Columnist: Fr. David Nix
Five Things Catholics May Have Missed In The Clancy Trial
Politics and law are downstream of theology and philosophy. For better or for worse. It is currently September 2026 and the Lindsay Clancy trial was just declared a “mistrial.” As ...
The City on a Hill Is Countercultural
You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on ...
The Laity Will Not “Save” The Church
Who is going to save our Church? Not our bishops, not our priests and religious. It is up to you, the people. You have the minds, the eyes and the ...
Doctrinal Pitfalls To Each Traditional Group
This is a very long one, but I think you’ll find it worth it if you can find the time to sit down and read it. It’s ultimately to unify—not ...
St. Vincent of Lerins’ Advice on How to Navigate a Church Crisis
Many Catholics think that “Catholic” means “universal,” and they are correct, but they make the mistake of thinking this is universal not through history, but just today in this current ...
DUE PROCESS: How Would Have The SSPX Fared Under The 15th Century Grand Inquisitor Versus Tucho Fernandez?
Today, we are going to look at canonical due-process as executed by the 15th century Spanish Grand Inquisitor, Tomás De Torquemada (top left) versus that of Cardinal Tucho Fernandez (top-right.) ...
How the Heresy of Consequentialism Binds Most Clerics from Doing The Right Thing
The courage of the saints is the only remedy for the silence of the clergy. Even JP2’s Veritatis Splendor tackles the modernist heresies of moral theology called “consequentialism” and “proportionalism.” ...
Did the Pharisees Keep the Law?
One of the hazards in growing up in a Protestant nation like the USA is that our theology is suffused with dispensationalism and odd evangelical movies. Because of this, many ...
A Priest’s ‘Psych Unit’ – Part 2
In Priest Psych Unit: Part 1, I gave an introduction to what happens to Catholic priests who are sent to psychological behavioral centers. Some men request a sabbatical there. But ...
A Priest’s ‘Psych Unit’
By now, most American Catholics who are at least 30 years old know of one Catholic priest (or two) who has been sent away for “treatment” by the diocese. If ...
The USCCB’s Bible Translations
As the sub-title of my article says: “One can always detect the preferred heresy of the age by what is removed from the Bible.” So also, it should not be ...
Tension Between Truth and Authority
"In 1969, in the revolution in the Church, Catholic authority split from Catholic truth. And ever since, all Catholics are more or less schizophrenic."—Bishop Williamson. We have seen a new ...
Its Much Bigger Than The SSPX Vs. The Vatican
The very sight of him is a burden to us, because his manner of life is unlike that of others, and his ways are strange. We are considered by him ...
A Letter From Hell
A woman who thought of herself as a decent Catholic on earth explains why she is now in hell. Sister Claire was a German nun who lived in the first ...
The True Faith in Latin America
The modernist ape-of-the-church continues to decline in Latin America. OSV had a headline that read Catholicism down in Latin America, but belief in God remains high. Chris Jackson stated that ...
Gen Z Has Rejected Vatican II
A third of Generation Z has left the Catholic faith since 2018, and many of the remaining Zoomers desire only traditional Catholicism. Before we get to what young Americans want ...
WATCH: Fr. David Nix on What “The Triumph” Really Means
Speaking at the Rome Life Forum, Father David Nix delivers a masterclass in prophetic theology, unpacking the most famous promise from Fatima:“In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph.”He presents ...
The Filioque in the Eastern Fathers
This past weekend we witnessed a stunt between Rome and Constantinople that tried to make it look like something merely as piddly as eternal dogma on the Trinity was the ...
Portare Manipulum Fletus et Doloris
On 15 November 2025, I tweeted: There seems to be two types of trads now alive in 2025: 1) Those who believe the Catholic Church is the unique mode of ...
The Original Downfall of the Jesuits
This continues my Saturday re-print series for Substack, originally published on my still-active main-website here. Some traditionalists to this day believe the 1773 suppression of the Jesuits was justified. I ...
Marian Devotion in a Church-Eclipse
In this video, I believe there’s very strong research and evidence by Catholic attorneys that the Third Secret of Fatima was apostasy from the top—down. That means especially the hierarchy ...
