19 11, 2024

A “Mayan Mass” and the Dialectic of Racism

By |2024-11-20T01:04:34+00:00November 19th, 2024|Theology|

The website The Communist defines Dialectical Materialism as the Marxist attempt "to understand the laws of society and nature in order to change them."  For most countries in which Communism was briefly "successful" (and by "successful" I mean killing tens of millions of their own citizens while making an elite few rich) the events took place by fabricating tension in a society on the basis of economic differences between different strata of society.  This was how Marxists in Russia began the Bolshevik revolution in 1917. But in the United States, this was a harder task for the communists (and now globalists) because our country was founded on a remarkable mobility [...]

3 11, 2024

On The Indefectibility of the Catholic Church in this Crisis

By |2024-11-04T02:59:16+00:00November 3rd, 2024|Theology|

Perhaps the only reason that a true Catholic with a good will and a functioning intellect would fear coming to the same conclusion on the papacy as Archbishop Viganó did would be the indefectibility of the Catholic Church.  Fr. John Hardon SJ explains that indefectibility essentially promises that the Catholic Church "will always remain the institution of salvation, founded by Christ. This affirms that the Church is essentially unchangeable in her teaching, her constitution, and her liturgy. It does not exclude modifications that do not affect her substance, nor does it exclude the decay of individual local churches or even whole dioceses." But could that decay include the Pope?  Of [...]

31 10, 2024

Catholic Numbers Tank Globally

By |2024-10-30T22:36:00+00:00October 31st, 2024|Theology|

Before Vatican II, numbers of Catholics across the globe were exploding.  Consider just a few stats regarding American Catholics as listed in the Index of Leading Catholic Indicators: In 1930, the USA had 27,000 priests, but by 1965 that number nearly doubled, bringing the total number of American priests to 58,000. In 1930, the United States had 20,203,702 Catholics.  By 1965, that number had sky-rocketed to 45,640,619.  This means Catholics were not just reproducing, but making many converts. By 1965, American priests, nuns and lay people had built the world's largest conglomerate of hospitals, universities, high schools, grade schools and charitable organizations ever seen in the history of a young [...]

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." [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

22 08, 2024

Courage in the Immaculate Heart of Mary

By |2024-08-31T03:17:47+00:00August 22nd, 2024|Theology|

There's a lot of people on the good side of the Church crisis who strangely still choose silence under pretext of prudence.   Decent priests may say things like, "I won't preach against the heresy coming from the Vatican because I don't want to be removed from my congregation," or "I'll offer the Traditional Latin Mass secretly, but I can't be public about it because then it will harm my parish in the long run," or "I'll be suspended if I really say what I think about the papacy." Lay people may say things like, "I know I should correct my boss for taking Our Lord's name in vain, but [...]

15 08, 2024

A Marian View To the Church Crisis

By |2024-08-31T03:24:04+00:00August 15th, 2024|Theology|

Towards the end of an article at Tradition in Action, Dr. Marian T. Horvat, Ph. D wrote the following about Mary's own Triumph at the Cross.  I will put Dr. Horvat's words in below italics and my own commentary in this bold-orange font. But at the same time that her own heart was pierced with sorrow, she told Ven. Mary of Agreda, she was given a deep understanding of the mystery of that final affront, that is, that from this last pouring forth of the Precious Blood and water, a new Church issued forth that would spread out through the whole world. And she composed a canticle of praise of [...]

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