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January 2026

January 30, 2026

Foreword: “Ignorance of Things Divine” (Andrew Mioni)

Published by En Route Books and Media, January 2026. This is my Foreword, written...

April 2025

April 25, 2025

Robert Fastiggi: Pope Francis “Often Misunderstood”

I drew this from an article in The Catholic World Report, of which it...

November 2023

November 28, 2023

The Quasi-Schismatic Mentality

Chapter 16 (pp. 141-145) of my book, Reflections on Radical Catholic Reactionaries (December 2002; revised...

November 27, 2023

Was Pope St. John Paul II a “Modernist”?

Chapter 15 (pp. 129-140) of my book, Reflections on Radical Catholic Reactionaries (December 2002; revised...

November 25, 2023

Post-Vatican II “Liberal” Popes

Chapter 13 (pp. 113-121) of my book, Reflections on Radical Catholic Reactionaries (December 2002; revised...

November 21, 2023

“Pre-Conciliar” Church: the “Good Old Days”

Chapter 8 (pp. 63-64) of my book, Reflections on Radical Catholic Reactionaries (December 2002; revised...

November 19, 2023

Fundamentalists & Insufficiently Converted Catholics

Chapter 7 (pp. 59-61) of my book, Reflections on Radical Catholic Reactionaries (December 2002; revised...

November 19, 2023

Private Judgment & “Cafeteria Catholics”

Chapter 6 (pp. 51-58) of my book, Reflections on Radical Catholic Reactionaries (December 2002; revised...

November 17, 2023

So-Called “Neo-Catholics”

Chapter 4 (pp. 37-43) of my book, Reflections on Radical Catholic Reactionaries (December 2002; revised...

November 15, 2023

Faith and Optimism vs. Pessimism

Chapter 2 (pp. 19-30) of my book, Reflections on Radical Catholic Reactionaries (December 2002; revised...

November 14, 2023

Tragic Bp. Strickland & Reaction from the Usual Suspects

On November 11, Bishop Joseph Strickland of the Diocese of Tyler, Texas was relieved of...

July 2023

July 28, 2023

Timothy J. Williams: Vatican II Opponent & Pope-Basher

Including Documentation of His Stated Views & Mindless Smears Sent My Way in a Catholic...

October 2022

October 13, 2022

Defense of Vatican II vs. Oliveira Leonardo’s Attacks

[see book and purchase information] *** I know Brazilian Catholic writer Oliveira Leonardo a bit...

August 2022

August 08, 2022

“Eucharistic Pharisees” (Communion in the Hand)

Original Facebook title: "Do People Choose Communion in the Hand Because They Think They Are...

November 2021

November 10, 2021

Erasmus’ Criticism of Popes = Today’s Pope-Bashing?

The influential and important, self-described "traditionalist" website One Peter Five has taken lately to describing...

September 2021

September 28, 2021

Radical Catholic Reactionaries: What They Are NOT

I coined the term radical Catholic reactionary on 3 August 2013. If anyone else claims...

September 27, 2021

Pope Francis DID Answer the Dubia (Dr. Robert Fastiggi)

It Was Also Answered (with the Same Answers) by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI in 2019...

September 09, 2021

Reactionary Civil War Heating Up Over Taylor Marshall?

Joseph Shaw, chairman of The Latin Mass Society of England and Wales, himself a radical...

September 08, 2021

Mind-Reading Priest: I’m a Polemicist, Not an Apologist

Fr. Hugh Somerville Knapman, OSB has taken umbrage at my citing of a few of...

August 2021

August 26, 2021

My Supposed “Papolatry”: Outrageous Reactionary Lies

A "Doctoral student in theology" who goes by @johnamonaco tweeted: Of course, normal Catholic sensibility...

August 13, 2021

Overly Strict Parenting: Catholic Traditionalist Self-Critique

I cross-posted the following two tweets on my Facebook page on 8-3-21: A hard pill...

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...

May 2021

May 28, 2021

Steve Skojec: “Traditionalism” = “Sewer”, “Toxic”, “Tribalism”

. . . And Sinners in Her Fold Are Still Never a Reason to Forsake...

March 2021

March 05, 2021

Phil Lawler: No Proof Pope Francis is a Heretic

Phil Lawler is the author of Lost Shepherd: How Pope Francis is Misleading His Flock (2018)....

March 04, 2021

Title: “Radical Catholic Reactionaries”: Exchange w Karl Keating

[see book and purchase information] *** This back-and-forth occurred on my [always public] Facebook page...

March 04, 2021

Marshall, Keating, & Lawler: Exchanges Re Pope Francis

Setting the Record Straight: My Supposedly "Personal" & Unsavory Exchanges with Karl Keating, Phil &...

February 2021

February 01, 2021

Dr. Fastiggi on Amoris Laetitia, Pope Francis, & Aquinas

This came about when radical Catholic reactionary Steven O'Reilly (who thinks the pope is a heretic) made...

January 2021

January 30, 2021

Reply to Self-Described “Traditionalist” Steven O’Reilly

Steven O'Reilly is a radical Catholic reactionary. He wrote "A Response to Dave Armstrong" on 1-28-21....

January 11, 2021

Steve Skojec’s De Facto Schism is Complete: By His Own Report

All of the following verbal diarrhea took place on his Twitter page, on 1-11-21: *****...

December 2020

December 09, 2020

Kwasniewski vs. Pope Francis Re “Fundamentalism”

Pope St. John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI Fully Concur with Pope Francis Dr....

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