Before Whom Do You Kneel Podcast
Today's podcast discusses worship of God or a new world order, Black Lives Matter, Franciscan missionaries and the Blessed Trinity. It is released on Trinity Sunday 2020. A baptism conducted by California mission friars is shown in a sketch displayed at the Mission Basilica San Diego de Alcala in San Diego.
What Happens to America’s Poor if the Police Are Defunded?
I've done missionary work in Central America, South America, Africa, Europe and Asia. After so much travel, I can say in very good confidence that we in the USA have the least corrupt police departments of anywhere in the world. Our cops sometimes do horrible things, as the George Floyd video demonstrates. But here's what anyone who has lived outside the United States already knows: In most third-world countries, the only people with physical protection are the rich who can afford private security guards for their families. The police in most third-world countries are so corrupt that they are frequently in cahoots with traffickers. If a woman loses her husband in a third-world country, there is a very good chance that she and her children will be trafficked. In fact, the police will frequently make money from the traffickers. The [...]
Holy Thursday 2020 Sermon
Short sermon from a home Mass just before Easter 2020.
Can Adult Baptisms Be Canonically Suspended during COVID-19?
This was an email I received from out of country. He gave me permission to reproduce it below under condition of anonymity. I changed his name and retracted the country of origin: Dear Father Nix, Here in COUNTRY-X, the government have banned all baptisms, and, by extension, all receptions into the Church. The bishops'conference have followed suit issuing their own edicts to this effect. There is, at the time of writing, no end date in sight for these measures, or even a vague time frame. Two catechumens, one whom was being prepared for unconditional Baptism, and the other who was being prepared to be received (with conditional Baptism), have asked me if there was anything that could be done for them, as their Baptism and Reception have been deferred indefinitely. If a date had been given to review the situation, [...]
Evangelization with Steve Cunningham
My evangelization stories from the streets and taxis and other places. This podcast was originally an interview done with me on a TAN Books podcast by Steve Cunningham just a couple weeks ago. Steve is also the executive producer of Sensus Fidelium. Thanks to TAN Books for letting me re-publish this podcast with Steve and me.
Restoring the Reflection of God
11 minute sermon from the 5th Sunday after Easter.
Chernobyl and Coronavirus
34 years ago last month, the former states of the USSR remembered the anniversary of the most destructive nuclear meltdown in world history: Chernobyl. Although the HBO series takes Chernobyl takes some historical-fiction liberties with what happened under the Russian government in the 1980s, there's some similarities to what we are currently facing in the USA: Both governments manipulated statistics of a health crisis so as to maintain authoritarian control over their people. The difference is that the Russian government downplayed Chernobyl so as to manipulate the people into submission, where the US government is currently overplaying a real flu so as to manipulate the American people into submission. But both governments played the same thing: Fear and control during a health crisis. The last leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, wrote 20 years after the Chernobyl disaster that [...]
The Nanny-State Wants to Babysit Your Family
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPrbGU0Wyh4 Last week, on 28 April 2020, Tucker Carlson had a 15 minute segment on Fox News (above) called “Big Tech Censors Dissent Over Coronavirus Lockdowns." At minute 5, Tucker talks about how Dr. Erickson MD (the doctor who countered corona-hype with data that was unwelcome) was removed from numerous internet platforms. The CEO of YouTube, Susan Wojcicki, justified such removals on a CNN clip that Fox News borrowed. She said anything “medically unsubstantiated..anything that would go against World Health Organization” would be removed from YouTube. Tucker continues his critique: “Big Technology companies are using this tragedy [of COVID-19] to increase their power over the American population. They’re working in concert with politicians to do it…But suddenly our media are not concerned about freedom of speech. Reporters applaud our overlords as they punish us for disagreeing. You just saw it in [...]
The Designation “Essential” Goes Against Catholic Social Teaching
I took the above picture today at a parking lot near Denver International Airport. I'm sure they're a fine company, and this is not a blog post against them. But as I left the lot, it hit me that what most US governors now consider "essential" is really just a categorization that is at best arbitrary and at worst discriminatory against the small business owner. My words above do not reveal a very brilliant epiphany, to be sure. Every one of us have noted the long lines to get into Home Depot or Wal-Mart (big business) while a Dallas hair stylist (small business) gets thrown in jail for trying to stay open. The governor of Massachusetts was clever to never give a definition of "essential," only a random categorization: “The production and service sectors identified in Exhibit A are hereby designated as [...]
A Mexican Catholic’s Thoughts on Trump
Today's podcast has Jesse Romero, retired Los Angeles County sheriff and son of Mexican immigrants, as he discuss his new book, A Catholic Vote For Trump.