Opining on the Apocalypse
How Should Catholics View Israel? A Pre-Vatican II Take on a Post-1948 World
By Robert Robbins | CatholicEclipsed.com “We cannot prevent the Jews from going to Jerusalem, but we could never sanction it.” — Pope St. Pius X to Theodor Herzl, 1904 The Middle East is a mess. Again. Israel is in the headlines. Again. And…
The Best of Times, the Worst of Times, and the End of Times
During the height of the Middle Ages, most every one you met on the cobblestone street was a Catholic. During the French Revolution, most every head that rolled down the medieval street was a Catholic’s. Today, most every pew-faring person is dogmatically…
I Am Still Here For You
To any of those faithful stay at home, pray at home Catholics who may be reading this, please know that I am still here for you if you have any questions about our position I might be able to help you with.…
Dies Irae: Are You Ready?
As World War 3 cooks up on the globalists’ stovetop, we who keep the faith at home keep an eye on the sky whence our Savior is prophesied to hail as like lightening. But as we gaze up into the blue with…
Ubi Ecclesia: Where the Church is During the End Times
So, the question becomes, Where is the Church? If the Church is hidden, how can we find it?
Sedevacantism: Unraveling the Controversy Behind Vacant Papal See
Introduction In the complex tapestry of Catholicism, few topics spark as much debate and intrigue as sedevacantism—the belief that the papal throne is vacant due to an alleged apostasy of recent popes. Rooted in theological interpretation and historical grievances, sedevacantism has garnered…
End of the World Postponed
The solar eclipse which happened April 8 did not bring about the much anticipated and highly desired end of the world, and I am saddened but relieved by the fact. If the world had ended when I thought it just jolly well…
Rules For Thee But Not For Me
Hypocrisy is often disguised in noble and even pious words. Indeed, the modus operandi of hypocrisy is to pretend to be what one is not, or to censure those for doing what one does oneself. It is a damnable vice which ends…
Origins of the Easter Egg
Children love trying to find things. They look for hours through Eye Spy or Where’s Waldo books or play scavenger hunt or treasure hunt in the backyard collecting random objects just for the fun of finding them. But perhaps the greatest finding game of all is…
The Politics of God
Tomorrow is Super Tuesday, or the day on which the majority of the United States holds its primary elections. Here in Illinois, where I live and work and vote, there are several races at the local and state level which are of…
Wanted: Categorical Thinking
Name Tags Ninety nine percent of the world’s population could be saved by right reason and thinking out things in terms of categories. The remaining one percent I leave to the Devil on account of their desire to be brainless and so…
A New Year as Dies Irae Draws Nigh
Echoes of Former Glory The other day I was watching my son play a new video game he got for Christmas, Halo Wars. For anyone who doesn’t know, Halo was the platform video game for the original X-Box, which came out when…
Folk Music is No Shortcut to Culture
Laura Wood of the ThinkingHouseWife blog posted this from a folk song book compilation. In it, the author asserts many things, but the point I want to address goes something like this: folk music is superior to today’s popular, commercial music, because…
Spooky Versus Scary: The Fight for the Spirit of Halloween
The soul of Halloween is up for grabs like a handful of gummy worms. The hedonistic heathens want Halloween to be scary. Catholics and other normal human beings prefer Halloween to be spooky. Some may think there is little difference between the…
The Garden of God
The Divine Visitation is just a thought away if God wills it.
Baltimore Catechism Now on CatholicEclipsed
Harping on the Same Old Tune For those who have been reading this blog for any period of time, you will no doubt be aware that I have relied heavily upon the catechism as the chief foundation and formation of the faith.…
The Catechism as Map
Once there was a Boy Scout group backpacking in the forest with their leader who, I am sorry to say, broke his leg and died because infection.
Home Altar for the Home Alone Catholic
The number one most important thing that we can furnish our home altars with is devotion.
What and Where is the Catholic Church?
