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12 02, 2026

A Letter From Hell.

By |2026-02-10T20:17:32+00:00February 12th, 2026|Theology|

p/c: Kevin Key Sister Claire was a German nun who lived in the first half of the 20th century.  But before that, she worked at a business firm with a woman named Annette.  Annette died in a car accident in 1937 in Southern Germany.  Many years later, after the death of Sister Claire, a mysterious account of Annette telling Sister Claire that she had gone to hell was found in the papers of the convent. Before you write this off as loony, know that the diocesan Curia of Trier, Germany authorized its publication before the Council.  Furthermore, this "Letter from Beyond" (as it was originally called in its publication) was [...]

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10 02, 2026

Egyptian Influence Upon Irish Monasticism.

By |2026-02-10T19:47:37+00:00February 10th, 2026|Theology|

At the farthest southwest reach of County Kerry (already the most southwest county in Ireland) jut-out into the Atlantic Ocean two crags collectively called Skellig Michael (see above, p/c Arian Zwegers) so remote and mysterious that Star Wars makers filmed parts of The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi there. But more fascinating than this is the fact that the real Christian Jedi—some of the most ascetical monks in all of Catholic history—built their beehive dwellings on these remote islands between the 6th and 8th century.  The beehive huts of Catholic monks are called clocháin in Irish and bear a striking resemblance to the beehive huts of the Desert Fathers [...]

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5 02, 2026

Movie Review: The Two Davids.

By |2026-02-05T15:32:05+00:00February 5th, 2026|Theology|

Two unrelated movies were recently released about my patron, King David. To my surprise, I thought both were phenomenal. I guess I am known as a pretty harsh movie critic, but I really don't think it's that hard to make a Catholic movie.  The problem is that nearly every "saint" movie since A Man for All Seasons (1966) and The Passion of the Christ (2004) has turned out to be a shill for the heresy of religious indifferentism (the notion that all religions can get you to heaven.)   The acting is usually poor in most "Catholic" movies of the last decade.  The theology is even worse. I happily suffered [...]

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3 02, 2026

The True Faith in Latin America.

By |2026-02-03T10:52:50+00:00February 3rd, 2026|Theology|

The modernist ape-of-the-church continues to decline in Latin America.  OSV had a headline that read Catholicism down in Latin America, but belief in God remains high.  Chris Jackson stated that this headline reads as an "obituary." Why an obituary?  Because, as Jackson stated, "this is the true fruit of the post Vatican II missionary strategy. A region formed by Catholic identity is being de Catholicized. The 'nones' rise. Protestantism holds steady or grows modestly in places. Belief in God persists. So the hunger remains, the institutional Church shrinks, and the spiritual vacuum gets filled by whatever is loudest and simplest." In other words, even if satan can't convince Latinos to [...]

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27 01, 2026

Why Men Must Lead Their Families.

By |2026-01-26T23:34:06+00:00January 27th, 2026|Theology|

This is an inspiring true story of an early Christian family, found in the Victories of the Martyrs, compiled by St. Alphonsus Liguori. Upon the death of the Emperor Diocletian, his successors Galerius and Maximilian continued the persecution against the Christians, and our saints were of the number of those who then obtained the crown of martyrdom. Timothy was a native of the town of Perapus in Thebais, and was so exemplary a Christian that his bishop ordained him lector. He was married to a Christian lady named Maura, only seventeen years of age; and the marriage had been solemnized but three weeks, when Arianus, the governor of the province, [...]

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24 01, 2026

Hermitage: Base of Operations.

By |2026-01-24T06:41:31+00:00January 24th, 2026|Updates|

As you know, one of the most common complaints against my life is that "hermits shouldn't travel."  Besides the fact that my rule of life has 20 days contemplative and 10 days active life approved every month by my superiors, it's important to look at Catholic Church history on the life of contemplatives to see if there's any precedent to my way of life.  We're going to go look way back to the First Millennium of Catholicism to the country whence my ancestors come:  Ireland. Raymond O'Flynn in Frank Sheed's book The Saints Are Not Sad wrote about an army of Irish and Scottish monks that left their monasteries and [...]

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22 01, 2026

Fatima, Darwin and Liturgy

By |2026-01-20T18:22:20+00:00January 22nd, 2026|Theology|

In my last article, Fatima, Darwin and Dogma, we looked at how Darwinian evolution erroneously led most Catholics of the 20th century to believe dogma could evolve like a species.  We saw how this was no small part of Mary's dreaded "errors of Russia."  So also, if dogma can change overnight, then the liturgy can morph overnight, too.  (Of course, we know that the Bible and the Magisterium make it clear that neither a species nor Divine Revelation can evolve.  But one false premise, namely, Darwinian Evolution, can strangely affect even the Holy Mass.) Let's ask an important question:  Is tradition a living thing?  This is a tricky question.  If [...]

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