12 08, 2025

Cardinal Newman and “the Development of Doctrine.”

By |2025-08-12T12:11:17+00:00August 12th, 2025|Theology|

John Henry Cardinal Newman was a 19th century British convert from Anglicanism to Catholicism.  In full transparency, I should be clear that today I am not going to assess his controversial views of the inerrancy of Scripture or evolution. Also, the topic of whether Newman be a good candidate for a future valid canonization is better tackled by the WM Review here. Today, I am only going to assess his teaching on the "Development of Doctrine" and what that means for Catholics in the 21st century. As a Jesuit-educated 20 year old in the late 1990s, I had been told by many in my life at that point that all [...]

7 08, 2025

What If an Apostle Had Denied the Crucifixion?

By |2025-08-07T03:55:58+00:00August 7th, 2025|Theology|

Many traditional priests tell lay people to mind their own sins, not the Church crisis. Similarly, many anonymous traditional accounts online who stood against the last Vatican regime now promote the current one. The overlap between the two groups of trads is this: Don't pay attention to the new Church crisis. Yet both groups still (thankfully!) espouse the analogy that as Christ the Bridegroom had to go to Calvary, so also must the Catholic Church (as Christ's bride) go through her final Passion. However, that puts us in a very awkward situation, because the same people who tell us the crisis ended following the 2025 Conclave can point to no [...]

29 07, 2025

Who Became the Head of the “Church of England”?

By |2025-07-31T09:24:07+00:00July 29th, 2025|Theology|

Question: Who became the head of the Church of England after the death of King Henry VIII? Answer on AI: "After Henry VIII (top-left) died in 1547, his son Edward VI (top-right) succeeded him as the head of the Church of England. During Edward VI's reign, England became more Protestant, and policies were enacted to enforce Protestant doctrine." Answer in reality: Both after and before the death of King Henry VIII, the head of the “Church of England” remained the Roman Catholic Primate of England, provided he never defected to heretical Anglicanism. You see, when a heretic like Henry VIII hijacks the Catholic Church in his region, it does not [...]

24 07, 2025

An Open-Letter to Cardinal Burke.

By |2025-07-24T02:56:27+00:00July 24th, 2025|Theology|

Your Eminence Leo Cardinal Burke, Ave Maria. On this Vigil of the Feast of St. James, I write to you today with the utmost respect for your office since I recognize you as a Prince of the Holy Roman Catholic Church. Your Eminence, I remember learning about you five years after my ordination as a Catholic priest when you tenaciously exposed the errors of Amoris Laetitia. You made a private correction, but then you went public. Nine years ago, in 2016, you boldly wrote a public paternal correction in the form of several “dubia” (doubts) in regards to the moral theology heresies of Amoris Laetitia. If it went unanswered, you [...]

17 07, 2025

Warning on Bad Prelates.

By |2025-07-18T11:30:26+00:00July 17th, 2025|Theology|

Lay Catholics are currently desperate for leadership in the hierarchical Church. Not finding any, they prop up fake-leaders. Why? There have been numerous psychological studies that show (in both secular and religious culture) men are more desirous of security than truth. Thus, Catholics today are following the normal patterns of humanity in this crisis. However, it’s more dangerous for Catholics because modernists (and apparently even trads) are now projecting true Catholicism on a non-Catholic leader (who has the whole world deceived as to leadership and devotion.) This is going to have dire eternal consequences upon countless souls. At this point, many Catholics think I am taking the dangerous road of [...]

15 07, 2025

From Charismatic To Traditional

By |2025-07-15T09:57:51+00:00July 15th, 2025|Theology|

This is a guest post written by my good friend Jesse Romero. With his permission, I reproduce it from his own site. I crosspost it because his move from charismatic to traditional was very much like my own, with both of our own parents having been involved in the Catholic charismatic movement.  As always, Jesse's writing here is both clear and profound.  Make sure to see my recent interview on his show starting at minute 21 here about a recent adventure in my life. The Toronto blessing started in 1994, it was something that swept Protestant pentecostalism by storm for several years and it made its way into the Catholic Charismatic [...]

8 07, 2025

The Bombshell Without a Bang.

By |2025-07-08T10:45:28+00:00July 8th, 2025|Theology|

This month of July 2025, Miss Diane Montagna, an American journalist based in Rome, released an article here titled "Official Vatican Report Exposes Major Cracks in Foundation of Traditiones Custodes (TC.)"  She writes: "The previously undisclosed text, which forms a crucial part of the official report by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on its 2020 consultation of bishops concerning Summorum Pontificum, reveals that 'the majority of bishops who responded to the questionnaire stated that making legislative changes to Summorum Pontificum would cause more harm than good.'" But only 30% of the bishops had even responded in that 2020 questionnaire.  Miss Montagna asserts that a new report states [...]

1 07, 2025

US Bishops and Their Moneymaking Borders.

By |2025-07-02T01:07:01+00:00July 1st, 2025|Theology|

p/c PBS The USCCB continues to issue statements against Trump as they clamor for the billions back once received for illegal activity under the Biden Administration in facilitating open-borders in the United States. However, the Department for Homeland Security also takes the offensive. Homeland issued the following statement to Catholic Charities and the USCCB, among other NGOs: “The chairmen are examining whether these NGOs used taxpayer dollars to facilitate illegal activity, as the previous administration incentivized millions of inadmissible aliens to cross our borders—many of whom were subsequently aided by NGOs after being released at the border under the Biden-Harris administration’s mass catch-and-release policies.” Over the last 14 years, leftist [...]

24 06, 2025

Ignore the Demoralization and Fight for Christ

By |2025-06-24T12:48:26+00:00June 24th, 2025|Theology|

p/c vladtepesblog.com Mr. Yuri Bezmenov was a KGB-defector from the USSR who came to the Western Hemisphere in the 1970s.  Yuri once explained how ideological subversion always has to precede the Marxist physical revolution.  He insisted that America had already undergone a communist moral revolution by the early 1980s. In that speech, Yuri said the goal for Communists upon America (even before any physical invasion) was "to change the perception of reality, of every American to such an extent that, despite the the abundance of information, no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interest of defending themselves, their families, their community and their country.  It's a [...]

12 06, 2025

A Blue-Collar Catholic Can Recognize a White-Collar Heretic.

By |2025-06-12T03:26:31+00:00June 12th, 2025|Theology|

Most American Catholics do not know the definition of a heretic.  However, a smaller percentage of mainstream Catholics who have studied a little theology might know that Catholics used to call Protestants "heretics," whereas they now prefer the term "separated brethren."  An even smaller percentage of Catholics, namely traditionalists, still prefer to label Protestants as "heretics" (as well they should.)  However, most traditional Catholics today are hesitant to grant the moniker "heretic" to anyone in the clergy without a formal canonical trial.  Why are they so free with the first group and hesitant with the second group? They are afraid that an obvious heretic in the hierarchy as such undermines [...]

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