The Church is eclipsed, not destroyed. She exists now as she has always existed: juridical, visible in principle, and bound to reappear recognizably within history unless Our Lord returns first. Any account of the present crisis that denies this is not Catholic, no matter how piously it is phrased. That is the thesis. An eclipse…
How do I become Catholic today?This is now the most searched question about the Catholic Church—and also the most misunderstood. For centuries, the answer was simple: believe the faith, receive baptism, submit to lawful Church authority, and live sacramentally within the visible Church. Today, many sincere seekers discover something unsettling: authority appears fractured, jurisdictions disputed, and…
“Defection of the Church” is often invoked as a rhetorical weapon, but rarely defined with doctrinal precision. In Catholic theology, defection does not mean disorder, collapse, corruption, or even universal failure of lawful governance. It means the loss of what constitutes the Church as the Church. If defection were possible in principle, it would have a…
A False Assumption at the Root of Modern Confusion One of the most corrosive confusions afflicting Catholics today is the quiet assumption that indefectibility guarantees normalcy. It is taken for granted—rarely argued, never examined—that if the Church cannot fail, then her operations must remain coherent, her leadership reliable, her pastoral voice intelligible, and her public…
