Author Archives: Ron Conte

Janet E. Smith: A List of Errors

Posted on 27 July 2018 by Ron Conte

1. She claims that contraception is only condemned by the Church within a valid marriage. “Women who voluntarily engage in marital intercourse and who do something to make that act infertile are contracepting. They are violating God’s plan for marital … Continue reading →

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Janet E. Smith’s hypocrisy on Humanae Vitae

Posted on 25 July 2018 by Ron Conte

Her article at CatholicWorldReport.com is here: McCarrick, dissent from ‘Humanae vitae’, and the ‘sensus fidelium’. It contains two stunning hypocrisies. Hypocrisy 1 Janet E. Smith repeatedly decries the “dissent from Humanae vitae” that is causing harm to the Church in … Continue reading →

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New Catholic theology website: Catholicism.io

Posted on 25 July 2018 by Ron Conte

Yesterday, I launched a new website: Catholicism.io The site will focus on 4 key subject areas: 1. Theology of the body 2. Sexual ethics 3. Salvation 4. Church teaching One of the main purposes of Catholicism.io is to argue against … Continue reading →

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May a Catholic Wife use Abortifacient Contraception to Prevent Cancer?

Posted on 24 July 2018 by Ron Conte

Did you know that the use of chemical contraceptives can decrease a woman’s risk of ovarian cancer? The risk reduction for women who have ever used the oral contraceptive pill (OCP) versus never-users is 27%. And the risk reduction for … Continue reading →

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The Heresy of Limited Biblical Inerrancy

Posted on 24 July 2018 by Ron Conte

The Magisterium has repeatedly infallibly taught that the Bible is infallible in all that it asserts as true on any subject, whether faith, morals, salvation, history, or science. Now it is clear that some of the Bible’s assertions are by … Continue reading →

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Catholic Theology Q and A

Posted on 23 July 2018 by Ron Conte

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More Prenatals are killed by Abortifacients than by Abortion

Posted on 23 July 2018 by Ron Conte

Edited to add: Births worldwide per year is 137 million infants. Abortifacient deaths from IUDs are 1 to 2 losses per woman per year [Mechanisms of action of intrauterine devices; Am J Obstet Gynecol 2002;187:1699-70]. Worldwide, 163 million women use … Continue reading →

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7 Rejected Teachings of Humanae Vitae

Posted on 22 July 2018 by Ron Conte

Humanae Vitae has become a flag that conservative Catholics wave, as an empty symbol of their conservatism. For they do not accept its teaching. Not really. They ignore or radically reinterpret whatever teachings it contains that they dislike. Here is … Continue reading →

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Where Did Cain Get His Wife?

Posted on 21 July 2018 by Ron Conte

In the book of Genesis, Cain murders his brother Abel. Then God punishes him with exile. Subsequently, Cain married a wife, and they conceived a son, Enoch. Afterward, Cain built a city and named it after his son. [Genesis 4] … Continue reading →

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An Overview of Heresy in the Church Today: Part Two Salvation Theology

Posted on 18 July 2018 by Ron Conte

Universalism On one extreme, we have Catholics who claim that we may “reasonably hope” that “perhaps” all human person will eventually go to Heaven. This claim directly contradicts the teaching of Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition that many souls go … Continue reading →

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Theology Q and A (closed)

Posted on 17 July 2018 by Ron Conte

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An Overview of Heresy in the Church Today: Part One Moral Theology

Posted on 16 July 2018 by Ron Conte

Intrinsically evil acts An intrinsically evil act is a knowingly chosen act which is inherently ordered toward an evil moral object (a moral deprivation in the proximate end of the act). When the object is evil, the act is intrinsically … Continue reading →

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