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...
Christine asks: "So if he (Peter Kreeft) said 'a point in chronos is SOMETHING, that continuously divides the past from the present, and is able to intersect...
Michelle wrote: "In my opinion 'mere Christianity' is Catholicism and the terms Catholic and Christian are synonyms." Many of our more fundamentalist-minded...
1) Michelle wrote: "So? It is a Catholic custom to refer to the Catholic Church simply as 'the Church.'" I concede your point. 2) Michelle wrote: "He (the...
1) dropped. 2) Michelle wrote: "I would like to see the context for that interpretation of St. Thomas Aquinas." (Ignorance is either a culpable vice or...
To My Good Friend Albert: It is highly ironic that someone who has written on this list about sola scriptura and (presumably by extension) has been critical of...
Albert, As a Protestant who grew up in the 70's in the Roman Catholic Church, and is now in search of the true religion, I offer these comments to Shawn's...
Shawn writes: But of course you still manifest the exterior intention to break the communion of your local ordinary. So whatever value is in the list of things...
Steve hit the nail when he said that being in union with the bishops, the pope and the Church was about being in agreement with the doctrines of the Faith,...
Steve asks: "Just like God preserved His truth through the apostle Paul's writings in a mysterious way..." Hold it right there... God's mysterious ways are a...
Hi Thayne, You wrote: "The Protestant Churches believe that God did not give this supernatural ability to determine without error which books He inspired and...
THAYNE: "The Jews never recognized the other 7 books (of the bible Catholics recognize, which Protestants call the apocrypha) and additional chapters as...
Randeep, According to you, I disagree with myself. You said that I think my "religion is the truth, and anyone who doesn't take part in it [is] damned for...
THAYNE: "Why is your fallible method for determining the claim of [biblical] canonicity better than the Protestant churches fallible method since BOTH VIEWS...
Just as how Catholicism derived from Judaism and Islam derived from them both, "Christianity" (the appellation has been expropriated by Protestants to mean...
Javad argues: "The distortion of any [Divine] message would be a work of humanity coming directly from man's freewill. Thus the Deity would need to resend the...
Derrick wrote: "I can't believe any participants of the Jewish Faith would agree with that [my premise that Catholicism is a fulfillment of Judaism], nor the...
This citation by Bellarmine sums up my view of the matter: "A pope who is a manifest heretic automatically ceases to be pope and head, just as he ceases...
Earl wrote: "It is also difficult for me to not have my two feet squarely planted in complete agreement with my avowed faith. Therefore, I must come down on...
Asimis wrote: "If mainstream geology and evolution is true then: There was death and suffering before the fall." Yes. And this would seem to contradict our...
Asismis asked: "If Vatican II is infallible and the council itself says that it is pastoral then is it not an infallible statement made by the infallible...
Asimis wrote: "Taking the words of the Second Vatican Council by themselves, it seems obvious that the council does bear the mark of infallibility." I...
Asimis wrote: "Taking the words of the Second Vatican Council by themselves, it seems obvious that the council does bear the mark of infallibility... I...
Asimis wrote: "I find myself going back and forth between accepting Vatican II and it's teachings or rejecting it and sticking to the pre-Vatican II...
Lex asked: "Why do you believe in God? (I know I already asked this before)" Because the alternative is personally unsatisfying, seems rationally irrational,...
Lex writes: "I think that the strongest and most repeated argument against the existence of God is Occam's razor. Why can't we just accept that the Universe...
Lex retorts: "So belief is purely subjective? God isn't absolute and objective?" No, and no. Subjectivity and objectivity are at the opposite poles of a...
Lex asserts: "God's omniscience and Man's free will are irreconcilable." Just because God knows who WILL go to hell does not mean He WILLS them to go to hell....
Steve wrote: "Here's one for you and I to hash out....The Luminous Mysteries of the Rosary. I can't think of a single reason NOT to include these mysteries in...
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