Welcome to Catholic Conversations.We are going to try a couple live commentary shows.Today I want to look at the Gospel of Luke and see how it leads us to understand a Catholic understanding of povertyThen I'm sure you heard of the Blasphemy against Our Lady of Sorrows by 'Madonna'. Were going to talk about this and how to make acts of reparation. Finally We are going to discuss lessons from the life of St. Raymond of Penefort. What can his life teach us?Adrian Social MediaIG: @ffonzeTwitter: @AdrianFonzeFacebook: Adrian FonsecaYouTube: Adrian Fonseca YouTube: Catholic Conversations

Marching into a Post-Roe America - Madonna and Our Lady of Sorrows - Lessons from St. Raymond OP

Interview first aired on Catholic Drive Time a product of the Guadalupe Radio Network aired across the GRN and Station of the Cross Radio.The Once and Future Roman Rite: Returning to the Traditional Latin Liturgy after Seventy Years of Exile. Author: Peter Kwasniewski, PhDIn his latest book, Dr. Peter Kwasniewski argues that, ever since the new liturgical books following the Second Vatican Council came into force, Roman Catholic faithful have suffered the effects of a hasty and far-reaching reform permeated with nominalism, voluntarism, Protestantism, rationalism, antiquarianism, hyperpapalism, and other modern errors. Man is not master over divine liturgy, Dr. Kwasniewski emphasizes; rather, all of us are called to be stewards of the sacred, from the lowest-ranking layman to the pope himself. Dr. Kwasnieski shows that sacred Tradition is the guiding principle for all authentic Christian liturgy, which originates from Christ and is guided by the Holy Spirit throughout the life of the Church. His principal thesis in this work is that the prominent identifying traits of the classical Roman Rite—and indeed of all traditional rites, Eastern and Western—are absent from the Novus Ordo, estranging it from their company and making it impossible to call it “the Roman Rite.” To respond to this crisis of rupture, Dr. Kwasniewski calls for a full return to the traditional rite, the Roman Rite in its robust, perennial richness, for which no special permission is or could ever be needed—as exposited by Pope Benedict XVI. Fidelity to the traditional Latin Liturgy is, at its root, fidelity to the Roman Church and to Christ Himself, Who has lovingly inspired the growth and perfection of our religious rites for two thousand years. This awe-inspiring gift of Tradition allows us to taste, even now, the banquet of the promised land of heaven.Adrian Social MediaIG: @ffonzeTwitter: @AdrianFonzeFacebook: Adrian FonsecaYouTube: Adrian Fonseca YouTube: Catholic Conversations

Understanding the Last 70 Years of Liturgy Wars with Dr. Peter Kwasniewski

On Classical Reformed Theology with Christian Wagner (Scholastic Answers) Outline of the showTwo brief notes on the topic1. Don't be jerks2. Be careful1. The Reformers     1. First Generation     2. Second Generation     3. Polemical Context         1. Formed an early iteration of scholasticism that was chiefly polemical (although, its full flowering doesn't come until the 1580's in replying to Bellarmine)     4. Pre-Tridentine2. Early Orthodoxy (1565-1620)     1. Needed to build structure     2. Thus          1. First, needed confessions               1. Protestant Magisterium               2. Second, needed didactic theology     3. These are the guys that Bellarmine and Suarez were responding to3. High Orthodoxy (1620-1700)     1. "during the period of early orthodoxy (ca. 1560– 1620), theology was developed and worked out primarily from the basis of the Reformed confessions. The period of high orthodoxy (ca. 1620–1700), however, saw comprehensive dogmatic works in which the results of exegesis, dogmatic formulations, polemical elements, and expositions of the practical implications of doctrine were combined into an imposing whole. The scholasticism of high orthodoxy was thus characterized by increasing precision in its theological apparatus. This allowed dogmatic materialto be worked out further and caused the number of polemical topics to increase. High orthodoxy was not a time for developing new systems but rather for building up what had been inherited from the theology of early orthodoxy"      2. Catholic Resourcement          1. Hermeneutic of Reformed Catholicity     3. Synod of Dort     4. Westminster Assembly     5. Puritans vs. Anglicans4. Late Orthodoxy (1700-1790)     1. Dissolution of Reformed Theology5. Resourcement movements     1. Mercersburg theology          1. Schaff's Development of Doctrine          2. Richard MullerCritique1. Puritans vs. Anglicans2. Catholic Resourcement3. Magisterial to ConfessionalAdrian Social MediaIG: @ffonzeTwitter: @AdrianFonzeFacebook: Adrian FonsecaYouTube: Adrian Fonseca YouTube: Catholic Conversations

