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November 2021

November 17, 2021

Traditionis Custodes: Sky is Here After Four Months!

Reports of the Death of the TLM Have Been (Like Mark Twain's Death Before He...

September 2021

September 14, 2021

Traditionis Custodes: Sky Still Intact After Two Months

Eight days ago I wrote Traditionis Custodes Results: No Fallen Sky (I Called It). The...

September 06, 2021

Traditionis Custodes Results: No Fallen Sky (I Called It)

I hate to say "I told you so!" but yes, this article is essentially that,...

August 2021

August 02, 2021

Dialogue w Traditionalist “Hurt” by Traditionis Custodes

This exchange occurred in the combox underneath my post, Traditionalist Fr. Chad Ripperger Critiques Traditionalism...

August 02, 2021

Traditionis Custodes: Sky Hasn’t Fallen (Bishops)

Contrary to the widespread hysteria and panic and hand-wringing in radical Catholic reactionary and legitimate...

July 2021

July 21, 2021

Traditionalist Fr. Chad Ripperger Critiques Traditionalism

I've now written three articles related to Pope Francis' document, Traditionis custodes: Pope Francis’ Traditionis Custodes is...

July 20, 2021

Catholics (?) Trash, Judge, & Mind-Read the Pope

In 1968, "all" the liberal Catholics rejected Humanae Vitae. Now in 2021, "all" the self-described...

July 19, 2021

Skojec Loathes Traditionis; Illustrates Why it is Necessary

[see book and purchase information] I just wrote about the new papal document: Pope Francis’ Traditionis...

July 16, 2021

Pope Francis’ Traditionis Custodes is for the Sake of Unity

Pope Francis issued on 16 July 2021 the Apostolic Letter Issued "Motu proprio" entitled Traditionis...

March 2021

March 28, 2021

The Papacy & Infallibility: “Keys of the Kingdom”

Chapter Ten of My Bestselling (and Probably Most Well-Known) Book, A Biblical Defense of Catholicism...

December 2020

December 28, 2020

Pope Francis’ Proper Use of the Term “Fundamentalism”

. . . and the Similar Sociologically Proper Use of Pope Benedict XVI and Pope...

September 2020

September 17, 2020

Pseudo-Pope Skojo III Rebukes Real Pope Benedict XVI

What would we do without this singularly wise and holy man and his all-wise outfit,...

September 09, 2020

Ratzinger “Banal” Quote: Traditionalist & Reactionary Misuse

Fr. Angelo Geiger of Mary Victrix fame (I love his stuff) -- who celebrates the Tridentine Mass...

August 2020

August 21, 2020

Viganò’s Outrageous Lie Re Pope Benedict XVI & Tradition

Unwillingness to Make Even Rudimentary Efforts to Consult Context or to Understand a Pope's Overall...

May 2020

May 03, 2020

Cdl Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI): Vatican II Authority = Trent

From: The Ratzinger Report, San Francisco: Ignatius, 1985, 28-29, 31. It must be stated that...

March 2020

March 20, 2020

Verrecchio Trashes Pope Benedict as Wicked Lying Hypocrite

How utterly numb most of us have become to the sheer lunacy of the present...

January 2020

January 03, 2020

Bill Donohue Claims I’m on the “Left” & Dislike Pope Benedict (!!!)

Catholic League President Bill Donohue included my name with regard to some very strange claims,...

November 2019

November 27, 2019

Pope Benedict’s Enthusiastic Approval of Pope Francis

This is from Last Testament: In His Own Words (with Peter Seewald, Bloomsbury Continuum, 1st edition:...

May 2019

May 28, 2019

Dr. Echeverria: Francis Wants Development, Not Revolution

Dr. Eduardo J. Echeverria is Professor of Philosophy and Systematic Theology in the Graduate School...

April 2019

April 17, 2019

Superstition About the “Preserved” High Altar at Notre Dame

. . . And Continued Cynical, Highly Selective, "Pick and Choose" Acceptance of the Teaching...

September 2018

September 04, 2018

On the Abp. Vigano-Pope Francis Crisis, Ten Days In

Just to clarify and make it abundantly clear, for the record (and I've been saying...

August 2018

August 31, 2018

Vigano / Pope “Investigation”: Opinions Round-Up #2

[see Round-Up #1 for 15 "pro-Francis" and 15 "pro-Vigano" articles (August 25-29, 2018) ] *****...

August 31, 2018

Impressions: State of the Vigano / Francis Controversy

I still have to do much more reading on both "sides," but my bare impression at...

August 29, 2018

Vigano / Pope “Investigation”: Opinions Round-Up

Most Catholics seem to agree (and we need all the agreement we can get!) that...

August 27, 2018

Abp. Vigano / Pope Francis Crisis: Three Current Reactions

1. "The pope is more plausibly and likely guilty than innocent, and I strongly believe he...

June 2018

June 07, 2018

Apologetics & Lay Apostolates: Strong Approval from Popes

***** All blue-colored emphases are added. * * * * * Anti-Catholic Protestant Sophist-blogger Steve Hays wrote on ...

March 2018

March 18, 2018

Negative Reactionary Views of Popes Since 1958

1. Pope St. John XXIII (1958-1963): despised, because he began Vatican II, which they despise...

March 17, 2018

Reactionaries Begin Savage Attacks on Pope Benedict

Folks, I called all this years ago. My first book on the radical Catholic reactionaries,...

March 05, 2018

Sinning Christians: Catholic vs. Protestant Approaches

Reply to a longtime Protestant friend who has made some comments about goings-on in the...

January 2018

January 13, 2018

Did Cardinal Burke Criticize Pope Benedict’s Resignation?

It seemed clear enough to me that he did, but in today's "hyper-charged" atmosphere regarding...

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