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Enter the Room of Your Life
The following is a guest-post from an anonymous priest: I found myself in the room. There were no distinguishing features save for the one wall covered with…
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The Angel and the Earthquake at the Resurrection
Now after the Sabbath, toward the dawn of the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the tomb. And behold, there was a great…
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The Women at the Resurrection
The above is M. Chrisman's Easter Vigil fire pit. Today we are going to consider some questions regarding the women of the Resurrection. The Patristic answers…
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The Character, Grace and Power of Holy Orders
Today is Holy Thursday, 2025. Today, Jesus Christ established both the Holy Priesthood and the Holy Eucharist in the Upper Room with the Apostles all present…
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St. Anastasia and the Sign of the Cross
p/c St. Anastasia, by America Needs Fatima. In the early 2000s, when I was in Rome, I went looking for a chapel of perpetual-adoration in which I could pray at…
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Where Do Suicides Go According to the Catholic Church?
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…
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Annulment Correction Post
p/c New Liturgical Movement. A Correction on the Proper Interpretation of Matthew 19:9 The explosion of annulments and accompanying civil divorces (with second…
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A Resurrection Unto Death.
Wonder not at this; for the hour cometh, wherein all that are in the graves shall hear the voice of the Son of God. And they that have done good things, shall…
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Non-Compromise Always Has One End
Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, while evil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and…
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Threats Against the Seal of Confession
Recently, LifeSite News published disturbing news: "The Washington state Senate passed legislation to throw priests in jail for almost a full year for…
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Detachment from Vice Is Attachment to God
When you see "a Theology of Attachment" as the title of this article, you probably think I'm going to tell you what to give up for Lent. It's too late for…
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The “New Evangelization” Has Officially Failed.
Mr. Eric Sammons of Crisis Magazine tweeted the above graph and commented: "From a high of 172,581 new converts in 1999, we only had 72,212 in 2022—a 58%…
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Duress or Necessity in Civil Law
Even some pro-lifers do not understand why we with Red Rose Rescue do counseling to abortion-minded couples not only outside the abortion center (where I go…
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Respect of Egos Part 2: Discernment and Obedience
Part One: Respect of Egos was about St. Thomas Aquinas' warnings against "respect of persons" which I consider to be an avoidance of "Respect of Egos." This…
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Respect of Egos Part 1: St. Thomas Aquinas
This is a two part series on the "Respect of Egos." It is easy to misunderstand St. Thomas Aquinas' condemnation of "respect of persons." The notion we are to…
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Thank You to Donors
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…
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Christ the High Priest and Teacher
p/c Caminante Wanderer. The three munera, or duties, of the priest are to teach, sanctify and govern. Since the 1990s, the "teach" aspect of the priesthood has…
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“The Only Arms Which Will Remain For You.”
p/c Fr. Palma on X. There is a mysterious line from Our Lady of Akita which continuously haunts me. If what happened in Akita, Japan is a genuine apparition…
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Five Hidden Pitfalls to Catholic Social Media
Catholics (including myself) often justify our presence on social media by evangelization, teaching and Church reform. But do the advantages really outweigh…
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Traitors’ Last Ditch Effort in Church and State
I have to admit I didn't have it in my bingo cards that 2025 was going to be the big year when hundreds of thousands of mainstream Catholics wake up to the…
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If You Build It, They Will Come
He said therefore to them again: "Peace be to you. As the Father hath sent Me, I also send you." When He had said this, He breathed on them; and He said to…
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The Holy Sacrifice and the Unholy Sacrifice.
p/c New Liturgical Movement, NBC. The priest sunders with unbloody cut the body and blood of the Lord, using his voice as a sword.—St. Gregory Nazianzen. The…
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Immaculate Mary: Mirror of Justice.
Every angel saw nearly all of creation during its creation in what was called the "first instance" (not found in the same time frame as us on earth.) During…
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How to Evangelize Leftists.
p/c Jeffrey Bruno For the longest time, I believed the Right could reason with the Left with evidence on the many incendiary issues lighting up Church and…
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The Great Inversion of Love
Many new traditionalists may be ignorant of the fact that the first heretics excommunicated by Pope St. Pius X were heretics in their denial on the inerrancy…
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RIP Bishop Williamson
Bishop Williamson was born Richard Nelson Williamson on 8 March 1940. A convert to the Catholic faith, he was consecrated a bishop by Archbishop Lefebvre in…
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Closing Our Dangerous Borders: Trump, the USCCB and Aquinas
The above picture is Venezuelan criminals known to the Aurora, CO police department. There are thousands of Venezuelan immigrants near my hermitage in Aurora…
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Catholicism Is “the Eternal Gospel.”
Recently, while reading the Book of the Apocalypse (the last book in the Bible frequently called "Revelation" by Protestants) I noticed the astonishing Greek…
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“Once a Catholic Always a Catholic”? Not Necessarily.
Many Catholics casually say the following line to ex-Catholics in order to get them back into a Church building: "Once a Catholic, always a Catholic." It…
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Should Chaste Gay Men Be Catholic Priests?