Introduction to Classical Protestant Theology

The Church in her wisdom has chosen the feasts of St. Stephen, John and the Holy Innocents in the 3 days following the Nativity. Why is that? What's the connection. Find out here. St. Stephen – December 26In the fourth step, that hatred increased and the people who opposed St. Stephen began to gnash their teeth in fury. What was the object of that hatred? It was goodness, in and of itself. They hated the good because the good is good, and not for any other reason. A person who does not understand reality would say: "No, they didn’t like him because he made this or that small error when he was explaining his topic, or he lacked the skill to address a particular matter." Such a person has an erroneous interpretation of reality.https://www.traditioninaction.org/SOD/j107sdStephen12-26.htm St. John the Evangelist – December 27After martyrdom, the most noble and courageous sacrifice one can make to God is that of the virginity and chastity. This is why the liturgical calendar chose the first day after Christmas to celebrate of martyrdom of St. Stephen, model of the martyrs, and the second day, December 27, to celebrate the feast of St. John, model of virgins.https://www.traditioninaction.org/SOD/j160sd_StJohnEvangelist_12-27.html The Holy Innocents – December 28Is there reason to believe that those children were true martyrs? Where is the merit to obtain the crown of martyrdom? To this doubt, I answer: Would the goodness of Christ be defeated by the cruelty of Herod? Could that impious king order those innocents killed, and Christ not crown those who died because of Him?https://www.traditioninaction.org/SOD/j231sd_HolyInnocents_12-28.html Adrian Social MediaIG: @ffonzeTwitter: @AdrianFonzeFacebook: Adrian FonsecaYouTube: Adrian Fonseca YouTube: Catholic Conversations

3 Days After Christmas, Knowing What God Loves and What We Can Do

My quick take on the Fr. Frank Pavone Saga, go to Catholic Drive Time for the Full Show! Adrian Social MediaIG: @ffonzeTwitter: @AdrianFonzeFacebook: Adrian FonsecaYouTube: Adrian Fonseca YouTube: Catholic Conversations

Quick Take: Fr. Frank Pavone, Join the SSPX? Sin of Blasphemy? Canonical Problems

I talk about English Catholic Tradition with my friend Timothy Craig. A lot of our conversation is coming from Faith of Our Fathers: A History of True England by Joseph PearceFrom the back of the book:The Catholic Church has been a part of English history since the arrival of Christian missionaries to Roman Britain in the first century AD. England was evangelized in these early centuries to such an extent that, by the time the Romans withdrew in the fifth century, the Celtic population was largely Catholic.Anglo-Saxon England has rightly been considered a land of saints. From St. Bede's account of the history of the early Church to the reign of the holy king, St. Edward the Confessor, Saxon England was ablaze with the light of Christ.This Catholic heart was ripped from the people of England, against their will and in spite of their heroic resistance, by the reign of the tyrannical Tudors. This made England once again a land of saints, though it was now a land of martyrs, Catholic priests and laity being put to death for practicing the Faith. The martyrdoms continued for 150 years, followed by a further 150 years of legal and political persecution.In the nineteenth century, against all the odds, there was a great Catholic revival, heralded by the conversion of St. John Henry Newman, which would continue into the twentieth century. Much of the greatest literature of the past century has been written by literary converts, such as G. K. Chesterton, Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene and J. R. R. Tolkien.This whole exciting, faith-filled story is told within this single-volume history of "true England", the England which remained true to the Faith through thick and thin, in times both merry and perilous. It is a story which is not only worth telling but worth celebrating.https://ignatius.com/faith-of-our-fathers-ffhtep/ Contact Me:Email: FonsecaProduction@gmail.comWebsite: http://catholicconversations.buzzsprout.comIG: @ffonzeFacebook: Adrian Fonseca Facebook: Catholic Conversations Twitter: @AdrianFonzeYouTube: Catholic ConversationsYouTube: Adrian Fonseca

English Catholic Patrimony! How to Have a Cultural Catholicism?

Dr. Theodore Rebard, professor of philosophy at the University of St. Thomas in Houston is on to discuss gratefulness and Thanksgiving.Can we be grateful for America? Should Catholics celebrate Thanksgiving? What do we have to be grateful? Even suffering???Contact Me:Email: FonsecaProduction@gmail.comWebsite: http://catholicconversations.buzzsprout.comAdrian Social Media:IG: @ffonzeFacebook: Adrian Fonseca Facebook: Catholic Conversations Twitter: @AdrianFonzeYouTube: Catholic ConversationsYouTube: Adrian Fonseca

Virtue of Thanksgiving! Is it a Sin to be Ungrateful? How to be Grateful?

