Theology

20 11, 2025

The Ends Don’t Justify the Jeans.
The Ends Don’t Justify the Jeans.

The Ends Don’t Justify the Jeans.

By Father David Nix|2025-11-20T13:36:09+00:00November 20th, 2025|Theology|

Guest post by Dr. Ed Mazza PhD, edmundmazza.com. p/c OSV News photo/Neon. In 2024, Conservative “darling” Sydney Sweeney was the protagonist in the horror movie Immaculate (above) in which she manages both to mock Our Lady and promote pornography: “The film contains blasphemy, sacrilegious jokes, gory violence, including torture and infanticide, grisly images, partial upper female nudity…”[1] Yet moral outrage of the Woke-Left over the recent Sydney Sweeney American Eagle jeans ad recently had many Conservatives—including many Catholics—cheering a victory for Sweeney and the cause of Tradition and Beauty.[2]This reaction, however, only goes to show just how poorly catechized today’s Christians are and how far the Overton Window has shifted in [...]

17 11, 2025

Visibility vs. Infallibility in the Catholic Church
Visibility vs. Infallibility in the Catholic Church

Visibility vs. Infallibility in the Catholic Church

By Father David Nix|2025-11-17T13:34:31+00:00November 17th, 2025|Theology|

When the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on earth?—Christ in Saint Luke 18:8. From 2013 to 2020, a website called The Wild Voice conglomerated all of Francis' heresies, errors and leftist statements. After listing hundreds of these, the site-manager apparently couldn’t keep up and stopped compiling it in 2020. Now, Leo continues the exact same theology, but presented in a less bombastic manner. But what if Leo goes further and "ordains a woman" or "changes the words of consecration"? Of course, leftists will celebrate. Mainstream US bishops, however, will ignore it. They will simply hope the fall-out from this next iteration of apostasy fall on the heads [...]

11 11, 2025

“Not My Fault If He Looks At Me Lustfully.”
“Not My Fault If He Looks At Me Lustfully.”

“Not My Fault If He Looks At Me Lustfully.”

By Father David Nix|2025-11-09T12:22:11+00:00November 11th, 2025|Theology|

Catholic men and women frequently debate modesty both online and in real life. Inevitably, a woman will chime in and say: “It’s not my fault if a man looks at me lustfully.” Well, sometimes it is and sometimes it's not. The fact is that this is based much more on what you are wearing than how much beauty God has given you. Thus, I have written here and podcasted here on pre-Vatican II parameters of modesty. I still hold to those. But today we're going to look Scripturally at the ancient-wound from the Fall in the Garden from a more philosophical than practical point of view. I’m sure some readers [...]

2 11, 2025

The Faithful Departed: Seven Things Catholics Forgot.
The Faithful Departed: Seven Things Catholics Forgot.

The Faithful Departed: Seven Things Catholics Forgot.

By Father David Nix|2025-11-03T13:22:13+00:00November 2nd, 2025|Theology|

NB Because this article is so long, yet so important for the month of November, it will be my only article this week (except for perhaps another one on the infrequently-viewed Life-Update pull-down.) November is the month where we pray for our faithful departed, for those who repose in the Lord. Clearly, those in heaven cannot benefit from our prayers. Similarly, those in hell cannot benefit from our prayers, either. Thus, our prayers on earth may only benefit those who are currently in Purgatory. Purgatory is that temporary state of purging fire that heals the deceased who are saved, yet must still answer to God's justice for those sins for [...]

30 10, 2025

The “Seamless Garment” Is Quiet Propaganda for Abortion.
The “Seamless Garment” Is Quiet Propaganda for Abortion.

The “Seamless Garment” Is Quiet Propaganda for Abortion.

By Father David Nix|2025-10-30T11:21:00+00:00October 30th, 2025|Theology|

In 2023, Bishop Prevost spoke in Spanish at a Catholic University in Peru after receiving an honorary doctorate. Here are two extremely important paragraphs, originally translated from the Spanish to English here: These reflections particularly concern issues related to the value of human life. Last week, Cardinal Blase Cupichdelivered another address at Fordham University in New York, marking the 40th anniversary of Cardinal Bernardin’s original speech. Cardinal Bernardin, deeply concerned about how abortion and other social justice issues had come to divide certain sectors within the Church, offered an important response rooted firmly in Church doctrine. From this teaching, he proposed looking outward, towards society, within a framework he called [...]

