The Assumption of Mary: An Analysis of the Recent Debate with Robert Sungenis

I have suggested often over the past nearly decade and a half that whenever you hear a starry-eyed Protestant talking about Rome’s high view of grace, that the single best means of bringing them back down to earth and reality (if they are open to truth, anyway) is to get them to read Indulgentiarum Doctrina, the Apostolic Constitution on the

   Over the last few years I’ve focused on current popular Catholic apologists, that is, those whose names you may hear on Catholic Answers, or find on The Journey Home. In order to be familiar with Catholic argumentation, the best way to do so is to actually hear them make their own arguments and interpretations of Catholic doctrine.    I purchase their

Sit back and start taking notes. How many, anywhere, even in “Christian media,” will address the only relevant issue regarding the death of John Paul II? And that issue? Well, it isn’t the length of his Pontificate, one of the longest and most stable in centuries. It isn’t the fact that as far as Pontiffs go, he was a great

It’s been quite a while since I’ve done a blog entry for the Unofficial Catholic Apologist Commentary on the Bible (these entries can be found here). I’d like to branch out in a different direction and take a look at Roman Catholic historical interpretation. Remember their motto: “to be deep in history is to cease being Protestant.” Let’s see if

Having said to Peter, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-Jonas, and of having promised to lay the foundation of the Church upon his confession; not long after He says, Get thee behind me, Satan. And elsewhere he said, Upon this rock. He did not say upon Peter for it is not upon the man, but upon his own faith that the