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The Arians persecuted Athanasius. Constantine collaborated with Pope Sylvester, and I gave evidence for this that you ignore. For the second time, : While the accounts contemporary to the event mention only Constantine, a statement made in the Third Council of Constantinople (A.D. 680) indicates...

The discussions at the Council were recorded; Constantine's name was never mentioned once in any of the canons. Post #3 asks: My answer was: No one answered the question because it takes a lot of honest research. A better question would be, "what did the Church believe before 325 A.D.?"...

Catholic means universal, it's not hard to understand. There is no such thing as a "pre-Roman Catholic Church". Roman Catholic was a slur invented by the Anglicans so you are twice wrong. What's inescapable is how anti-Catholics infest every thread when Catholicism is discussed. In other...

"Legalized" does not mean every non-Christian was a criminal. And if you bother to read the Edict of Milan, it gave pagans and Jews the same religious freedom as for Catholics. .Edict of Milan, proclamation that permanently established religious toleration for Christianity within the Roman...

Constantine understood how church government worked. He wanted resolution to the Arian crisis and needed the pope to pull it off. The pope needed Constantine to pull it off. No, I do not. Constantine had secular power and money, bishops did not. Your "Roman Empire State Church" is a myth...

Your disagreement is based on a flawed understanding of early church ecclesiology THAT PREDATES NICAE, a structure that is consistent with the Council of Jerusalem that continued all the way up to Vatican II. A Protestant ecclesiology couldn't possibly refute the Arian heresy because they...

Wow! An ecumenical!!! I can show you how to avoid becoming Catholic in 8 easy steps. As a Protestant convert to Catholicism whose journey culminated at the Easter Vigil earlier this year, I have some experience, oddly enough, in how to become a Catholic. For me, it was a particular, miraculous...

I posted the link to the author, my formatting was sloppy. I'll try again, but a bit longer “Ancient Baptists” and Other Myths Fr. Hugh Barbour, O.Praem. <<that's not me. Nicea, August 24, A.D. 325, 7:41 p.m. “That was powerful preaching, Brother Athanasius. Powerful! Amen! I want to invite any...

I never claimed to be a scholar, or a theologian, or a professional apologist or a historian with a Ph.D. (all enemies of revisionists) You posted somewhat scholarly work in post #6. I gave you a "like". It's usually affirmed, by hostile anti-Catholic revisionists, that Constantine was the...

Proving you are (theologically) anti-Protestant is not deceptive trickery. A stupid statement. Cars are not in scripture so by your reasoning, Christians shouldn't drive cars. Your opposition to the founders of Protestantism doesn't impress Protestants. That's not in Scripture. Your only...

Rebellion to authority is part of the fallen nature. Nobody is born a racist, nobody is born an atheist and nobody is born an anti-Catholic. But the socialization process is the same. In the final analysis, it usually points to a dysfunctional father, or no father at all. The Catholic Church...

False. False. No, he did not. You have nothing to do with the Church in 325 A.D. You offer no scholarly evidence, cite no recent historian, Protestant or secular, that would support your absurd myth making. You just regurgitate the same anti-Catholic garbage that's been refuted a million...

No, that is not what is found. You need to stop with your diabolical lies and a sadistic abuse of a rarely used term. https://www.vatican.va/content/paul-vi/en/apost_exhortations/documents/hf_p-vi_exh_19740202_marialis-cultus.html Did you have trouble in high school???

As a trained patristics scholar, I always feel a great deal of sadness and frustration when I encounter shoddy historical “scholarship,” whether it be in the pages of The Watchtower, a digest of Mormon “archaeology,” or a popular and usually well-produced Evangelical Protestant apologetics...

Still covering up what the reformers taught about Mary's sinlessness?? Still supporting a man made tradition that's less than 200 years old? I know the drill, "I don't follow the reformers, I follow the Bible!!" < the purest form of reformism. You are a reformer reforming the former reformists<...

“eli, eli, lama sabachthani?” that is, “my god, my god, why have you forsaken me?” (Matthew 27:46) Jesus was quoting Psalm 22. He couldn't cite the whole Psalm because He was dying. If you read the whole Psalm, God didn't abandon Him.

4. As the sacred synod searches into the mystery of the Church, it remembers the bond that spiritually ties the people of the New Covenant to Abraham's stock. Thus the Church of Christ acknowledges that, according to God's saving design, the beginnings of her faith and her election are found...

Using a little humor, I was illustrating how made-in-America Bible cults twist and distort the Bible and history to make is say whatever they want. You, however, argue like an atheist.

Dr. Claude Mariottini – Professor of Old Testament states: In a recent post, “A Biblical Basis For Mary’s Perpetual Virginity,” Brant Pitre at Singing in the Reign wrote that Numbers 30, a chapter dedicated to vows taken by women, provides a biblical basis for the Catholic doctrine of the...