28 10, 2025

Ratio of Death Penalty to Abortion Deaths
Ratio of Death Penalty to Abortion Deaths

Ratio of Death Penalty to Abortion Deaths

By Father David Nix|2025-10-28T11:37:56+00:00October 28th, 2025|Theology|

The above is not an abortion. It is a famous picture of surgery performed on an unborn baby. I only use it because it is more appropriate to this family-friendly article than an image of violence. Abortion Stats In 2023, I wrote an article titled “The Pill” Kills More Than Surgicals where we consider how the Oral Contraceptive Pills (not only the so-called "Morning After" Pills) have abortifacient capabilities. I propose in that article that an extremely low estimate of zygotes killed after fertilization (but before implantation) is about one billion a year globally, especially when one considers breakthrough ovulation. Again, the Pill kills more than a billion babies a [...]

23 10, 2025

Reception of Catholic Converts in Tradition.
Reception of Catholic Converts in Tradition.

Reception of Catholic Converts in Tradition.

By Father David Nix|2025-10-24T16:29:19+00:00October 23rd, 2025|Theology|

As we will see below, the order of operations is: 1) Accept Christ. 2) Abjure past errors and make a profession of the Catholic Faith. 3) Actual (or conditional baptism.) 4) Lifetime confession. 5) All other sacraments. Recently, God has been using me to bring some older folks into the Catholic Church. One of these was the mother of a friend of mine who had been raised Lutheran. After her daughter and her granddaughter and I visited her in the nursing home, she decided to go from Lutheran to Catholic on her deathbed. At the time she made this decision, she had almost no dementia or senility, so no one [...]

21 10, 2025

Leftism: The Easiest Way to Be Selfish.
Leftism: The Easiest Way to Be Selfish.

Leftism: The Easiest Way to Be Selfish.

By Father David Nix|2025-10-21T12:39:03+00:00October 21st, 2025|Theology|

p/c BBC. Driving across the desert, I was thinking of my favorite saint (outside the 1st century) St. Francis Xavier. St. Francis was converted by St. Ignatius of Loyola in the 16th century at the University of Paris and he went on to baptize a half million people in East Asia. On his missions, he was pure charity to the Indians but he was sometimes fire and brimstone to the Portuguese settlers who he constantly found whoring, trading, slaving and fighting. After numerous fruitless warnings on the eternal salvation of these men who were impeding his mission, Xavier finally wrote King John of Portugal to tell him (in sober, respectful [...]

16 10, 2025

We Need Another “Dagger John.”
We Need Another “Dagger John.”

We Need Another “Dagger John.”

By Father David Nix|2025-10-15T16:56:13+00:00October 16th, 2025|Theology|

p/c NYT My mother's four grandparents came from Ireland to the United States. They settled in Chicago by way of New York City in the first half of the 20th century. But in the 19th century, the Irish immigrants were so involved in sex, violence and drink that their mortality rate in New York City was higher than African-Americans in either Chicago or Baltimore today. City Journal (a non-Catholic production out of NYC) paints a bleak picture about the first Irish immigrants who crossed the Atlantic to the United States: “In 1847 about 40,000 died making the voyage, a mortality rate much higher than that of slaves transported from Africa [...]

14 10, 2025

“Dilexi Te:” Treating the Poor As Slaves.
“Dilexi Te:” Treating the Poor As Slaves.

“Dilexi Te:” Treating the Poor As Slaves.

By Father David Nix|2025-10-14T13:02:01+00:00October 14th, 2025|Theology|

One of the most blasphemous lines in Dilexi Te comes under the chapter heading titled, “Accompanying migrants.” It reads: “Mary and Joseph flee with the child Jesus to Egypt. Christ himself, who ‘came to what was his own, and his own people did not accept him’ (Jn 1:11), lived among us as a stranger. For this reason, the Church has always recognized in migrants a living presence of the Lord…” The author then misappropriates the Holy Family to argue for open-borders. Clearly, the Bible and the Catholic Church have always opposed chaos on national borders, as the true God is a God of order. But manipulating the Holy Family’s desperate [...]