pope francis is right that the Church cannot go backwards, and that going backwards is not the work of the Spirit, Who always moves the Church forward

but in order for the Church to move forward, She must transcend the zeitgeist of the current secular age, which he doesn’t want to do

to do that, She must look back, and in looking back, properly discern what is truly perennial among Her accumulated treasures so that She can restore and preserve them in order to move forward in fidelity to Christ and to what the right hand of the Lord has planted in His vineyard throughout the ages

the progressive stages of the spiritual life (purgative, illuminative, and unitive) are each reflected in the stages of the Mass itself, whereby sin is forgiven and purged through the penitential rites, knowledge and love of Christ is increased through our meditative participation in the Liturgy of the Word, and a direct non-discursive union with the Lord Himself is achieved through our participation in the Eucharistic Sacrifice and Holy Communion

the finer points of intra-catholic disputes regarding sexuality and marital chastity are best dealt with in seminaries and confessionals, not social media

besides the fact that he’s theologically incorrect about Vatican II, Taylor Marshall’s credibility as a pre-Vatican II traditionalist is undermined by the fact that he conspicuously refuses to touch one of few issues that most decidedly marks the starkest contrast between the Church hierarchy of the past vs the current Church hierarchy, namely, the Church’s relationship to Judaism

Father Garrigou Lagrange (pre V2) answered our question on the 21 coptic martyrs

unabashed Christianity and forthrightness about judaism are the two key components that made ye24 uniquely promising

to the extent these things are missing from ye24, it’s not meeting the needs of the moment, and AF remains the only political game in town

what was most exciting about ye24 was the possibility of effective resistance to the current political order coming from outside of the established political framework, which is most likely the only way things will change for the better

but this can only happen by cooperating with Divine grace and cleaving to the commandments of Christ and thereby abiding in His power and love, which ye24 has tragically shunned

“To the pious Thou showeth Thyself pious, and towards the upright Thou art upright. With the sincere Thou dealest sincerely, and with the perverse Thou makest Thyself seem torturous. Thus Thou, [O Lord], helpest the lowly, and the haughty eyes Thou bringeth low.”, Psalm 18

the sad part about the YZY rave was that ye probably wasn’t even intending to be blasphemous for the sake of blasphemy, but chose to ignore the demands of the Gospel by dabbling in blasphemy for the sake of his own artistic self-expression, which cuts to the heart of luciferian pride

he needs our prayers more than anything

the Eucharist more than anything signifies the Divine ability to be transcendent of yet also immanently present in His Creation

the same God Who is so above the heavens as to be unnameable in His essence also sees fit to make a dwelling place for Himself on our very tongues without any loss to His dignity or majesty

only God can properly and authentically name Himself

one of the clearest scriptural endorsements of Catholic Integralism out of the whole Bible:

“Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD” (Psalm 33:12)

not only has the Lord not left us as orphans in his ascension into heaven, but now that He abides in heavenly glory, He can make Himself present far more intimately within us than He was to the Apostles during His public ministry

precisely in His transcendence can He abide in us with greater immanence

the reason why it’s easier to flip on ye24 than it is to flip on supporting trump is because trump is already the default front runner and has already earned a certain degree of our loyalty for spearheading the opposition to the current regime

so in order to buy into an alternative to trump, that alternative needs to rigorously meet certain criteria to justify that kind of a drastic change in allegiance, such as a) the power and influence necessary to launch a successful alternative resistance to the current regime and b) an exceptional level of commitment to the two issues that trump is weak on (namely, unabashed Christianity and principled opposition to Jewish power)

ye will always meet the first of these criteria, but if he can’t even maintain his commitment to Christianity (eg, the shameful and blasphemous YZY rave) and opposition to Jewish power after only a few months then he simply doesn’t have what it takes to be that alternative and likely never will

consent-based morality is a contradiction in terms

authentic morality merely consists of the universal obligation to cultivate virtue and avoid vice and to educate one’s conscience accordingly

of and by itself, “consent” adds nothing to moral calculation

one of the most corrosive influences on public discourse is the idea that matters of religion are categorically unable to be adjudicated by reason

it’s true that we’ve collectively lost the ability to maneuver through metaphysical disputes, but that doesn’t mean it’s impossible to do so

the foundations of liberalism can only be undermined if this idea is rejected

I think it’s a sign of providential care that sneako’s main stated concerns with Christianity have to do with the Incarnation and the Eucharist

these two doctrines cut to the core of what makes our faith distinctive and beautiful, so if he can have more of these discussions with a focus on these mysteries I think he would see how beautiful they really are and the only factors preventing his conversion would be essentially matters of lifestyle

geocentrism > flat earth

extremely brief argument for Christianity:

if God is infinite, and if God loves His Creation, then He loves His Creation with an infinite love, and would want to bring about the closest possible union between Himself and His Creation.

Now humanity is unique in that it sums up the whole of Creation by sharing being with both realms of spirit and matter. Therefore, given the infinite Love of God, it stands to reason that God would want to unite Himself with our nature in particular so as to bring about this union, and in so doing, enable us as sharers of that nature to partake of this perfect union of Divinity and Creation. He accomplishes this in the Person of Jesus Christ and our Eucharistic participation in His Mystical Body, the Church.

the more one reads the psalms the clearer it becomes that loving God and loving His commandments are inseparable acts

in order to fully love God, it is not enough to externally abide by His commandments, but we must from within the depths of our own interior life truly and authentically love virtue and detest sin as God loves virtue and detests sin