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Opponents of the Church often attempt to discredit Catholicism by attempting to show similarities between it and the beliefs or practices of ancient paganism. This fallacy is frequently committed by Fundamentalists against Catholics; by Seventh-day Adventists, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormons, and...

In late June, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Secretariat of Child and Youth Protection released its audit on clergy sexual abuse that covers the period July 1, 2018 – June 30, 2019. During this time, there were 37 allegations made by current minors. Eight were substantiated...

Whenever one encounters a proposed example of pagan influence, one should demand that its existence be properly documented from primary sources or through reliable, scholarly secondary sources. After receiving documentation supporting the claim of a pagan parallel, (that is never done in the...

I apologize. I thought you were SDA. You are JW. My bad. That one and only pagan edifice stood in the presence of Christian martyrs. That means something to us. It means nothing to you. Agreed. The Obelisk in St. Peter's Square is not worshipped. It's a massive symbol of the defeat of...

So what. It's still discrimination against Catholicism in general. Religious profiling is a form of discrimination similar to racial profiling. The sex scandals was the worst crisis in the history of the Church. We were all shocked and betrayed. The pain cannot be quantified. Scandal I. The...

AJ said: The following is from a book written by a non-Catholic Egyptologist. Notice there is no explanation as to why this particular obelisk is the only one in the world that has no (previous) inscriptions on it, and has never been broken. The Obelisk in the Piazza di San Pietro The...

Perhaps its because flesh is dead without blood. Tim Staples explains from Scripture why we receive the same fullness of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist whether we receive only the body, only the blood, or both. https://www.catholic.com/video/is-receiving-the-eucharist-under-one-species-enough

I don't understand how your sect condemns all Protestants as daughters of the Whore of Babble-on, yet you appeal to the reformers rediscovered "truth" that allegedly corrected the errors of Catholicism. You should leave Protestantism alone and stick to quoting Ellen G, White. "long covered in...

Both East and West acknowledge wrongdoing in the tragic events leading up to 1054 when the schism finalized. Nevertheless, it is undeniably true that the West (and especially the Roman See) had a much more solid and consistent record of orthodoxy. For example, the Eastern Church split off from...

I never said it did. Nicaea affirmed the Church had always been trinitarian based on scripture and tradition. Arius lost because the tradition of Arianism was non-existent. No pope invented the Trinity, it's a divinely revealed truth and a banned topic. Your jumping back and forth in three...

What are you trying to prove? That the Council of Nicaea was illegitimate because the pope wasn't physically present at the council? That's a new rule you invented. Who signed the final declarations of the Council of Nicaea making it binding on all believers??? THE POPE, THAT'S WHO. Your...

No, it's false history and a complete misunderstanding of the role of the pope. Constantine had a civil problem, Sylvester had a problem with a heretic. They collaborated to convene a council that would resolve both problems because Constantine knew he had no church authority to do it himself...

First, that assumption is easily disproven by the letters of Ignatius, Clement, Irenaeus and others, who clearly identified the Bishop of Rome as leader of the Universal Church centuries before "that time" in question. . Second, the basis for the papacy has always existed, and the doctrine of...

The bishop of Rome at the time was Sylvester I (285-335 AD). Sylvester did not attend the council but did send representatives and did approve of the decisions made at the council. non-Catholic source Again, any so called council without papal approval would be deemed illegitimate. The accounts...

A joint declaration is not a doctrinal agreement. After 500 years, each side got together and expressed what they really meant. There is nothing sinister in this. The JDDJ was a historic agreement signed by Lutherans and Catholics in 1999, effectively resolving one of the key theological...

a brief summary of Pope Silverius is here: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Silverius When Silverius refused to restore Anthimus, Theodora ordered the Byzantine general Belisarius to enter Rome (Dec. 9, 536) and depose Silverius; she replaced him with the deacon Vigilius, then nuncio...

Justinian saw the orthodoxy of his empire threatened by diverging religious currents, especially monophysitism, which had many adherents in the eastern provinces of Syria and Egypt. Monophysite doctrine, which maintains that Jesus Christ had one divine nature rather than a synthesis of divine...

Brakelite said: "He may not have authority within the church, but I'm Justinian's case, He had authority over his empire, and the bishops acted with his permission." This is an opinion with no evidence. It implies bishops were subject to the emperor. Justinian had civil authority, bishops had...

I think BofL means it makes no difference what the emperor thinks, he has no church authority. Sometimes, the emperor and the pope were at odds with each other, such as Emperor Constans II ordering the arrest of Pope Martin I, who dies in exile. 681: No emperor ever made an official church...