The following email was sent to me by a thoughtful and faithful Catholic man named simply Mark. He has some interesting ideas about the Church today which invite reflection and discussion. I post his email here in hopes that readers will wrestle…
Much Ado About Nothing: On the Inconvertibility of Medium and Message
As I have mentioned, I am currently working on a PhD in Communication. It so happens that the most recent article I have written in the program has to do with the Second Vatican Council. I thought it would make for good…
Thank You, Anonymous Donor
Recently I had decided to downgrade my website hosting plan, which would mean that many features like the forum for instance would not be available anymore. My decision to do so was that there was so little traffic, I couldn’t justify spending…
A Comment Too Long
The following comment was attempted on Introibo’s blog about visualization which you can read here: http://introiboadaltaredei2.blogspot.com/2023/07/contending-for-faith-part-17.html?m=1 The article was fairly good as far as it goes, but as I think I show, it lacked clear and definite language to get at the…
Come To Think Of It: My Country is My Mother
I read an advertisement today raving about streaming a fireworks show from the air conditioned comfort of one’s living room, where the decibels will be more conducive to the dog’s delicate disposition, and one may be free from the aerial assault of…
Come to Think of It: The meaninglessness of man
Electronic communication has given a whole new meaning to the word ephemera. And as writing began in stone and in its current form, secured somehow in the ether of electronic coding, I fear for our children’s children who may be disinherited from…
The Black Man’s Jubilee
In light of the holiday Juneteenth, the day on which a vast body of enslaved black men, women and children were declared free from their white masters and captors, I wonder what the term really means. Not the word, ‘Juneteenth’, for that…
New Background and Text Colors Needed!
I have heard readers complain about the text and background colors for too long now, and I must do something. I have not wanted to change the color scheme because I always thought it was perfect for the theme of an eclipse:…
Come to think of it: Words represent the world
It is a common practice today among different levels of society to treat words as mere sounds we utter with our throats and mouth-parts to articulate our own subjective thoughts and desires. Words indeed do this, but the point I would like…
Come to think of it: Transhumanism
The publication that I write my Come to think of it column thought that opinion piece was too controversial to publish. I will leave it to my thoughtful readers to ascertain the reason why. The transhumanist ideal is to use technology to…
Come to think of it: Spring cleaning
It is spring, and that means taking our rugs out into the open and clean air and beating them with a broom to get all the dirt out of them. It is also Holy Week, the days recounting the time our Lord…
Home Alone Means Home Alone
It has been awhile since my last post. Since I have been busy trying this whole working man thing, I have had little time for the blog. The reason is, I suppose, that I feel sometimes as though either I have said…
Come to think of it: Who does St. Patrick’s Day belong to?
One “wokism” which the world is enthralled with is cultural appropriation, and socially crucifying anyone who does it. But the one culture which has any rights to be up in arms about any inappropriate appropriation of its identity is the one culture…
Thou Shalt Talk to Thy Neighbor
The Lord commanded us to love God and to love our neighbor as ourselves. We were told that all the law is based on these two commandments. But, there is another law everyone ought to equally obey, and that is, Thou shalt talk…
The Modern Day Longbow
Editor’s Note: Below is my first article for a new weekly column, Come to Think of It, I write for The Southern. I’d like to publish it here on CatholicEclipsed, because I think my readers will enjoy it. So enjoy. A few…
Winter is a Time for Remembering
Editor’s Note: I shot the photographs and wrote this meditation for what I thought might be a photography journal column with the publication I currently work for. Unfortunately, I am paid to be a journalist and not to be an artist, which…
The Church Shall be Darkened and Shall Not Give Her Light, and Shall Fall from Heaven
Terrible Signs It is the trend today to assume that the Roman Catholic Church shall be as it ever was until the coming of Christ. There has been much discussion, and very good data to support such a doctrinal assertion. I for…
