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Ten Signs You Might Belong to a Cult.
The above left picture is Msgr. Ricardo Coronado-Arrascue, a former Augustinian who was born and raised in Peru. Msgr. Coronado taught me Canon Law at St. John…
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The Ends Don’t Justify the Jeans.
Guest post by Dr. Ed Mazza PhD, edmundmazza.com. p/c OSV News photo/Neon. In 2024, Conservative “darling” Sydney Sweeney was the protagonist in the horror…
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Visibility vs. Infallibility in the Catholic Church
When the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on earth?—Christ in Saint Luke 18:8. From 2013 to 2020, a website called The Wild Voice conglomerated all of…
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“Not My Fault If He Looks At Me Lustfully.”
Catholic men and women frequently debate modesty both online and in real life. Inevitably, a woman will chime in and say: “It’s not my fault if a man looks at…
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The Faithful Departed: Seven Things Catholics Forgot.
NB Because this article is so long, yet so important for the month of November, it will be my only article this week (except for perhaps another one on the…
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The “Seamless Garment” Is Quiet Propaganda for Abortion.
In 2023, Bishop Prevost spoke in Spanish at a Catholic University in Peru after receiving an honorary doctorate. Here are two extremely important paragraphs…
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Ratio of Death Penalty to Abortion Deaths
The above is not an abortion. It is a famous picture of surgery performed on an unborn baby. I only use it because it is more appropriate to this…
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Reception of Catholic Converts in Tradition.
As we will see below, the order of operations is: 1) Accept Christ. 2) Abjure past errors and make a profession of the Catholic Faith. 3) Actual (or…
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Leftism: The Easiest Way to Be Selfish.
p/c BBC. Driving across the desert, I was thinking of my favorite saint (outside the 1st century) St. Francis Xavier. St. Francis was converted by St. Ignatius…
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We Need Another “Dagger John.”
p/c NYT My mother's four grandparents came from Ireland to the United States. They settled in Chicago by way of New York City in the first half of the 20th…
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“Dilexi Te:” Treating the Poor As Slaves.
One of the most blasphemous lines in Dilexi Te comes under the chapter heading titled, “Accompanying migrants.” It reads: “Mary and Joseph flee with the child…
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Where Mercy Meets Justice On the Gallows.
When I was a student attending a liberal Jesuit high school, I was very much against the death penalty. I even wrote letters for Amnesty International (before…
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The Commandments Are Not Burdensome.
It seems the current Vatican apparatus is promoting sixth commandment sins committed contra naturam even more than even the last Vatican regime. Of course…
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Suffering Transformed In Your Life (by a Dominican.)
Guest Post: One of the evangelization tracts I keep in my truck is a small pamphlet called: Suffering: How to make the greatest evil in our lives our greatest…
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The Humility of Apostolic Catholicism.
p/c Mary's Secretary. On this feast of St. Michael, let’s look at one of the only passages in the New Testament about the Archangel and and those who oppose…
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Got Hope in Human Nature?
For if they do these things when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?”—Luke 23:31. The head of the synodal church (his words, not mine) recently…
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What Charlie Thought of Francis and Leo.
It is common at the death of a great man for smaller minds to weaponize great minds for their own personal wheelhouse of ideas. For example, in regards to the…
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Why Are Protestants Chanting “Christ Is King”?
p/c Eric Daugherty. Why are Protestants chanting "Christ Is King" while Catholic bishops promote Black Lives Matter? Shouldn't it be the opposite? St. Thomas…
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The Death of Dialogue in Church and State.
Above, Mrs. Erika Kirk mourns at the casket of her fallen husband, Mr. Charlie Kirk. Charlie was assassinated on 10 Sept 2025 by a male shooter (who had a…
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How to Meditate at the TLM.
A few years ago, I had spliced in scenes of the Passion of the Christ into a video on Vimeo of my own low Mass with the words I had thought came from St…
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Schism: The Pressure-Release Valve to Heresy.
This is a long one, but I think it's worth the read. Before getting into the recent news in the Vatican, we need to go through a few definitions. Apostasy is…
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The Congressman and the Holy Mass Shooting.
Was this a hate-crime against Christians or not? Is there a connection to abortion in it all? Last year at a Catholic conference in Brazil, I met a Catholic…
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Why Did Christ Establish His Church in Rome?
Why did Christ send two of His greatest Apostles to Rome? The classic answer is still the best answer: Christ chose to conquer the powerful Roman empire with…
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The Majesty of God or Ecumenism?
And the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God, Who was seated on the throne, saying, “Amen. Hallelujah!”—Apocalypse…
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St. Mariam of Palestine.
She is the only saint I have ever heard of with so many names. Perhaps it's because she was a Greek-Catholic who grew up in Arabic-speaking Palestine in the…
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Why the “Bifurcated-Papacy” Still Matters.
This summer, Monsignor Nicola Bux claimed that Pope Benedict XVI wrote him about public accusations that he had bifurcated the papacy before he died. Among…
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Conquering Death Upon the Burial Site of Adam.
I didn't publicize this much on social media, but I took July 2025 as a retreat in the Holy City of Jerusalem. I knew that (due to the war) there wouldn't be…
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Cardinal Newman and “the Development of Doctrine.”
John Henry Cardinal Newman was a 19th century British convert from Anglicanism to Catholicism. In full transparency, I should be clear that today I am not…
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What If an Apostle Had Denied the Crucifixion?
Many traditional priests tell lay people to mind their own sins, not the Church crisis. Similarly, many anonymous traditional accounts online who stood against…
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AI and the Final-Deceit.
