Robert Robbins
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The Most Glorious Day
As I write this post, I sit in my dialysis chair at home and look into the empty air pondering the great mystery of salvation. Sunday means salvation, the Lord’s day, Easter. But what of it? Do I see salvation?… Continue reading
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Ora et Labora
My previous post spoke of building up the Kingdom of God. But that is easy to say, hard to explain, and even harder to do. How do we go about building up God’s Kingdom on earth? What practical measures might… Continue reading
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A Call to Build Up the Kingdom
Our efforts build up the Kingdom of God. Continue reading
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Where the Eagles Gather
I thought I would write a modern day novel about the Apocalypse without the dramatics of fire, famine, or fomenting mobs of angry zombies destroying everything in their paths like locusts. But the task seems too laborious and heavy without… Continue reading
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Strike the Shepherd, and the Sheep Shall Be Scattered
Iniquity reigns, chilling charity, scattering God’s flock. The shepherd is struck; the successor falters. Discover the path to genuine faith, beyond false doctrines. Continue reading
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Montini Meets Maritain: The Philosophy Behind the Crisis in the Catholic Church
There are forces and currents of thought beyond the understanding of most people. Ideas govern the world, not people, because people are governed by ideas. The intellect is prior to the will in causality. In other words, our thoughts make… Continue reading
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Avoid Heretics Like the Plague–Because They Are
A contagion is in the air. It has been blowing through the churches for decades, leaving corpses in its wake. These live and breath in the body but the soul is not quick but dead. Such is the state of… Continue reading
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The Kingdom of God Is Within You
The Anatomy of Spiritual Recollection When Our Lord declares, “The kingdom of God is within you” (Luke 17:21), He is not proposing a mystical slogan detached from doctrine, nor inaugurating a vague interior spirituality. He is naming the place of true worship.… Continue reading
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Is the ‘Pastoral Only’ Defense of Vatican II Theologically Sound?
This image frames what follows. The fire symbolizes the “pastoral” turn examined below: authority exercised without doctrinal reckoning, memory set aside rather than refuted. What was not formally denied was rendered unusable. The article that follows argues that such a… Continue reading
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What the Restoration of the Church Actually Looks Like
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… Continue reading
