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20 11, 2019

Mail Policy

By |2019-12-12T21:05:20+00:00November 20th, 2019|Events|

Dear Friends, Ave Maria!  For mail correspondence with me, I humbly ask two things: No packages.  This is because my PO box in downtown Denver is #1445 in the picture above.  As you can see, no packages can fit in that, and if the USPS tries to jam packages in there, there is a chance that other mail to be will be rejected. I won't be taking Mass stipends.  Mass stipends, as most of you know, are money to offer Mass.  Besides the fact that a Mass stipend is no longer enough for a priest to make a living on, this policy also allows me to take Mass requests from [...]

19 11, 2019

The Steeling of Adversity in a Church Crisis

By |2019-11-22T20:24:25+00:00November 19th, 2019|Theology|

The 2016 New York Times Bestselling book Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging was recently discussed by the author Sebastian Junger on a podcast by another host. Neither the host nor his guest, Yunger, have a Christian worldview, but they both said something very profound to Catholic men out there "who have ears to hear." Junger described on the podcast (and in his book) that when the Nazis bombed London in the early 1940s, the British banded together in fire brigades to put out the fires; they slept shoulder-to-shoulder in the tube; they found meaning and camaraderie in pulling the living and the dead out of the rubble amidst 30,000 deaths. [...]

15 11, 2019

The Eastern Catholic Churches and St. Josaphat

By |2019-11-15T04:28:20+00:00November 15th, 2019|Podcasts, Sermons, Talks|

Today's podcast is a private and elongated re-do of a public sermon I gave today at a TLM parish in Texas.   I speak about the Eastern Catholic Churches, the Orthodox and the martyrdom of St. Josaphat who died for the unity between the two.  See map of Catholic Churches on blog below:

7 11, 2019

40 “Smaller” Heresies of Modernism

By |2019-11-07T12:37:49+00:00November 7th, 2019|Theology|

Many Catholics studying the current crisis in the Church have become numb to the definition of Pope Saint Pius X that modernism is "the synthesis of all heresies." Some may think "synthesis of all heresies" is an amorphous problem of general doctrinal malaise.  Others might classify it as a paranoid papal prophesy that never really materialized for the good-willed but jumpy Pope. But what has been astonishing to me lately is that I keep seeing that I learned everything, yes, quite literally everything, while growing up in Catholic grade school, high school and even seminary—wrong.  I don't mean just liturgical issues.  I mean the seemingly-smaller issues of Catholic doctrine are all turning [...]

29 10, 2019

RomeCast 21: Is Pachamama in the Old Testament?

By |2019-10-29T16:41:40+00:00October 29th, 2019|Podcasts, Sermons, Talks|

On today's podcast, I discuss my trip to Rome just outside the Amazon Synod. Andromeda discusses her work for the University of California, Berkeley in the Near East department's URUK Research Team.  We discuss the fertility demonesses of Mesopotamia and South America that may or may not have shown up at the Amazon Synod.

26 10, 2019

Transpontina: Why Would God Let This Happen?

By |2019-10-31T13:26:20+00:00October 26th, 2019|Theology|

Most Catholics know that the Vatican placed in the Roman Church Santa Maria Transpontina (St. Mary's Across the River) a display  of indigenous costumes for the "Amazon Synod" this month (October 2019.)  This transformed the beautiful and ancient Church of Our Lady into a kitschy display jungle items and pagan rituals.  The first problem with this is a violation of the First Commandment.  The second problem with this is that it is racist:  A  white liberal hierarchy imposed paganism on indigenous peoples of Brazil.  I know this to be a political (or diabolical) move because the native people of Brazil do not promote such rituals in their Catholic Churches.  (As [...]

19 10, 2019

How Ascetical Theology Brought Christ to the World

By |2019-10-19T01:22:44+00:00October 19th, 2019|Theology|

I have been haunted for two and a half years by this "Fr. Z" blog post  that shows how American Catholics fasted for lent in the 19th century: DIOCESE OF NEWARK.  (1873) REGULATIONS FOR LENT: Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent, will fall on the twenty-sixth day of February. 1. Every day during Lent except Sunday, is a day of fast on one meal, which should no be taken before mid-day, with the allowance of a moderate collation in the evening. 2. The precept of fasting implies also that of abstinence from the use of flesh meat, but by dispensation, the use of flesh meat is allowed in this [...]

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