27 April 2026
Bishops Attend Secret Heretical Meeting To Promote Grave Sin
These bishops are among the worst of the worst, and they're planning to make James Martin practically prance with glee while listening to show tunes.
15 Forgotten Medieval Battle Rations Knights Carried Into Combat
From Medieval Way
A modern MRE — Meal, Ready-to-Eat — contains over 1,600 milligrams of sodium per meal, dozens of chemical preservatives, and costs the United States military roughly nine dollars per unit. The result is food that the Army's own guidelines say should not be consumed for more than 21 consecutive days. After three weeks, the body starts breaking down — constipation so severe the troops nicknamed them "Meals Refusing to Exit," fatigue from missing micronutrients, gut disruption from artificial emulsifiers. Now rewind seven hundred years. A medieval knight riding into combat carried food in a leather satchel that weighed under ten pounds, cost nearly nothing, lasted months without refrigeration, and could sustain him through weeks of forced marching and close-quarters fighting with no supply chain behind him. Fifteen of those rations have been completely erased from modern military doctrine — and from your memory.
Traditional Catholic Morning Prayers in English | April
The Protestant Pope Problem (And You Didn't Know)
From Totus Catholica
IMPOSSIBLE: How Every Protestant Becomes Their Own Pope 🙏
What happens when every believer claims the authority to interpret Scripture for themselves? Chaos. Division. And a surprising truth—every Protestant becomes their own pope. In this thought-provoking video, we explore the theological contradiction at the heart of Protestantism: sola scriptura. By the end, you’ll see why individual interpretation leads to fragmentation and how Christ’s design for the Church offers unity, clarity, and truth.
📌 Watch until the end to discover how Catholic teaching authority solves the crisis of competing interpretations.
✨ What You’ll Learn in This Video:
📖 The Problem with Sola Scriptura and Individual Interpretation
🌟 How Protestantism Creates “Millions of Popes”
👑 The Biblical Basis for Church Authority and Apostolic Succession
🙏 Why Catholic Teaching Authority Protects Against Misinterpretation
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📖 Scripture References:
Matthew 16:18 – Jesus establishes Peter as the rock of the Church.
Acts 8:30–31 – The Ethiopian eunuch asks Philip, “How can I understand unless someone explains it to me?”
2 Peter 1:20 – “No prophecy of Scripture came about by the prophet’s own interpretation.”
🔗 Additional Resources:
📖 Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC 85–87): The role of Sacred Tradition and Magisterium
📖 St. Augustine: “I would not believe in the Gospel myself if the authority of the Catholic Church did not influence me to do so.”
📖 St. John Chrysostom: “It is impossible to be saved if one holds himself aloof from the Church.”
📖 Council of Jerusalem (Acts 15): The first Church council resolves doctrinal disputes.
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This 16th-Century Saint Teaches How To Disagree and Still Get Along
Today is his Feast Day. He preached against the protestants during the Deformation, convincing many of them to return to the Faith of Christ.
He’s a Doctor of the Church who worked against the Protestant Reformers, and his lesson is as timely as ever.
From Aleteia
By Nicholas Senz
He’s a Doctor of the Church who worked against the Protestant Reformers, and his lesson is as timely as ever.
The adage “you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar” is so old that its origins are lost. It’s one of those things that anyone might have said, thus it’s attributed to everyone. The usual suspects, from Plato to Ben Franklin to Mark Twain, are often proposed as candidates. But today’s saint, though he did not originate the phrase, certainly lived it out.
Peter Canisius was born in 1521 in Nijmegen, in the Netherlands. Peter’s father was a wealthy town official; his mother died shortly after his birth. Having earned a master’s degree by 19, Peter met one of the founders of the Society of Jesus, Peter Faber, and became the first Dutchman to enter the Jesuits.
He became one of the most renowned teachers of the faith in his time, working tirelessly to recapture the German-speaking countries for the Catholic faith. He was so dedicated to his mission of itinerant preaching and setting up universities and seminaries that he even declined the call to be made a bishop, though he did make time to participate in one of the sessions of the Council of Trent. Peter’s efforts led many to call him “the second apostle to Germany” or “the successor to St. Boniface.”
Peter was known for his homilies and expositions that presented the truths of the faith in a way that was accessible to people of his day and age.
