6 03, 2025

Thank You to Donors

By |2025-03-06T18:42:48+00:00March 6th, 2025|Theology|

The above is a picture I snapped at Ave Maria University while traveling to a funeral in Florida. Normally these updates go in my Life-Update section, but I wanted to express my deep and heartfelt thanks to those who sacrifice for me, either by finances or by time in prayer. Here's some points on where your money is going: I pray or read several hours a day.  This usually includes Mass, mental prayer, Rosary and the old Divine Office. I still receive health insurance from my Archdiocese.  However, all my income still comes from you who read my site and listen to my pods.  This is because I am not [...]

25 02, 2025

Five Hidden Pitfalls to Catholic Social Media

By |2025-02-25T04:39:16+00:00February 25th, 2025|Theology|

Catholics (including myself) often justify our presence on social media by evangelization, teaching and Church reform.  But do the advantages really outweigh the benefits for even the most astute apologists online? Besides the big pitfalls of porn and bullying, there are some other smaller hazards to Christians on social media.  I'm not speaking of simply manners, but things that will affect people's salvation.  Let's look at five other hidden pitfalls to social media: Fake Romances, Fake Friendships.  Many marriages have been broken up when a spouse meets another person online.  Sometimes that spouse commits adultery with the new squeeze met online.  But sometimes the married person leaves for a person [...]

27 08, 2024

Two Reasons the Coup is Not Complete

By |2024-09-01T23:37:16+00:00August 27th, 2024|Theology|

Not long ago, I wrote an article about why leftists promote the "errors of Russia." The "errors of Russia" is obviously leftism, which Mary warned against at Fatima.  In that article, I cite Jack Posobiec and Tucker Carlson, for they show that Marxism has killed 100 million people in the name of compassion.  This has happened everywhere from Cambodia to Czechoslovakia.  We also in the United States have been on the precipice of a communist coup for several decades, but we haven't gone over the precipice.  Why? Many people will say "God." Of course, I agree with this, as everything falls under Divine Providence.  However, I believe that (besides China) [...]

22 06, 2024

In Defense of Archbishop Viganó

By |2024-06-23T01:38:24+00:00June 22nd, 2024|Theology|

Last week, Archbishop Viganó wrote this on his site: "The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith has informed me, with a simple email, of the initiation of an extrajudicial penal trial against me, with the accusation of having committed the crime of schism and charging me of having denied the legitimacy of 'Pope Francis' of having broken communion 'with Him' and of having rejected the Second Vatican Council. I have been summoned to the Palace of the Holy Office on June 20, in person or represented by a canon lawyer. I assume that the sentence has already been prepared, given that it is an extrajudicial process.  I regard the [...]

6 06, 2024

Discernment Rules on Secular Decisions

By |2024-06-06T18:52:36+00:00June 6th, 2024|Theology|

Last year I wrote an article titled, Why Do Rad-Trads Keep “Guessing” Everything Right? In it, I explained it was not a coincidence that traditional Catholics were accurate on everything from resisting "the covid vaccine" to seeing the current Church crisis accurately.  Why is this? It wasn't because my Google-button worked better than the priests that were ordained before me.  It wasn't because I wanted to save lives by avoiding an mRNA gene therapy injection while other more lukewarm Catholics wanted their loved-ones to die.  The reason was not physical.  Rather, it was spiritual.  We all might have good-wills, but we were informed by different beings. If Rad-Trads Guessing was [...]

30 05, 2024

Hope For America in the Heartland

By |2024-05-29T02:46:15+00:00May 30th, 2024|Theology|

Riding my bike around Denver as a 12 year old boy, I got good at maps.  These were obviously the days before cell-phones and GPS, so I studied my maps as a hobby.  I studied city maps of Denver and Chicago, state maps of Colorado and the Eisenhower Interstate System.  I would look at globes for hours, memorizing countries all over the world.  For me, my map study was always about both location and meaning. The current return to tradition that Catholics are making across the globe is strong, especially places like France and the United States.   As I mentioned above, for people obsessed with geography like me, I [...]

9 05, 2024

Is Homeschooling the Ideal?

By |2024-05-09T12:28:51+00:00May 9th, 2024|Theology|

Since however the younger generations must be trained in the arts and sciences for the advantage and prosperity of civil society, and since the family of itself is unequal to this task, it was necessary to create that social institution, the school. But let it be borne in mind that this institution owes its existence to the initiative of the family and of the Church, long before it was undertaken by the State. Hence considered in its historical origin, the school is by its very nature an institution subsidiary and complementary to the family and to the Church. It follows logically and necessarily that it must not be in opposition [...]

23 04, 2024

Better to Attend a Parish That Lacks Truth? Or One That Lacks Love?

By |2024-04-23T09:19:44+00:00April 23rd, 2024|Theology|

Should you attend a parish that promotes truth or charity?  The obvious answer is both.  But what if you had to choose?  I ask this parish-based question because I have been hearing horror stories lately on some unbelievably mean things that traditional priests have said in the confessional to lay people.  Also, we just saw more priest-child scandals explode from the past in the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) world.  But the question I am proposing here doesn't have to do with such scandals.  Obviously, one must avoid like the plague any parish with a groomer priest.  I am talking about something slightly more nuanced than the following dilemma but here's [...]

11 04, 2024

The Three Divisions of Western Catholicism

By |2024-04-22T19:51:26+00:00April 11th, 2024|Theology|

I wish there were not divisions in Christianity, but there are.  I wish there were not any divisions in Catholicism, but there are.  In this article, I'm going to show the roots of the three factions of Western Catholicism as found in recent Church history.  This is not to further divide, but so that readers may better understand the motivations of such groups.  It's also to teach the first group listed below how to better evangelize the other three groups. Traditional Catholics are those I usually label Apostolic Catholics because their roots in both doctrine and liturgy go back historically to what Jesus Christ gave to the Apostles.  This group [...]

6 04, 2024

“Faith in Film” Part 1

By |2024-05-29T03:39:38+00:00April 6th, 2024|Podcasts, Sermons, Talks|

On the YouTube channel Avoiding Babylon, I have been joining my friends Anthony and Rob to have a Catholic discussion about a good movie (some of which are Catholic and some of which are not.)  We usually do this on the last Thursday of the month, and we call it our Faith in Film series.  Tap the top left of any box to leave my site for their channel: A Man for All Seasons: https://www.youtube.com/live/AJPHVDXgMTo?si=k0VDHCLzlSQO3zOe Padre Pio: Miracle Man: https://www.youtube.com/live/ZfsEaoRaGJw?si=T0om0DW-ykVqdDrb The Island (Russian): https://www.youtube.com/live/ckRRjQH1H44?si=B-emZoX8IddCPRSR I Confess by Hitchcock: https://www.youtube.com/live/CQmKIfyW2hk?si=1FJXXpRqZEp5IWUO Hacksaw (Live): https://www.youtube.com/live/ykWpdUgPQSA?si=RWb4xHa9TDcLOHQk Hacksaw (Pre-recorded) https://youtu.be/JxZP5rDT208?si=N73mfb5tunu1jCGu The Mission: https://youtu.be/u_xa21-gBWQ?si=8eDE1xbp4bK1o9Fa Becket: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhFSh84d1TQ&t=6716s For Greater Glory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ry9T9q--oh4

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