Independent, i.e.: More new bishops will be ordained in Ireland this year than new priests, amid a crisis in vocations, a well-known parish priest has warned. . . . It is understood that this will be the only ordination this … Continue reading
Category: Heresies and Errors
Belief in Aliens Contradicts the Faith
Ignitum Fidei, Adam Miller: There are discussions on numerous Facebook sites and blog pages about the possibility of aliens. Many Catholics and others who profess belief in Christ as God and man, Lord and Savior, believe in alien life on … Continue reading
Revelation From Medjugorje: Today, August 5, Is Our Lady’s Birthday
Yes, that’s right. The Church got the September 8 day wrong some fifteen hundred years ago and Jelena, Jacov, and Marjana had a new revelation from the “gospa” correcting it. The real birthday of Our Lady is August 5. Well … Continue reading
Italy: ‘Dreamin’ Liberal Bishop (and 3 Others) Playing Blackmail on Opening Public Mass
Bishop Derio Olivero of Pinerolo literally kept repeating “I have a dream.” Of what? A heretical anti-church! Church Militant, Jules Gomes: Catholics desperate to return to Mass are accusing bishops of blackmailing them into an extended lockdown even after the … Continue reading
Story of a Mormon Convert
Why I’m Catholic, Thomas Smith: Born a 6th generation Mormon (LDS), I was convinced I was part of the “only true Church on the face of the earth” (Doctrines & Covenants 1:30). As we believed that only Mormons had the … Continue reading
A Quick Rebuttal to Those Catholic Authors Who Question Saint Joseph’s Perpetual Virginity
I came across a website today called The Restless Pilgrim. There is a brief article from 2013 which was written to defend Our Lady’s Perpetual Virginity. The article “The ‘brothers’ of Jesus” is very good and worth reading. There is … Continue reading
Association of Priests Working to Build ‘Counterfeit Church’ as Prophesied by Anne Catherine Emmerich
1Peter5, Michael Hichborn: For the last several weeks, the Lepanto Institute has been investigating and reporting on a heretical priestly organization called the Association of United States Catholic Priests (AUSCP). This organization promotes women’s ordination to the diaconate (with eyes … Continue reading
Female Deacons on Rome’s Study List? Didn’t Pope John Paul Settle That for Good?
Pope John Paul II defined that “priestly ordination” can only be conferred on men (baptized of course). “Wherefore, in order that all doubt may be removed regarding a matter of great importance, a matter which pertains to the Church’s divine … Continue reading
Liberal German ‘Liturgists’ Object to Private Masses, Adoration of Sacrament and Processions
LifeSite News, Peter Kwasniewski : In an article entitled “Private Mass Does Not Fit with a Contemporary Understanding of Eucharist” (first published in German at katholisch.de), three tired old “liturgists” from Bonn, Erfurt, and Münster are thundering from their academic “cathedras” against … Continue reading
Confronting the Third Globalism
Catholics who support President Trump have had two main reasons for doing so. 1) He is the most pro-life president the U.S. has had since the Supreme Court legalized the murder of pre-born babies in 1973. 2) He has not … Continue reading
Learning Difficult Lessons in Catholic Europe
The juxtaposition of two news stories I read today provides much food for thought. The first piece was “Bishop Cancels Nicene Creed to Avoid Offending Non-Catholics” at Church Militant; the second, “Cardinal: Spain faces ‘true emergency for our future’” at … Continue reading
Megachurch Preacher Affirms Real Presence of Jesus in Eucharist
ChurchMilitant, Jules Gomes: A star evangelical preacher has shocked Protestants after preaching on the Real Presence of Jesus in Holy Communion and rejecting the exclusively symbolic interpretation of the Eucharist. “I didn’t know that for the first 1,500 years of church history everyone saw it [the … Continue reading
Some Modern Fallacies (Why Philosophy #XIX)
How many times have you read an article or watched the news and have been frustrated by what was an obviously incorrect argument, but you were at a loss as to what it was or how to reply? Well, wonder … Continue reading
Handy Guide to Common Fallacies
(Summarized by Br. Lawrence Mary M.I.C.M., Tert., from Logic by Fr. Bittle, Chapter XXI) Fallacies in Language Equivocation Simple Equivocation—words used in different meanings. Illicit Transition—change of supposition Example: The intellect is the eye of the soul; but the eye … Continue reading