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16 04, 2026

21 Reasons to Reject ‘Sola Scriptura,’ by Joel Peters.

By |2026-04-07T21:07:16+00:00April 16th, 2026|Theology|

In my last article Debating Protestants, I discussed how and why I used to debate Protestants on a nearly-daily basis with open-Bible verse-wars when I was in my early 20s.  After learning that these verse-wars rarely make converts, I learned the best way to disprove Protestantism is by simply overturning their completely non-Biblical notion of Sola Scriptura. The little pamphlet in the above picture is called Scripture Alone? 21 Reasons to Reject Sola Scriptura by Mr. Joel Peters.  It is the very best book I have ever seen to aid Catholics in immediately sidelining the intellectual errors of Protestantism.  But it's very difficult to find on the internet now. Thus, I [...]

14 04, 2026

Debating Protestants.

By |2026-04-13T00:20:44+00:00April 14th, 2026|Theology|

Happy Easter, Christ is Risen!  Christ is Truly Risen! Χριστὸς ἀνέστη! Ἀληθῶς ἀνέστη! As you probably know, I currently spend more time attacking the heresy of Modernism than Protestantism. Why? Because the former is a cancer that any traditionalist Catholic will admit is more hidden, ubiquitous and destructive than the latter.  So, I will keep defending the original Apostolic Faith against modernists who control the buildings. But I first cut my teeth on defending the True Faith by doing open-Bible debates with Protestants in my world travels starting 30 years ago.  Before getting to how I did this, let’s define terms. Even National Geographic or a secular Social Studies book [...]

9 04, 2026

More Conversions (and Departures.)

By |2026-04-12T22:41:21+00:00April 9th, 2026|Theology|

p/c University of Notre Dame. Doubtless by this point you have seen the news of massive amounts of conversions of non-Catholic young adults coming into American Catholic parishes.  This news has been covered by both religious outlets as well as secular ones. Many of these conversions are in unlikely places, like New York City.  NCR/EWTN recently reported on a Dominican parish in lower Manhattan serving NYU: "88 people received the sacraments of baptism or confirmation at the Easter vigil this year."  Part of this was due to current events:  "Many of those coming into the Church, he said, have told him that conservative Christian influencer Charlie Kirk’s murder had a [...]

7 04, 2026

Roman Breviary: Big Hours and Little Hours.

By |2026-04-09T14:10:42+00:00April 7th, 2026|Updates|

Happy Easter, Christ is Risen!  Christ is Truly Risen! Χριστὸς ἀνέστη! Ἀληθῶς ἀνέστη! The above picture is me praying in Croatia this spring of 2026 at the tomb of Blessed Aloysius Cardinal Stepinac. He was the Archbishop of Zagreb starting in 1937. The Cardinal was poisoned by the Communists in the 1950s. He died a slow death from that and died in 1960. He was declared a martyr for the faith. Switch topics for a minute. The old school Jesuits and Franciscans who were missionaries in the New World sent records back to the Old World of conversions and baptisms. This wasn’t so much to brag as to stay accountable [...]

2 04, 2026

St. John and the Synoptics in the Triduum.

By |2026-04-02T13:46:46+00:00April 2nd, 2026|Theology|

Every Triduum, thousands of Catholics (including me) ask the following question: Why do the Synoptic Gospels (Saints Matthew, Mark and Luke) place the Passover on one date and it seems that St. John places it on a different date? The answer I gave for several years was the calendar of the Pharisees was different from that of the Essenes. However, I discovered that that answer leads to more problems than solutions. Before we look at the real answer, I want to remind you of a definition known to most traditional Catholics.  Archaeologism is a modernist fad found in Church history and liturgical studies, often used by charismatics. One aspect of [...]

31 03, 2026

Trads Behind the Iron Curtain.

By |2026-03-31T19:04:41+00:00March 31st, 2026|Theology|

The only novel I have read since ordination was Michael O'Brien's Island of the World.  It's a gripping and grinding historical-fiction account about a man named Josip who grows up in Croatia in the 1940s.  His family and community is then destroyed by Tito's communism.  Josip is sent to a gulag called Goli Otok in real life.  There, he is tortured and loses his faith.  After escaping, he wanders Italy and finally ends up a janitor in NYC.  Does he regain his faith?  You'll have to read the book.  It was so good I read it twice since ordination. Since reading Island of the World, I have had a healthy [...]

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