Not a Good Week for

Not a Good Week for Bob Sungenis

At one time many considered him the best debater to emerge from the Catholic Apologetics movement. Yet the last couple of weeks do not appear to have been kind to Bob Sungenis and Catholic Apologetics International. To begin, Bob got hammered by fellow traddy Mark Cameron in a debate over Catholic Tradition and the future conversion of the Jews. Then a bunch of Protestant apologists actually did a pretty funny job lampooning him in The Catholic Apologetics International Enquirer. Jake Mitchell, the only other regular contributor to Catholic Apologetics International, resigns.. Finally, the Curmudgeon over at The Lidless Eye Inquisition posts a hilarious spoof in which the former Iraqi Information minister defends CAI’s more recent controversies. In my opinion, it is time for Bob to throw in the towel, renounce the trajectory he has taken since the geocentrism fiasco last year, and retreat from apologetics for a while. I really feel that he should take some time off to read the Pope John Paul II’s Catechism of the Catholic Church and St. Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologiae cover-to-cover to with an open heart and an open mind. He could then emerge refreshed and begin to rebuild his reputation among mainstream Catholic apologists.