Heresies Always Start Small
The Council of Nicea teaches that God the Son exists as one substance (homoousian) with God the Father, even though they are different persons of the Blessed Trinity. The word homoousian is Greek for consubstantial in Latin (which you say or sing every Sunday or Feast day at Holy Mass during the Creed.) To deny the persons of the Trinity being consubstantial is to deny both the Divinity of Christ and the Blessed Trinity. This fact of orthodox Catholicism seems obvious to most Catholics today who have taken even one week of Christology classes at a Catholic University or seminary. But in the fourth century, the heretic Arius denied this, [...]
Stop Compromising on These Two Commandments!
Featured image above shows two stained glass windows in the "Mary Keane Chapel" at the "La Salette Shrine" in Enfield, New Hampshire. There is a little-known but Vatican-approved apparition called Our Lady of La Salette. Catholic Straight Answers explains the basics: "On Saturday afternoon, September 19, 1846, two children– Maximin Guiraud (age 11) and Melanie Calvat (age 14)– were tending sheep for their employers near La Salette in the French Alps. The effects of the French Revolution which had terrorized the Church, the blood spilt during the reign of Napoleon, the increasing secularization of social thought, and the rising political turmoil enveloping Europe had taken a serious toll on the [...]
The Synod Producing the “Saviors of the Church”
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 [...]
Bedtime Prayer of St. John Damascene
St. John Damascene (aka St. John of Damascus) was a priest and monk who lived from about AD 675 to 750. He was born in Damascus (still the Capitol and largest city in modern Syria.) However, he spent most of his time as a monk in a monastery near Jerusalem. St. John is considered to be among the last of the Church Fathers, but he wrote much more about the Holy Mother of God than most of them. Because St. John was a Church Father before the East-West Schism (AD 1054) he is also revered as a saint by both Catholics and Orthodox. Below is the bedtime prayer of [...]
An “Expanded Ministry” to the Papacy is Impossible
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 [...]
Saints Perpetua and Felicity: The Full Written Account
The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity, translated by W.H. Shewring, London, 1931. The Passion of the Saints Vibia Perpetua, was executed in the arena in Carthage on 7 March 203. The account of her martyrdom [technically a Passion] is apparently historical and has special interest as much of it was written, in Latin by Perpetua herself before her death. This makes it one of the earliest pieces of writing by a Christian woman. PROLOGUE. If ancient examples of faith kept, both testifying the grace of God and working the edification of man, have to this end been set in writing, that by their reading as though by the showing of [...]
The Left Is Right: Clericalism Is the Problem
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. [...]
“God Will Not Stand In Awe of Any Man’s Greatness.”—Wis 6:8
For God will not except any man's person, neither will He stand in awe of any man's greatness. For He made the little and the great, and He hath equally care of all.—Wis 6:8. Last week, I was in a desert in Africa. That desert is majestic and unforgiving, as seen in the picture I snapped above. In the desert, one realizes how insignificant he be before God. For example, if I wandered off into the desert and died, I would be the talk of Catholic Twitter for a day. Friends would say how great I was. Enemies would say how terrible I was. But within a week, only [...]
The Betrayal of the Catholic Church in China
Above: Pope Benedict XVI and Cardinal Zen, p/c New Liturgical Movement There is some historical evidence that suggests St. Thomas the Apostle went not only to India, but all the way to China. At the latest, we know there were Christians in China from AD 600 forward. Since then, they have been few in percentages but great in suffering for Jesus Christ. The persecution of Catholics in China peaked in the 20th century under the Boxer Rebellion and Mao's Red China. But in 1957, the Communists tried a new move in establishing the "Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association." This was an attempt to mimic the hierarchy of the true Catholic Church [...]
Is Catholic Charities of Texas Benefitting from Biden’s Open-Borders?
🚨QUESTION: How does the Revenue for the NGO the Catholic Charities nearly quadruple since the Biden Administration took over? In 2018 the Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Galveston only brought in $44 million In 2021. the revenue for NGO blossomed to $217 million. pic.twitter.com/m5mGfNY12l — Merissa Hansen⚡️ (@merissahansen17) September 9, 2024 In the above tweet, Merissa Hansen reveals from two different "990"s that before the 2020 coup, Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Houston and Galveston brought in $44 million. However, by 2021, under Biden's unmerited Presidency, Houston's Catholic Charities revenue jumped to a whopping $217 million. The above tweet has had over 10M views after being retweeted by [...]