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 [...]

5 08, 2025

AI and the Final-Deceit.

By |2025-08-01T19:04:17+00:00August 5th, 2025|Theology|

The only R-rated movie my Dad ever took me to in the theatre as a kid was Terminator 2.  To this day it remains one of my favorite movies, except for the misuse of Our Lord's name, which is thankfully infrequent in the movie.   It is still one of my favorite movies because there is something Biblical about its apocalyptic import.  We watch the unbelieved prophet (and his mother) warning humanity about the self-destruction towards which they are cruising.  The kid John Connor asks, "We're not gonna make it, are we? People, I mean." The Terminator replies, "It's in your nature to destroy yourselves." Of course, theologically, it's not [...]

4 08, 2025

PIP 3: Rules #5-6.

By |2025-08-14T22:48:31+00:00August 4th, 2025|Podcasts, Sermons, Talks|

-Fr. David Nix continues "Peregrino Ignatian Pathway" (PIP) #3. Today we discuss rules no. 5 and 6 of discernment from the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola. -Suscipe prayer of St. Ignatius: “Take, Lord, receive all my liberty, my memory, my understanding, and my entire will. All I have and call my own, You have given all to me. To You, Lord, I return it. Everything is Yours: do with it what You will. Give me only Your love and Your grace, that is enough for me.”

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