Short Answer? No."Follow-Up on the Thanksgiving Indult, by Sharon KabelGREGORY DIPIPPOOur thanks once again to Sharon Kabel for sharing her research with NLM, this time following up on her November article on the day-after-Thanksgiving indult for eating meat.In November of last year, I shared a provocative hypothesis: thanks to the discovery of new evidence, it was possible for the first time to confirm that the long-rumored American “Turkey Indult” directly from the Pope did in fact occur, although not quite the way we thought.Participants in the “Turkey Indult” conversation generally fall into three camps:● No, the Turkey Indult did not happen; it has been conflated with diocesan permissions for indults.● Yes, Pope Pius XII did issue a Turkey Indult in 1958 that remained applicable beyond 1958.● You’re still talking about this?My position was a fourth way: The papally-issued Turkey Indult happened in 1958 only, and was likely issued by Pope St. John XXIII, not Pius XII. And yes, we are still talking about it, thank you. (For brevity’s sake, I will refer to the event in question as the Turkey Indult throughout the article.)"https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2021/02/follow-up-on-thanksgiving-indult-by.html#.Y31VZprMKUk"On the Mythical Pius XII Thanksgiving Indult: Guest Article by Sharon KabelGREGORY DIPIPPOWe are grateful once again to Sharon Kabel for sharing her research with us, this time on the so-called Thanksgiving indult ascribed to Pope Pius XII.Every year around Thanksgiving, a flurry of social media posts make the rounds in traditional Catholic circles, concerning a mysterious “Turkey Indult” from the 1950s. They all follow the same essential pattern: an assertion that it is widely known that Pius XII granted an indult to Catholics in the United States to dispense them from the obligation to abstain from meat on the Friday after Thanksgiving."https://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2020/11/on-mythical-pius-xii-thanksgiving.html#.Y31VZprMKUk Contact Me:Email: FonsecaProduction@gmail.comWebsite: http://catholicconversations.buzzsprout.comIG: @ffonzeFacebook: Adrian Fonseca Facebook: Catholic Conversations Twitter: @AdrianFonzeYouTube: Catholic ConversationsYouTube: Adrian Fonseca

Is the Pius XII Turkey Indult Real?

 A Plea for Intolerance Venerable Fulton J. Sheen "America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance. It is not. It is suffering from tolerance: tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error, virtue and evil, Christ and chaos. Our country is not nearly so much overrun with the bigoted as it is overrun with the broadminded. The man who can make up his mind in an orderly way, as a man might make up his bed, is called a bigot; but a man who cannot make up his mind, any more than he can make up for lost time, is called tolerant and broadminded. A bigoted man is one who refuses to accept a reason for anything; a broadminded man is one who will accept anything for a reason—providing it is not a good reason. It is true that there is a demand for precision, exactness, and definiteness, but it is only for precision in scientific measurement, not in logic. The breakdown that has produced this unnatural broadmindedness is mental, not moral. The evidence for this statement is threefold: the tendency to settle issues not by arguments but by words, the unqualified willingness to accept the authority of anyone on the subject of religion, and, lastly, the love of novelty. Voltaire boasted that if he could find but ten wicked words a day he could crush the “infamy” of Christianity. He found the ten words daily, and even a daily dozen, but he never found an argument, and so the words went the way of all words and the thing, Christianity, survived. Today, no one advances even a poor argument to prove that there is no God, but they are legion who think they have sealed up the heavens when they used the word “anthropomorphism.” This word is just a sample of the catalogue of names which serve as the excuse for those who are too lazy to think. One moment’s reflection would tell them that one can no more get rid of God by calling Him “anthropomorphic” than he can get rid of a sore throat by calling it “streptococci.” As regards the use of the term “anthropomorphism,” I cannot see that its use in theology is less justified than the use in physics of the term “organism,” which the new physicists are so fond of employing. Certain words like “reactionary” or “medieval” are tagged on the Catholic Church and used with that same disrespect with which a man may sneer at a woman’s age. Mothers do not cease to be mothers because their sons grow up, and the Mother Church of the Christian world, which began not in Boston but in Jerusalem, is not to be dispossessed of her glorious title simply because her sons leave home. Some day they may be glad to return and their return will be the truest “homecoming” the world has ever seen.Not only does the substitution of words for argument betray the existence of this false tolerance, but also the readiness of many minds to accept as an authority in any field an individual who becomes a famous authority in one particular field. The assumption behind journalistic religion is that because a man is

