Faith

Article Image

Leo XIV classmate: Had SSPX ordained 30-50 bishops, Rome would dialogue

If the SSPX had consecrated 30 to 50 bishops, Rome would have been forced to negotiate. That is the assessment of Professor William Thomas, a Vatican theologian and classmate of Pope Leo XIV who argues that the Society’s recent consecrations, while historic, did not go far enough to compel the Vatican to take the traditionalist movement seriously. Thomas praises the traditional liturgy and warns that suppressing the Latin Mass will not resolve the underlying doctrinal disputes. The crisis is not liturgical; it is doctrinal. And the Vatican’s response to the SSPX reveals a hierarchy more interested in punishment than dialogue. […]
Episodes
John-Henry Westen
 • 
Article Image

Why did the Church change overnight? Father Nix

Vatican II cannot be your reason for overhauling everything Catholics once believed. Father David Nix, who converted from liberal to conservative to traditional Catholicism, has seen the whole spectrum. He argues that the Council has become the excuse for every doctrinal innovation, and the evidence is overwhelming. When liberal Catholics disagree with tradition, their answer is always “Vatican II.” Not St. Thomas Aquinas. Not Pope Gregory the Great. Not St. Vincent of Lerins. A document from the 1960s. Nix asks: If the Council did not create a new religion, why does every departure from tradition rely on it? The fruits […]
Episodes
LifeSite
 • 
Article Image

Pope Leo’s advisers: Is the Vatican replacing doctrine with political religion? | Frank Wright

Pope Leo XIV appointed advisers to the Vatican’s religious life dicastery who have supported women’s ordination and LGBT advocacy. Frank Wright argues these appointments are not isolated controversies; they reflect a broader effort to substitute contemporary liberal political ideology for Catholic doctrine. Drawing on philosopher Michael Polanyi’s concept of “moral inversion,” he explains that when Christianity and objective morality are removed from society, man’s religious impulses do not disappear, they become attached to political causes. LGBTQ ideology, open borders, and net zero environmentalism take on the characteristics of religious belief. Disagreement is treated not as political difference but as a […]
Episodes
Frank Wright
 •