is a sufficient explanation unto itself for why we are here and so forth. Albert: That's...
Atheist: You see, the laws of logic are a lot like the natural laws that we have. They are really just a description of what we have found to be true over...
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