A Plea for Intolerance! Fulton Sheen Destroys Tolerance

“I still recall the catechism lessons in which the Papacy was explained to me, its divine institution, its powers, its mission. My heart of a child (I was about nine years old) was filled with admiration, with rapture, with enthusiasm: I had found the ideal to which I would dedicate my whole life. From then to now, my love for this ideal has only grown. And I pray to Our Lady that she ever increase it in me, until my dying breath. I desire that the last act of my intellect may be an act of faith in the Papacy; that my last act of love may be an act of love for the Papacy. Thus, in fact, I would die in the peace of the elect, well united to Mary my Mother, and through her to Jesus, my God, my King and my excellent Redeemer.” https://www.pliniocorreadeoliveira.info/UKCR_0601_credo_ecclesiam.htm The bond of obedience to the successor of Peter, which we will never break, which we venerate in the most profound depths of our soul and to which we tribute our highest love, this bond we kiss at the very moment in which, overwhelmed with sorrow, we affirm our position. And on our knees, respectfully looking to the figure of H.H the Pope Paul VI, we express all our fidelity to the Papacy.In this filial act we say to the Pastor of Pastors: Our soul is yours, our life is yours. Order us to do whatever you desire. Only do not order us to do nothing in face of the attacking red wolf. To this, our conscience is opposed.-Declaration of Resistance to the Vatican OstpolitikIt is well known that Pope Pius IX, who later became a great Pope, was liberal in the first phase of his pontificate. There were no liberal errors in his documents, but he adopted a series of very liberal attitudes.At that time, Italy was divided into many small kingdoms, principates and free cities that made up the colorful, picturesque, efficient and stable Italy that we admire. The revolutionaries, however, had a plan to unify Italy and destroy those organic cells. They supported the liberal Pope and used to shout in the streets Viva Pio IX! as a rallying cry for the anarquists, socialists, members of the Mafia and Camorra, and others affiliated to the sect of Mazzini [the leader of the Carbonari, an Italian Masonry]. The cry - Viva Pio IX! - became therefore a symbol of the liberal and Masonic campaign to unify Italy by combating those organic small thrones.https://traditioninaction.org/SOD/j234sd_ChairPeter_01_18.html without a tribute of filial devotion and unrestricted obedience to the “sweet Christ on earth,” the pillar and infallible foundation of the Truth….“Where the Church is, there is Christ; where Peter is, there is the Church”. It is then to the Holy Father that we direct our love, our enthusiasm, our dedication….We have not the slightest doubt in our heart about any of the theses that constitute this work. Nevertheless, we subject them unrestrictedly to the judgment of the Vicar of Christ and are disposed to renounce immediately any one of them if it depart even

Filial Love and Devotion to the Papacy

Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus - There is No Salvation Outside the Church - This is a hard saying, who can accept this, are the words of the jews upon hearing the difficult teachings of Our Lord. This most esteemed mystery of the faith has been always and everywhere taught by the Church. I will first explain to you how we are saved, then I will explain this most important dogma of the faith and those who to no fault of their own do not know the Church, and the dire consequences of denying such an important truth. But first let us salute the Virgin Mary. HAIL MARY… Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us! Our Lady of Pompeii, pray for us! Our Lady Hammer of Heretics, pray for us! St. Vincent Ferrer, Pray for us! St. Leonard of Port Maurice, Pray for us! If you remember nothing else from what I have just said, let me break this down in the simplest manner possible, by anticipating some of your questions. Who will be saved? Those who die in a state of sanctifying grace. Who will be damned? Those who die in a state of mortal sin. How is one placed into sanctifying grace? By faith and Baptism. Can one lose sanctifying grace? Yes, but one mortal sin. Can one reconcile with God? Yes, by the Sacrament of Confession. Here is where a large amount of my information came from https://catholicism.org/category/outside-the-church-there-is-no-salvation Catholicism.orgAdrian Social MediaIG: @ffonzeTwitter: @AdrianFonzeFacebook: Adrian FonsecaYouTube: Adrian Fonseca YouTube: Catholic Conversations

