If You Can’t Stand Superiority, Get Off the Top Shelf
The chief deficiency of Protestantism, according to Jason and the Callers, is that we only have a Bible that needs to be interpreted while they — Roman Catholics — have a pope who is the final word on...
View ArticleCan You Imagine a Commentary on Peter’s Epistles Written this Way?
I am suspicious of folks who draw up lists of things I need to know. Joe Carter does it for Protestants. Now in reporting on the new encyclical, Jimmy Aikin does it for Roman Catholics. Aside from this...
View ArticleAudacity Lives
This just in from the Vatican: Pope Francis will grant a plenary indulgence – a remission of all temporal punishment due to sin – to World Youth Day Catholic participants, the Vatican announced July 9....
View ArticleAmericanists All?
Sean Michael Winters believes that Pope Francis is a pontiff for the poor who does not fit the neo-conservative Roman Catholic defenders of free markets and political liberalism: The new pope’s...
View ArticleVoting with Their Feet?
Roman Catholic young people do not appear to be as excited by Pope Francis as certain middle-aged Protestant converts. Here are the early returns on registrations for World Youth Day (and Francis will...
View ArticleJamie Smith Gives, and Jamie Smith Takes Away
Erik has already commented that neo-Calvinists could learn from the Vatican, but the affinities between neo-Calvinism and Rome were even more striking in Jamie Smith’s recent post about Lumen Fidei....
View ArticleI Want A Church In Which I Can Feel Influential (not about me)
In a follow up to yesterday’s plaint about the plight of Reformed Protestantism comes a jumble of comments about what people are looking for in a church. One of the problems that Reformed Protestants...
View ArticleFollowing Francis
If the pope is unwilling to pass judgment on others, why haven’t Jason and the Callers adopted the same stance? They might want to consider this: Francis’ emphasis on mercy is nearly ubiquitous. In a...
View ArticleHave I Got A Book for Ross Douthat?
Last week Douthat reflected on what is becoming obvious — the change (at least in tone) in the papacy under Francis, though conclusive assessments are still premature. Douthat also argued that this...
View ArticleWelcome to Protestant Land
William Oddie wonders about the state of Roman Catholicism in ways never conceived by Jason and the Callers: What exactly is going on, when Bishops and parish priests can so radically differ about the...
View ArticleSame Only Different
Are these commentators talking about the same bishop (remember, it’s about office not the man)? Here‘s an excerpt from a review of a biography of William Henry O’Connell, the archbishop of Boston for...
View ArticleGnostic Audacity
The myth: What I came to recognize, in other words, was that the Catholic position was in actuality the much more humble of the two. Indeed, it was downright self-effacing. For the Catholic position,...
View Article(more of) Show Me Jesus
To hear some of the recent commentary about Rome’s relationship to modern society, you might wonder about the significance of Jesus. The young journalist, Elizabeth Bruenig, whom Presbyterians...
View ArticleIf God So Loved the World, Why is The West So Special?
In his review of Ross Douthat’s new book, Rod Dreher makes his bracing claim: any Christian or secular conservative who cares about the stability of Western civilization cannot be indifferent to the...
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