Theology

14 03, 2020

How Should I Spend My Sundays when Public Masses Are Canceled?
How Should I Spend My Sundays when Public Masses Are Canceled?

How Should I Spend My Sundays when Public Masses Are Canceled?

By Father David Nix|2020-04-22T16:12:11+00:00March 14th, 2020|Theology|

Part I: Why the Cancelation of Masses due to COVID-19 is probably a good thing. (If Church history does not interest you, feel free to skip to Part II: How Should I Spend My Sunday when Public Masses Are Canceled?) Many bishops in the world have canceled Sunday Masses for several consecutive weeks due to fear over coronavirus (COVID-19.) You might be surprised to read that I actually agree with their decision on this. First, epidemiologically, COVID has the potential to grow big and rapidly in its reach. Even if COVID stayed small in the amount of infections, many people over 50 years old would be placing themselves in harm’s [...]

29 02, 2020

Islam Still Promotes Kidnapping Christian Children for Sex-Slavery
Islam Still Promotes Kidnapping Christian Children for Sex-Slavery

Islam Still Promotes Kidnapping Christian Children for Sex-Slavery

By Father David Nix|2020-03-02T19:38:47+00:00February 29th, 2020|Theology|

What Happened? A 14 year old Catholic girl in Pakistan named Huma Younus was kidnapped on 10 Oct 2019 by an adult Muslim named Abdul Jabbar of Dera Ghazi Khan, Punjab Province, who wanted her as a sex-slave for life. He has obtained her for just this sordid purpose. Her family's attorney, Tabassum Yousaf, said, "We have not heard anything from her. Her situation is heart-wrenching. The longer she remains in the hands of her kidnappers, the more she will suffer sexual and mental abuse.” Tabassum Yousaf was able to bring this case to court four months after the kidnapping, but he told Morning Star News: "The hearing on Feb 3 lasted [...]

27 11, 2019

Why “The Young Pope” Had To Be North American
Why “The Young Pope” Had To Be North American

Why “The Young Pope” Had To Be North American

By Father David Nix|2021-04-07T14:38:00+00:00November 27th, 2019|Theology|

Despite what I’m going to write here, I would dissuade any readers from watching anything on HBO. It’s a very lewd channel and I don’t want to go to Purgatory for extra time for you watching The Young Pope or anything else on that channel on my account. What I put together below came after talking to friends and researching the episodes. The Young Pope was a TV drama series produced in Europe in 2016. When the liberal Pope dies, a controversial and conservative young prelate named “Lenny"(Jude Law) from the U.S. is elected to the throne of Peter. He takes the name of Pope Pius XIII. His rallying reform [...]

19 11, 2019

The Steeling of Adversity in a Church Crisis
The Steeling of Adversity in a Church Crisis

The Steeling of Adversity in a Church Crisis

By Father David Nix|2019-11-22T20:24:25+00:00November 19th, 2019|Theology|

The 2016 New York Times Bestselling book Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging was recently discussed by the author Sebastian Junger on a podcast by another host. Neither the host nor his guest, Yunger, have a Christian worldview, but they both said something very profound to Catholic men out there "who have ears to hear." Junger described on the podcast (and in his book) that when the Nazis bombed London in the early 1940s, the British banded together in fire brigades to put out the fires; they slept shoulder-to-shoulder in the tube; they found meaning and camaraderie in pulling the living and the dead out of the rubble amidst 30,000 deaths. [...]

7 11, 2019

40 “Smaller” Heresies of Modernism
40 “Smaller” Heresies of Modernism

40 “Smaller” Heresies of Modernism

By Father David Nix|2019-11-07T12:37:49+00:00November 7th, 2019|Theology|

Many Catholics studying the current crisis in the Church have become numb to the definition of Pope Saint Pius X that modernism is "the synthesis of all heresies." Some may think "synthesis of all heresies" is an amorphous problem of general doctrinal malaise. Others might classify it as a paranoid papal prophesy that never really materialized for the good-willed but jumpy Pope. But what has been astonishing to me lately is that I keep seeing that I learned everything, yes, quite literally everything, while growing up in Catholic grade school, high school and even seminary—wrong. I don't mean just liturgical issues. I mean the seemingly-smaller issues of Catholic doctrine are all turning [...]