How Can Someone Be Saved? No Salvation Outside the Church

What is the object of the All Saints Day? It is the veneration of all souls that are in Heaven, even if they are not officially canonized or beatified. Anyone who is in Heaven is a holy person. He or she is in the presence of God, sees God face-to-face, and is entirely pleasing to God...https://www.traditioninaction.org/SOD/j099sdAllSaints_11-1.htm All Souls Day has great significance for us. It is the day when we pray for all the faithful and all the souls who have died and possibly are in Purgatory. It is also the day when the Church – with the tact proper to her – reminds us of the reality of death...https://www.traditioninaction.org/SOD/j332_Soul_11_2.htm Adrian Social MediaIG: @ffonzeTwitter: @AdrianFonzeFacebook: Adrian FonsecaYouTube: Adrian Fonseca YouTube: Catholic Conversations

All Saints Day and All Souls Day Meditations

#andrewtate #jordanpeterson #toxicmasculinity #manosphere #topg #catholic #masculinity Andrew Tate and Jordan Peterson do a lot of good at destroying feminist talking points and exposing the lies of the culture, however, they always miss the mark because of ONE FATAL FLAW! They lack the Catholic faith and thus fail at their conclusions every time and end up embracing things like gay marriage and the like. Here we discuss the good and the bad in the things Andrew Tate and Jordan Peterson have been saying. Intro 0:00 Clip 1 5:34 Clip 2 9:48 Clip 3 15:05 Clip 4 20:23 Clip 5 28:40 Clip 6 34:16 Clip 7 41:40Clip 8 47:10Clip 9 52:38Clip 10 1:02:27Clip 11 1:06:27Clip 12 1:08:29 Clip 13 1:13:17 Clip 14 1:21:43 Clip 15 1:27:43 Clip 16 1:31:24 Closing Thoughts 1:39:53----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------For more information or other perspectives on Andrew Tate and Jordan Peterson check out the following videos Should Christians listen to Jordan Peterson? (with Dr. Christopher Kaczor)  -The Counsel of Trent, Trent Horn https://youtu.be/T85FDHOQVz0 Andrew Tate: Why Non-Christians Can’t Be Patriarchs -Rules for Retrogrades, Timothy Gordonhttps://youtu.be/3e3CIok7NMEExclusive: Andrew Tate UNCENSORED Interview with Patrick Bet-David -PBD Podcasthttps://youtu.be/iv-C4CVGk28 Michael REACTS to ANDREW TATE Viral Moments -Michael Knowles https://youtu.be/VLUgseVJheE Men should not listen to Andrew Tate, he is the male version of a feminist  -The Kennedy Report, Kennedy Hall https://youtu.be/cYnOu7Fi-wI-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Contact Me:Email: FonsecaProduction@gmail.comWebsite: http://catholicconversations.buzzsprout.comIG: @ffonzeFacebook: Adrian Fonseca Facebook: Catholic Conversations Twitter: @AdrianFonzeYouTube: Catholic ConversationsYouTube: Adrian Fonseca

The Unspoken TRUTH Behind Andrew Tate and Jordan Peterson!

3rd Commandment Explained The complete ascetical works of St. AlphonsusPage 419/425https://ia600201.us.archive.org/10/items/alphonsusworks15liguuoft/alphonsusworks15liguuoft.pdf Handbook Of Moral Theology 193/116https://ia601608.us.archive.org/24/items/HandbookOfMoralTheology/Handbook%20Of%20Moral%20Theology.pdf ARTICLE 5 THE THIRD COMMANDMENT “Remember to Keep Holy the Sabbath Day.”https://isidore.co/aquinas/english/TenCommandments.htm#5 Catechism of the Council of Trent http://www.catholicapologetics.info/thechurch/catechism/TenCommandments-third.shtml Bible “[8] Remember that thou keep holy the sabbath day. [9] Six days shalt thou labour, and shalt do all thy works. [10] But on the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: thou shalt do no work on it, thou nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy beast, nor the stranger that is within thy gates.[11] For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and the sea, and all things that are in them, and rested on the seventh day: therefore the Lord blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it.”  Exodus 20: 8-10.Pope Pius XII in Mediator Dei:“How will those Christians not fear spiritual death whose rest on Sundays and feast days is not devoted to religion and piety, but given over to the allurements of the world! Sundays and holidays must be made holy by divine worship which gives homage to God and heavenly food to the soul….Our soul is filled with the greatest grief when we see how the Christian people profane the afternoon of feast days….”La Sallete “Six days I have given you to labor, the seventh I have kept for myself; and they will not give it to me. It is this which makes the arm of my Son so heavy.“There are none who go to Mass except a few aged women. The rest work on Sunday all summer; then in the winter, when they know not what to do, they go to Mass only to mock at religion. During Lent, they go to the meat-market like dogs.”St John VianneySermons of St. John Vianneyhttps://www.catholicbible101.com/Vianney1.pdfCatechism Explainedhttps://bellarmineforum.org/bf_catechism/the-catechism-explained/part-ii-the-commandments-vice-and-virtue-perfection/a-the-commandments/x-the-ten-commandments-of-god/the-third-commandment-of-god/ Contact Me:Email: FonsecaProduction@gmail.comWebsite: http://catholicconversations.buzzsprout.comIG: @ffonzeFacebook: Adrian Fonseca Facebook: Catholic Conversations Twitter: @AdrianFonzeYouTube: Catholic ConversationsYouTube: Adrian FonsecaContact Me:Email: FonsecaProduction@gmail.comWebsite: http://catholicconversations.buzzsprout.comIG: @ffonzeFacebook: Adrian Fonseca Facebook: Catholic Conversations Twitter: @AdrianFonzeYouTube: Catholic ConversationsYouTube: Adrian Fonseca