Even to the Consummation of the Age
Editor’s Note I am excited to share with you a scholarly write-up on a very important subject, the so-called necessity of having Shepherds and Teachers until the end of time. Everything in theology revolves around words, and here Mr. B.E. Strauss does…
On the Ending of the World
Morning fog settles on Crab Orchard Lake A nice chap left a few comments over on Galaxy Forum, which I encourage you to check out if you have not already. Eugene wrote about when the world would end, and I commend him…
Merry Christmas from CatholicEclipsed
An Apology I would like to begin with an apology. I am sorry to all of my readers–few as they may be–for not having written for some time. You see, I am going through some big transitions in the Robbins home: my…
On the Pros and Cons of the Accessibility of Art
The Pros For less than a hundred dollars, one can have a framed print of William-Adolphe Bouguereau’s masterpiece, Song of Angels. The obvious advantage of such a cost-affordable gem of Western and Catholic art is the price tag. For the cost of…
Three Papers of Philosophy
What therefore you worship, without knowing it, that I preach to you. (Saint Paul to the Athenians) I present below a compilation of three papers of philosophy I defended for my master’s degree before a panel of doctors of philosophy. I present…
Jefferey Bezos as Julius Caesar
The CatholicFamilyPodcast has released a new video entitled “A final critique of The Rings of Power” which I have not completely watched. Actually, I have only watched about five minutes of the hour-long critique, and that was enough to know the tenor…
Drawn into Madness: BetrayedCatholics Concocts More Error
Dishonesty Compounded by Error I do not like having to write article after contentious article against one who I thought was a fellow Catholic. After this series of controversial articles written against Teresa Benns of BetrayedCatholics, I have had considerable doubts as…
An Essay, Poem, and Very Short Story on Halloween
An Essay Whether the pagan festival of Samain preceded or followed the Christian festival of Halloween is a question I shall leave to scholars and other such pedants. What concerns me at present is a memory of childhood which touches upon the…
The Fox and the Hound and the Red Herring
“The figurative sense of “red herring” was thought to originate from a supposed technique of training young scent hounds. There are variations of the story, but according to one version, the pungent red herring would be dragged along a trail until a puppy learned to follow the scent. Later, when the dog was being trained to follow the…
The Rotten Fruits of a Cult Leader: Lawless License and Eternal Death
I have said it before on this website, that I believe Teresa Benns of BetrayedCatholics to be a cult leader. At the time, and afterward, I thought it somewhat hasty even for myself to assert such, since there really was scant evidence…
Requested Clarification of BetrayedCatholics Application of Canon 1094 in Light of Its Exception of Canon 1098
I was quite enjoying my respite from publishing on CatholicEclipsed, but I am afraid something has happened that has forced me from my cryogenically induced coma to write to you today. You see, Teresa Benns of BetrayedCatholics has written an article, “What…
SV Date 710.28.3: CE Now Entering Cold Cryogenic Sleep
CE in Cryogenic Sleep After much prayerful consideration, I have decided that CatholicEclipsed should go into cryogenic sleep mode. It has become obvious to me these last several weeks that, no matter what kind of content I produce, or how much, the…
The Lord of the Earth
A Long-Anticipated Third and Final Part of the End Times Documentary The third part of the “The Lord of the Earth: The Antichrist” is complete. This documentary attempts to cover the known signs about the “Man of Sin” whom we should be…
Explosive Chromocast! Columbus Day or the Devil: You Decide
Chromocast 1.2: Columbus Day In this new episode of the Chromocast, I discuss the real threat lurking behind replacing Columbus Day with the Indigenous Peoples of America. It is about light and darkness, as it always has been. Tune in. You won’t…
Revolutionary Recognize and Resist as the Copernican Revolution in the Church
Recognize and Resist Theology 101 As I have shown through a silly little production of mine below, the Recognize and Resist position is inherently non-Catholic. Check it out if you like dogmatically dead-serious coupled with cheekily humorous. The Recognize and Resist theology…
New Podcast from CatholicEclipsed!
