QuickPod: Highways and Hedges
Readings from the Second Sunday after Pentecost. https://youtu.be/0Jg86Nxyoio p/c Laura Rowe in West Texas.
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06, 2021
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06, 2021
Lawful Authority
When there's not just a question of a stolen election but even evidence of it, we must remember that God preserves our conscience as Catholics who believe in the social reign of Christ the King. This is a prayer I heard prayed publicly at a parish last month: Blessed be God. Blessed be His Holy Name. Blessed be Jesus Christ true God and true Man. Blessed be the Name of Jesus. I believe O Jesus. That Thou are the Christ. The Son of the Living God. I proclaim my love. For the Vicar of Christ on Earth. I believe all the sacred truths Which the Holy Catholic Church Believes and [...]
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04, 2021
Hermeneutic of Continuity or Hermeneutic of Rupture?
As a middle-of-the-road conservative in seminary, I would frequently say things like, "Vatican II did not change Catholic doctrine, but it did change how we package it for the post-modern mind." Or, perhaps I would say, "Dogma can't change but how we explain it can change." Phrases like this demonstrate the hermeneutic of continuity we clung to. We believed the Catholic Church before 1963 was the same as the Church after 1963. We just had to return to "the early Church" in order to "get back to the sources" if we wanted to square the circle, if we just lined up the stars correctly between the teachings of Pope St. [...]
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03, 2021
Stockholm Syndrome Part 2
We've already covered a kind of Stockholm Syndrome being brought on by the State here. Now we will look at the Church. This week, the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) answered in the negative to the question Does the Church have the power to give the blessing to unions of persons of the same sex? This might seem an orthodox response (and it is) but the CDF ironically quoted Amoris Laetitia (the 2016 document allowing divorced and remarried to receive Holy Communion without confession or annulment) by then saying, “There are absolutely no grounds for considering homosexual unions to be in any way similar or even remotely analogous [...]
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03, 2021
“They Wash Not Their Hands.”—Mt 15:2
Yesterday's Gospel in the Traditional Latin Mass reads: Then came to [Jesus] from Jerusalem scribes and Pharisees, saying: "Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the ancients? For they wash not their hands when they eat bread." But He answering, said to them: "Why do you also transgress the commandment of God for your tradition?"—Mt 15:1-2 (DRB) St. Jerome comments on this in Matins: The stupidity of the Pharisees and Scribes is something extraordinary. (Mira pharisæórum scribarúmque stultítia.) They rebuke the Son of God because He doth not observe the traditions and commandments of men for they wash not their hands when they eat bread. It behoveth us to [...]
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01, 2021
Better To Light One Candle Than Curse The Darkness
Why would a heretical priest like James Martin be ripping on the Traditional Latin Mass and the few ancient-believing Catholics who take the Gospel of Jesus Christ literally while his team of liberals have already successfully (and illegally) hijacked both the White House and the Vatican? Why would someone with an enormous social-media following like James Martin rip on the likes of Fr. Altman and Fr. Heilman and myself when our team is so small in number? The answer is two fold: First, because James Martin and his band of heretics know that even one candle will prevent his modernist darkness from spreading over the whole globe forever. A heretic [...]
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01, 2021
Becket and Trump
It is nothing short of astonishing that a President of a traditionally Protestant country would name last week as a day dedicated to a Catholic bishop killed by a pre-Protestant state. As most readers already know, President Donald Trump proclaimed "December 29, 2020, as the 850th anniversary of the martyrdom of Saint Thomas Becket" here in the United States. Becket received his help from Rome, not from the State. Perhaps Trump recognizes it is quite the opposite for conservative Catholics in the USA today: Many support President Trump, not the current events in Rome. It's a very strange irony that doesn't line up with Becket. But what does line up with [...]
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01, 2021
TCE 12: New Year’s Interview with Fr. Altman and Fr. Nix
We point to a Catholic "Extreme-Ownership" even when your leaders let you down. Music bumpers courtesy of Alyssa Kortright. My TCE series stands for "Theology and Current Events." https://youtu.be/PjKiEbYO2uU
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10, 2020
TCE 5: Fatima and the Vatican
What was truly the third secret of the Vatican? How could that hidden secret possibly give us hope? My TCE series stands for "Theology and Current Events." https://youtu.be/DAoQRw7msVo
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10, 2020
TCE 1: Was Russia Consecrated? Lockdown Has the Answer
What does Sr. Lucia of Fatima, Pope John Paul II and the errors of Russia have to do with coronavirus lockdown? My TCE series stands for "Theology and Current Events." https://youtu.be/RaNE0RPKEts