He once said rather colorfully, “Anyone who wishes to frolic with the devil cannot rejoice with Christ.” Against the tendency of some Protestants to downplay the celebration of Christmas, thinking such festivity unbecoming for Christians, Peter wrote, “If the princes and rulers of this world are privileged to make merry over the sons of their flesh, what a mountain of reasons we have for exulting over the birth of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, our Savior!”
While Peter fought hard against the errors of Protestantism, he was keen not to attack Protestants themselves. Peter preferred to write catechisms explaining the faith and engage in debates that illuminated the Catholic position rather than simply attack the reformers. To Peter, attacks seemed counterproductive. As he wrote, “With words like these, we don’t cure patients, we make them incurable.”
Peter’s phrase demonstrates both charity and practical wisdom. In the first place, it’s wrong to impugn a person’s character simply for disagreeing with you. Secondly, personal attacks only put people on the defensive. They don’t open someone up to a new way of thinking. You may attack an idea as incorrect, but attacking a person for holding that idea is neither practical nor charitable—it’s an illegitimate means, and it won’t achieve the desired end.
Catholics can learn this truth simply by looking at their own history. When the earliest Christians were slandered as cannibals and executed in the most gruesome manner, far from stamping out the budding movement, these actions only served to highlight the faith of the suffering Church. When Romans saw that isolation and threat of violence would not stop these Christians from proclaiming that Christ is Lord (and that Caesar is not), many concluded that there must be something to the Christians’ claims. As Tertullian famously observed, “The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church.”
Just so, Peter Canisius noted, attempts to suppress the Protestant movement by force only bolstered the resistance of the reformers. What is more effective and attractive than attacking the messenger, more so even than attacking the message itself, is to present your own position winsomely and joyfully.
The Church recognized this superior quality in St. Peter when in 1925 it both canonized him and declared him a Doctor of the Church. As we find ourselves in an age increasingly marked by rancor and ad hominem attacks, we can turn to St. Peter Canisius as an example of one who preferred sweet words to sour, to invite people to “taste and see that the Lord is good.”
Refuting a Common New Age Belief
From The Counsel of Trent
In this episode, Trent refutes a common New Age belief with tragic consequences.
Beyond Christian Nationalism
I'm sorry, but in many ways, Abraham Lincoln was the first Christian Nationalist in the mould of Donald Trump. He chose aggressive war over a just war.
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From Crisis
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From Crisis
By Peter A. Giersch
If we fear God and seek to live up to what we profess as Christians, then being called a Christian Nationalist should be a wake-up call.
It can be hard for the average Christian to understand this debate around Christian Nationalism. It’s different from the battle over the separation of Church and State, at least in tenor if not in content.
When I first heard the phrase used as a sort of bogeyman, a great warning of impending doom, I was confused. Are we trying to pretend that the leadership of our country has not been deeply influenced by Christianity from its founding? Without even rebutting the hackneyed claim that all of our Founding Fathers were deists, it is easy to make the case that Christianity is deeply interwoven into our country’s governance in the most obvious ways.
For example, the two chambers of Congress each have a Christian Chaplain who opens every session with a prayer. The Ten Commandments are carved into at least three places in the Supreme Court building. Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address, chiseled into stone on the National Mall, quotes three Bible verses and reminds us that “the judgments of the Lord are righteous and true altogether.” The U.S. Military had Christian chaplains from its inception. Most presidents in our lifetime have made liberal use of the phrase “God Bless America,” and the President of the United States is sworn into office with his hand on a Bible.
I could go on and on with examples like this, but none of this is new or secret. So why the sudden fear that the leaders of our country might actually govern as Christians?
It’s not immediately obvious. Paul Miller, a professor at Georgetown and research fellow with the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, in an interview with Christianity Today, defines Christian Nationalism in this way:
Christian nationalism believes that the American nation is defined by Christianity and that the government should take steps to keep it that way, to sustain and maintain our Christian heritage. It’s not merely an observation about American history. It is a prescription for what America should do in the future. We should sustain and continue our identity as a Christian nation.
This definition is tantamount to saying that there is a group of citizens who have an idea of what they believe their country should look like. That’s democracy, isn’t it?
