One approach advocates of her assumption could take is to argue that the earliest Christians weren't aware of Mary's assumption, but...

When it comes to the perpetual virginity of Mary, do you agree with the Catholic view or with the view of Protestant reformers Martin Luther...

I've often discussed examples of how critics of Protestantism, such as Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox, disagree with the church fa...

When the historical evidence against a Roman Catholic belief is brought up, a common Catholic response is to compare the development of that...

Cameron Bertuzzi just interviewed Gavin Ortlund about the Assumption of Mary . It's a good overview of the number, variety, and depth of...

I've explained, in my last post and elsewhere , why passages like Matthew 16, Luke 22, and John 21 don't imply a papacy. If a papac...

The subject of doctrinal development often comes up in discussions with Roman Catholics, but it's relevant to other contexts as well. We...

A stock Catholic objection to Protestant theology is that you can't find Protestant distinctives in pre-Reformation church history. For...

Newman went deep into church history and discovered that he couldn't find Roman Catholicism in the first few centuries of the church, so...

Catholic apologists like to retroengineer the development of doctrine. With the benefit of hindsight, they retrace later positions and poli...

There is no such thing as a "sin against ecology" There are sins that have a particular impact on the ecology and environment T...

Another alternative is a conservatism that simply resolves the apparent conflict between tradition and papal power in favor of the latter, s...

One of my objections to the doctrine of development is that it's so flippant. To take a few examples: 1. The medieval papacy author...

Everett Ferguson writes, In the Latin west and in the Greek east the church won only by detouring the traditional piety [pagan] to other o...

Pachamama, Our Lady of the Amazon Traditionalist and conservative Roman Catholics (see here and here , for example) are going apoplecti...

I want to add something to the points Steve Hays has been making lately about development of doctrine. It's common for Roman Catholics t...

This will be a long post. The length is mainly due to the fact that it's running commentary on some things that Cardinal Müller said is...

The Magisterium must seek to present a convincing case, showing how its presentation of the faith is in itself coherent and in continuity ...

Cardinal Newman has been canonized. He may well be the most theologically influential convert to Catholicism.  Newman was a man of many...

I agree with Weishaupt that the exclusion of women from priestly ordination was declared infallibly by Pope St. John Paul II in Ordinatio ...