That’s not to say every work of art must be religious or even outwardly pleasant or beautiful, but if it does not serve to communicate what is good, true, or beautiful either within oneself or in other things or in God, then it’s nothing but a window into the ugliness of a lost soul

it is impossible to understand the true nature of the Church without Mary and it is impossible to fully understand the role of Mary without understanding the nature of the Church

both complement each other in teaching us what true receptivity to Divine Love looks like

Why Rejecting the Filioque Undermines the Love of the Father

https://youtu.be/jxnJQctxL9E?si=lyCMrI6Kdnwo3_3V

The reason why the Church is so strict about avoiding graphic, sexually explicit media isn’t because She has some weird arbitrary fixation about sex as opposed to violence, gore, etc.

It doesn’t even necessarily have anything to do with aesthetics at all. It has to do with how exposure to graphic, sexually explicit material in particular impacts the human person in a very unique way.

Sexual content is the only category of media that activates its corresponding appetite upon exposure to it (maybe food is an exception but that’s not even remotely on the same level in terms of gravity) This isn’t the case for violence or gore. When most people watch a horror movie, they don’t necessarily feel any violent impulses stirring up from within them. It doesn’t arouse any bloodlust, except for maybe some psychologically unhinged individuals. In most cases, people can watch violent content while still remaining fully detached from any desire to commit acts of violence.

This is simply not the case for sexual content, and for that reason, it must be treated with an exceptional degree of caution, especially for people who are unmarried (even for the married, though, at the very least any and all visual depictions of sexual content would become near occasions of adulterous sins)

If you are unmarried, you have absolutely no right to knowingly and willingly allow for that appetite to be activated or aroused, because it’s impossible for the activation of that appetite to be fulfilled by its proper object, namely, spousal love. Outside of this context, therefore, it is always a near occasion of grave sin.

Even if the sexually explicit media in the abstract contains aesthetic value, that doesn’t change what it’s doing to the person who engages with it. It still remains a near occasion of sin and it is primarily for that reason that the Church prohibits this kind of exposure.

Please pray for the repose of this man’s soul and donate if you can: https://p2p.onecause.com/diy-tributes-memorials/memorial/in-loving-memory-of-alexander-drummond

“Arise, O Lord, to take up Thy abode, Thou and Thy holy ark!” (Psalm 131)

“[The Divine Office] is the handmaid of the queen, the Mass, serving the core of Christian worship; its Hours are like the surrounding stars and planets reflecting the glory, light, and warmth of the sacrificial Sun.” - Fr. John. H. Miller, Fundamentals of the Liturgy

New Video: Why You Cannot Love God Without Loving His Commandments

https://youtu.be/V20lAyRUquk?si=UK70HV6h_l2Lkpsl

This is Kanye’s 10 year old daughter writing that she is grateful for “Carnival,” a song about blowjobs, anal sex, and orgies.

Nobody in the replies seems to have a problem with this…

Seriously?

https://x.com/rihye_/status/1757904912787124528

I don’t think Nick gets enough credit for coming out and saying these things about Kanye’s latest fall from grace. Imagine if someone super famous and successful that you’ve looked up to for a long time actually sought out your talents and took you under his wing but then fell into patterns of behavior you simply couldn’t support anymore. It would be very difficult to publicly come out against what that person is doing, especially after having developed a close relationship.

Pray for Kanye, especially during this season of Lent. God can make Saints out of the worst of sinners.

“As I live, says the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live” (Ezekiel 33:11)

On Wednesday at 8:30 PM EST (Feb 21st) I’ll be doing a stream on either YouTube or cozy where I’m going to give a thorough, honest, and fair analysis of the Novus Ordo Missæ and will be going into the history of the development of the Roman Rite as well

Make sure to tune in!

In loving memory of our dear friend, AT Drummond.
https://p2p.onecause.com/diy-tributes-memorials/inmemoryat

New Video: Why You Cannot Love God Without Loving His Commandments

https://youtu.be/V20lAyRUquk?si=UK70HV6h_l2Lkpsl

There isn’t necessarily anything political about Susan Wojcicki’s son dying. People die. I feel bad for her even though she banned my channel.

Tonight at 8:30 PM EST I’ll be going live on YouTube starting a series of streams where I plan on giving a thorough, fair and balanced analysis of the Novus Ordo Missæ

Follow the channel here:

https://www.YouTube.com/classicaltheist

because Christian art is meant to be a one of the monuments of Sacred Tradition guided by the Holy Spirit, I’m very wary of making sacred art using AI

regardless of its merits, AI remains categorically unable to create sacred art under the influence of divine grace and therefore cannot possibly cooperate with the dynamic impulses of the Holy Spirit, which will always open itself up to the danger of profaning the sacred

A Fair and Balanced Analysis of the Novus Ordo, Part I

https://www.youtube.com/live/52Tt3OsTNT4?si=K9RMNcHAKYE5OO0m

A Fair and Balanced Analysis of the Novus Ordo, Part I

https://www.youtube.com/live/52Tt3OsTNT4?si=K9RMNcHAKYE5OO0m

Patron Request: Refuting More Protestant Nonsense

https://youtube.com/live/t2iPFqip_fU?feature=share

if pope francis is dead right on one thing in his off the cuff remarks (regardless of whether or not he practices this advice himself), it’s that the more detached Catholicism is from ideology, the purer it is