As the year 2025 comes to an end, I want to take a moment to reflect on this last year.
During 2025, I have published two PDF files: 10 old songs from the German hymnal Gotteslob and an abandoned English-Chinese Catholic terms dictionary. I have written among others about the problems with organ donation; the heresy of quietism; about the immortality of the soul (using a text by Father Laux); the Fermi paradox and the Hungarian martyr István Sándor. The Christian Preparedness Guides series was also continued this year.
The main story of the year is that we’ve got a new antipope: Robert Prevost (“Leo XIV”). I have brought the story of how during the “pandemic”, he ordered confessions on the phone: the penitent was literally supposed to go the confessional, and message his sins on his phone to the priest, who was also just sitting there and looking at his phone. If there is sacrilege against the Sacrament of Confession, this is it.
Recently I have read a blog post by the Hungarian blogger Indignus famulus entitled “The fire of the Last Judgment and the cursed (foot)notes”. This reminded me of a problem that has not been discussed enough.
If you read the introductions and the footnotes in many modern Catholic Bibles, you will encounter claims that the Book of Isaiah was written by three people (Isaiah, Deutero-Isaiah and Trito-Isaiah), that Matthew and Luke used Mark’s Gospel and a made-up book called “Q” to write their Gospels, that the Gospel of Luke for example was written after the destruction of Jerusalem in the year 70, because he prophecies about that event etc.
These claims show the unbelief of the commentary writers. It is clear from these commentaries that they don’t believe that the Holy Spirit inspired the authors, and told them to write prophecies. They can’t believe that Isaiah, who was a contemporary of King Hezekiah before the Babylonian Captivity, wrote a prophecy about the Persian King Cyrus, who was to allow the Israelites to return home and mentioned him by name. That is not a possibility for someone with a naturalistic mindset: that part of Isaiah must have been written by someone after the fact, even though there is not even a hint as to the identity of the imaginary “Deutero”.
I am planning to launch a series of articles this year documenting the earliest documents of the Pontifical Biblical Commission (Pontificia Commissio Biblica).
The commission was established by Pope Leo XIII in 1902. When it was first founded, it was made up of five Cardinals and forty theologians and its main purpose was to answer dubia about the Bible.
During the first decades of its existence, it has confirmed traditional Catholic teaching, for example that Saint Paul wrote the Letter to the Hebrews, that Isaiah was written by one person (Isaiah), that Psalm 15:10, where the author says that “[f]or thou dost not give me up to Sheol, or let thy godly one see the Pit” cannot be interpreted other than to mean the resurrection of Jesus.
Reading old books by theologians, saints, church fathers, reading old papal documents is the best antidote to the errors of “church leaders” today. Over the next year, I would like to present several old treasures from among the treasures of the Church on this website.
During the course of the next year, I intend to bring more old gems from the treasures of the Catholic Church to this website.
I wish all the readers a Happy New Year! May God bless you!
