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May God's love surround you always and fill your heart with endless joy.



The finish line…. for now
April 19, 2026 As I had written a few weeks ago, we are going to finish up our look at the heresy of Modernism and by that we will be coming to an end of this series on heresies that has lasted the last couple of years. To refresh everyone’s memory, I mentioned that we were going to look at two specific things to see how far the modernist errors have gone in the Church and in the lives of Catholics. By comparing two distinct instances that look unrelated on the surface, we ca

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Apr 193 min read


Laetare Sunday
March 15, 2026 It has been a couple of weeks now since we left off in our little - highly abbreviated - journey through what can be called one of the three worst heresies: Arianism, Protestantism and Modernism. If you recall, we found ourselves looking at an actual headline form the New York Times announcing that Pope Paul the VI had “cancelled the antimodernist oath”. Notice how it was carefully framed using the negative “anti”. It could have easily been titled “Pope cancels

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Mar 143 min read


It is Eden all over again
Heresy preys upon the human weakness to pride and disordered curiosity.

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Feb 203 min read


The poison fruit
Another element of modernism that we find often is a relativism in regard to the Faith.

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Feb 143 min read


Beautiful looking apples sometimes have worms
The heresy of Modernism can find its first fruitful seeds going back to the French Revolution which began in 1789.

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Jan 313 min read


Modernism - the roots of the rotten tree
The heresy of modernism is difficult to define in simple terms; however, we will try our best.

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Jan 232 min read


A rougher drive than Michigan’s wonderful roads…
As we may remember, heresy is generally divided into a few categories.

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Jan 183 min read
Jansenism continued
February 23, 2025 This week we are going to try to close out our little journey through Jansenism. We know that it pretty much condemned...

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Feb 21, 20253 min read
Consequences of the persecution of the Catholics by the government of England
February 2, 2025 Consequences of the persecution of the Catholics by the government of England and the founding of our country or The...

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Feb 2, 20254 min read
Fallout from the apostasy of King Henry VIII
November 3, 2024 Last time we went over some of the early effects of the apostasy of Henry VIII and this week we will continue down that...

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Nov 5, 20244 min read
The break from the Catholic Church and the formation of the Anglican church
October 18, 2024 Continuing with the break from the Catholic Church and the formation of the Anglican church by Henry VIII, we now look...

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Oct 17, 20243 min read
The seed of division bears its first fruits
September 15, 2024 Martin Luther is often called the “great heresiarch” due to the unprecedented and extremely damaging heresy he began....

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Sep 15, 20243 min read
Martin Luther and the effects of breaking form the Catholic Church
September 8, 2024 Last time we delved into the biggest heresy since Arianism when we looked at the heresy of Martin Luther, commonly call...

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Sep 8, 20243 min read
Protestantism
Moving on through the heresies, the next major one, Protestantism, is in the Middle Ages.

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May 26, 20243 min read
Cathar or Albigensian Heresy
The Cathar heresy, commonly called Catharism or sometimes called the Albigensian heresy.

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May 12, 20243 min read
Iconoclasm follow up
May 5, 2024 Follow up In regard to the recent series on iconoclasm and in particular the iconoclasm in the Catholic Church in the 1960s...

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May 5, 20244 min read
Iconoclasm IV
April 28, 2024 In this last installment of the Iconoclasm heresy series, we will be looking at the last time it reared its head in the...

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Apr 26, 20243 min read
Iconoclasm III
April 21, 2024 This is the bad penny of heresies – it just keeps turning up. When we last saw it was in the 8th century and predominantly...

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Apr 19, 20243 min read
Iconoclasm Part II
We left off last week discussing the beginning of the Iconoclasm heresy and some of the immediate consequences.

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Mar 9, 20243 min read
Iconoclasm
March 3, 2024 This week we are going to skip ahead a few centuries and find ourselves in the 7th century looking at a peculiar heresy...

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Mar 3, 20243 min read
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