26 10, 2019

Transpontina: Why Would God Let This Happen?
Transpontina: Why Would God Let This Happen?

Transpontina: Why Would God Let This Happen?

By Father David Nix|2019-10-31T13:26:20+00:00October 26th, 2019|Theology|

Most Catholics know that the Vatican placed in the Roman Church Santa Maria Transpontina (St. Mary's Across the River) a display of indigenous costumes for the "Amazon Synod" this month (October 2019.) This transformed the beautiful and ancient Church of Our Lady into a kitschy display jungle items and pagan rituals. The first problem with this is a violation of the First Commandment. The second problem with this is that it is racist: A white liberal hierarchy imposed paganism on indigenous peoples of Brazil. I know this to be a political (or diabolical) move because the native people of Brazil do not promote such rituals in their Catholic Churches. (As [...]

19 10, 2019

How Ascetical Theology Brought Christ to the World
How Ascetical Theology Brought Christ to the World

How Ascetical Theology Brought Christ to the World

By Father David Nix|2019-10-19T01:22:44+00:00October 19th, 2019|Theology|

I have been haunted for two and a half years by this "Fr. Z" blog post that shows how American Catholics fasted for lent in the 19th century: DIOCESE OF NEWARK. (1873) REGULATIONS FOR LENT: Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent, will fall on the twenty-sixth day of February. 1. Every day during Lent except Sunday, is a day of fast on one meal, which should no be taken before mid-day, with the allowance of a moderate collation in the evening. 2. The precept of fasting implies also that of abstinence from the use of flesh meat, but by dispensation, the use of flesh meat is allowed in this [...]

10 10, 2019

Science and Religion Part 2: The Superstition of Those Who Reject Religion
Science and Religion Part 2: The Superstition of Those Who Reject Religion

Science and Religion Part 2: The Superstition of Those Who Reject Religion

By Father David Nix|2020-06-03T15:11:21+00:00October 10th, 2019|Theology|

In my last blog post, I explained how important it is for science to be concerned with the object (objective truth) more than the subject (subjective truth.) Strangely, many people in the West who reject Christianity now also reject science. They put on their cars and on their lawns a new secular creed called the "Sign of Justice." Let's examine their claims from a scientific (not religious) point of view: Sign of Justice: "Black Lives Matter." (See picture above) Assertion: Those who do not support "Black Lives Matter" are racists. Historical Reality: Black Lives Matter was created by George Soros to use blacks as pawns to cause civil unrest in the United [...]

28 09, 2019

Science and Religion Part 1: Epistemology
Science and Religion Part 1: Epistemology

Science and Religion Part 1: Epistemology

By Father David Nix|2019-09-28T08:01:20+00:00September 28th, 2019|Theology|

Epistemology is the study of how a knower can know things. It is a study of both the learner (the subject) and the learned topic (the object.) Epistemology is both subjective and objective. Science, on the other hand, is simply concerned with the learned topic, or the object, and hence we say that the goal of science is to be purely objective via data presented. Scientia is Latin for "knowledge." Science is the mind's conformity to reality, not to an agenda. This also presupposes that the mind, via the five senses, can actually grasp objective truth. Properly speaking, there is no room for a political agenda or even relativism in true [...]

22 09, 2019

What is the Primacy of Conscience?
What is the Primacy of Conscience?

What is the Primacy of Conscience?

By Father David Nix|2019-09-27T11:25:32+00:00September 22nd, 2019|Theology|

Jesus Christ can forgive, through His priests, the most serious mortal sins through baptism and confession. As most readers know, mortal sins (sins that lead to hell) are mortal if they are 1) grave material and 2) done with full-knowledge and 3) executed with full consent of the will. In a recent blog post, I reminded readers of 15 Mortal Sins that most Catholics don't know are grave matter. In today's article, I will try to unmask how Satan tricks amateur theologians on the other two criteria of mortal sin (full knowledge and full consent of the will.) For lack of more politically-correct terms, I have tried to identify the tricks [...]