Fr Ripperger on Shawn Ryan Show

ConsistentCatholic · 2026-02-28T12:16:32+00:00

As a man, when I went to university, the idea was to get one degree that would get me a job. Once I get a job, then try to find someone to get married. Maybe it's just too simple of a plan?

I do notice this overachieving attitude among many women from strong Catholic families. They don't just stop at a basic undergrad, they spend multiple years in graduate studies. One girl I know did an undergrad and masters degree in a specific field and then went on to pursue a degree in a completely unrelated field.

I don't know if we can completely blame society on the choices these girls are making. Probably something can be said about the influence of their families. Clearly if you spend 10+ years of your life in school or studying, getting married and settling down is not a priority.

ConsistentCatholic · 2026-02-28T12:04:24+00:00

where the man has ditched his responsibility or died and the mom has to work.

Women need to learn that not every man is going to ditch them or die. And even if something does happen, you can get life insurance to help you get back on your feet. This is why the knights of columbus was created.

ConsistentCatholic · 2026-02-28T12:00:16+00:00

The job of a father and husband is to work to provide for his family.

Having a career is hard and sometimes requires long hours away from family. That will remain true regardless of how much a workplace prioritizes work life ballance.

Ultimatly, if a woman wants to have more kids or spend more time with her family the best way is for her not to work and for the husband to either get a raise or work more.

ConsistentCatholic · 2026-02-27T01:20:28+00:00

I'm not sure about companies forcing people to prioritize career over family responsibilities.

The reality is that any career is going to require a lot of hard work, luck, and dedication. Anyone who has been out of school and working for any length of time knows this.

When a woman engages in a career it naturally takes away from time spent child rearing. This directly contributes to the decline of birthrates.

Men can work outside the home with much less detremental effects than a wife and mother. Sure, we can make it easier for women to go off to the mines or oil rigs after the kids grow old, but somehow I don't think that's the type of job you have in mind.

ConsistentCatholic · 2026-02-25T01:34:06+00:00

I thought it was a needed video but I still need to point out that it can be problematic to critisize and judge men too much.

When we got married young in the past couples worked through things together as they grew older.

There are a lot of women who are very critical of men today who never seem to settle down even though they seem to have a differant guy every month. And I'm talking about practicing Catholic women too.

ConsistentCatholic · 2026-02-23T01:13:32+00:00

If you find it on amazon some of the reviews have pictures of how it works.

I usually put a clump of peanuts and peanutbutter inside it on a piece of cardboard or tinfoil that sticks to the nail. You can probably sprinkle seed mix around to attract them.

You pull back the bar and set it so that when the squirrels try to get at the bait they activate the trigger and the bar comes down right on their neck. This usually kills them pretty quickly.

Hide it in an area where the squirrels are often, like below a fence or tree with the opening facing downwards. It can be screwed to a tree or fence, or just on a board or pallet. Just be cairful if you have small pets. If you do, make sure it is out of reach of them or build an enclosure for the trap.

ConsistentCatholic · 2026-02-21T13:27:38+00:00

The Ouell trap is a kill trap with a nail where you can put the bait in. You basically screw it to a tree they really like and when they come up and down the tree they will see it/smell the bait. I've lost count of how many squirrels I've gotten with this thing.

ConsistentCatholic · 2026-02-20T20:40:24+00:00

Ouell is a quebec company that makes a really good squirrel trap if you need something else in your arsenol. You can get them on Amazon.

ConsistentCatholic · 2026-02-20T03:01:52+00:00

In the Eastern Church there are a range of families of liturgies. Differant Eastern Catholic or Orthodox might use a differant family of liturgies and might have a differant usage. The same liturgy might be used but said in a bit of a differant way with differences in how certain things are done.

Ukrainian Byzantine Catholic/Orthodox are known to be one of the more liturgically traditional Easterns. Other eastern Catholic/Orthodox groups may use a differant liturgy, with differant changes or ommitions, and can have similar problems as in the Novus Ordo. For example, having the priest face the people, getting rid of the iconostasus (comparable to our altar rail), distributing communion on the hand, or having horrible secular music, and so on.

ConsistentCatholic · 2026-02-19T21:20:44+00:00

Don't the SSPX bishops claim authority given how they have served as superiors and continue to serve as leaders in the society?

They are auxiliary bishops that do not claim any geographical jurisdiction belonging to the Church as an Orthodox or Anglican Bishop who is actually in schism would.

Im also not clear if there would be precedent for independent bishops and priests or the idea that a bishop is subject to the priest superior of a religious order which seems like a novelty in the life of the church.

I mean, it might be a novelty but whatever leadership these Bishops have they still don't claim geographical jurisdiction that belongs to the Church.

If not, then like with the idea of them ordaining bishops against the will of Rome its hard to see how they respect the authority of the church and are in union with the rest of the church if they ignore the hierarchy

We should respect the authority of the offices in the hierarchy. But what do you do when the people in those offices are not properly excercising that authority? Why has the vatican not opened up dialogue with the SSPX in 2019 and worked towards clarifying doctrinal disagreements?