No Working On Sunday! What Counts As Work?

Moral Relativism vs Moral ObjectivismJohn 1833 Pilate therefore went into the hall again, and called Jesus, and said to him: Art thou the king of the Jews?34 Jesus answered: Sayest thou this thing of thyself, or have others told it thee of me?35 Pilate answered: Am I a Jew? Thy own nation, and the chief priests, have delivered thee up to me: what hast thou done?36 Jesus answered: My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would certainly strive that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now my kingdom is not from hence.37 Pilate therefore said to him: Art thou a king then? Jesus answered: Thou sayest that I am a king. For this was I born, and for this came I into the world; that I should give testimony to the truth. Every one that is of the truth, heareth my voice.38 Pilate saith to him: What is truth?The Gospel Focus in on the important line. Give 1-3 sentence thesis. Hail MaryLay out the outline Story of the Mexican MartyrsWhat is Logic?SkepticismTouch GrassThe Rosary against skepticism Relativism  “There is no absolute truth.”“What’s true for you isn’t true for me.”“Since moral values differ from culture to culture, it’s relative.”“Perception is reality.”“If the majority believes it, it has to be true.”“Morality is determined by situations and motives.”“Don’t impose your morality on me.”Tolerance Walk through the Truth of the faith Oneness of God TrinityWhen Jesus bears witness to the truth. He bears witness to Himself, for He Himself is truth. Incarnation Foundation of His ChurchKnowledge of true blessednessWhat is Truth?Every one that is of the truth, heareth my voice.Pre Christians philosophers were content with the pursuit of truth. The Christians desired to have the Truth. They became “of the truth”Pilate supposed Christ to be a philosopher or a prophet and thus ask him what is truthAugustine Answers Truth is God himself who is the primal source of life, and the primal essence, as He is the highest wisdom. For He is that unchangeable truth which is rightly termed ‘the law of all arts, and the art of the almighty artificer’ I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No man cometh to the Father, but by me.And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.SummarizationConclusion Contact Me:Email: FonsecaProduction@gmail.comWebsite: http://catholicconversations.buzzsprout.comIG: @ffonzeFacebook: Adrian Fonseca Facebook: Catholic Conversations Twitter: @AdrianFonzeYouTube: Catholic ConversationsYouTube: Adrian Fonseca

What is Truth? Moral Relativism and the Denial of Reality

My friend Colton Marks is on to discuss his vocation to traditional Carmelite hermits. We talk about how to pray. What are the modern errors on how to pray? What are the steps I need to take? What am I doing wrong?Plus! Toward the end of the episode we discuss How to Discern a Religious Vocation. Why are most people doing it wrong? It's not that difficult, we tell you what you need to do!Please pray for my friend as he begins his journey. Book Recommendations from Colton Holy Scriptures especially the Gospels and the Psalms Chris Life of the Soul by Blessed Columba Marmion OSBVirtues of Mary by Fr. Luigi Lanzoni Life Everlasting by Reginald Garrigou Lagrange OPOur Savior and His Love for Us by Reginald Garrigou Lagrange OPLife of the Venerable Louis de Ponte SJ by an Anonymous Father of the same order Story of a Soul by St. Therese of LisieuxOn Union with God by St. Albert the GreatThe Interior Castle by St. Teresa of AvilaOn Holiness of Life by St. Bonaventure THE DISCALCED HERMITS OF OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL website if you want to support or learn a little about them edcarm.org   Contact Me:Email: FonsecaProduction@gmail.comWebsite: http://catholicconversations.buzzsprout.comIG: @ffonzeFacebook: Adrian Fonseca Facebook: Catholic Conversations Twitter: @AdrianFonzeYouTube: Catholic ConversationsYouTube: Adrian Fonseca

