Benedict XVI has released what amounts to an informal encyclical:  http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/the-church-and-the-scandal-of-s...

On response to a question on Bavarian TV in 1997, Cardinal Ratzinger said: “I would not say so, in the sense that the Holy Spirit picks...

The title of this blog article, “Killing Pope Ratzinger”, is to provide a kind of a sequel to my earlier piece, “ Killing Pope Francis ”. Fi...

As part of my ongoing series discussing the work “ Roman but Not Catholic ” by Jerry Walls and Ken Collins, I’d like to comment on the word ...

In a funeral message yesterday, former pope Joseph Ratzinger suggested that the Roman Catholic Church “has taken on so much water as to be...

The Roman Catholic journalist Sandro Magister has fretted now that the dismissal of Cardinal Gerhard Müller was really “an attack on ‘ Veri...

“Killing Pope Francis” (or at least, killing his agenda) is the unstated theme in a similarly named article in First Things, the self-annoin...

According to the late John-Paul II: In 1986, I entrusted a commission of twelve Cardinals and Bishops, chaired by Cardinal Joseph Ratz...

J. Gresham Machen’s work, “Christianity and Liberalism” (1923) is one of those rare theological works that helps to define what Reformed Chr...

In fact, to quote more precisely, “you will be God”. Convinced Movie Trailer from Don Johnson on Vimeo . Protestants are not prepared ...

Sandro Magister reports that there is a new book out about the life of “Pope Emeritus” Joseph Ratzinger a.k.a. “Pope Benedict XVI”. It wa...

A week ago, I cited Protestant theologian David Wells describing Rome’s Divided Mind . The gist of what he was saying was this: [Vatican I...

In one of his first major public addresses as pope , at St. Peter’s Square, Sunday, March 17, 2013, “Pope Francis” specifically cited Cardi...

Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (2002), now Pope Benedict XVI The Eucharist does not grant any quasi-magical assurance of salvation. It always de...

I’d like to take off on something that Joshua Lim said , and the hope is that it will have some value in showing what some of the differenc...

In a way, I’ve been like a kid in a candy shop, working through Michael Kruger’s Canon Revisited . Not only is the work itself just an i...

In my last several posts, I’ve noted a few things, which I’d like to summarize and clarify here. I’ve noted that the Roman Catholic concep...

  Go now, write it on a tablet for them,     inscribe it on a scroll, that for the days to come     it may be an everlasting witness....

Setting the stage for the conflict Before I move further with Michael Kruger’s work, Canon Revisited , I’d like to share the reason fo...