Theology

20 12, 2022

How to Conquer Temptation Immediately, by St. Alphonsus
How to Conquer Temptation Immediately, by St. Alphonsus

How to Conquer Temptation Immediately, by St. Alphonsus

By Father David Nix|2022-12-19T20:04:30+00:00December 20th, 2022|Theology|

PATIENCE UNDER TEMPTATION & THE MEANS OF CONQUERING With what arms are we to fight temptations in order to conquer? by S. Alphonsus Liguori, Bishop & Doctor of the Church The first and principal, and I may say the only, and absolutely necessary means for conquering temptations, is to have recourse to God by prayer. This means is particularly necessary for conquering temptations against purity; In temptations it is also very useful to make the Sign of the Cross. The second means of conquering temptations is to humble yourself, and to distrust your own strength. Thus let us humble ourselves, and at the same time let us have recourse with [...]

15 12, 2022

The “Deposit of the Faith” and “the Mode in Which It is Announced.”
The “Deposit of the Faith” and “the Mode in Which It is Announced.”

The “Deposit of the Faith” and “the Mode in Which It is Announced.”

By Father David Nix|2023-10-05T20:10:00+00:00December 15th, 2022|Theology|

Most liberal Catholics will happily admit that the Catholic hierarchy began to openly espouse a new data set of doctrinal points in the 1960s. (Many traditional Catholics—including myself—would ironically agree with this.) But there's a group of Catholics between the liberals and the traditionalists that will say something like, "No, no. Vatican II did not teach a new dogma. Vatican II simply taught us how to transmit the constant dogmas of the Catholic Church in a manner that is now packaged in a new way to accommodate the sensitivities of modern man." Fair enough. This is the teaching of many neo-con Catholics and it's essentially what I espoused in seminary [...]

13 12, 2022

The Left is a Cult (in Both Church and State)
The Left is a Cult (in Both Church and State)

The Left is a Cult (in Both Church and State)

By Father David Nix|2022-12-13T18:36:14+00:00December 13th, 2022|Theology|

https://rumble.com/embed/v1v433u/?pub=e5jg1 In the late 1990s, I was an EMT. (I was not yet a paramedic, for that would come two years later when I returned to my hometown of Denver.) Living in Boston from 1996-2000, I brought pediatric patients in an ambulance to Boston Children's Hospital. It was the number-one Children's Hospital in the world, long before it had gender-mutilating clinics against children. I went to Boston in the late 1990s thinking it was a pretty Catholic city. Little did I know that the Spotlight scandals of decades of priests molesting children would explode shortly after I graduated pre-med from a Jesuit University, Boston College, in 2000. On 22 Nov [...]

8 12, 2022

The Immaculate Conception in the Mystical City of God
The Immaculate Conception in the Mystical City of God

The Immaculate Conception in the Mystical City of God

By Father David Nix|2022-11-29T05:51:54+00:00December 8th, 2022|Theology|

The above painting is of SS. Joachim and Anne, the parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The 17th century Spanish Franciscan abbess, Venerable Mary of Jesus of Ágreda of Spain, received a private-revelation on the life of the Immaculate Virgin Mary that comes to a few thousand pages in a book called The Mystical City of God. The Mystical City of God was attacked by the Jansenists as inauthentic. Is it reliable? Besides the fact that Sr. Mary of Ágreda has been declared "Venerable" by the Catholic Church, her book has the approval of Popes Innocent XI, Alexander VIII, Clement IX, Benedict XIII, Benedict XIV and Clement XIV. By "approved" we mean [...]

6 12, 2022

Six-Flags Over Colorado’s Catholicism
Six-Flags Over Colorado’s Catholicism

Six-Flags Over Colorado’s Catholicism

By Father David Nix|2024-02-21T17:33:16+00:00December 6th, 2022|Theology|

I was baptized, confirmed, worked as a city paramedic, and was later ordained a Catholic priest in the city limits of Denver, Colorado. Amazingly, what would one day be the city limits of Denver was originally under the jurisdiction of at least six apostolic territories due to shifting Catholic boundaries. (I am not here writing about different bishops. Denver has had eight ordinaries—three bishops and five archbishops—since its foundation as a diocese in 1868.) Rather, I am writing here that the land of northern Colorado (specifically Denver) was found under many different dioceses as ecclesiastical borders shifted. In my seminary (also in Denver) we took a class on the history of [...]

