The Traditional movement is full of individuals who have taken on what is called the “Recognize & Resist” understanding of the Church. Included on this list are people like “Bishop” Athanasius Schneider, “Archbishop” Carlo Vigano, “Cardinal” Raymond Burke, et al. I put quotes around their titles, because as I have demonstrated in this Column previously,…

The following is a list of [top shelf] pre-Vatican II theologians who teach baptism of desire and baptism of blood. This includes St. Alphonsus Ligouri, St. Robert Bellarmine, St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Ambrose and St. Augustine all Doctors of the Church. There are others, perhaps many others. I have just listed these theologians based on…

In understanding the Church’s mind regarding Baptism of Blood and Baptism of Desire the following principles are required: You must believe the teachings of BOTH the: “Further, by divine and Catholic faith, all those things must bebelieved which are contained in the written word of God, andin tradition, and those which are proposed by the…

We continue the discussion of Baptism of Desire and Baptism of Blood, by additional quotes from the Fathers and Doctors of the Church. St. Augustine, one of the greatest Doctors of the Church: “Those who die for the confession of Christ without having received thelaver of regeneration (baptism), are released thereby from their sins justas…

In addition to understanding BOB and BOD from the mind of the Church and the Popes, we must look to accepted theologians who present to us an ensemble of consistent teaching on the subject. The theologian Melchior Cano (1509-1560) indicates the ten sources or “locis theologicis” from which Catholic doctrine can be rendered in all…

In the course of most Traditional priests lives, sooner or later they will encounter those who distort the axiom “Outside the Church there is no Salvation.” They follow the teachings of the late Fr. Leonard Feeney and his followers, who embrace the Feeneyite position and reject common Catholic teaching concerning baptism of blood and baptism…

Today, let us meditate on a selection from “The Liturgical Year” by Dom Prosper Gueranger, OSB: Glorious day, indeed, is this of the Birth of the Savior! It had been looked forward to by the human race for four thousand years. The Church had prepared for it by the four weeks of her Advent, a…

Last time I attempted to describe the difference between the Medieval knowledge of the world, and what took place in Modernity, which represented what might be called the “turn to the subject.” Many religious and cultural commentators understand the crisis of the Modern world to be theological, and perhaps even cultural, whereas the real problem…

The Kantian Revolution has created gods out of men, as it places the creation of reality in the mind of each individual. This ultimately is the Revolution of Lucifer, who instilled godlike tendencies in humanity ever since he incited Adam and Eve to fall in that infamous garden. Now the serpent was more cunning than…