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The Impractical Catholic’s Guide to Infallibility
There are two common and distinct approaches to the question of the infallibility of the Church’s teaching authority. Non-Catholics deny that any human person or institution can be infallible in any...
View ArticleAmoris Laetitia and the Progressive Pope Myth
In a discussion of the God-as-watchmaker metaphor with Jonathan Witt, philosopher Jay Richards remarked, “It’s amazing how a simple image can hijack a discussion for a century and a half.” (Benjamin...
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“I Love the Catholic Church, But …”
I can’t believe how often I hear people who call themselves Catholic make explicit statements of unfaithfulness. It usually goes something like: “I love the Catholic Church and I believe most of what...
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Development, Dissent, and Infallibility, Part II
In the first part of this two-part series on the infallibility of the ordinary Magisterium, we took an in-depth look at the Catholic Church’s teaching on contraception as a “case study” of sorts. To...
View ArticleFalse Teachers Denying Divinely Revealed Truths
It’s okay to question ordinary Church teaching on some issues. Questioning Divinely Revealed Truth, however, is another matter altogether. So when a Cardinal of the Catholic Church publicly states that...
View ArticleDogma Doesn’t Bite
The word dogma upsets some people. It does so because it appears to threaten the spirit of the age (which, of course, is a kind of dogmatic reaction in itself). A dictionary definition states that...
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