The only R-rated movie my Dad ever took me to in the theatre as a kid was Terminator 2. To this day it remains one of my favorite movies, except for the misuse…
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Annulment Blues
A guest poem, half-serious, half-joking from a friend we'll call "POB." I thought that I was married to you, But I got a case of the annulment blues. And even…
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Who Became the Head of the “Church of England”?
Question: Who became the head of the Church of England after the death of King Henry VIII? Answer on AI: "After Henry VIII (top-left) died in 1547, his son…
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Two Big Lies from Leila Lawler
On 26 July 2025, I reposted the Facebook (FB) post of a married woman named Christine Ruby. Her original post from 14 July 2025 was 1,512 words long. The first…
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St. Thomas Aquinas’ Mass Prayers
Before Mass: Almighty, everlasting God, look down in mercy upon me, Thy servant, who now again draws near to the most holy sacrament of Thy only-begotten Son…
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An Open-Letter to Cardinal Burke.
Your Eminence Leo Cardinal Burke, Ave Maria. On this Vigil of the Feast of St. James, I write to you today with the utmost respect for your office since I…
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Euthanasia in Canada: A True Story.
Recently, the Pillar reported: "Nine years ago, the Canadian government legalized a Medical Assistance in Dying program, making physician assisted suicide…
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Warning on Bad Prelates.
Lay Catholics are currently desperate for leadership in the hierarchical Church. Not finding any, they prop up fake-leaders. Why? There have been numerous…
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From Charismatic To Traditional
This is a guest post written by my good friend Jesse Romero. With his permission, I reproduce it from his own site. I crosspost it because his move from…
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The Priest As The Best-Man to Christ.
In Christ's Passion, we see what we ought to suffer for the truth, and in His resurrection, what we ought to hope for in eternity.—St. Thomas Aquinas At…
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The Bombshell Without a Bang.
This month of July 2025, Miss Diane Montagna, an American journalist based in Rome, released an article here titled "Official Vatican Report Exposes Major…
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The Human Soul is “Capax Dei.”
St. Thomas Aquinas writes in the Summa I-II Q 2: Consequently man's happiness cannot consist in fame or glory. On the other hand, man's good depends on God's…
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US Bishops and Their Moneymaking Borders.
p/c PBS The USCCB continues to issue statements against Trump as they clamor for the billions back once received for illegal activity under the Biden…
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Primacy of Conscience vs. Divine Revelation
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…
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Ignore the Demoralization and Fight for Christ
p/c vladtepesblog.com Mr. Yuri Bezmenov was a KGB-defector from the USSR who came to the Western Hemisphere in the 1970s. Yuri once explained how ideological…
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Islam Is Now Growing Faster Than Christianity.
I snapped the above picture in Cairo, Egypt last year. To the left is a Coptic Orthodox Church and to the left is a fabric store with writing in Arabic. I was…
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St. Ignatius’ Rules For Discernment (Literal Translation)
Last year, I reproduced St. Ignatius’ Rules For Discernment (Dynamic Translation.) Today, I reproduce a literal translation for use with my new podcast series…
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A Blue-Collar Catholic Can Recognize a White-Collar Heretic.
Most American Catholics do not know the definition of a heretic. However, a smaller percentage of mainstream Catholics who have studied a little theology might…
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Hero in a Vacuum of Hope
Between WWI and WWII, Germans proudly sang their patriotic anthem Die Wacht am Rhein translated as "The Watch on the Rhine." It contains the famous line, Lieb…
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“Man Cannot Be Happy in This Life.”—St. Thomas.
In the Summa I-II Question 5, St. Thomas writes "On the contrary, It is written (Job 14:1): 'Man born of a woman, living for a short time, is filled with many…
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Rearranging the “Pontifical Academy For Life.”
In 2016, Archbishop Paglia (top left) was named the "President of Pontifical Academy for Life" by Francis. Despite the pious names, both were in favor of…
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Relief Comes From Unanticipated Quarters.
Editor's Note: This piece is from Mike, a husband, father and convert to the Catholic faith. Mike is a retired SEAL officer who spent many years at SEAL Team…
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Damage-Control for a Material Heretic
The traditional Magisterium of the Catholic Church listed nine ways to being an accessory to another’s sin: 1. By counsel 2. By command 3. By consent 4. By…
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Six Different Attitudes to the TLM
One hundred years ago, Catholics were Catholics. Some were good Catholics and some were bad Catholics. But we didn't have political terms like "liberal…
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Why Does God Allow Temptation?
Today, we're going to look at St. Thomas Aquinas on why God allows temptations. Below in black italics will be quotes from St. Thomas' Summa, part one…
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The Magical “Convert-Making” Chair-of-Peter
They refused to love the truth and so be saved. Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false.—2 Thess 2:10-11. Before the…
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The Pope of the Synodal Church
Despite the obvious differences in the outfits above, the two men hold the same ecclesiology. In Leo XIV's very short opening speech on 8 May 2025, he…
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To Sell Out the Faith for a Bowl of Porridge
p/c Daniel Ibáñez/EWTN Vatican. Are there traditionalists willing to make a deal with the devil? Are there American traditional Catholics willing to ignore yet…
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Is the Theology of Aquinas That Different From St. Paul?
Having come from the charismatic movement before being a traditional Catholic, I still talk to charismatic Catholics and admire some of them. Heavily…
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The Blueprint for a “Synodal Papacy.”
Above: Cardinal Kurt Koch, p/c Zenit. Jesus Christ said to St. Peter in the Gospel of St. Matthew: And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build…
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AB. Viganó’s Approach to the Conclave
p/c Canon212. Italian Marco Tosatti recently translated an interview granted by Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganó to Francesco Borgonovo here regarding the…