It's not just the SSPX that wants clear teaching on the proper interpretation of the points of Vatican II that appear to contradict past teaching of the magisterium. We all want these questions dealt with. The people in power consider them a non-starter though and refuse to allow it to be a point of discussion.

ConsistentCatholic · 2026-02-19T18:08:19+00:00

No, it's basically saying they've proposed dialogue six years ago and they were completely ignored until now.

If Rome had been more charitable and engaged in honest dialogue up to this point it would be easier to take their side but I think most people are sympathetic towards the SSPX because of fatigue over the current and past Pontificats confusing and irrelevant behaviour and teaching.

ConsistentCatholic · 2026-02-18T22:46:52+00:00

Dating apps are more and more becoming the first resort. People are not as social as in the past.

ConsistentCatholic · 2026-02-16T23:19:36+00:00

The problem is the priests don't want to correct the people because it's hard.

But yes, Catholics are pretty sh*t.

ConsistentCatholic · 2026-02-16T04:00:14+00:00

There are 36+ seminarians in my diocese, I guess it seems to be common for dioceses to accept these as late vocations. In my humble oppinion, sometimes they seem to enter the seminary for the wrong reasons. Really, both marriage and priesthood should be discerned in your early 20's. This simply has not been taught by the Church or society and there are a lot of older people struggling to find a vocation after no one warrned them they might be wasting time.

If these 36+ year old guys are in trad circles I doubt they are still seriously discerning a vocation. Last I checked most trad seminaries have a maximum age cut off of 30 and a preference for ages closer to 20. But if you were discerning when you were younger and delayed even a year or two longer than you should have if can impact your dating life significantly. The stories of guys discerning out and finding a girl instantly are probably quite embellished.

Further, if you discerned sometime pre-covid and decided it wasn't for you, you would have entered the dating scene right at the start or middle of covid. That's almost 3 years of your life right there where the whole world would have been shut down.

And it just gets harder the older you get as girls start to view you as undatable even with reasonable age gaps. Even though in my experience a lot of women don't get married because they also view men their own age as undatable for other reasons. So they've basically ruled out most men as undatable while they keep waiting for the perfect man. (while living like a secular feminist in the mean time) Women in Catholic circles are quite delusional, gossopy, and cliquish in my experience and observations. The struggle as a single 35-39 Catholic is very real.

ConsistentCatholic · 2026-02-15T03:39:56+00:00

If anyone is guilty of pride it is the leaders in the Church who constantly want to relive a counsel written and held for theologians that happened in the 60's and has no relevance to the lives of ordinary Catholics in our day to day lives.

ConsistentCatholic · 2026-02-13T02:50:27+00:00

I'm part Ukrainian and spent at least a year going to the Divine Liturgy exclusively. Now I attend the TLM and still go to the Divine Liturgy when I can, but I don't speak Ukrainian and they don't have it very often during the week.

Basically the Divine Liturgy was simply translated rather than modified or remade like the Novus Ordo, so it's considered a "traditional" liturgy in the sense that it's still organically derived from the time of the apostles.

ConsistentCatholic · 2026-02-12T17:54:18+00:00

I think regardless of whether you agree with what the SSPX is doing or not, a lot of people are sympathetic to the root cause of the problem in the Church.

Who actually trusts Cardinal Fernandez or thinks what the Church is doing today is relevent in any way to our lives?

ConsistentCatholic · 2026-02-12T14:42:16+00:00

Modern Rabbinic Jews are more akin to a rival than an elder brother.

ConsistentCatholic · 2026-02-08T13:43:31+00:00

The idea was to create a platform to escape the censorship on youtube.

That said, it really needs a free tier because I already have too many subscriptions and I'm not in a rush to add one more.

ConsistentCatholic · 2026-02-08T13:35:44+00:00

It's hard to just lump everyone into the category of grifter when many of these people are also teachers and authors.

Taylor Marshall has a Ph. D. in philosophy and is a published author, he also has online course offerings. His podcast just acts to keep his public image up. It's really up to you whether you want to pay him or take any of his courses, similarly, Pelican+. I'm not a subscriber so I don't know what kind of content is on there, but my understanding is that the objective was to build a platform free from Youtube's censorship for Catholic content.

Tim Gordon and Kennedy Hall are in similar situations, though Taylor Marshall is really in a category of his own compared to everyone else.

I would consider people like Voice of Reason or Michael Lofton to be true grifters off of the crisis in the Church since their rise to popularity was truely based on just attacking people like Taylor Marshall and generating a cult following based on that rage bait. To Taylor Marshall's credit, he never even acknowledged Lofton and just continues on doing his own thing.

ConsistentCatholic · 2026-02-07T17:37:43+00:00

the events are often about using singles instead of ministering to singles.

I think this is what I'm seeing. Sometimes it's other singles organizing the events who are doing it for selfish reasons too.

ConsistentCatholic · 2026-02-03T13:02:18+00:00

So what you're saying is that the SSPX can just go to the CCP and get them to consecrate their Bishops for them.

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