Theology

16 07, 2020

When a Nation Becomes Possessed
When a Nation Becomes Possessed

When a Nation Becomes Possessed

By Father David Nix|2021-03-04T00:40:00+00:00July 16th, 2020|Theology|

The above image is a photo that one of my CSU students took 20 years after the Rwandan genocide. We arrived in Kigali in 2014 for a service project 20 years to the month following the genocide that took a million lives, most dying from a machete chop to the head. One thing I didn't expect as I farmed out 20 young college students from Colorado to African families through the nation's Capital of Kigali was that every student would be seated at a dinner table with one or two empty seats. These empty seats were once belonging to members of a family who had perished in the genocide. A [...]

11 07, 2020

Why Mother Cabrini Would Not Want Herself to Replace Columbus on the Colorado Calendar
Why Mother Cabrini Would Not Want Herself to Replace Columbus on the Colorado Calendar

Why Mother Cabrini Would Not Want Herself to Replace Columbus on the Colorado Calendar

By Father David Nix|2020-07-11T02:59:45+00:00July 11th, 2020|Theology|

CNN recently reported, “Colorado passed legislation Tuesday to replace Columbus Day with Cabrini Day because bill sponsors say it doesn't represent their community members. The first Monday of October will now honor Frances Xavier Cabrini, who according to the bill, is the woman responsible for creating 67 schools, hospitals, and orphanages in the United States and South and Central America throughout her lifetime. Sen. Chris Hansen, one of the bill's sponsors, told CNN that Cabrini is a local Colorado hero because of the work that she did. Chicago and New York join Colorado in honoring Cabrini with a shrine dedicated to her, Rep. Adrienne Benavidez, another one of the bill's [...]

5 07, 2020

Earthly Things Part 2: The Days of Lawlessness
Earthly Things Part 2: The Days of Lawlessness

Earthly Things Part 2: The Days of Lawlessness

By Father David Nix|2020-07-05T01:48:00+00:00July 5th, 2020|Theology|

Many prayerful Catholics have been noticing that much of 2 Thessalonians 2 seems to be materializing over the past few years. In fact, it seems prophesies from the Old Testament are being fulfilled. One older friend of mine who is a covert from evangelical Protestant to Catholic believes the "abomination of desolation" (Dan 9:27 and Mt 24:15) was the placement of the Martin Luther statute into the Vatican in October of 2016 (nearly four years ago): Consider also how a priest friend of mine recently pointed out that 2 Thess 2:10 asserts that a group of people during a global "rebellion" will "refuse to love the truth and so be [...]

30 06, 2020

Earthly Things: Part 1
Earthly Things: Part 1

Earthly Things: Part 1

By Father David Nix|2020-06-30T22:52:36+00:00June 30th, 2020|Theology|

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz8wXNUdMO8 Consider four current issues of "debated" truth: 1) In the above video, Sean Hannity names numerous racist things that Joe Biden said starting at minute 3:30. This includes terms like "racial jungle" and "predators on our streets." Biden even describes South Asians as having a "slight Indian Accent..at 7-11 or Dunkin' Donuts." This is not to mention Biden's newest goof of telling a black radio host that unless he vote for him, "You ain't black." Of course, President Trump has never said anything remotely close to this racist (before or during his presidency. ) 2) In the below tweet, I mention a medical fact that many young women in first [...]

26 06, 2020

How To Use This Blog
How To Use This Blog

How To Use This Blog

By Father David Nix|2020-06-26T04:27:23+00:00June 26th, 2020|Theology|

There are now six sections to my blog: Theology (default reading when you put in "pilgrim priest" or "padre peregrino" to the url); Talks (Please see the longer description at the bottom of this post); Life (I just started monthly stories about myself); Español (rarely updated); About Padre (my permanent bio with an ever-changing Twitter feed) and Donate(now seeking one-time and monthly donors.) You can find these six-sections at the top of your desktop or laptop screen: Or, if you read my blog on your phone, the pull-down menu bar is here: Then, select one of the six: TALKS: My new teaching channel got delayed due to my commentaries on [...]

