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VATICAN II — In Defense of Tradition Was Gospel origin “carefully worked out”— “blurred,” as Pope Benedict XVI noted —to accommodate Ecumenism(and the Synodal church)? Jerome D. Gilmartin — September 16, 2026. Amended October 1, 2026 Pope Benedict XVI tried to reconcile pre- and post-Vatican II views of Gospel credibility. But he described the blurred… Continue reading VATICAN II — In Defense of Tradition
Jerome D. Gilmartin – April 15, 2025. Updated May 15, 2026. Catholics, after hearing the words “Synodal Church” for the first time from their pastor during Mass on Sunday, may find the following in a Google web search: “The [Synodal Church] document on the screen details a theological paradigm shift in the Catholic Church’s mission,… Continue reading The Synodal church — Inaugurated by Pope Francis October 26, 2024
Home Jerome D. GilmartinPublished February 26, 2024, Updated May 12, 2024 “Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God!” Does that plea, so courageously expressed by Patrick Henry in 1775, have a corollary in the Church today? Is ecumenism so… Continue reading Will schism be the Coup de Gras to plummeting Catholic faith and practice? An urgent appeal to our bishops
Jerome D. Gilmartin — Revised April 12, 2024 Well, yes he did. But not according to the theory taught to most Catholic seminarians as the best explanation of Gospel origin. Consider the following hypothetical conversation with a Catholic bishop: “Your excellency, If I may ask, who wrote the first Gospel?” Most will answer, “Mark.” “Well,… Continue reading Sorry Catholics – Jesus Never Said, “You are Peter, and on this rock…” or promised him the keys
Jerome D. Gilmartin – December 9, 2021, revised February 3, 2023 It began with a mutiny. Not the upheaval that struck the Church following the July 29, 1968 announcement of Humanae Vitae. Not the many liturgical and other changes that — though not mandated by the second Vatican council — nonetheless were soon implemented. A… Continue reading The Poison Pill taken by Catholic universities and seminaries – and the antidote
Jerome D. Gilmartin Published in Christian Order magazine, February, 2022. Revised July 5, 2023 to include Irenaeus, Adv. Haer, and the Protestant origin of Markan Priority. It is well known that the “Spirit of Vatican II” changed the Catholic landscape, undermining the orthodoxy that resulted in the pre-Vatican II golden age of Catholicism. What is… Continue reading The Key to restoring Catholic orthodoxy
Replacing “thin air” Jesus with the true Jesus in Catholic universities By Jerome D. Gilmartin – September 11, 2019 Pope Benedict XVI: “Intimate friendship with Jesus … is in danger of clutching at thin air.” Jesus of Nazareth, 2007, p. xii. Catholic universities, and seminaries as well, now have reason to bring an end to… Continue reading Replacing “thin air” Jesus with the true Jesus in Catholic universities
Jerome D. Gilmartin Published in the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly • Fall/Winter 2017 Introduction added, as well as the section, “Further Evidence for the pre-70 A.D. writing of all four Canonical Gospels,” an excerpt from, “The Poison Pill taken by Catholic colleges, universities and seminaries — and the antidote,” posted at 7stepcatholic.com. Dei Verbum… Continue reading Jesus Emerges from the Historical-Critical Fog