88: Traditionally: How to Pray + Religious Vocation an Unnecessary Mystery

Interview with Fr. Thomas Crean OP on what a Catholic Government looks like. Fr Thomas Crean OP was born in 1973, in Harpenden, England.  He studied at St. John’s College, Oxford.  He entered the Dominican Order in 1995, and was ordained priest in 2001.  He received the licence in theology from the Institut Thomas d'Aquin in Toulouse and the doctorate in theology from the International Theological Institute in Trumau, Austria.He has worked in parochial and hospital ministry and as a university chaplain.  He has taught at various institutions of higher education in the United Kingdom and abroad.  His books include A Catholic Replies to Professor Dawkins; The Mass and the Saints; Integralism: a Manual of Political Philosophy (co-written with Alan Fimister); and St Luke's Gospel: a commentary for believers.  His book Florence became a New Sion: a defence of the 'Filioque' and the Council of Florence is due to be published in Autumn 2022 by Emmaus Academic.He is currently resident at Holy Cross Priory, Leicester.  He is a Fellow of the Dialogos Institute.http://www.christendom-awake.org/pages/thomas-crean/thomas-crean.htm What legitimate governments exist?What is integralism? Does it mean monarchy? What is distributism and how does it relate? How do you create an integralist government? People are fed up with "democracy" so among faithful Catholics there is more and more talk about other forms of government like Fascism, Monarchy, Distributism, Catholic Anarchy, Theocracy, Solidarity Party, and Feudalism.Can we fix our current forms of government or do they need to fundamentally change? How would a Catholic country look like? Do we tolerate other religions? Does the Church run the country? Can non-Catholic's hold office? What level of obedience do these Catholic rulers owe to their bishops and the pope? Two swords doctrine? What is it? I have been told that the Church no longer believes this, is that true? Where does the supernatural element play in here? I am personally thinking of the coming of the reign of Mary and the prophecy of the Great French Monarch. Should we take into account private revelation into this conversation? Contact Me:Email: FonsecaProduction@gmail.comWebsite: http://catholicconversations.buzzsprout.comIG: @ffonzeFacebook: Adrian Fonseca Facebook: Catholic Conversations Twitter: @AdrianFonzeYouTube: Catholic ConversationsYouTube: Adrian Fonseca

87: What Does a Catholic Government Look Like? Is It Possible?

St. Vincent Ferrer, O.P._On the Assumption of the BVM   Sermon I   C 324-332Luke 10:38-42 As they continued their journey he entered a village where a woman whose name was Martha welcomed him. She had a sister named Mary (who) sat beside the Lord at his feet listening to him speak. Martha, burdened with much serving, came to him and said, "Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me by myself to do the serving? Tell her to help me."  The Lord said to her in reply, "Martha, Martha, you are anxious and worried about many things. There is need of only one thing. Mary has chosen the better part and it will not be taken from her."    Mary hath chosen the best part. Luke 10.  Just as the present feast and solemnity is of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and this feast is the end and the closure of the life of the Virgin Mary, so therefore it is to be spoken about her life.  And we have not only intellectual speculations but also moral instructions.  But if in our other sermons we turn to the Virgin asking for grace, how much more now ought we return to refer to her because we intend to preach about her, so that we might call forth devotion, let us now salute the Virgin Mary etc. And the theme is resumed.Contact Me:Email: FonsecaProduction@gmail.comWebsite: http://catholicconversations.buzzsprout.comIG: @ffonzeFacebook: Adrian Fonseca Facebook: Catholic Conversations Twitter: @AdrianFonzeYouTube: Catholic ConversationsYouTube: Adrian Fonseca 

