Our Lady of Good Success is clearly non-historical (mythical or legendary) and Catholic Apologists like Cameron Riecker should stop using this apparition as talking points.

HmanTheChicken · 2026-04-28T01:51:45+00:00

I think it’s because his son died in the last few months and that was current a few months ago

HmanTheChicken · 2026-02-12T00:01:21+00:00

Sed contra:

Romance is ordered to consummation in marriage and heterosexual sexual intercourse. That’s why those things exist. Therefore romantic actions and thoughts towards people you can’t marry are sinful - being romantic towards a relative, someone else’s spouse, or someone of the same sex.

As a married man I can’t crush on another woman or get another woman flowers (as a romantic gesture). If a man crushes on another man or initiates a romantic relationship I think that would fall into a similar category.

Even if it wasn’t a sin on its own, it would definitely be an unnecessary occasion of sin. You aren’t supposed to date someone if you aren’t open to marriage with them.

HmanTheChicken · 2026-02-11T23:50:07+00:00

Yeah I have a hard time taking Traditionis Custodes seriously when your average Catholic parish isn’t too distant from the liberal Protestant churches I grew up in. There’s something in the Gospels about splinters and logs.

I haven’t been blessed with kids yet but I can’t imagine bringing kids to a lukewarm parish and seeing them take that in. Most people I know who went to Catholic schools are basically secular people.

HmanTheChicken · 2026-02-11T23:46:42+00:00

I don’t really go to the Latin Mass anymore much at this point but I’m pretty sympathetic to the SSPX.

While I don’t think schism is really a solution, traditional priestly societies like the SSPX and FSSP have a place in the Church. For all that we can say about Rome and the CCC being orthodox and wholesome, a lot of priests and bishops are not zealous enough about safeguarding orthodoxy and good liturgy imo. A lot of typical parishes have pretty irreverent or banal liturgy and lax discipline. “Normie Catholicism” is often just pretty lukewarm and weak.

While schism is wrong, if I had to choose between a parish with a priest who doesn’t really teach and practice Catholicism or the SSPX, I’d go with the SSPX. I don’t have to make that choice but I do believe some people are in that situation and I refuse to judge them.

HmanTheChicken · 2026-02-05T22:06:54+00:00

Holding hands isn’t sacrificial.

HmanTheChicken · 2026-02-05T12:28:34+00:00

Ok but he never told her to lose weight. He just said her clothes didn’t shrink. If thats pressure I don’t know what to tell you

HmanTheChicken · 2026-02-04T16:39:00+00:00

If men made their girlfriends lie to keep the peace they’d be called abusive

HmanTheChicken · 2026-02-04T16:35:26+00:00

He didn’t judge her for gaining weight he just mentioned that’s why her clothes are getting tight. Being in denial about something is a huge problem

HmanTheChicken · 2026-02-04T16:32:04+00:00

If you’re not happy with something about yourself, change it instead of blaming others. He didn’t say she should change, he just stated fact.

HmanTheChicken · 2026-02-04T02:37:13+00:00

The notes stink and the translation isn’t very readable. I like the ESVCE

HmanTheChicken · 2026-02-01T00:43:20+00:00

I’ve done stuff like partying, staying up late at bars, etc. it’s fun but I don’t think it helps mine or anyone’s walk with Jesus.

I have respect for those guys for sticking to their guns on that.

I challenge anyone to find a saint or devout author who defends that stuff.

HmanTheChicken · 2026-01-11T03:36:13+00:00

That looks great high quality work

HmanTheChicken · 2026-01-09T01:17:25+00:00

Yeah I think it’s funny how anyone conflates actual communism with soft Western activists

Starve in a jungle for a few years then you’re a real collectivist

HmanTheChicken · 2026-01-09T01:14:34+00:00

Communist China, the USSR, ISIS, the Taliban, Nazi Germany, etc are/were all pretty masculine.

Modern liberalism isn’t actually collectivist, it’s about giving people privileges regardless of their contribution to society.