Where the confusion deepens is when you realize that most of the opponents of Christian Nationalism are Christians. Or, perhaps, this is where the light bulb turns on. The most often quoted definition of Christian Nationalism comes from sociologists Andrew Whitehead and Samuel Perry, who define Christian Nationalism as “a cultural framework, comprising myths, traditions and narratives, that idealizes a fusion of Christianity with American civic life…urging the government to actively promote a specific conservative Christian identity in public life.”
Now the other shoe drops. Now we understand why Christian Nationalism is such a problem for some Christians. That would be the Christians who do not align themselves with “a specific conservative Christian identity.”
So, it turns out that Christian Nationalism is simply a bogeyman created by Christians of the current minority party—Democrats and Never-Trumpers—who are seeking a shorthand for an ideology that they believe may lead to an abuse of power by the current administration. In Trump’s first term, racism was the ideology that was going to lead to an abuse of power. Christian Nationalism is the new racism.
I can hardly blame those whose candidate for president lost the last election for wanting to watch the new administration closely and fight against any abuses of power. That’s good democracy, frankly. It’s part of the genius of the two-party system. But do they have to couch their vigilance in personal attacks of “Racist!” and in their religious bigotry against so-called Christian Nationalists? (The Oxford Dictionary defines a bigot as someone who holds a “prejudice against a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular group.”)
So, let’s call Christian Nationalism for what it is: a vehicle by which the minority party can monitor perceived abuses of power by the current administration.
But underneath it all is another reality, one that really is worth our time to try to understand. It’s the so-called “God Gap” between Republicans and Democrats. Sociologists and pollsters all agree that Christians are gathering in the Republican Party while the Democrats are leaving faith behind.
It doesn’t matter who you look at: Pew, American Enterprise Institute, PRRI Census of American Religion, The Survey Center, Gallup, etc. They all agree that over the past 20 years the Democratic Party has become significantly less religious. According to Pew, 2024-2025 data show that 84 percent of the Republican Party identifies as Christian, while for Democrats the number of those identifying as Christian is between 50 percent and 62 percent. For some reason, the percentage of Democrats identifying as Christian is harder to pin down.
It could be the nature of what it means to be religious or Christian. If it has anything to do with practicing your faith, or having a strong belief in Christianity, Republicans are twice as likely as Democrats to do so. For example, Republicans attend religious services at a rate of 2 to 1 over Democrats, and surveys indicate they are twice as likely to be “highly religious” than are Democrats. Over half of Republicans report praying daily, while for Democrats it’s about a third.
We could go on. The share of non-religious voters in the Democratic party is nearly triple that of the Republican party. Fifty-five percent of Americans view the Republican Party as friendly to religion, while 48 percent of the country views the Democratic Party as neutral or unfriendly to religion. And here’s the one statistic that explains this whole Christian Nationalism kerfuffle: 78 percent of Republicans view religion’s influence on society positively, compared to 40 percent of Democrats.
So the stats are clear. The trends are obvious and picking up speed. It won’t be long before the votes cast in our country are just between those who believe in God and those who do not. Soon, the word Republican will be synonymous with the word “Christian.”
And that’s a frightening thing.
If we’re going to equate the word Republican with “Christian,” then Republicans should be the most humble, self-aware, un-hypocritical people you can find. Clearly, we’re not that. This should give us pause. Serious pause. If we fear God and seek to live up to what we profess as Christians, then being called a Christian Nationalist should be a wake-up call.
It’s time to get serious here. Let’s get down on our knees and seek God for personal virtue and for protection and guidance for our country. The Bible is clear that we are to pray for our leaders (1 Timothy 2:1-4), but I think that means all of them—not just the ones we voted for.
Really. We need to lean in to this Christian Nationalist thing and make it a positive. The Catechism of the Catholic Church (2239) teaches that patriotism is a virtue rooted in gratitude, justice, and charity, requiring love and service for one’s country. It involves contributing to the common good, serving one’s fellow citizens, and honoring authority. Does that describe the Republicans? Does that describe you and me?
If we really do believe that “our Christian heritage [is] not merely an observation about American history. It is a prescription for what America should do in the future,” we have a lot to live up to. We need to get our act together if we are going to represent Christ. Anyone looking out at the Republican party right now would likely agree that we are hardly worthy of being called “the Christian party.”
