Regarding this, I will add that Josh had some helpful insights here. I’ll be glad to see a reasonable response.

Really though, this whole conversation is not about Roman Catholicism in its own integrity but about why Reformed or Lutheran or Anglican Evangelicals would find Roman Catholic ex-Evangelical apologists attractive. How can one recoil (as I do) from most of the Protestant “apologists” out there and then claim that the RC apologists are all so compelling?

Sophistication in rationalization is not intellectual activity.

And that only touches on the problems. How do you write something like this, and forget to mention the Fourth Crusade? If this is how they will whitewash the issues in the case (and to the harm) of those closest to them, then why trust anything they have to say to “fundamentalists”?