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 [...]

10 07, 2025

The Priest As The Best-Man to Christ.

By |2025-07-09T19:02:54+00:00July 10th, 2025|Theology|

In Christ's Passion, we see what we ought to suffer for the truth, and in His resurrection, what we ought to hope for in eternity.—St. Thomas Aquinas At Golgotha in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, one can go to the exact site where Jesus Christ was crucified.  Under a Greek altar, one can put one's fist into a hole going to the rocks split asunder and also where tradition tells us the Cross was placed during the crucifixion of the Son of God.  Of all the icons that could have been used directly above the hole into the ground of Calvary's cross, they chose "Christ the Bridegroom." [...]

3 06, 2025

Rearranging the “Pontifical Academy For Life.”

By |2025-06-03T12:45:10+00:00June 3rd, 2025|Theology|

In 2016, Archbishop Paglia (top left) was named the "President of Pontifical Academy for Life" by Francis.  Despite the pious names, both were in favor of contraception and assisted suicide. Now in summer of 2025, real Catholics were thrilled to find out that Leo would replace Paglia with someone else.  However, the excitement was short-lived as he replaced him with Monsignor Renzo Pegoraro (top right) who also promotes these pro-death dogmas.  Ed Pentin at CNA even reports that Pegoraro "was the longtime deputy of its outgoing president." Chris Jackson wrote on his Substack about their similar view towards assisted-suicide: "In 2022, Pegoraro publicly justified assisted suicide as a 'lesser evil' [...]

17 04, 2025

The Character, Grace and Power of Holy Orders

By |2025-04-17T20:58:44+00:00April 17th, 2025|Theology|

Today is Holy Thursday, 2025.  Today, Jesus Christ established both the Holy Priesthood and the Holy Eucharist in the Upper Room with the Apostles all present.  Unfortunately, most modernists today think of the priesthood as a means to an end, namely, getting the Eucharist as fast as possible.  But the first Mass had nowhere stated on some neon sign in front of the Cenacle "All welcome at this place."  The fact is that most of Christ's most faithful disciples were not even invited to that first Holy Mass.  And not even all the Apostles at the Last Supper were saved. Most people today do not understand the sacrifice with which [...]

4 03, 2025

Christ the High Priest and Teacher

By |2025-03-03T22:43:33+00:00March 4th, 2025|Theology|

p/c Caminante Wanderer. The three munera, or duties, of the priest are to teach, sanctify and govern. Since the 1990s, the "teach" aspect of the priesthood has been relegated to the laity. The "sanctify" aspect of the sacraments remains somehow with the priest, but is treated as shallow magic-tricks at most Nordo parishes. Finally, the "govern" aspect of the priesthood is relegated entirely to the bishop as an unchecked juggernaut CEO of positivistic-obedience in areas he is taken seriously. In places the bishop is not taken seriously, he's seen as just a cover for child-abuse and Democratic funding. I want to write about the most under-rated munera of the priesthood, [...]

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. [...]

5 09, 2024

The Innovation of the “Vocation Director.”

By |2024-09-10T04:35:57+00:00September 5th, 2024|Theology|

I went to a mainstream seminary that touted itself as conservative but not traditional.  There, we had a Monsignor from South America who taught us canon law, and he was admittedly quite traditional.  He told us one day in class that back in Peru, there were no vocation directors.  Msgr. explained that good priests spiritually inspired young men to become priests.  If a lazy parish priest did not get vocations from their parish, he got sent to the hinterlands.  I liked this plan, but even in seminary I recognized that this sounded like the opposite of North America, namely, where good priests get sent to the hinterlands. In any case, [...]

20 02, 2024

15 Signs of a Toxic Spiritual Director

By |2024-02-20T14:33:43+00:00February 20th, 2024|Theology|

Recently, a friend emailed me her concerns surrounding a traditional Catholic priest our age who insists he must be the director of various women we know.  We agreed he manifests at least half of the following 15 signs of toxic-religion as seen in PsycheCentral: It begins with dichotomous thinking, dividing people into two parts. Those who agree with the narcissists beliefs and those who don’t. Interestingly, only the narcissist is the judge and jury of who belongs on which side. Your opinion is insignificant. Then the narcissist makes fun of, belittles, and shows prejudice towards other beliefs. This tactic is done to remind you that if you change your views, [...]

19 12, 2023

“They Will Put You Out of the Synagogues.”—John 16:2

By |2023-12-19T16:05:06+00:00December 19th, 2023|Theology|

Jesus said, I have said all these things to you to keep you from falling away. They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God. And they will do these things because they have not known the Father, nor Me.—John 16:1-3. What is interesting about Our Lord's above prediction for the coming persecution against His Apostles in Acts of the Apostles is that the Jewish leaders who would kick them out of "the synagogues" would do so because they would believe "they are offering service to God."  In other words, the religious leaders who [...]

30 11, 2023

A “Springtime” of Vocations

By |2023-11-30T14:32:41+00:00November 30th, 2023|Theology|

I found a website called Christendom Restoration that graphed vocations before and after the Council, as seen above.  It used very advanced calculus on the growth of American seminarians versus years, such as S(t)=47247.8e -0.0846t and S(year) = 47247.8e -0.0846(year-1965) in order to reveal only significant statistics.  The above chart shows the Pre-Conciliar and Post-Conciliar Growth functions of seminarians in the United States.  As you can see, it uses "Springtime" in a sarcastic sense for what has happened since 1965. Earlier this year. Fr. Z posted the above graph.  Notice again that American priests were on the rise until Vatican II.  After that, it tanked... ...not so for tradition in [...]

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