28 07, 2022

“Equally Yoked” with Mary

By |2022-07-31T18:55:37+00:00July 28th, 2022|Theology|

If you watch any of the Marvel Comics series of movies, you are probably disappointed at the increasing lack of chastity among the superheroes.  There's obvious exceptions.  For example, X-Men's teleporting Nightcrawler is religious in the movies.  In the original comic book, Nightcrawler had even been ordained a Catholic priest.  Sadly, today, however, more and more "superheroes" are being produced by "woke" companies under pressure to portray alternative and impure lifestyles that has nothing to do with the plot-line.  I imagine even agnostic followers (who aren't leftists) of Marvel Comic movies are getting tired of the slimy agenda when they just came to the movies to see the good-guys beat [...]

27 07, 2022

Mortality and Fertility Rates After COVID Vaccinations

By |2022-07-27T02:11:34+00:00July 27th, 2022|Theology|

As we approach the first week of August 2022, it is now about two years after the initial COVID "vaccine trials" of 2020 and exactly 18 months after AJMC reported on their timeline that on 1 Feb 2021 "more Americans [were] vaccinated than infected with COVID-19."  We must now ask:  What have been the effects of the injection upon Western populations?  LifeSite News has an extensive report here, but I'm going to highlight a few of the stats that I believe to be the most important after my time in medicine. All-Cause Mortality Because of the misreporting on the cause of death by hospitals and clinicians over the past two [...]

25 07, 2022

Should You Obey Your Superior or the Bible?

By |2022-07-25T11:41:42+00:00July 25th, 2022|Theology|

Should You Obey Your Superior or the Bible?  Hopefully, both.  In happier days of the Church, there was never a rub between the two. But I keep getting emails and texts requesting help on understanding obedience. What does a physician do at a hospital if the CEO wants him to take an abortion-tainted injection? What does a teenager do if his parents tell him to go to a Drag-Queen story hour at the local library? What does a priest do if his bishop tells him to no longer preach on Fatima or offer the Traditional Latin Mass? These are questions I am getting from more than just traditionalists. In fact, [...]

21 07, 2022

The Louisiana Bishops and “Emergency Contraception.”

By |2022-09-17T15:24:17+00:00July 21st, 2022|Theology|

As Louisiana closes abortion centers following the overturning of Roe Vs Wade by giving certain abortion decisions to the states, the Louisiana Conference of Catholic Bishops recently stated they will allow abortifacient medicines to be given in Catholic hospitals to victims of sexual-assault.  In a secular journal called The Advocate, there is a new article titled What does Louisiana's abortion ban mean for Plan B as a lifeline for rape victims?  In that article, the secular author rightly names "emergency contraception" as this: "Emergency contraception is the proper term for what often is called Plan B or the morning-after pill."  It adds: "The pills can prevent or delay the release of [...]

19 07, 2022

Liberty as a Cloak for Malice

By |2022-07-19T23:01:56+00:00July 19th, 2022|Theology|

For so is the will of God, that by doing well you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men, as free, and not as making liberty a cloak for malice, but as the servants of God.—1 Pt 2:15-16. Catholics have been sinning for 2,000 years.  I'm under no illusions that major sin started in the lives of most Catholics only in the 1960s or 1970s.  However, if someone went to confession 100 years ago or 700 years ago or 1500 years ago, the penitent would generally be hard pressed to find a priest (good or bad) who gave a "pass" to his serious sins.  In other words, even [...]

15 07, 2022

“I Delivered My Child.”

By |2022-07-15T21:23:15+00:00July 15th, 2022|Theology|

by guest writer, Melody Lyons, found at The Essential Mother. Thirteen years ago I delivered our little Matthew Athanasius at home on the Feast of St. Maria Goretti. He was born too soon at 14 weeks in his intact amniotic sac. 2-3 inches of perfection. All his little fingers and toes visible.  I knew he had died after symptoms declined and we confirmed via non-medical ultrasound.  I’d never lost a baby before so I called L&D at a local Catholic hospital to find out what their protocol was. The nurse said… “Just come in and we will do a D&C.” I asked her what they do with the baby. She said: [...]

14 07, 2022

Is Reason Accessible Without Christ?

By |2022-07-14T17:49:54+00:00July 14th, 2022|Theology|

The easiest way to explain to a sensitive post-modern mind why not all "good people" go to heaven but only those in sanctifying grace probably comes from St. Thomas Aquinas. He simply explains that natural virtue from a person can not get him to the supernatural goal, namely, the Beatific Vision of the Blessed Trinity. Being a "nice person" can't get you to heaven since getting to heaven means truly being holy enough to gaze upon God.  Think about that.  St. Augustine realized there was no chance of salvation unless Christ be the center of one's life, probably because he saw the darkness he once walked in as a pagan. [...]

9 07, 2022

The Dark Night of the Soul: What It Is Not.

By |2022-07-09T19:03:43+00:00July 9th, 2022|Theology|

In seminary, my favorite professor taught both ascetical and Carmelite theology. I agree with him that St. John of the Cross was probably not a sullen melancholic. St. John is made out to be today as a debby-downer (especially by us perman-grin Americans) because he writes so much about detachment. But even a cursory study of the life of St. John of the Cross reveals his high levels of energy, not only towards the ascetical life, but even the evangelical life of helping the townsfolk outside his 16th century monastery in Spain. St. John of the Cross' pathway of the Nada, Nada, Nada is where we arrive at the apex [...]

6 07, 2022

How Conservative Family Lines Went Woke

By |2022-07-06T01:39:52+00:00July 6th, 2022|Theology|

Really, the full title of this blog should be How Conservative Family Lines Went Woke In Just a Few Generations.  It didn't happen overnight.  This is not a blog post to cheer on the right and condemn the leftists.  It's to ask how our every country in the West went from being civilized to uncivilized in less than 100 years.  You all know my theological answers on this, on how "politics is downstream of politics" and how "every grace and error flows from the altar."  I also now admit that Vatican II was not the root of modernism, but was just the "coming out" party for modernism. But at the [...]

2 07, 2022

“Ecclesia Dei Adflicta” Turns 34 Years Old

By |2022-07-29T17:06:38+00:00July 2nd, 2022|Theology|

June and July mark some bittersweet anniversaries in the traditional movement.  It was on 30 June 1988 that Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre and Bishop Antonio de Castro Mayer did episcopal consecrations without the approval of Rome.  Pope John Paul II quickly wrote a document called Ecclesia Dei Adflicta, meaning "On the Afflicted Church of God."  This is a barely-veiled reference to imply that Archbishop Lefebvre himself was "afflicting the Church of God" by consecrating bishops without the Pope's approval.  Three weeks later, on 18 July 1988, the FSSP was founded with the approval of Rome to remain both canonically regular and maintain the old-rite sacraments. I believe one of the main [...]

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