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Check out John Zmirak at Takimag. This one is excellent.
Updates for further reading:
Fr. Z has news on B-16’s new encyclical. A compendium of all Papal encyclicals back through Honorius III in the medieval period plus the Ecumenical Councils excepting the Jerusalem Council documented in Acts. Some encyclicals dealing with social doctrine.

Surrejoinder on Jesus, Mary, liturgy and prayer

Here is TF’s response to me on Mary and the Rosary, etc.
I reply, in kind. TF’s words will be in italics. Mine will be straight type.
There is nothing in the text to suggest that God was Mary’s savior from sin in anything other than the usual way of Christ dying for her sins. There’s nothing anywhere [...]

More on clerical celibacy

I sent this comment to Turretinfan a few days ago, and he was kind enough to email me indicating his intention to respond. That may not come to pass, but I wanted to post it here as a springboard for further reflection on clerical celibacy. The referent is here. The comment follows, with Scripture from [...]

For those outside Geneva’s sphere

Some history subsequent to the liberation of Protestants from the brutal oppression of the Catholics in the post-reformation period follows, for those who may be unaware of it.
Johan van Oldenbarneveldt, a moderate Dutch Calvinist statesman, commensurate with the often Byzantine intrigues of those times, supported William of Orange in his bid for independence from Catholic Spain. Oldenbarneveldt [...]

Expired Equine Excoriated

Sporadically doing my one-trick-pony show, (groan if you want, I don’t mind) here’s my latest (sure to remain unpublished) comment to Turretinfan (pursuant to his latest post, called “Follow Mary To Christ”). Quoth I:
You’re stretching a wee bit. Obviously, it’s anachronistic to believe the Rosary existed in the New Testament era, so asking if she [...]

Societas Christiana on Newman, part 1

The link to S.C.’s post is here.
“[T]he problem with Newman is precisely that Aristotle says you can’t know what a developing thing really is until you see its final form. Unless the Catholic using Newman’s theory wants to remain stuck at the present level of development – that is, unless he assumes that the present [...]

Turretinfan on Catholics on Muslims

I posted this comment on Turretinfan’s site. I doubt it will appear. The thread is here. [Update: fixed the link.]
TF,
Calvin was quite explicit that Papists (all of them) should be executed:
“And therefore let us mark well, that we must hold us to the Pure Religion…. An hypocrite that would devise a new religion, as it [...]