Where do we start? How can we be salt and light? I believe it begins at home. Like the way that Jordan Peterson told young people not to bother going out to protest if they can’t even clean up their own room. The Catholic Church has the most beautiful teaching on this. It’s called subsidiarity. It says that problems should be handled by the people closest to the problem, by the smallest or most local component of authority.
We all have some responsibility for something: our kids, our jobs, our homes, our neighborhood. When I see my friends losing their minds over some national news story, I’m glad they are engaged in politics, but I hope they have the same passion for the needs of their children, parents, neighbors, employees, and coworkers. Don’t complain that Democrats aren’t good Americans if you’re not a good neighbor, husband, citizen, and friend yourself.
If Republicans are going to be the Christian party, what we need is a “party line.” A good place to start might be Paul’s exhortation to the Philippians:
Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vanity, but humbly regard others as better than yourselves. Be concerned not only with your own interests but also with those of others. Let your attitude be identical to that of Christ Jesus.
We Christians have every right to engage in politics, and we have a duty to be patriotic and to serve our country—to fight for what we believe in. If we can do so as Christians, we will change the world.
One man stands as an example for us. He was not even a professed Christian, nor a regular church-goer. People question his motives and the depth of his faith. But he invoked God, quoted Scripture, and fought for what was right. And he changed the world for the better.
That man was Lincoln. He was a Republican.
26 April 2026
Monday of the Fourth Week after Easter
From Dom Prosper Guéranger's Liturgical Year:
℣. In thy resurrection, O Christ, alleluia.
℟. Let heaven and earth rejoice, alleluia.
Our Risen Jesus is not satisfied with establishing his Church and constituting the Hierarchy which is to govern it in his name to the end of time; he also confides to his Disciples his divine word, that is, the truths he is come to reveal to mankind, and into which truths he has given them an insight during the three years preceding his Passion. The Word of God, which is also called Revelation, is, together with Grace, the most precious gift that heaven could bestow upon us. It is by the Word of God that we know the mysteries of his Divine Essence, the plan according to which he framed the Creation, the supernatural end he destined for such of his creatures as he endowed with understanding and free-will, the sublime work of redemption by the Incarnation of the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity—in a word, the means whereby we are to honor and serve him, and attain the end for which we were made.
From the very commencement of the world, God revealed his Word to man; later on, he spoke by the Prophets; but when the fullness of time came, he sent upon the earth his Only Begotten Son, that he might complete this first Revelation. We have seen how, for three years, Jesus has been teaching men, and how, in order that he might make them the more easily understand his words, he has stooped to their littleness. Though his teaching was of the sublimest possible character, yet did he make it so intelligible that no instruction could be compared to his in clearness. It was for this reason that me made use of simple parables, whereby he conveyed his divine truths to the mind of his hearers. His Apostles and Disciples, who were afterwards to preach his Gospel to the world, received from him frequent special instructions; although, until the accomplishment of the mysteries of his Death and Resurrection, they were slow in understanding his teaching. Since his Resurrection, they are better able to appreciate his instructions, for not only are his words more telling now that he is in the glory of his triumph over death, but the minds of his hearers have become more enlightened by the extraordinary events that have occurred. If he could say to them at the Last Supper: I will not now call you Servants; but I have called you my Friends: because all things whatsoever I have heard from my Father, I have made known unto you; (John 15:15) how must he not treat them now that he has repeated to them the whole of his teaching, given them the whole Word of God, and is on the eve of sending the Holy Spirit upon them, in order to perfect their understanding, and give them power to preach the Gospel to the entire world?
O holy Word of God! O holy Revelation! through thee are we admitted into divine Mysteries, which human Reason could never reach. We love thee, and are resolved to be submissive to thee. It is thou that givest rise to the grand virtue without which it is impossible to please God; (Hebrews 11:6) the virtue which commences the work of man’s salvation, the without which this work could neither be continued nor finished. This virtue is Faith. It makes our Reason bow down to the Word of God. There comes from its divine obscurity a light far more glorious than are all the conclusions of Reason, how great soever may be their evidence. This virtue is to be the bond of union in the new society, which our Lord is now organizing. To become a member of this society, man must begin by believing; that he may continue to be a member, he must never, not even for one moment, waver in his faith. We shall soon be hearing our Lord saying these words: He that believeth and is baptized, shall be saved; but he that believeth not, shall be condemned. (Mark 16:16) The more clearly to express the necessity of Faith, the members of the Church are to be called by a beautiful name of the Faithful: they who do not believe are to be called Infidels.