And Peter said, “See, we have left our homes and followed You.” And He said to them, “Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or wife or…
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The Duty of the Pro-Life Rescuer
The following was written from inside a Connecticut prison during January 2025 by Will Goodman (top left, currently a political prisoner in the United States…
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St. Ignatius’ Rules For Discernment (Dynamic Translation)
Although I have written and podcasted many times about St. Ignatius’ rules of discernment, I have never listed all of his rules without commentary. They are…
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Are Muslims Converting En Masse?
p/c NYT and Jose Sachin on X New Orleans was the target of Muslim terrorism New Year's Eve, just two nights ago, as seen in the news above. At least ten people…
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Biden and Thomas on the Natural Law
Recently, I watched an excellent documentary called Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words. That movie includes the 1991 Supreme Court Confirmation…
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Holy Mary as the Exemplar of the Catholic Church (Article)
We are rounding the end of 2024 this week. At the beginning of 2024, I wrote an article called Marian Devotion in a Church-Eclipse. In it, I gave readers the…
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Christmas Eve’s Roman Martyrology
The Roman Martyrology is a definitive history of various Catholic saints listing about twenty martyrs a day from the early Church. Each martyr receives about…
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Padre Pio and Vatican II
Padre Pio lived from 1887 to 1968. This modern saint appears to many serious Catholics as if he were the last non-martyr saint. Why? Because he seems to be the…
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More Christian Tools to Help with the Narcissist
p/c Jeffrey Bruno at Helpers' Prayer Vigil at Planned Parenthood in Manhattan. As most of you know by now, the narcissist is not so much epitomized in the…
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What Does a Future Pope Do With Vatican II?
Or, more specifically: What Does a Future Traditional Pope Do With Vatican II? First we must tackle these two questions: Was Vatican II inspired by the Holy…
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Was Russia Accurately Consecrated to Mary?
In this last quarter of 2024, we have bumped up against the threat of thermonuclear war several times. As everyone knows, every government contingency…
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Your Emotions Are Not “God Speaking.”
Update: The Catholic CEO mentioned below dropped the pro-abort from his audio line-up shortly after the production of this article. Divinations and omens and…
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Three Things to Learn From Sirach
One who trusts others too quickly is lightminded, and one who sins does wrong to himself. One who rejoices in wickedness will be condemned, and for one who…
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Thanksgiving and Purity
Many good Catholics today are striving for an increase in purity by both prayer and mortification. This is extremely commendable. But did you know the virtue…
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Prayer Request: Two Friends in Prison
Above from left to right: Will Goodman, myself (Fr. David Nix), Fr. Fidelis Moscinski in Washington DC several years ago after a trial for Red Rose Rescue. In…
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“The Spirit of Truth Will Teach You All Truth.”—Jn 16:12
I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. But when He, the Spirit of truth, is come, He will teach you all truth. For He shall not…
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A “Mayan Mass” and the Dialectic of Racism
The website The Communist defines Dialectical Materialism as the Marxist attempt "to understand the laws of society and nature in order to change them." For…
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Forgiveness vs. Reconciliation
Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.—Jesus crucified in St. Luke 23:34. And falling to his knees he cried out with a loud voice, “Lord, do not…
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Diversionary Scapegoating in the Catholic Church
The top-left is the late Jeffrey Epstein, a convicted sex-offender who was the nexus point for many elite celebrities before his death. The top-right is…
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Would Kamala’s Persecution Have Benefited Christians?
Yesterday, on the 6th of November 2024 at 2:24 EST, Mr. Donald Trump was officially predicted to be the President of the United States for the third time…
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On The Indefectibility of the Catholic Church in this Crisis
Perhaps the only reason that a true Catholic with a good will and a functioning intellect would fear coming to the same conclusion on the papacy as Archbishop…
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Catholic Numbers Tank Globally
Before Vatican II, numbers of Catholics across the globe were exploding. Consider just a few stats regarding American Catholics as listed in the Index of…
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The Co-opting of Two Female Saints in “Dilexit.”
Jansenism was a heresy found over the past 400 years that put the emphasis on God's justice instead of God's mercy. Jansenism is a bit like a mix between…
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St. Teresa of Ávila on Edifying Speech
St. Teresa of Ávila (top left) had much to say on holy speech, but it was summarized by an anonymous Jesuit (a loyal son of St. Ignatius of Loyola, top right)…
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Dogma Evolves As Well As a Species
p/c Nordic Biosite Dr. David Hillel Gelernter Ph. D is a Jewish man who is professor of computer science at Yale University. At one point, he believed in…
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Heresies Always Start Small
The Council of Nicea teaches that God the Son exists as one substance (homoousian) with God the Father, even though they are different persons of the Blessed…
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Stop Compromising on These Two Commandments!
Featured image above shows two stained glass windows in the "Mary Keane Chapel" at the "La Salette Shrine" in Enfield, New Hampshire. There is a little-known…
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The Synod Producing the “Saviors of the Church”
Because the tendency of leftists normally tends towards the insecurity and manipulation found in narcissism, it is no wonder that there is an enormous overlap…
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Bedtime Prayer of St. John Damascene
St. John Damascene (aka St. John of Damascus) was a priest and monk who lived from about AD 675 to 750. He was born in Damascus (still the Capitol and largest…
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An “Expanded Ministry” to the Papacy is Impossible
p/c CNS, Paul Haring Why can there be only one Pope at a time? Because Christ set up 12 Apostles but only one Pope. St. Peter is "mentioned 191 times (162 as…
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Saints Perpetua and Felicity: The Full Written Account
The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity, translated by W.H. Shewring, London, 1931. The Passion of the Saints Vibia Perpetua, was executed in the arena in…