27 10, 2024

The Co-opting of Two Female Saints in “Dilexit.”

By |2024-10-27T20:58:18+00:00October 27th, 2024|Theology|

Jansenism was a heresy found over the past 400 years that put the emphasis on God's justice instead of God's mercy.  Jansenism is a bit like a mix between Calvinism and Catholicism.  Because of St. Margaret Mary and St. Therese's teaching of total trust in God, they are both often credited with putting the final nail in the coffin of Jansenism.  Indeed, that heresy was particularly strong in France in the 18th and 19th centuries.  Those two female saints are rightly credited for nearly ending Jansenism. However, modernism is the major heresy that threatens the Church today.  For the past 50 years, modernists have often labeled traditional Catholics as "Jansenists." [...]

24 10, 2024

St. Teresa of Ávila on Edifying Speech

By |2024-10-22T21:50:14+00:00October 24th, 2024|Theology|

St. Teresa of Ávila (top left) had much to say on holy speech, but it was summarized by an anonymous Jesuit (a loyal son of St. Ignatius of Loyola, top right) in a book now called Practical Meditations.  I know this is a short article for the second half of this week, but I found every sentence extremely convicting, so, I hope you do, too.  He summarizes her as writing: Speak little, especially when you are with many people.  Never praise yourself, your knowledge, your good actions, or your birth, unless you have reason to hope that it may be of use, and then do it humbly, remembering that these [...]

22 10, 2024

Dogma Evolves As Well As a Species

By |2024-10-22T12:40:31+00:00October 22nd, 2024|Theology|

p/c Nordic Biosite Dr. David Hillel Gelernter Ph. D is a Jewish man who is professor of computer science at Yale University.  At one point, he believed in Darwinian evolution.  But in 2019 he wrote a groundbreaking article called Giving Up Darwin that reveals his reversal on this.  It is probably my favorite proof against species-based evolution because it is neither biological nor theological, but rather mathematical.  I encourage you to read the entire article, but one excellent paragraph reads thus: "Do the numbers balance out? Is Neo-Darwinian evolution plausible after all? Axe reasoned as follows. Consider the whole history of living things—the entire group of every living organism ever. [...]

17 10, 2024

Heresies Always Start Small

By |2024-10-18T01:28:23+00:00October 17th, 2024|Theology|

The Council of Nicea teaches that God the Son exists as one substance (homoousian) with God the Father, even though they are different persons of the Blessed Trinity. The word homoousian is Greek for consubstantial in Latin (which you say or sing every Sunday or Feast day at Holy Mass during the Creed.)  To deny the persons of the Trinity being consubstantial is to deny both the Divinity of Christ and the Blessed Trinity. This fact of orthodox Catholicism seems obvious to most Catholics today who have taken even one week of Christology classes at a Catholic University or seminary.  But in the fourth century, the heretic Arius denied this, [...]

15 10, 2024

Stop Compromising on These Two Commandments!

By |2024-10-15T16:00:45+00:00October 15th, 2024|Theology|

Featured image above shows two stained glass windows in the "Mary Keane Chapel" at the "La Salette Shrine" in Enfield, New Hampshire. There is a little-known but Vatican-approved apparition called Our Lady of La Salette.  Catholic Straight Answers explains the basics: "On Saturday afternoon, September 19, 1846, two children– Maximin Guiraud (age 11) and Melanie Calvat (age 14)– were tending sheep for their employers near La Salette in the French Alps. The effects of the French Revolution which had terrorized the Church, the blood spilt during the reign of Napoleon, the increasing secularization of social thought, and the rising political turmoil enveloping Europe had taken a serious toll on the [...]

10 10, 2024

The Synod Producing the “Saviors of the Church”

By |2024-10-10T04:36:47+00:00October 10th, 2024|Theology|

Because the tendency of leftists normally tends towards the insecurity and manipulation found in narcissism, it is no wonder that there is an enormous overlap in the heresy of modernism with these traits.  In other words, modernists often reveal the same constellation of narcissistic traits as democrats, including accusing others of the very things they do.  Sometimes this is hard to identify in leftists within the Catholic Church because they appear meek and humble (at first.) But "synodality" has blown the cover on such strategies.  The irony of the claims of those promoting "the synod on synodality" almost reads like they are trolling traditional Catholics.   Or, perhaps like the [...]

8 10, 2024

Bedtime Prayer of St. John Damascene

By |2024-10-08T01:45:21+00:00October 8th, 2024|Theology|

St. John Damascene (aka St. John of Damascus) was a priest and monk who lived from about AD 675 to 750.  He was born in Damascus (still the Capitol and largest city in modern Syria.) However, he spent most of his time as a monk in a monastery near Jerusalem.   St. John is considered to be among the last of the Church Fathers, but he wrote much more about the Holy Mother of God than most of them.  Because St. John was a Church Father before the East-West Schism (AD 1054) he is also revered as a saint by both Catholics and Orthodox.  Below is the bedtime prayer of [...]

3 10, 2024

An “Expanded Ministry” to the Papacy is Impossible

By |2024-10-22T05:20:01+00:00October 3rd, 2024|Theology|

p/c CNS, Paul Haring Why can there be only one Pope at a time?  Because Christ set up 12 Apostles but only one Pope.  St. Peter is "mentioned 191 times (162 as Peter or Simon Peter, 23 as Simon and 6 as Cephas)."  That is more than all the other Apostles combined.  Thus, Peter's office (munus in Latin) is singular.  The Pope is much more than "first among equals" as the New Testament clearly proves in the above numbers.  On top of this, numerous Magisterial documents (and saints that stood against anti-popes in history) all insist:  There can only be one valid Pope of Rome at any one time. Yet [...]

1 10, 2024

Saints Perpetua and Felicity: The Full Written Account

By |2024-09-29T19:14:45+00:00October 1st, 2024|Theology|

The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity, translated by W.H. Shewring, London, 1931. The Passion of the Saints Vibia Perpetua, was executed in the arena in Carthage on 7 March 203. The account of her martyrdom [technically a Passion] is apparently historical and has special interest as much of it was written, in Latin by Perpetua herself before her death. This makes it one of the earliest pieces of writing by a Christian woman. PROLOGUE. If ancient examples of faith kept, both testifying the grace of God and working the edification of man, have to this end been set in writing, that by their reading as though by the showing of [...]

26 09, 2024

The Left Is Right: Clericalism Is the Problem

By |2024-09-25T12:32:52+00:00September 26th, 2024|Theology|

p/c Remnant Magazine The leftists who hijacked the hierarchy since the 1960s (and especially since 2013) state that the main problem in the Catholic Church today is "clericalism." They condemn anything maintained by traditional Catholics that still delineates between the clerical state and the lay state. For example, they believe even something as innocent as the cassock must be deemed a sign of arrogance and "rigorism." Like Marxists have always done, their thrust is to blur the lines between Holy Orders and marriage... so as to destroy both sacraments. But it is precisely the leftists who believe they can replace God's own revelation of Himself in both dogma and liturgy. [...]

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