86: Sermon on the Assumption of Mary by St. Vincent Ferrer

"A man who governs his passions is master of his world. We must either command them or be enslaved by them. It is better to be a hammer than an anvil."- Saint DominicSt. Vincent Ferrer, O.P.     Sermon on the Feast of St. Dominichttps://www.svfsermons.org/C301_On%20St.%20Dominic.html   "You are the salt of the earth, " (Mt 5:13 )  This is the text to be read as today's gospel.  Just as the whole office and the solemnity of the present day is about the most glorious father and confessor of our Lord, St. Dominic, so also  is our sermon. God willing, we shall have many good teachings etc.  But first let the Virgin Mary be hailed etc.The Saint Dominic Missal https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AEPDp85mDRKj4FA6Q5xyGmeSYSZPwuJw/view Liturgical Notes on the Feast of St Dominichttps://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2018/08/liturgical-notes-on-feast-of-st-dominic.htmlO.P. Prayer Apostolate https://www.op-prayer.com/ On the 9th of August, 2021, the O.P. Prayer Apostolate was founded.The intention behind establishing this apostolate is to further the knowledge, amongst both laity and clergy, about the spirituality and liturgy of the Order of Preachers, founded by Saint Dominic in 1216.  The Dominican Contemplatives by a Dominican of Carisbrooke (with a preface by The Very Rev. Father Bede Jarrett, O.P) https://digitalcommons.providence.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1018&context=catholic_documents SEQUENCE FOR THE FEAST OF OUR HOLY FATHER S. DOMINIC (4th August)http://liturgialatina.org/dominican/sequence_dominic.htm As the Morning Star: The Life of St. Dominic https://amzn.to/3BJArNmSt. Albert the Great: The First Universal Doctor https://amzn.to/3byweRNSt. Dominic's Successor: The Life of Blessed Jordan of Saxonyhttps://amzn.to/3ztZlhbDominican Lifehttps://amzn.to/3SjXp3g The Dominican Rite: History and Liturgyhttps://amzn.to/3oSOAjl The Dominican Responsorium O Spem Miram which is traditionally sung after Compline https://youtu.be/6u99EcWNMjwO wonderful hope which you gave to those who wept for you at the hour of your death,promising that after your decease you would be helpful to your brethren.Fulfill, Father what you have said, and help us by your prayers.You enlightened the bodies of the sick with so many miracles:bring us the help of Christ, to heal our sick souls.Fulfill, Father what you have said, and help us by your prayers.Glory be.. In caelesti hierarchiahttps://youtu.be/kwtu5u9NdJU Now new canticles ascending,And new strains harmonious blending,'Mid the hierarchies of heaven:With our earthly choirs according,Join this festival in lauding,To our holy father given. O Lumen Ecclesiaehttps://youtu.be/ZDxnZBrItuIA live recording of the Blackfriars community singing the antiphon "O Lumen" in honour of our Holy Father St. Dominic.  Traditionally sung  following the Salve after Compline.  It translates:"Light of the Church, Teacher of truth, Rose of patience, Ivory of chastity, You freely poured forth the waters of wisdom. Pr

85: How to Crush Heresy and Save Souls! Feast of St. Dominic Apostle for Our Times!

Tradition holds that St. Elias was assumed into Heaven and will come again as the forerunner of Christ to do battle with the Antichrist. This is all about that! “And as they went on, walking and talking together, behold, a fiery chariot and fiery horses parted them both asunder: and Elias went up by a whirlwind into heaven.” (2 Kings 2:11)Elias was indeed covered with the whirlwind, and his spirit was filled up in Eliseus: in his days he feared not the prince, and no man was more powerful than he. (Ecclesiasticus 48:13)Behold, I will send you Elias the prophet, before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.  And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers: lest I come, and strike the earth with anathema.  (Mal 4:5–6) And there appeared to them Elias with Moses: and they were talking with Jesus.  And Peter answering, said to Jesus: Rabbi, it is good for us to be here. And let us make three tabernacles, one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias. (Mk 9:3–4)And I will give unto my two witnesses: and they shall prophesy, a thousand two hundred sixty days, clothed in sackcloth. These are the two olive trees and the two candlesticks that stand before the Lord of the earth.  And if any man will hurt them, fire shall come out of their mouths and shall devour their enemies. And if any man will hurt them, in this manner must he be slain. These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: And they have power over waters, to turn them into blood and to strike the earth with all plagues, as often as they will. (Re 11:3-6)Sermon St. John Chrysostom St. John of Damascus Whether the witnesses of the transfiguration were fittingly chosen? ST III q. 45 a. 3Propers for the Feast of St. Elias according to the Carmelite Rite MassElias the Prophet - I – July 20 Prof. Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira  The Fiery Sword of the Prophet Elias by  Renato Murta de VasconcelosST.  III, q. 49, a. 5. Whether Christ opened the gate of heaven to us by His Passion?Yes, Enoch and Elijah Went to Heaven JIMMY AKIN • 3/3/2015Contact Me:Email: FonsecaProduction@gmail.comIG: @ffonzeFacebook: Adrian Fonseca Facebook: Catholic Conversations Twitter: @AdrianFonzeYouTube: Catholic ConversationsYouTube: Adrian Fonseca

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