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7 04, 2026

Roman Breviary: Big Hours and Little Hours.

By |2026-04-08T02:34:19+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 [...]

24 03, 2026

Marital Chastity.

By |2026-03-22T22:54:15+00:00March 24th, 2026|Theology|

Warning: This is an article for adults, not children. The topic today is this:  What is permitted behavior in the bedroom between Catholic spouses?  From the start, I have to give this disclaimer: I despise writing about this topic, especially since I endanger my own soul in bringing potentially-immodest writings to the internet (as if the internet does not already have enough.) However, I have discovered that the question of exotic behavior in the bedroom is unfortunately on the minds of countless Catholic couples across the globe.  Similarly, I have unfortunately found that 98% of priest-confessors out there are misleading the Catholic laity on this topic.  By what authority can [...]

19 03, 2026

The Chaplet of the Sacred Heart.

By |2026-03-19T13:56:25+00:00March 19th, 2026|Theology|

Shortly after my conversion in my early 20s (during the 1990s) I ended up doing street evangelization in NYC.  More specifically, I was sharing the faith in lower Manhattan at Washington Square near NYU.  I noticed that one young man in my group was both extremely truthful and extremely charitable in his outreach to a very hostile neighborhood.  I asked his secret to this balance.  He told me that he prayed the Chaplet of the Sacred Heart of Jesus every day. I had never heard of it. The Chaplet of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is a 10 minute prayer stemming from the apparition of Christ to St. Mary Alacoque [...]

17 03, 2026

Blessed Elena: Russia Will March on Rome.

By |2026-03-15T14:52:15+00:00March 17th, 2026|Theology|

Russia will march upon all the nations of Europe, particularly Italy, and will raise her flag over the dome of St. Peter's.—Blessed Elena Aiello (1895-1961.) As most of you  know, Public Revelation is comprised of the Bible and the Magisterium.  It is necessary for salvation because it is the Divine Revelation of the Blessed Trinity.  Man, because of original sin and actual sin, cannot see God without God's help.  This is why public revelation is absolutely necessary for us to obtain the Beatific Vision. Private Revelation, on the other hand, includes mystical visions and locutions given to holy people following the death of the last Apostle (St. John.)  One need [...]

14 03, 2026

Social Reign of Christ the King.

By |2026-04-03T16:58:15+00:00March 14th, 2026|Podcasts, Sermons, Talks|

This is a talk I gave in Croatia on the Social Reign of Christ the King for the Apologetic Association of the Blessed Ivan Merz in Zagreb.  Above is a picture of me praying at the tomb of Blessed Cardinal Stepinac, poisoned to death by the communists in the 1950s (who died later in 1960 due to it.)  Below is the banner for the conference:

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