Bonum ex integra causa, malum ex quocumque defectu is Latin for "Goodness comes from a complete cause, evil from any defect whatsoever." You may remember the free catechetical series I produced called Catechism of Pius X (CPX) which is a YouTube playlist at that link.  If you're converting to Apostolic Catholicism (either from Protestantism or modernism) I highly suggest you watch that series.  On CPX, I explained the traditional Catholic faith in about 20 hours.   Also online, I'm currently teaching the Roman Catechism of Trent (RCT.) It is also a YouTube playlist at that link.  Unlike CPX, we have not yet come to the end of RCT. As you [...]

Warning: This is an article for adults, not children. The topic today is this:  What is permitted behavior in the bedroom between Catholic spouses?  From the start, I have to give this disclaimer: I despise writing about this topic, especially since I endanger my own soul in bringing potentially-immodest writings to the internet (as if the internet does not already have enough.) However, I have discovered that the question of exotic behavior in the bedroom is unfortunately on the minds of countless Catholic couples across the globe.  Similarly, I have unfortunately found that 98% of priest-confessors out there are misleading the Catholic laity on this topic.  By what authority can [...]

You shall not spread a false report. You shall not join hands with a wicked man to be a malicious witness... Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent and righteous, for I will not acquit the wicked.—Ex 23:1, 7. This is a made up story, but imagine a Catholic woman named Nancy is flanked in her condo to the west by a married woman named Sandy and to the east by a married man named Steve. Imagine she sees Sandy leaving Steve’s condo at 10pm one night. The next day, Nancy puts on the Next Door app: “Very interesting that a certain Sandy is leaving [...]

It seems the current Vatican apparatus is promoting sixth commandment sins committed contra naturam even more than even the last Vatican regime.  Of course, that last sentence seems impossible for real Catholics who just endured the last decade of dogmatic madness issuing from Rome.  But it's obvious the current agenda is even more pronounced than the last one.  (Consider the Chicago-based male-couple just brought in to be personal chefs at the Vatican's new Laudato Sí restaurant.) A few Catholics might be thinking (especially after this much brainwashing and gaslighting from the Vatican over the past 14 years) that perhaps the traditional teaching on the commandments is just too hard in [...]

For fifty years, heretics have been promoting the primacy of conscience.  Taking a single line from St. Thomas Aquinas out of context, these clowns teach that if your conscience tells you to do one thing and the Bible tells you to do another thing, you should follow your conscience.  Furthermore, they also say that an action classically-defined by the Magisterium as sinful is not a sin as long as you can prove to yourself that you either had ignorance in your actions or no-malice in your heart.   You might think I am exaggerating here, but I saw this error creeping into moral theology so intensely twenty years ago that [...]

Then when Judas, His betrayer, saw that Jesus was condemned, he changed his mind and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and the elders, saying, “I have sinned by betraying innocent blood.” They said, “What is that to us? See to it yourself.” And throwing down the pieces of silver into the temple, he departed, and he went and hanged himself.—Mt 27:3-5. There are two things that kill the soul: despair and false-hope.—St. Augustine, Sermon 87 Let me say at the outset of this article that I have had friends commit suicide.  So, I don't like writing this.  But a major corrective needed to be [...]

Many good Catholics today have now become acutely aware of sexual sins (the Sixth and Ninth Commandment) as well as the First Commandment (partly due to public violations of this like the worship of the Pachamama statue near the Vatican a few years ago.)  In light of this, I believe that the most underrated of all Commandments is the Second Commandment.  Keep in mind that the Ten Commandments given on Sinai come in order of importance.  Thus, the misuse of the Holy Name of Jesus is one of the worst sins one can commit.  We look to the doctor of the Church, St. Alphonsus Liguori, to consider the weight of [...]

The Catholic Church has always had blessings for people and items.  Blessings for people are usually for individuals, but occasionally a priest may bless groups living in a vocation designed by God (like a family.) Blessings for items can be anything from a vehicle to a crucifix. But there is a new heretical document from Cdl. Fernandez that reads:  "III. Blessings of Couples in Irregular Situations and of Couples of the Same Sex. 31. Within the horizon outlined here appears the possibility of blessings for couples in irregular situations and for couples of the same sex, the form of which should not be fixed ritually by ecclesial authorities to avoid [...]

Probably daily across this country a few conversation go like this between young Catholics: -Catholic 1: Did you know pre-marital sex is a mortal sin? -Catholic 2: Well, did you know for a sin to be mortal you have to have full-knowledge and full-consent? -Catholic 1: I guess so, but does that mean it's not a mortal sin to have pre-marital sex? -Catholic 2: Not if you didn't know it. Catholic 2 is a smarty-pants who takes St. Thomas out of context, but is still morally wrong. Here's why: Even the new Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC) admits that you don't get a "pass" from God (so to speak) [...]