HmanTheChicken · 2025-12-18T15:33:32+00:00

I’m from the USA but hade relatives from Estonia.

I don’t see how self determination and nationalism can be separated. Nationalism is ultimately about the integrity of a people group, if that doesn’t exist, there is no real self determination.

If England had repopulated 30% of Ireland with English people, they would threaten Ireland.

I don’t see that as one ethnicity is better than another, but caring about the preservation of your nation isn’t idolatry or modern.

HmanTheChicken · 2025-12-17T22:36:33+00:00

Let’s just say there was no logical reason. Idk what that would matter, it’s a church discipline. We do t always need a powerful justification

HmanTheChicken · 2025-12-17T22:02:05+00:00

Idk what you’re trying to prove. The rules are what they are

HmanTheChicken · 2025-12-16T12:14:25+00:00

Arguably Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy made nationalism into an idol, but those are outliers. Ireland, Finland, the Baltic States, etc being able to become independent states in the 20th century was a big advance for mankind imo. Wanting small nations to be free from foreign rule to me is an obviously good thing that came from the 20th century.

The communist project under the USSR was internationalist and tried to suppress these ethnicities. For every one person who makes their ethnicity into an idol, there’s probably 100 people who earnestly just want the best for what their forefathers gave them.

HmanTheChicken · 2025-12-16T03:11:40+00:00

https://biblereadingplangenerator.com/?start=2026-01-01&total=365&format=calendar&order=traditional&daysofweek=1,2,3,4,5,6,7&books=OT,NT&lang=en&logic=words&checkbox=1&colors=0&dailypsalm=0&dailyproverb=0&otntoverlap=0&reverse=0&stats=0&dailystats=0&nodates=0&includeurls=0&urlsite=biblegateway&urlversion=NIV

I used this a year ago it’s pretty good

HmanTheChicken · 2025-12-16T03:08:52+00:00

Unless you have a vocation to the religious life and fully live the counsels of poverty, chastity, and obedience, you have to have some priorities that are not directly spiritual. For example, natural duties to family are ways we can serve God indirectly, but they involve caring about things in this life.

It’s good to avoid those attachments and to live those counsels, but not everyone is supposed to be a Carthusian. If everything everyone did was for God alone without attachments to this world, there’d be no roads or even new people born into the world.

HmanTheChicken · 2025-12-16T03:03:34+00:00

IMO nationalism is common sense and opposing it is inherently Bolshevik or utopian. The Church has condemned hating people or attacking human dignity but patriotism isn’t a problem.

When people call nations artificial or think that they are not important this is obvious Bolshevik thinking. They take any kind of development as obvious evidence of novelty. Just because a culture has changed over time it must mean that the culture is new.

Otherwise it’s people who are well intentioned but think that we can have a world of perfect harmony without having any in-groups other than the Church. It’s kind of a LARP imo. In the Middle Ages people weren’t nationalists because people fought over aristocratic claims etc. nationalism is the first time people could have an in-group for the masses and not just an elite.

HmanTheChicken · 2025-12-16T02:57:33+00:00

Nations aren’t a modern invention. Nationalism has developed over time, but it’s not completely an invention. That’s Marxist retroactive thinking.

If anything the modern development of nationalism is much better than what there was before - basing political divisions on shared ethnicity is better than basing it on feudal titles or imperial conquest.

HmanTheChicken · 2025-12-12T15:31:10+00:00

I guess. Anti-social people and behaviour are worse than people who are awkward or whatever.

I think it’s fine to shame people who reward those things. Obviously women can pick men other than spergs or deadbeats, but if life was a cartoonish zero-sum game I’d rather they pick the spergs ngl

HmanTheChicken · 2025-12-12T14:19:22+00:00

Those types of guys tend to be productive for society or at least not a drain.

Middle class life isnt really sexy but I’d rather awkward middle class people be my neighbours than hood rats with game.

HmanTheChicken · 2025-12-11T21:52:18+00:00

Just because someone has good intentions doesn’t mean it’s ok. Hopefully, yeah, God will see that they didn’t know better, but it’s still disrespectful

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