Responses
to Roman Apologists
By Fr.
John Whiteford
The links below are to the texts
of online debates I have had over the years with various Roman Apologists… some
of whom I count as personal friends. By
their nature, they lack the polish of conventional essays or articles, but I
post them here because over the years I have found these discussions to be
repetitious, and so in order to avoid the need to cover the same ground over
and over again, I decided to organize them into the format presented here. I have also included some links to online
articles that are relevant.
·
Responses to Roman
claims regarding the Papacy
Part
2: Ex Cathedra Statements, and Pope Honorius
Part
3: Pope Agatho’s Letter to the 6th Ecumenical Council, and the
Libellus of Hormisdas.
Part
4: The Role of St. Peter and other issues
Part
5: Catholicity and Roman Claims
Part
6: More on quotes from Popes Agatho and Gregory the Great
On
the Libellus of Hormisdas see also this forwarded post from Bill Webster
·
Quotes
from various Popes on Honorius and the idea of a Universal Bishop
·
On the question of
Orthodoxy and Divorce:
Part
1: The Patristic view of multiple marriages
Part
2: Divorce and the Ecumenical Canons
·
St. Maximos and
the abuse of his memory by Roman Apologists
·
Who
presided over the Council of Jerusalem in Acts 15?
·
The
28 Canon of the Council of Chalcedon:
Roman apologists often mention
that the Pope at the time Chalcedon did not accept the 28th
canon. They almost never mention the
following facts:
“Moreover
the Seventh Ecumenical with the approval of the Papal Legates gave a general
sanction to all the canons accepted by the Trullan Synod. And finally in 1215
the Fourth Council of the Lateran in its Vth Canon acknowledged
Constantinople's rank as immediately after Rome, but this was while
Constantinople was in the hands of the Latins! Subsequently at Florence the
second rank, in accordance with the canons of I. Constantinople and of
Chalcedon (which had been an hulled by Leo) was given to the Greek Patriarch of
Constantinople, and so the opposition of Rome gave way after seven centuries
and a half, and the Nicene Canon which Leo declared to be "inspired by the
Holy Ghost" and "valid to the end of time" (Ep. cvi.), was set
at nought by Leo's successor in the Apostolic See” NPNF2, p.290. See the above link for more.
Some
other articles of interest
·
Articles for Roman Catholic
Inquirers. From the Orthodox
Christian Information Center
·
The Papacy, by Abbe
Guettee. This classic text is now
online! Click here for no
frames version
·
The False Decretals. Examples of Roman Forgeries used to defend
the Papacy.
·
The History of the
Filioque, by Thomas Valentine.
·
Florence
2000. An Article by Fr. Alexey
Young which deals with some of the disturbing trends within contemporary Roman
Catholicism.
·
A summary of the contents
of a video documentary of Roman involvement in the inter-religious movement
(at the end, there are links that will take you to where you can order a copy,
and see it for yourself).
·
The Vatican and
Russia. If you have ever wondered
why the Orthodox are cautious in their dealings with Rome – read this.
·
A Note for
Evangelicals Considering Rome.
Some Articles by William Webster
Note: William Webster is a Protestant apologist, and
I by no means agree with everything he says in the following articles. However, he does point out some historical
information that makes these articles worth reading.
· The Church Fathers' Interpretation of the Rock of Matthew 16:18 An Historical Refutation of the
Authority Claims of Roman Catholicism Includes a Critique of Jesus, Peter and the Keys · A Refutation of the Misrepresentations of the Writings of William Webster and of the Church
Fathers by Roman Catholic, Stephen Ray, in His Book Upon This Rock
· The Papacy: A Second Response to Stephen Ray. A Refutation of the Misrepresentations of Steve
Ray of the Teaching of Cyprian and of the Comments of William Webster
· The Papacy: A Third Response to Stephen Ray. An Examination of Stephen Ray's Rebuttal to the
Web Page Articles of William Webster and a Refutation of His Misrepresentations of the Teachings of Vatican I and the Writings of Augustine and John Chrysostom
· The Papacy: A Response to Roman Catholic, Scott Windsor. A Response to Scott Windsor' s
Rebuttal to Willaim Webster's Response to Stephen Ray on the Teaching of Vatican I and Augustine
· The Papacy and the Doctrine of Development. The Repudiation of the Doctrine of Development as
it Relates to the Papacy by Vatican I and Pope Leo XIII · An Ecumenical Council Officially Condemns a Bishop of Rome for Heresy. Historical Facts Proving
That the Bishops of Rome Are not Infallible and Were Never Considered So by the Early Church · Forgeries and the Papacy. The Historical Influence and Use of Forgeries in Promotion of the
Doctrine of the Papacy
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