1 12, 2022

Building Catholic Utopias?
Building Catholic Utopias?

Building Catholic Utopias?

By Father David Nix|2022-11-28T22:46:06+00:00December 1st, 2022|Theology|

In Advent, we meditate on the Two Comings of Christ. We meditate first on Christ's coming in the Incarnation and second on His glorious coming in the General Judgment. We are reminded of the fragile and ephemeral nature of our life in exile on earth. More now that ever, serious Catholics all over the world want to get their families to what "the better life," that heavenly fatherland. And they are humble enough to know they need the help of other Catholic families and good clergy to arrive there. Conservatives are now building intentional communities with great foresight and circumspection to protect their families against the overreach of corrupt governments. [...]

29 11, 2022

St. James Intercisus, Martyr of Second Chances
St. James Intercisus, Martyr of Second Chances

St. James Intercisus, Martyr of Second Chances

By Father David Nix|2022-11-28T22:45:28+00:00November 29th, 2022|Theology|

St. James Intercisus' martyrdom from Butler's lives of the saints, reprinted with permission of Sensus Fidelium. St. James' feast day in the Roman Martyrology and the Eastern Rites is 27 Nov. St. James was a native of Beth-Lapeta, a royal city in Persia, and a nobleman of the first rank, and of the highest reputation in that kingdom for his birth and great qualifications, both natural and acquired, and for the extraordinary honors and marks of favor which the king conferred upon him, and which were his most dangerous temptation. For when his prince declared war against the Christian religion,† this courtier had not the courage to renounce his royal master and [...]

25 11, 2022

The Connection Between Climate-Alarmism and Abortion
The Connection Between Climate-Alarmism and Abortion

The Connection Between Climate-Alarmism and Abortion

By Father David Nix|2022-11-25T16:49:58+00:00November 25th, 2022|Theology|

We are starting to see that the secular religion of leftists is Satanism. Perhaps, if you were in a pub in 1965 in Chicago, you might hear a healthy debate between a conservative man and a liberal man on, say, how much taxes should be allotted to waste-disposal or the local police force. There were probably good arguments on both sides of the fence. But now that the left is arguing for infanticide and genital mutilation of pre-teens, we have to ask: What is driving such assertions found to be so irrational? We all know that the answer to anything that irrational is this: Demons are directly influencing human beings. [...]

22 11, 2022

“Died Suddenly” by Stew Peters
“Died Suddenly” by Stew Peters

“Died Suddenly” by Stew Peters

By Father David Nix|2022-11-24T03:31:19+00:00November 22nd, 2022|Theology|

Died Suddenly is a new documentary by Stew Peters on the increase in of all-cause deaths since the release of the C-19 "vaccine." He proposes a motive of zero-population growth for how many have "died suddenly" from the vaccine. The cinematography is a little hokey, and it's a bit too scary for children, but it is worth watching for anyone interested in anything beyond what CNN is saying on the enormous increase of all-cause mortality from 2020 to 2022. Died Suddenly tackles both blood-clots in adults and the astonishing 40+sigma increase in stillbirth-rate since the release of the deadly covid "vaccine." There were over 6M views in just the first two [...]

20 11, 2022

The Abomination of Desolation
The Abomination of Desolation

The Abomination of Desolation

By Father David Nix|2022-11-20T14:11:03+00:00November 20th, 2022|Theology|

The Gospel in the TLM today is about the end of the world. Christ declares that "the abomination of desolation" will enter "the holy place." (Mt 24:15.) In those days "there shall arise false Christs and false prophets" (v. 24.) Our Lord adds this unusual line: "Unless those days had been shortened, no flesh should be saved. But for the sake of the elect those days shall be shortened." (v. 22.) Earlier in Matthew 24, Christ describes dark signs that will precede His light-filled return: "You shall hear of wars and rumours of wars." (v. 6.) And "nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there shall be [...]