Modernists often like to pigeon-hole real Catholics as "traditional Catholics" not because they have anything against certain traditions in the Catholic Church, but because they want to make it sound like we live in a LARPing time-warp to the 1940s.  As I have written before, modernists will happily admit that the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) has its roots in the Council of Trent, but this is only to insist that the Novus Ordo Missæ (NOM) is the simpler "catacombs version" of the Mass, meaning the new-Mass is ironically older than the old-Mass! Of course, that doesn't even make sense linguistically, not to mention theologically.  As I have written before here, [...]

In the theology section of my site, I write very confidently about tradition versus modernism.  But to be honest with the few readers who read the Life Update section of my site here, I have to admit I am very confused at the current Church crisis.  Try as people might compare it to past crises in the Church, it always falls flat.  We've never had someone on the Chair of Peter worship a demon-idol (Pachamama) or promote gay-blessings (Fiducia Supplicans) before the 21st century. And then the next guy on the Chair tells us all he's in heaven and he's going to totally imitate his synodal church. Lay folks who [...]

Resurrection Grace In 2008, a year before my diaconate ordination, I went with a seminary professor and about 50 others (non-seminarians) to the Holy Land.  As a seminarian, a priest friend paid my way (Thanks Fr. Michael B!) not the seminary.  My seminary professor wanted nothing to do with me (yes, even back then!) so I ended up wandering the streets of Jerusalem one evening.  (Earlier that week, I had hoped for really cool graces at the Golgotha location where Jesus was crucified, but felt little consolation.) However, that evening of wandering old Jerususalem, I came into the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and inside that Church is both the [...]

The above is a picture of what my chest looks like when I do exorcism prayers and sidewalk counseling at the third largest abortion center in the world.  At the top is a Go-Pro to record all interactions (except talking to abortion-minded women.)  I record all interactions not because I am afraid that I will do something illegal, but rather that the pro-aborts will harm my pro-life team.  (If they're willing to kill babies, they're willing to kill adults.)  So, the Go-Pro is essentially a body-cam for my time at the abortion center. In the feature image above, you can see below the Go-Pro is the top of the starburst [...]

The following is an email I received from an attorney here in the USA.  He didn't expect me to publish it, but he did give me permission to do that, provided I remove his name. Dear Father Nix: I am not a scholar, influencer, or thought leader as you certainly are.  I am just a profane, vulgar, pew-sitting, often disaffected Catholic who has, by virtue of his professional training, often been  elevated to a higher station than his merit or virtue warranted.  The election of Robert Prevost, OSA to the papacy has been one of those times when I feel as if I were among the last sane individuals on [...]

This was an update I put on X this last week: I have hope in the future of the Catholic Church, but like Joshua and Caleb, we need two extremely courageous Cardinals. I don't mean decently lukewarm. I mean men who will avoid crafty-strategy in the Conclave and rather adhere with childlike courage in following ALL of traditional Catholicism. And if those men don't exist, I know Christ loves His Church more than me and may send Divine Intervention from an unexpected quarter, even if it's allowing something bad like war or schism. All I know is I need to do more to avoid sin in my own life as [...]

The Life-Update section of my site could easily become narcissistic, or at least self-centered.  But here's how I justify it:  Missionary Orders like the Franciscans and Jesuits (at least between Trent and Vatican II) had to report back in the annals of their congregations how many baptisms, confirmations, etc. they had among the natives in any certain region.  I think one reason for this strange convert-counting was simply internal accountability. So also, the Life-Update pull-down section affords  some accountability to my donors as to what I am doing with my life.  It is admittedly not as important as the theology section (the default section) or the podcast (talks) pull-down of [...]