If infiltration is grounds for disobeying the Church’s authority, then is there a line? Because the Church has been infiltrated before, repeatedly during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Radical traditionalists either ignore or are oblivious of the times when the Church was infiltrated by the likes of the Theophylacti, the Borgias, and the Medici. Depending on which rad trad denomination, infiltration is grounds for independence from Rome at best, and sedevacantism at worst. This article addresses these instances of Church infiltration, but adheres to Christ’s promise in Matthew 16, that the gates of Hell will not prevail against the Catholic Church.

In this essay Jeremy addresses a common complaint against Vatican II as being the tree producing the bad fruit.

This article addresses how Communion in the hands is a matter of discipline, not doctrine; the Church is not going against Tradition by permitting this practice. Yet, even within faithful Catholic circles, opponents of Communion in the hands object to it with a vehemence that is similar to radical traditionalism’s general opposition to the Church after the Second Vatican Council. This article addresses that such resistance is ultimately objecting to the Church’s authority and thus can open the door to dissent.

Among the objections of radical traditionalists against the “Novus Ordo” Church are the Luminous Mysteries of the Rosary. They reject these mysteries, promulgated by Pope John Paul II in 2002, because of the apparent break from tradition. In this essay we address some of the controversies.

In 1973, Our Lady appeared to Sister Agnes Sasagawa in Akita, Japan, and revealed to her a message of a great chastisement if humanity does not repent and turn to God. In 2019, Sister Agnes has allegedly received a new message that seems to allude to a catastrophic event within forty days if humanity does not repent. Some believe this chastisement is the COVID pandemic. The purpose of this article is to review the Akita messages and this COVID interpretation.

Amidst the controversy surrounding Pope Francis's motu propio on the Latin Mass, Catholics can have numerous responses but only some of which express fidelity to the Church. This article examines Traditionis Custodes, and gives a Catholic response to it in light of the cultures of TLM and NO Catholics.

Dignitatis Humanae remains controversial today because here Vatican II famously declared that man has a right to religious freedom. Part I works through the Declaration paragraph by paragraph examining the text.

Part II of this Commentary explores the notion of religious freedom found in the papacies from Leo XII to Francis in order to understand the condemnations of indifferentism and the development of an authentic understanding of religious freedom.

Part III explores three articles published by the SSPX and can easily be found on their website. The content of these articles are some arguments against the teachings of Dignitatis Humanae. Part III analyzes and refutes these SSPX arguments.

Part IV explores the book Religious Liberty Questioned by Marcel Lefebvre who is the founder of the SSPX. This investigation develops further some themes in Part III while also treating the problem of coercion within Catholic theology.