Wake Up!—We Are in the Last Minute of Extra Time: The Descent into Devilry
Prayer draws down the Holy Spirit into our souls to form the Church, the true gathering which no spirit can scatter.
The Church Hierarchical, the Church Critical, and the Church Mystical
The sign of good Catholics would be, first and foremost, how they tried to love God with their whole minds and hearts, with their whole bodies and souls, and with their whole strength.
A Blueprint for the Thomism of the Future
Without an interior life of love, prayer, sacrifice, and repentance, even sound doctrine can’t stop the moral collapse and spiritual bankruptcy in the Church.
The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth
While many priests and students of theology have been taught what to think about God, few are ever taught how to speak to him.
Christmas With St. Francis
The poverty and humility of Christ is best understood not simply by contemplating his life after the incarnation, but by understanding what He gave up to suffer and die for us.
Traditional Catholic Spirituality: The Remnant and the Poor of Yahweh
Jesus begins the Sermon on the Mount: “Blessed are the poor in spirit…” Catholics seeking true RETVRN should start here.
Toward Traditional Catholic Spirituality
Oceans of ink are regularly spilled on the liturgy wars and apparitions, but the contemplative prayer central to traditional spirituality is overlooked.
The Spiritual Road Map to a New Golden Age—Revealed by Our Lady
While many in the Church don’t know what to think about the Garabandal seers, there is no doubt that heaven has sent a steady stream of warnings through our Lady.
Born Catholics, Converts, and Contemplation
Now that Catholicism is seen as a philosophy of life rather than a call to ongoing spiritual transformation, a simple intellectual reorientation seems to suffice as initiation for new members.
Liturgy, Redemption, and Contemplation
All too many modern Catholics seem to think that the only hope for renewal in the modern Church is to find it in the liturgy alone, and they seem to be blind to the importance of deep personal prayer.
Time to Return to the Prayer of Our Fathers
Just as the Catholic Faith has been reduced to little more than an intellectual philosophy of life for the clergy—all head and no heart—the same happened to the laity, who depend on them for their spirituality.
Conceived in Heaven, Born in Bethlehem, a Jubilee Year Awaits
If God’s Son was truly to be made a genuine human being, made of flesh and blood, then of course He must have a genuine human mother of flesh and blood too.
Christ, King of Families
The only way to evangelize the modern pagan world today will be through the family.
From Doomsday 1959 to Dire Straits 2024
Pope John XXIII’s decision to ignore the message of the third Fatima secret and instead call an ecumenical council has had dire consequences.
Synodality: Institutionalized Self-Interest and Selfishness
A new form of religion has come into being— masquerading as Catholicism—in which selfishness has been institutionalized. This new religion has called itself Synodality.
Deconstructing Discernment
Today’s prevelant spirituality—and the discernment process that is at its heart—has an uncanny way of canonizing the prevailing ideas and opinions of those who take part in it
The Post-Vatican II Pseudo-Spiritual Movement
With the demise of the traditional, God-centered spirituality that once thrived in the Church, new secular missionaries rushed in to introduce their man-centered sociopsychological therapies of one form or another.
Getting Our Spiritual Foundations Right
Moral Spirituality replaced Mystical Spirituality in the Church, which led to disastrous consequences we still live with today.
A Council Without a Soul
The dramatic destruction of authentic Mystical Theology was short-lived, but an anti-mystic legacy lived on in subsequent centuries down to the Second Vatican Council, affecting all who took part in it.
Vatican II: For Better or For Worse
When Pope John XXIII should have been calling Catholics to repentance, prayer, and sacrifice, he decided to call a Council to do the impossible.