"Rosa Mística" by Francisco Laporta Valor

Pater Beatissime,
Annos Petri attinge, excede!

Just when I started thinking this matter was over.

Happy 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea to all of us.

May the flock be one when the Shepherd comes to take His sheep home.

Pray for the achievement of the Ecumene

You know, once a friend forwarded me a message where someone asked him what happened to me, since Ex Cathedra went in a different direction since the first time he followed me here.

I was 18ish when I converted. I lived with my mom, had my dad and my only concerns were my love life, college and the rage I felt towards the parents who had done a terrible job.

My mental and behavioral predisposition have always been that of a very quick-tempered person.

Add neophyte zeal to all this, plus a love for History, and you get someone who'll be counting the seconds until the next crusade is called and millions burn in a bonfire.

I'm 26 now. My father died suddenly, denying me either victory, redemption or closure. I carry his ghost every single day of my life since then. I left my mother, and this broke her fundamentally. Now I take care of a woman who just forgets the times I went to sleep because I was tired of crying.

God never spoke to me. Just silence. Holy silence in the wasteland that exists within me.

And the worst part is, I'm 26. Not even 10 years have passed. One day I will revisit this post and we'll see how much bigger and heavier the cross has grown.

So yes, friend. I changed. Probably got softer. Probably lost that fire.

But I have never, and will never, turn my back on my faith or my ideals.

We keep fighting even when we can't find that fire within anymore. Even if all we receive is silence.

I might be ready for a new crusade. But am I ready to take up the cross and to be crucified with Him?

Please pray for my father, for all subscribers, and for me if you can.

Never ask a based trad ortho what his church's position on divorce or contraception is. And never ask him if they employ female deacons.

✝️ During a debate titled "One Christian vs. Twenty Atheists," Jordan Peterson was pressed to identify himself as a Christian but awkwardly refused.

🔗 YungPutin

Sigh... Another modernist destroying our tradition.

You know, Jordan Peterson is indeed the best thinker of modern conservatism. He embodies everything conservatives are: cowardly, lukewarm, political in nature, either too afraid or too greedy to go against the status quo.

I don't know why people are so amazed that he's also a coward in matters religious. Look around you and ask yourself: what have conservatives conserved?

Pope with a pope plush