CPX 65: Confirmation
Catechism of Pope St. Pius X (CPX) p. 67-70. Q/A 1-19. The Sacrament of Confirmation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMLhBk0NULU&t=24s
God Wants To Save Us From Ourselves
A wise philosopher who taught me at Boston College was once asked at a public talk, "Why does man sin?" The philosopher thought about it and said, "I suppose that is the one thing that even God Himself does not know, as we see in what He says to do the damned, I do not know you. (cf Mt 25:12) Even if not dogmatically true, it's at least "poetically true" that perhaps even God Himself does not know why man sins. Indeed, if God made man for Himself, then to turn from Eternal Love Himself is so foolish as to be incomprehensible to, well, Eternal Truth Himself. We know that on the pathway to perdition, man gets caught into some weird combination of despair, presumption, and pride, but it is too great of a mystery to tackle here. The problem is we [...]
VLX 65: I Have Not Come to Bring Peace
Mt 10:34-39 https://youtu.be/G0OIGK7k5rg
Blasphemy Against Mother Mary in “The Chosen”
Section A: The Scene The Chosen is a streaming video series on the life of Our Lord Jesus Christ with record-breaking viewership. They did a decent job in Season 1, but a scene found in Season 2, Episode 3 has major blasphemy against the Mother of Jesus. In this scene, a female disciple of Jesus named Rama is sitting next to Mother Mary and expresses her concern about how to know and follow Jesus in a better way. (As St. Mary Magdalene is also in this scene, I will refer to the mother of Jesus below as "Mother Mary.") Rama says, “I feel like I need to not make anymore mistakes.” Mother Mary responds, “How do you think I felt?” Andrew says, “You probably feel that everyday. No?” “Not anymore,” Mother Mary says. “He always reassured me. God always made [...]
CPX 64: Your Sponsor in Baptism
Catechism of Pope St. Pius X (CPX) p. 66. Q/A 21-26. https://youtu.be/vICyzMt4iAk
Hermeneutic of Continuity or Hermeneutic of Rupture?
As a middle-of-the-road conservative in seminary, I would frequently say things like, "Vatican II did not change Catholic doctrine, but it did change how we package it for the post-modern mind." Or, perhaps I would say, "Dogma can't change but how we explain it can change." Phrases like this demonstrate the hermeneutic of continuity we clung to. We believed the Catholic Church before 1963 was the same as the Church after 1963. We just had to return to "the early Church" in order to "get back to the sources" if we wanted to square the circle, if we just lined up the stars correctly between the teachings of Pope St. Pius X and Pope Paul VI. But the more I read the Church Fathers, the more I saw nothing of modernist ideas like religious indifferentism (sometimes called "ecumenism") and other [...]
VLX 64: Have No Fear of Them
Mt 10:26-33 https://youtu.be/c9eArJEeOrw
CPX 63: What is Baptism of Desire?
Catechism of Pope St. Pius X p. 65-66. Q/A 16-20 https://youtu.be/HLgJ2Nu98l0
Immune System Thoughts from a Mayo-Trained Pathologist
Dr. Ryan Cole MD founder of Cole Diagnostics is a Mayo clinic trained board-certified pathologist who has seen 350,000 patients and tested 100,000 COVID-19 tests in the past year. Dr. Cole MD is not an anti-vaxxer and yet he speaks very clearly about coronavirus and its easy solutions. Anyone pregnant and anyone hoping to get pregnant should watch this video: https://rumble.com/embed/vcv8r5/?pub=4
VLX 63: You Will Be Hated By All For My Name’s Sake
Mt 10:21-25 https://youtu.be/SpgsaF1WJCI