This historical text details the 14th-century controversies surrounding papal decrees, monastic orders, and conflicting visionary claims regarding the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary. It highlights how various theologians, popes, and figures like St. Bridget and St. Catherine clashed over whether Mary was born with original sin and whether papal authority and canonizations were infallible.
Continue reading →In the 20th and 21st centuries, Rome’s strategy toward Protestants changed from the open hostility of the Counter Reformation’s anathemas against Protestant “heretics” to the covert co-opting of “Separated Brethren” since Vatican II.
Continue reading →“The Gunpowder Plot of 1605, in earlier centuries often called the Gunpowder Treason Plot or the Jesuit Treason, was an unsuccessful attempted regicide against King James VI of Scotland and I of England by a group of English Catholics, led by Robert Catesby.”
Continue reading →The historical consensus among medieval theologians, popes, and scholars that the Virgin Mary was conceived in original sin and subsequently sanctified within her mother’s womb. It illustrates how prominent religious authorities consistently rejected the concept of the Immaculate Conception, viewing it as contrary to scripture and traditional church teachings.
Continue reading →A Roman Catholic Jesuit Priest, Peter Burns S.J., calls for the convergence of Romanism and Marxism.
Continue reading →True righteousness is determined by the Word of God, the Bible, and not what society tells us.
Continue reading →Ian Paisley denounces Billy Graham for compromising with the Roman Catholic Church.
Continue reading →This historical text outlines medieval accounts of the alleged apparition of the Virgin Mary to Simon Stock and examines the theological consensus of 13th-century scholars, particularly Thomas Aquinas and Cardinal Bonaventura, regarding original sin, the necessity of Christ’s redemption, and the evolving practices surrounding Marian devotion and intercession.
Continue reading →If some pope of the future should issue such a decree, it would undoubtedly make headlines in the newspapers of the world. But would it be news in heaven? The book of heaven is the Bible, and this book says not a word about purgatory.
Continue reading →About the Oxford Movement that promoted an “Anglo-Catholic revival” in the Church of England, based on the teachings of Edward Bouverie Pusey.
Continue reading →Popery unchangeable.—Its guilt greater than in the dark ages.—The Papacy predicted under the figure of a little horn in Dan. vii.—The willful king in Dan. xi.—The city of Nineveh in Nahum.—The apostasy of the Man of Sin in 2 Thess. ch. ii.—The wild beast with two horns in Rev. xiii. is the Eastern and Western Antichrist.—The whore of Babylon in ch. xvii. is Papal Rome.—“The rest of the men” in Rev. ix. 20 denotes the same.—Attempts of Romanists to whitewash their system.—God will cast abominable filth upon Rome.—Character of Jesuitism.
Continue reading →Rejection of the Immaculate Conception: A multitude of historical authorities—including Petrus Commestor, Pope Innocent III, Alexander de Ales, and Albertus Magnus—maintained that the Virgin Mary was conceived in original sin like all humans, and was only subsequently sanctified or purified within her mother’s womb.
Continue reading →The Bible alone is the ultimate authority is the formal principle of the Reformation. A central cry of the Reformation was salvation by grace.
Continue reading →With the foreboding spectre of Halloween fast approaching, many Christians’ thoughts turn to the darker spiritual elements spoken of in the Bible.
Continue reading →The clergy of Rome, like King Uzziah (2 Chron. xxvi. 18), had impiously usurped the office of priest, which under the Christian dispensation belongs to Christ alone—and they, too, like that monarch, smitten with the leprosy of sin, as a just retribution for their crime, present for many centuries a spectacle so foul and loathsome as to convince every unbiased person that it was the result of judicial blindness.
Continue reading →The historical evolution of Marian veneration and theological debate surrounding the Immaculate Conception from the 11th to the 12th century. It highlights how prominent church figures—including Anselm, Pope Innocent II, and Saint Bernard—historically maintained that Mary was conceived in original sin, opposing the later-adopted dogma of the Immaculate Conception.
Continue reading →God accepts us not because we are becoming better people through our own efforts, or because we adhere to church traditions that are only tenuously related to Scripture. Rather, God accepts (or justifies) sinners freely and graciously because Jesus has died for our sins and rose again on the third day.
Continue reading →Horrible as our analysis of Popery has proved, we have not yet done. One more constituent in that moral pestilence remains to be noticed, viz., the corrupt lives of the papal court and priesthood.
Continue reading →“The Christians of the seventh century had insensibly relapsed into a semblance of paganism. Their public and private vows were addressed to the relics and images that disgraced the temples of the East. The throne of the Almighty was darkened by a cloud of martyrs and saints and angels, the objects of popular veneration; and the Collyridian heretics, who flourished in the fruitful soil of Arabia, invested the Virgin Mary with the name and honours of a goddess.”
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