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  • Nonsint in vobis scismataSt. Austin once spoke of two very serious sins: heresy and schism: “By false doctrines concerning God hereticks wound faith,by iniquitous dissensions schismatics deviate from fraternal ch…

  • Egosum via et veritas et vitaNemovenit ad Patrem nisi per meOneof the more common explanations of the Reformed Protestant position is that itis biblical Christianity in its purest expression. So their apo…

  • Ex nobis prodierunt sed non erant ex nobis This is anexchange I had with Steven Wedgeworth on his blog. Since it became too long andended up distracting from his original intent, he decided to obscure thecommen…

  • All the King’s Horses and All the King’sMen“When I use a word,” Humpty Dumptysaid, in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean –neither more nor less.”“The question is,” said Alic…

  • Quodcumque ligaveris super terram erit ligatum in cælisOne common theme in the apologetic of a Novatore is his incessant insistence that the Church is fallible. Itis said that she cannot – nor has she ever been abl…

  • St. Athanasius on the Death of Our Lord Some might urge that, even granting the necessity of a public death for subsequent belief in the resurrection, it would surely have been better for Him to have arranged an honor…

  • St. Augustine on the Catholic Church "The succession of priests keeps me, beginning from the very seat of the Apostle Peter, to whom the Lord, after His resurrection, gave it in charge to feed His sheep, down to t…

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