22 06, 2020

Unanswered Questions on the Travel of Pope Benedict XVI
Unanswered Questions on the Travel of Pope Benedict XVI

Unanswered Questions on the Travel of Pope Benedict XVI

By Father David Nix|2021-04-07T14:43:00+00:00June 22nd, 2020|Theology|

This week I put up a Facebook post that had 440 shares. In it, I suspected that Pope Benedict XVI was being controlled and that he would not come back to the Vatican. When I was proved wrong on the latter of those two, I was asked to publicly apologize for my whole post. No, I'm not going to apologize for noticing that Pope Benedict XVI is back in the Vatican. Why? Because I still insist that something nefarious is afoot. The onus of proof is now on my opposing interlocutors to explain not only a few but all of the following questions if they still insist upon a peaceful [...]

20 06, 2020

Revelation and Revolution
Revelation and Revolution

Revelation and Revolution

By Father David Nix|2020-06-20T02:46:41+00:00June 20th, 2020|Theology|

For this reason I, Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles— assuming that you have heard of the stewardship of God's grace that was given to me for you, how the mystery was made known to me by revelation, as I have written briefly. When you read this, you can perceive my insight into the mystery of Christ, which was not made known to the sons of men in other generations as it has now been revealed to His holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit.—Eph 3:1-5. Notice above that the Apostle Paul says that “the mystery” (μυστήριον, mysterion) was made known to him by “revelation” [...]

5 06, 2020

What Happens to America’s Poor if the Police Are Defunded?
What Happens to America’s Poor if the Police Are Defunded?

What Happens to America’s Poor if the Police Are Defunded?

By Father David Nix|2020-06-05T04:52:45+00:00June 5th, 2020|Theology|

I've done missionary work in Central America, South America, Africa, Europe and Asia. After so much travel, I can say in very good confidence that we in the USA have the least corrupt police departments of anywhere in the world. Our cops sometimes do horrible things, as the George Floyd video demonstrates. But here's what anyone who has lived outside the United States already knows: In most third-world countries, the only people with physical protection are the rich who can afford private security guards for their families. The police in most third-world countries are so corrupt that they are frequently in cahoots with traffickers. If a woman loses her husband [...]

23 05, 2020

Can Adult Baptisms Be Canonically Suspended during COVID-19?
Can Adult Baptisms Be Canonically Suspended during COVID-19?

Can Adult Baptisms Be Canonically Suspended during COVID-19?

By Father David Nix|2020-05-23T21:29:34+00:00May 23rd, 2020|Theology|

This was an email I received from out of country. He gave me permission to reproduce it below under condition of anonymity. I changed his name and retracted the country of origin: Dear Father Nix, Here in COUNTRY-X, the government have banned all baptisms, and, by extension, all receptions into the Church. The bishops'conference have followed suit issuing their own edicts to this effect. There is, at the time of writing, no end date in sight for these measures, or even a vague time frame. Two catechumens, one whom was being prepared for unconditional Baptism, and the other who was being prepared to be received (with conditional Baptism), have asked [...]

16 05, 2020

Chernobyl and Coronavirus
Chernobyl and Coronavirus

Chernobyl and Coronavirus

By Father David Nix|2020-05-16T16:09:23+00:00May 16th, 2020|Theology|

34 years ago last month, the former states of the USSR remembered the anniversary of the most destructive nuclear meltdown in world history: Chernobyl. Although the HBO series takes Chernobyl takes some historical-fiction liberties with what happened under the Russian government in the 1980s, there's some similarities to what we are currently facing in the USA: Both governments manipulated statistics of a health crisis so as to maintain authoritarian control over their people. The difference is that the Russian government downplayed Chernobyl so as to manipulate the people into submission, where the US government is currently overplaying a real flu so as to manipulate the American people into submission. But [...]