Chromocast 1.1: Martyrs of the Apocalypse I am very excited to publish my first podcast of what I hope will be a media mainstay in your living room, car, or workplace. The Chromocast is so structured as to promote piety and thoughtful…
Help Free 100,000 Dolphins! BetrayedCatholics Catches Readers in Net of Ignorance
Readers Caught in a Net of Ignorance It is estimated that at least 100,000 dolphins and whales are tragically caught in fishing nets in a given year. I would estimate that BetrayedCatholics receives at least 100,000 views every year, which means that…
New Star Wars Andor Episode 4 is Propaganda
Star Wars Andor, a new television series, just released episode 4, which, I must say, I found to be incredibly boring. I even warned my children about how boring it would be, and advised that if they watch it, then should have…
ChestertonEclipsed
Laying impious hands on the quasi-sacred text of a literary genius by proffering a senseless and sacrilegious translation from English to English was apparently deemed necessary by the flightless dodo bird over at the Society of G.K. Chesterton. I am speaking, of…
Gratuity is Next to Godliness
This evening in the northern hemisphere will mark the autumn equinox and the beginning of the fall season. Soon, pumpkins will multiply on front stoops, corn stalks will emerge as if miraculously from the ground, and black cats, unseen in the shadows,…
On the Secret of Life
Elysian Fields or Limbo? The secret of life is death. Life as such is no mystery. We are born according to set laws by which the universe is governed, both physical and metaphysical. Of course, the soul is a mystery, since it…
Apparent Aporia in the CatholicEclipsed Position
There is a growing sense of the tension between holding the view that there will always be a Church hierarchy until the end of time, based upon a teaching from the Vatican Council, as well as numerous doctors and theologians, and the…
On the Form and the Matter of the Papacy
I have completed my critique of the Material-Formal Thesis of Bishop Sanborn, and have published it over on the QUASI STELLAE page. I reproduce it below with the CE Log signature colorizing which you have come to know and love–or else merely…
Top Ten Reasons to be a Home Alone Catholic
G.K. Chesterton wrote concerning his conversion to the Catholic Church: “The difficulty of explaining ‘why I am a Catholic’ is that there are ten thousand reasons all amounting to one reason: that Catholicism is true.” I do not have the same difficulty…
Introducing QUASI STELLAE: A Journal for the Inquiring Catholic
Perhaps you have noticed in the menu bar the new addition of the QUASI STELLAE tab? I originally envisioned the idea for a philosophical journal as a whole new website, but after I started to think about the project, I thought that…
Against Reactionary Distributism: Civilization Built Upon Technocracy
The Technocratic Island of Númenor I woke this morning with the fog of a dream on my head, which I vaguely recall had something to do with restoring the guild-system to furnish artifacts once again actually worth having as furnishings. In my…
Whether Anyone May Licitly Receive Holy Orders Without Canonical Mission?
In his latest, Steve Speray says, “Probably against my better judgment, I’m going to reply to it even though it’s so bad. However, it gives me an opportunity to demonstrate how the home-alone position attracts real know-nothings.” And further on, Speray asserts:…
Home Alone Hobbits: A Refutation of Steve Speray’s Problems with being a Catholic during the Apocalypse
An Analogy and Apology I begin this refutation of “Where the Shepherds and Teachers Are—The Problem with the ‘Home-Alone’ Position—Part III” with an apology to Steve Speray. I am sorry that, in attempting to explain the circumstances at present affecting the Body…
Whether Heretics and Those Who Are Cut Off from the Church Can Confer Orders
By St. Thomas Aquinas St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, Supplement, Question 38. Article 2: Whether heretics and those who are cut off from the Church can confer Orders? Objection 1: It would seem that heretics and those who are cut off from the…
On the Dangers of Home Alone
It has not been an infrequent occurrence to correspond with those who remain at home on Sunday instead of going to mass who are not altogether right in the head. I do not mean to draw a causal connection between the two,…
Sedevacantists are Legion
by Robert Robbins This is Just a Dream It is perhaps one of the greatest glories as well one of the ugliest blights on Catholic culture that the man of the faith is ever engaged in controversy and argument. The battle of…
Tithing Today Without Churches
By Ezekiel I am happy to introduce the newest contributor to the CE Log. Insightful, full of ideas and a fervent desire to see the Church more visible, Ezekiel comes to CatholicEclipsed with practical spiritual helps to build up the visible Body…
Steve Speray’s Futile Attempt to Defeat the Home Alone Position
by Robert Robbins Dams were Built for a Reason In a recent post, Steve Speray wrote a response to me, entitled, “Robert Robbins’ Futile Attempt to Defend the Home Alone Position,” in which he states the following: 1. There is a thing…
Perpetuo Pia: Become a Contributor to CatholicEclipsed!
