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Director John Pacheco, "Neil", sent John this e-mail:

Hi John,

I'm sure you're tired of this subject, but in case you missed it, one of Eric Svendsen's top goons has posted this on his blog. It appears Svendsen has officially gone out of business, just like the Hollywood Video chain.

In the comment box I made it very clear that I believe this is due to the fact Svendsen totally destroyed his credibility in the heos hou fiasco that exposed him and his doctorate as a huge sham. And even though I'm very new to the heos hou disaster (I've only known about this since 2007), it is clear to me that Svendsen never recovered from that humiliation a decade ago, and that can be seen by the simple fact his webpage has gone downhill for quite some time. Of course, some of the goons there don't see it so clearly, and would rather emphasize Eric's sophistry and gymnastics.

If there was ever a textbook case of a Protestant apologist getting taken behind the woodshed, this is it. But such is seriously the sad reality of what happens when one's hatred of Christ's Church becomes their driving force in research and apologetics.

God Bless,

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Unity At The Expense of Truth – (Socon Or Bust)

Heresy Trials, Contraceptive Sex, and Homosexuality – (Socon Or Bust)

4 Catholic Reasons to Oppose Homosexuality – (Socon Or Bust)

Discovery TV Gunman Demands Halt to 'Parasitic Human Infants,' Credits Al Gore with 'Awakening' – (Big Blue Wave)

Another Abortioneer Who Needs Remedial Biology – (Big Blue Wave)

Did Irenænus Believe in Sola Scriptura and Reject Apocrypha? – (Viva Catholic!)

Scripture Without Tradition – (Roman Catholic Apologetics on Facebook)

Limited Atonement – (Roman Catholic Apologetics on Facebook)

New Testament Ark Of the Covenant – (Roman Catholic Apologetics on Facebook)

Sola Fides - Faith Alone – (Roman Catholic Apologetics on Facebook)

Vain Philosophy – (Roman Catholic Apologetics on Facebook)

How does God justify us to enter heaven? On this issue of Justification, 16th century Reformers broke away from the Catholic Church. Wibisono Hartono compares the Catholic teaching on Justification with the position of Protestants and "Bible Only" Christians. Read Article

By first capturing the imagination and defining the heroes of a culture through fiction and entertainment, and then translating that success through the various media outlets to propagate the message, a whole civilization can be moved. Controlling the mythology and the media, therefore, is the only viable and far-reaching strategy for taking our culture back and restoring Christian civilization. Read Article

In this article, Mark Bonocore explains the difference between the form and the substance of the Holy Eucharist. Read Article

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, Dominic Neri, shares his thoughts on believing in the Church. Read Article

In this article, Mark Bonocore shares the Catholic understanding of transubstantiation. Read Article

In these twelve exchanges hosted by Christian Apologetics Research Ministry's "Faith and Reason" Web Radio broadcast, Catholic Apologist, Mark Bonocore, and Calvinist Apologist, Matt Slick, discuss the teachings of the Catholic Church. Topics include Ecclesiology, the Canon of Scripture, Tradition, the Papacy, Mary, Predestination, Justification, Purgatory and many other areas of agreements and disagreements between Catholics and Protestants. The first exchanges start out rather stoically, but thankfully the latter ones get a bit more impassioned and more interesting. Mark scores a number of jaw dropping, knock-out blows during this series. (Click here and here to sample just a couple of them.) Interestingly, we are uncertain why Mr. Slick is offering only five of these 58-minute discussions for sale when Mark appeared twelve times on his hour long show. Mark does an absolutely superb job in exposing the inherent weaknesses of Protestant objections to Catholic teaching and showing the inherent weak foundation of Protestantism. A great resource to share with a Protestant friend.

In this barn-burner of a dialogue, Mark Bonocore takes on Gary Demar on Stu Epperson's TruthTalkLive.com. As the broadcast makes evident, the Catholic approach to debunking The DaVinci Code is the most effective way of countering the liberal distortions of our time since it incorporates the early Church's historical witness to the divinity of Christ. The dialogue, however, soon gets off track with both Mark and Gary defending each other's views regarding the Canon, the Church Fathers, and Eschatology among other topics.