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22 03, 2025

Trial, Sentencing and Award for Pro-Life

By |2025-03-22T03:25:00+00:00March 22nd, 2025|Life|

The Life-Update section of my site could easily become narcissistic, or at least self-centered.  But here's how I justify it:  Missionary Orders like the Franciscans and Jesuits (at least between Trent and Vatican II) had to report back in the annals of their congregations how many baptisms, confirmations, etc. they had among the natives in any certain region.  I think one reason for this strange convert-counting was simply internal accountability. So also, the Life-Update pull-down section affords  some accountability to my donors as to what I am doing with my life.  It is admittedly not as important as the theology section (the default section) or the podcast (talks) pull-down of [...]

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20 03, 2025

The “New Evangelization” Has Officially Failed.

By |2025-03-24T22:30:46+00:00March 20th, 2025|Theology|

Mr. Eric Sammons of Crisis Magazine tweeted the above graph and commented: "From a high of 172,581 new converts in 1999, we only had 72,212 in 2022—a 58% decline."  In other words, the Catholic Church in the United States boasted 173k converts in 1999 but that number dropped to 72k in 2022.  Obviously, a drop in 58% of converts-per-year is a catastrophic loss for a Church that claims to be missionary. Furthermore, the Pew Study center released the above graph on the Catholic Church.  It reveals that for every convert welcomed into the front door of an American Catholic parish, over eight Catholics leave through the back door. How strange, [...]

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18 03, 2025

Duress or Necessity in Civil Law

By |2025-03-18T11:59:07+00:00March 18th, 2025|Theology|

Even some pro-lifers do not understand why we with Red Rose Rescue do counseling to abortion-minded couples not only outside the abortion center (where I go every month) but also occasionally inside the abortion center (which I have only done twice in my life—both times resulting in arrest, even though our actions on the inside of the killing center were always peaceful and respectful.) Because I have never blocked entrance to an abortion mill (something my friends who are more courageous than me have indeed done) I have only been charged in the past with trespassing.  However, some pro-lifers believe this is imprudent and even increases buffer zones for the [...]

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13 03, 2025

Respect of Egos Part 2: Discernment and Obedience

By |2025-03-14T10:15:56+00:00March 13th, 2025|Theology|

Part One: Respect of Egos was about St. Thomas Aquinas' warnings against "respect of persons" which I consider to be an avoidance of "Respect of Egos." This leads into today's article on having fortitude of character. Many of you are probably familiar with the Milgram experiment in 1961 where normal Americans involved in a psychological experiment were pressured into delivering lethal doses of electricity to other Americans involved in that experiment.  At least, they believed these were lethal doses of electricity... but they were not.  The experiment (linked above) was rather a test on the would-be electrocuters to determine how many people would deliver a lethal dose of 250 volts [...]

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11 03, 2025

Respect of Egos Part 1: St. Thomas Aquinas

By |2025-03-13T20:06:45+00:00March 11th, 2025|Theology|

This is a two part series on the "Respect of Egos." It is easy to misunderstand St. Thomas Aquinas' condemnation of "respect of persons." The notion we are to avoid "respect of persons" obviously does not mean we should disrespect anyone.  Nor does it mean that we are supposed to treat everyone the exact same.  Rather, in his section on Respect of Persons, St. Thomas Aquinas essentially teaches that the true Christian is to honor his neighbor in proportion to his level of virtuous living, not his social status. In the above link, St. Thomas Aquinas writes about how we are indeed permitted to prefer one person over another.  The [...]

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10 03, 2025

A Pilgrimage of Men, Not Angels

By |2025-03-11T14:50:09+00:00March 10th, 2025|Life|

While some people are struggling with temptations to change their gender, I often wish I had been created an angel.  It's not because I have lived an angelic life in my past or because I have an angelic intellect.  It's rather because we humans face millions of tests to get to heaven, where angels only had one major test of their obedience and sacrifice of their wills in order to be saved.  I suppose it's my laziness that makes me wish I could have just been saved by simply one decision (like the angels) instead of many, as we humans on earth have to do every week. Last year, I [...]

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6 03, 2025

Thank You to Donors

By |2025-03-06T18:42:48+00:00March 6th, 2025|Theology|

The above is a picture I snapped at Ave Maria University while traveling to a funeral in Florida. Normally these updates go in my Life-Update section, but I wanted to express my deep and heartfelt thanks to those who sacrifice for me, either by finances or by time in prayer. Here's some points on where your money is going: I pray or read several hours a day.  This usually includes Mass, mental prayer, Rosary and the old Divine Office. I still receive health insurance from my Archdiocese.  However, all my income still comes from you who read my site and listen to my pods.  This is because I am not [...]

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4 03, 2025

Christ the High Priest and Teacher

By |2025-03-03T22:43:33+00:00March 4th, 2025|Theology|

p/c Caminante Wanderer. The three munera, or duties, of the priest are to teach, sanctify and govern. Since the 1990s, the "teach" aspect of the priesthood has been relegated to the laity. The "sanctify" aspect of the sacraments remains somehow with the priest, but is treated as shallow magic-tricks at most Nordo parishes. Finally, the "govern" aspect of the priesthood is relegated entirely to the bishop as an unchecked juggernaut CEO of positivistic-obedience in areas he is taken seriously. In places the bishop is not taken seriously, he's seen as just a cover for child-abuse and Democratic funding. I want to write about the most under-rated munera of the priesthood, [...]

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