Faith, then, being the first link of the supernatural union between man and God, it follows that this union ceases when Faith is broken, that is, denied; and that he who, after having once been thus united to God breaks the link by rejecting the word of God, and substituting error in its place, commits one of the greatest of crimes. Such a one will be called a Heretic, that is, one who separates himself; and the Faithful will tremble at his apostasy. Even were his rebellion to the Revealed Word to fall upon only one article, still he commits enormous blasphemy; for he either separates himself from God as being a deceiver, or he implies that his own created, weak, and limited reason is superior to eternal and infinite Truth.
As time goes on, Heresies will rise up, each attacking some dogma or other; so that scarcely one truth will be left unassailed: but all this will serve for little else than to bring out the Revelation purer and brighter than before. There will, however, come a time, and that time is our own, when Heresy will not confine itself to some one particular article of faith; but will proclaim the total independence of Reason, and declare Revelation to be a forgery. This impious system will give itself the high-sounding name of Rationalism, and these are to be its leading doctrines: Christ’s mission, a failure and his teaching false; his Church, an insult to man’s dignity: the eighteen centuries of Christian civilization, a popular illusion! The followers of this school, the so-called Philosophers of modern times, would have subverted all society, had not God come to its assistance, and fulfilled the promise he made of never allowing his Revealed Word to be taken away from mankind, nor the Church, to whom he confided his Word, to be destroyed.
Others go not so far as this. They do not pretend to deny the benefits conferred on the world by the Christian Religion—the facts of history are too evident to be contested: still, as they will not submit their reason to the mysteries revealed by God, they have a way peculiar to themselves for eliminating the element of Faith from this world. As every revealed truth, and every miracle confirmatory of divine interposition, is disagreeable to them, they attribute to natural causes every fact which bears testimony to the Son of God being present among us. They do not insult Religion, they simply pass it by; they hold that the Supernatural serves no purpose; people, they say, have taken appearances for realities. The laws of history and common-sense count for nothing. Agreeably to their system, which they call Naturalism, they deny what they cannot explain; they maintain that the people of the past eighteen centuries have been deceived, and that the Creator cannot suspend the laws of Nature, just as the Rationalists teach that there is nothing above Reason.
Are Reason and Nature, then, to be obstacles to our Redeemer’s love for mankind? Thanks be to his infinite power, he would not have it so! As to Reason, he repairs and perfects her by Faith; and he suspends the laws of Nature, that we may cheerfully believe the word whose truth is guaranteed by the testimony of miracles. Jesus is truly risen; let Reason and Nature rejoice; for he has ennobled and sanctified them by the glad Mystery!
Let us proclaim the triumph of the Redeemer, whom we adore. Let us make our own this Sequence of the Cluny Missal of 1523.
Lo! the Root of David, the Lion of the Tribe of Juda, hath conquered.
Death hath conquered death; and that Death is our Life.
Strange was the war, and stupendous the victory that was seen by the flock of Christ,
When he, by his Death, vanquished the strong and crafty enemy.
The Eternal King forced the enemy’s house, and broke the armor of hell.
He brought back the groat that was lost, and opened the gates of heaven.
Heaven’s gate, that had been shut, at the beginning of the world, by the forbidden fruit, which brought death;
The gate, which Eve had closed against him from whom she had been formed, and against all the children that were to be born of her race;
Yea, what our First Parent thus sinfully closed, was thrown open by the right hand of the God that assumed our flesh.
Death laid hands on Him on whom it had no claim, because free from sin;
And by thus coveting what was not its own, it lost what it hitherto had justly held.
By wishing to add to its prey, it was made to yield up what it had devoured.
Christ is the true Lamb, that was foretold in the Law under manifold figures, and who, at length, offered himself to the Father as a Victim for the world’s redemption.
This is the Corner-Stone, rejected by the builders.
He is now the Head of the Corner, set high above all the rest.
His kingdom is great, and his power supreme: they are for ever and ever. Amen.
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