Theology

4 02, 2021

Catholics Living Taqiyah
Catholics Living Taqiyah

Catholics Living Taqiyah

By Father David Nix|2021-02-04T23:05:31+00:00February 4th, 2021|Theology|

Some Catholics hold their private beliefs as different from their public beliefs. It's starting to resemble the Muslim notion of taqiyah (in Arabic above in the featured image.) I thought for a long time that taqiyah was permission from Mohammed to lie about Islam precisely for the promotion of Islam. But the more I studied it, the more I realized that taqiyah is dialing down your own beliefs so as fit into a different culture (at least, until you constitute the majority of a population.) Taqiyah (Arabic: تقیة‎ ) is defined as "a precautionary dissimulation or denial of religious belief and practice in the face of persecution...dissimulation by silence or [...]

31 01, 2021

Better To Light One Candle Than Curse The Darkness
Better To Light One Candle Than Curse The Darkness

Better To Light One Candle Than Curse The Darkness

By Father David Nix|2021-02-19T15:01:42+00:00January 31st, 2021|Theology|

Why would a heretical priest like James Martin be ripping on the Traditional Latin Mass and the few ancient-believing Catholics who take the Gospel of Jesus Christ literally while his team of liberals have already successfully (and illegally) hijacked both the White House and the Vatican? Why would someone with an enormous social-media following like James Martin rip on the likes of Fr. Altman and Fr. Heilman and myself when our team is so small in number? The answer is two fold: First, because James Martin and his band of heretics know that even one candle will prevent his modernist darkness from spreading over the whole globe forever. A heretic [...]

28 01, 2021

Stockholm Syndrome Part 1
Stockholm Syndrome Part 1

Stockholm Syndrome Part 1

By Father David Nix|2021-03-17T14:18:22+00:00January 28th, 2021|Theology|

Biden's White House Adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci just told the World Health Organization: "It will be our policy to support women’s and girls’ sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights in the United States, as well as globally" in a repeal of the Mexico City policy. It is this same Dr. Anthony Fauci who wants us all to take a COVID-19 vaccine developed on unborn babies who "were alive at tissue extraction." I suspect (but can not prove as clearly as the hyperlinks in the previous paragraph prove a single pro-death team) that at the General Judgment we all will see that the same group of men who paid for [...]

26 01, 2021

How Our Age of Church History Is Different From All Others in the Past
How Our Age of Church History Is Different From All Others in the Past

How Our Age of Church History Is Different From All Others in the Past

By Father David Nix|2021-01-26T01:08:16+00:00January 26th, 2021|Theology|

As I finished up Vespers tonight for the Conversion of St. Paul and got my ribbons ready for tomorrow on my old-school Divine Office for the third-class feast of St. Polycarp, I realized something tonight: Whereas St. Paul probably prayed all 150 Psalms by memory in Hebrew every day or every week, and whereas St. Paul probably asked for intercession for the people he killed before his own conversion and perhaps even asked intercession for all those he names in his letter to the Hebrews (ch. 11-13) there is something St. Paul and St. Polycarp did not have: 2000 years of saints and martyrs in the Catholic calendar and roll-call [...]

23 01, 2021

Communism according to Pope Pius XI & Lockdown
Communism according to Pope Pius XI & Lockdown

Communism according to Pope Pius XI & Lockdown

By Father David Nix|2022-05-11T00:00:34+00:00January 23rd, 2021|Theology|

As I recently explained in a recent CPX 48 podcast, communism in the 20th century killed 14x the amount of people than Nazism did. Yes, gulags killed more people by execution than even the concentration camps. This is a historical fact, even it is not politically expedient to admit. We must now ask if this global health-theatre lockdown continued under Joe Biden's plan for our country meets the criteria of Pope Pius XI's description of communism. On the 19th of March, 1937, Pope Pius XI published an encyclical on "atheistic communism" including this paragraph: Communism, moreover, strips man of his liberty, robs human personality of all its dignity, and removes all [...]

23 01, 2021

Catholics Who Voted for Biden
Catholics Who Voted for Biden

Catholics Who Voted for Biden

By Father David Nix|2021-01-23T05:59:28+00:00January 23rd, 2021|Theology|

This is what Catholics who voted for Biden are going to answer to Almighty God for:

19 01, 2021

Family Life Reflects Religious Life
Family Life Reflects Religious Life

Family Life Reflects Religious Life

By Father David Nix|2021-03-04T00:36:07+00:00January 19th, 2021|Theology|

While it is true that religious congregations are rightly called "families" (and indeed, are built on the family structure, hence, "father" and "mother" and "brother" and "sister") most people today realize in their hunger for good (and sadly, missing) family life that religious life should reflect family life. But few people remember that family life should also reflect religious life. When I was a neo-conservative (not yet a traditional priest) I noticed that most priestly discussions on the liturgy revolved around what would be most accessible and most pious for most of the laity. Similarly, during the first year of my priesthood, when I was pushing "Theology of the Body," [...]

15 01, 2021

Proverbs 16:25
Proverbs 16:25

Proverbs 16:25

By Father David Nix|2022-05-10T23:57:19+00:00January 15th, 2021|Theology|

Proverbs 16:25 reads, There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death. (In Latin, est via quae videtur homini recta et novissimum eius ducit ad mortem.). This is where we get the English proverb, "The road to hell is paved with good intentions" which has been around since 1855 (at the very latest, and possibly much earlier.) I am shocked how many priests allegedly trained in moral theology are now holding that the end justifies the means on all the issues of 2020 and 2021 from election fraud to vaccines. No, the end does not justify the means in moral theology. [...]

14 01, 2021

Injecting Appeasement and Shame Into Others’ Lives For Your Own Sins Prevents Repentance
Injecting Appeasement and Shame Into Others’ Lives For Your Own Sins Prevents Repentance

Injecting Appeasement and Shame Into Others’ Lives For Your Own Sins Prevents Repentance

By Father David Nix|2022-05-10T23:08:18+00:00January 14th, 2021|Theology|

Here's a situation relatively new to the past 50 years, but especially pronounced in the past year in the USA: Liberals justify their sins in front of conservatives by demanding either the conservative ratify the liberal's conscience (appeasement) or the liberal flips the tables and shames the conservative for implying anything shameful exists about the liberal's life-decisions. When a liberal injects appeasement or shame into the mind of any conservative who questions the left's behavior, this seems very much to hurt the right. But from a Christian point of view, it hurts the left. Here's why: The left's every sin demands appeasement and shame from the other (not himself) which [...]

12 01, 2021

“When You Say It, Don’t Hide”—Bl. Jacinta Marto
“When You Say It, Don’t Hide”—Bl. Jacinta Marto

“When You Say It, Don’t Hide”—Bl. Jacinta Marto

By Father David Nix|2021-01-12T15:54:46+00:00January 12th, 2021|Theology|

Usually when I bring the beginnings of repentance for my sins to prayer, I sense a deeper call to repentance. (In other words, when I begin to repent in prayer, I find I'm not repenting nearly enough.) Lately, I have been trying to bring to prayer the shame I have that I come to such radically different conclusions than almost all other priests online on the issues of 2021. Going to prayer, I expect to feel more shame for these differences of opinion I have with most of the hierarchy. But amazingly (and I realize what we sense in prayer is by no means infallible and probably shouldn't even go [...]