N.B.: This is the under-construction revised second edition of my July 2008 post: "Filioque: Fathers, Popes, & Councils." 1. The Eastern Orthodox differ from Catholics in that the former deny that the υπόστασις [hypostasis] of the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Son; at most, they will gr...

Latin from Patrologia Graeca 161 (some of the words are hard to read, so feel free to offer corrections; thanks and God bless you and yours!): Demonstrationes quod liceat verum Symbolo addere.Concilium, seu concilia, non solum aliam fidem proferre, verum etiam componere vetant. Jam vero, si intellig...

J: haha fantastic! well, my beef is really when the church seems to try to get involved in politics and this is another one of those issues where they seem to be trying to affec[t] law. WRH: I would sin by omission if I did not proclaim the good news that the Catholic Church is truly the One, Holy, ...

N.B. This dialogue was precipitated by my posting of a link to http://www.fightfoca.com/. Sign the petition now and get others to sign, as well - thank you and God bless you and yours. J: who's to say it truly is murder, though? before the brain begins to form, is it not just a wad of cells inside t...

The heretics misunderstand the great Sts. Cyril of Alexandria and Dionysius the Areopagite of Athens when they talk of the two natures and the two operations/energies, respectively. Their appeal to the authority of these two champions of the faith is useless because the heretics are not of one mind ...

Monophysitism is false. All possible attempts to justify Monophysitism fail. Scripture plainly positively excludes the heresy. Jn 6:38 : Because I came down from Heaven, not to do My own will but the will of Him that sent Me. WRH: (1) Christ cannot make such a distinction of wills if He does not sub...

MYTH The Quran is free of errors and is thus the Word of God In evaluating the Quran, as with any other book which purports to be God's word, we must be very meticulous and have an open mind and open heart. We have to correctly understand the historical context (audience, contemporary cultural value...

The Quran pretends to be the word of God, but several "internal contradictions" presented on the Answering Islam website are not contradictions. I try my best not to have double standards when evaluating other "sacred" texts, and to give the benefit of the doubt in accordance with Christian charity....

Sons of Noah Surah Hud 11:42-43 (Yusuf Ali): So the Ark floated with them on the waves (towering) like mountains, and Noah called out to his son, who had separated himself (from the rest): "O my son! embark with us, and be not with the unbelievers!" The son replied: "I will betake myself to some mou...

MYTH Lk 2:52 indicates that Jesus gained additional wisdom which He lacked before St. Luke the Evangelist, inspired by the Holy Spirit, writes in Lk 2:52, "And Jesus advanced in wisdom and age and grace with God and men." Now Jesus is Wisdom itself [1 Cor 1:24]: "But unto them that are called, both ...