This is an apologetics article intended to refute the Protestant doctrine of sola scriptura . I will use the Bible as my principal source to refute sola scriptura.
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The Bible Only?
12 Friday Feb 2010
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The Rosary and the Republic
04 Thursday Feb 2010
We would do well to look beyond electioneering to the true hope of the Republic. This is not to dismiss politics — the way society is governed — as something of no account or something too worldly for the faithful to concern ourselves with, for neither is the case. Continue reading
For Christ the King
28 Thursday Jan 2010
Sunday, October 28 is the Feast of Christ the King. That is, it is the feast in the 1962 Calendar followed by those who adhere to the “extraordinary form” of the Roman Liturgy. The feast is celebrated on November 25 this year in the Novus Ordo calendar. Why the difference? Continue reading
The Mystical Incarnation
21 Thursday Jan 2010
Saint Louis de Montfort says that the true Slaves of Jesus through Mary will have a special devotion to the Incarnation (True Devotion , No. 243). Those who desire to be disciples of this great spiritual writer of the Church — an inspiration to so many other saints1 — would do well to consider what a devotion to the Incarnation entails. Continue reading
The Latin Mass and the Orthodox
17 Thursday Dec 2009
Posted in Apologetics, Articles Published in Other Venues, Liturgy, Theology
Under the headline “Russian Orthodox prelate welcomes return of Latin Mass,” Catholic World News ran a report on Patriarch Alexei II’s positive reception on Pope Benedict’s motu proprio giving more freedom to the ceremonies of the Classical Roman Rite. Summorum Pontificum goes into effect as law on September 14, the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. Continue reading
What’s the Filioque?
03 Thursday Dec 2009
Posted in Apologetics, Articles Published in Other Venues, Theology
One of the doctrinal controversies between the schismatic, so-called Orthodox churches of the East and the Catholic Church is a dogma expressed in one word: Filioque (Fee-lee-OH-kway). But what does this word mean? Continue reading
Heaven’s Icon: Sister Lucy’s Vision at Tuy, Spain
13 Friday Nov 2009
Posted in Articles Published in Other Venues
The devotion to the Heart of Mary had a long history before the revelations of Our Lady of Fatima. But — as with the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, which took on a whole new dimension with the revelations to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque — the devotion to Our Lady’s Heart was given greater clarity and emphasis with the Fatima revelations. The cultus of the Immaculate Heart is, in fact, the central message of Fatima. Continue reading