Michael Lofton and Erick Ybarra interview Dr. Alan Fimister on the Papacy and Ecumenical Councils. Dr Alan Fimister is Assistant Professor of Theology and Church History at St John Vianney Theological Seminary in Denver, Colorado and Director of the Dialogos Institute. He is a native of Newcastle upon Tyne.
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Michael Lofton, Erick Ybarra and William Albrecht interview Steve Ray on the papacy and the crisis in the Church.
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Michael Lofton, William Albrecht and Erick Ybarra interview Dr. James Likoudis on the Orthodox and the Papacy.
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Michael discusses the medieval church and their views on papal infallibility and how they relate to the First Vatican Council.
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Contemporary conditions for papal infallibility are occasionally seen as contrived and have been likened to someone who shoots an arrow at the wall and then paints a target around it. A concrete example is the First Vatican Council’s conditions for papal infallibility, which some skeptics see as having created a manufactured system to reconcile papal […]
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Erick Ybarra responds to Eastern Orthodox Objections to the Papacy.
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If anyone wishes to detect the deceits of heretics and to keep a sound and effective faith (Heb. 4:12), in the same sense in which it was taught and passed down by Our Lord Jesus Christ and His Apostles, he ought, with the Lord’s help, to fortify his faith by the authority of Scripture, and […]
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Michael discusses Pope Leo and Anatolius, Philip the Legate at the Ephesus 431 and Bart Ehrman on 1 & 2 Thessalonians.
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The following is my summary of events that took place during the reign of Pope Leo the Great, which Martin Jugie examines in greater detail in his study “The Roman Primacy in the East at the Time of St. Leo the Great.” During the reign of Pope Leo the Great, the pro-Chalcedonian Archdeacon Aetius was […]
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Roman Catholics have the challenge of demonstrating the doctrines of the First Vatican Council on the papacy were “always” taught by both “East and West.” Suppose you were to ask a Roman Catholic how they would demonstrate this. You would probably be told how this or that pope taught this or that doctrine, and an […]
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Someone recently asked me if luck was a concept compatible with Christianity. I explained it goes against the Biblical concept of divine providence. At that point, the person asked me whether this was just my opinion or something the magisterium teaches. I explained it was my opinion and to my knowledge luck is not directly […]
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Much ink has been spilled on how to properly understand the First Vatican Council’s teaching on Papal supremacy, which Canon 331 in the Code of Canon Law summarizes as being “supreme, full, immediate, and universal ordinary power…”. The profuse number of documents addressing this doctrine are abundant, partly due to the problem of ultramontanism within […]
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Michael Lofton and Erick Ybarra interview Ryan Grant on Papal Canonizations and Robert Bellarmine.
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Michael and Craig discuss pre-schism heretical popes including Liberius, Zosimus, Hormisdas, Vigilius and Honorius.
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Michael and Erick discuss Catholicism and primacy with Fr. Patrick Ramsey. He is the author of The Church: Deifying Relations available here: https://www.amazon.com/Church-Deifying-Relations-John-Ramsey/dp/172182300X/ref=pd_rhf_se_p_img_3?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=NPZDPN3291FQFBG14CE4
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Michael discusses the Pope Francis/Scalfari incident where he purportedly denies the deity of Christ and then discusses can a heretical pope be deposed in conjunction with examining Robert Bellarmine’s treatise on this topic.
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Guest Edward Siecienski speaks about Catholic and Orthodox relations, with a focus on the papacy and the filioque.
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In this video, Michael and Craig interview guest William Albrecht and discuss a wide range of topics from purgatory in the early church to the Old Testament canon.
Read More…In this video, Michael reviews Yasir Qadhi on the Islamic vs. the Christian Jesus, W. Godfrey on changes in Roman Catholicism and R. C. Sproul, Ligon Duncan, and John MacArthur on Eastern Orthodoxy.
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In this video, Michael goes over James White’s definition of Papal Infallibility and compares it to the definition given by Vatican I.
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In this video, Michael, Erick and Craig discuss Papal Supremacy in the first millennium.
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This is a debate between a Roman Catholic (Erick Ybarra) and an Eastern Orthodox (Craig Truglia) on whether papal ratification is the best way to identify an Ecumenical Council. The debate was moderated by Michael Lofton from Reason and Theology.
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In this video, Erick and Michael go over the Doctrinal Commentary on the Concluding Formula of the Professio Fideo issued by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and discuss the different levels to the magisterium.
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In this video, Erick and Michael discuss Cardinal Muller’s recently released document Manifesto of Faith, in which the cardinal reaffirms traditional Catholic teaching and seemingly rebukes Pope Francis, as well as most modern prelates.
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In this video, Erick and Michael discuss the difference between material and formal heresy then address if and how a heretical pope may be deposed.
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In this video, Michael interviews Dustin Quick about his conversion to Roman Catholicism from Islam and discusses topics from the Nation of Islam to Eastern Orthodoxy
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In this video, Erick and Michael go over the Letter of Pope Agatho to the emperor and the letter to the Sixth Ecumenical Council fathers, along with their response to Pope Agatho. The video especially explores papal infallibility, Pope Honorius and Eastern Orthodoxy.
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In this video Erick and Michael go over some of the arguments for and against both the Eastern and the Western views of the papacy in the first millennium.
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In this video, Erick Ybarra and Michael Lofton discuss the disconnect between the papacy historically vs. the papacy in the present and grapple with how one may explain the differences. The focus is especially on the function of the papacy, as well as differences in emphasis in church teachings, such as extra Ecclesiam nulla salus […]
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