A while ago, I wrote an article titled Are Irreverent Masses Binding On Sundays? and the first paragraph of it reads: The most common question I receive from my readers is: "Do I have to attend a Novus Ordo Mass on a Sunday when there is no Traditional Latin Mass nearby?"  I was going to title this article that very question, but then I realized that question is only sixty years old. Then I thought to title this article: "Is it a mortal sin to skip an irreverent Mass on Sunday if I can't get to a reverent Mass?" but that was too long. I then realized the entire topic [...]

Even JP2's Veritatis Splendor tackles the modernist heresies of moral theology called "consequentialism" and "proportionalism." These two errors "claim to draw the criteria of the rightness of a given way of acting solely from a calculation of foreseeable consequences deriving from a given choice." He continues that proportionalism "weighs the various values and goods being sought, focuses rather on the proportion acknowledged between the good and bad effects of that choice, with a view to the 'greater good' or 'lesser evil' actually possible in a particular situation."—Veritatis Splendor #75. In fact, Veritatis Splendor quotes Christ telling the rich young man that to be saved, he first must keep the commandments. [...]

Bonum ex integra causa, malum ex quocumque defectu is Latin for "Goodness comes from a complete cause, evil from any defect whatsoever." You may remember the free catechetical series I produced called Catechism of Pius X (CPX) which is a YouTube playlist at that link.  If you're converting to Apostolic Catholicism (either from Protestantism or modernism) I highly suggest you watch that series.  On CPX, I explained the traditional Catholic faith in about 20 hours.   Also online, I'm currently teaching the Roman Catechism of Trent (RCT.) It is also a YouTube playlist at that link.  Unlike CPX, we have not yet come to the end of RCT. As you [...]

Warning: This is an article for adults, not children. The topic today is this:  What is permitted behavior in the bedroom between Catholic spouses?  From the start, I have to give this disclaimer: I despise writing about this topic, especially since I endanger my own soul in bringing potentially-immodest writings to the internet (as if the internet does not already have enough.) However, I have discovered that the question of exotic behavior in the bedroom is unfortunately on the minds of countless Catholic couples across the globe.  Similarly, I have unfortunately found that 98% of priest-confessors out there are misleading the Catholic laity on this topic.  By what authority can [...]

You shall not spread a false report. You shall not join hands with a wicked man to be a malicious witness... Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent and righteous, for I will not acquit the wicked.—Ex 23:1, 7. This is a made up story, but imagine a Catholic woman named Nancy is flanked in her condo to the west by a married woman named Sandy and to the east by a married man named Steve. Imagine she sees Sandy leaving Steve’s condo at 10pm one night. The next day, Nancy puts on the Next Door app: “Very interesting that a certain Sandy is leaving [...]

It seems the current Vatican apparatus is promoting sixth commandment sins committed contra naturam even more than even the last Vatican regime.  Of course, that last sentence seems impossible for real Catholics who just endured the last decade of dogmatic madness issuing from Rome.  But it's obvious the current agenda is even more pronounced than the last one.  (Consider the Chicago-based male-couple just brought in to be personal chefs at the Vatican's new Laudato Sí restaurant.) A few Catholics might be thinking (especially after this much brainwashing and gaslighting from the Vatican over the past 14 years) that perhaps the traditional teaching on the commandments is just too hard in [...]

For fifty years, heretics have been promoting the primacy of conscience.  Taking a single line from St. Thomas Aquinas out of context, these clowns teach that if your conscience tells you to do one thing and the Bible tells you to do another thing, you should follow your conscience.  Furthermore, they also say that an action classically-defined by the Magisterium as sinful is not a sin as long as you can prove to yourself that you either had ignorance in your actions or no-malice in your heart.   You might think I am exaggerating here, but I saw this error creeping into moral theology so intensely twenty years ago that [...]

Then when Judas, His betrayer, saw that Jesus was condemned, he changed his mind and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders, saying, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood.” They said, “What is that to us? See to it yourself.” And throwing down the pieces of silver into the temple, he departed, and he went and hanged himself.—Mt 27:3-5. There are two things that kill the soul: despair and false-hope.—St. Augustine, Sermon 87 Let me say at the outset of this article that I have had friends commit suicide.  So, I don't like writing this.  But a major corrective needed to be [...]

Many good Catholics today have now become acutely aware of sexual sins (the Sixth and Ninth Commandment) as well as the First Commandment (partly due to public violations of this like the worship of the Pachamama statue near the Vatican a few years ago.)  In light of this, I believe that the most underrated of all Commandments is the Second Commandment.  Keep in mind that the Ten Commandments given on Sinai come in order of importance.  Thus, the misuse of the Holy Name of Jesus is one of the worst sins one can commit.  We look to the doctor of the Church, St. Alphonsus Liguori, to consider the weight of [...]