I am but one man among so many who are more educated, eloquent, and enthusiastic about the Catholic Faith. I would like to open up CatholicEclipsed to contributors, readers like you who have something say, who would like to air out a…
Three Blind Mice: Freud, Jung, and Newman (Not That One)
I smell desperation in the world of R&R Catholicism, which is really a false flag operation conducted by Freemasons. I wanted to know what OnePeterFive was up to these days, and take a respite from writing articles strictly covering controversies with Sedevacantists…
The Fairytale of Independent Catholicism
Steve Speray Trying to Convince Me to be Sedevacantist In a back and forth on Steve Speray’s website, I asked: “Under what condition do you think sacraments would be “impossible” if not now, when there are no known canonically sent priests?” to which…
Journey to the Center of Gravity
It was at about the same time that I started to question the status quo of the Novus Ordo that I happened upon the theory of geocentrism. Now, I am sure many of you are quite familiar with the writings and video…
Teresa Benns Warning
Men Studying Theology in a Medieval University Teresa Benns of BetrayedCatholics contends that “Ott is not a trustworthy source of theology and should not be used, certainly, in defending truths of faith,” (“Ludwig Ott warning, etc.”). Benns makes this preposterous claim just…
Memento Mori
Oftentimes in the heat of religious controversy we lose the sense of our own mortality. We dwell in the heavens, as it were, in doctrines and distinctions as fine as angel hair, and live in ivory towers so high they nearly scrape…
Beware of BetrayedCatholics
Please allow me to write a cautionary word on BetrayedCatholics, and on its author, Teresa Stanfill Benns, a self-proclaimed teacher in the Catholic Church. I believe that such is necessary to avoid further scandal, and to put those who are open to…
Sedes Know No Law, Nor (Apparently) their Catechism: A Refutation of Steve Speray’s Attempt to Discredit Home Alone
By Laura Robbins I am happy to have Laura Robbins writing another guest post for CatholicEclipsed. As much as I would have enjoyed writing this article myself, my wife beat me to the punch! Let me just point out that she wrote…
Responses to Comments Made on BetrayedCatholics
Below are responses to the post and to comments on BetrayedCatholics latest article, “Scaring up ghosts and calling them errors.” It is in two parts, for the first is Laura addressing what Teresa Benns had posted in a comment; the second part…
Need to Know
The first atomic device detonated on Earth happened July 16, 1945. The code name of the nuclear weapon was Trinity, after John Donne’s Holy Sonnet 14, which I happened to have put to memory in college in a poetry class. I reproduce…
Part I: What is the Catholic Church and Who Belongs to It
Ever Notice How the Cross is Always Diabolically Last on the List? A friend emailed me recently with a kind of challenge for the Baltimore Catechism (BC), which was to see if the BC could demonstrate that the Novus Ordo religion was…
The Blogs of Babel
Anymore during this reign of Antichrist, it is altogether almost unheard of that two people’s minds should meet. Of course, people may agree on such things as have no importance at all or which are so self-evident as to be instantaneously believed…
More Peace, Less Pugnacity: A Response to Introibo’s Addendum
This is a response to Intoibo’s addendum which was itself a response to my wife’s post “Of Apologetical Lawyers and Theological Laymen.” Introibo begins his response by saying the following: “It’s not often that I put an addendum on my post. The…
Hoyle Tutoring for Your Catholic High School Homeschool
As a homeschooling father of six young children, I know that outside tutoring may sound rather nonintuitive. I mean, home-educators do not usually think that it is altogether necessary to reach for outside help when it comes to drilling their seven-year-old in…
Of Apologetical Lawyers and Theological Laymen
By Laura Robbins As lawyers, people like John Salza, Chris Ferrara, and the man behind the Introibo blog are used to researching. They can pick a pertinent quote out of a court decision and use it to argue well their case. They…
Thoughts on the Fourth of July
In The City of God, that great work of theology by the Doctor and Father of the Church, St. Augustine, Christianity is defended against the accusation that Rome was in decline because of Christians. I am ashamed, though, to admit that I…
Anniversary Launch of CatholicEclipsed on the Feast of the Immaculate Heart of Mary
And thy own soul a sword shall pierce, that, out of many hearts, thoughts may be revealed. Today is the one year anniversary of launching CatholicEclipsed, a website dedicated to disseminating authentic Catholicism and exposing the agents of darkness eclipsing it. The…
Open Letter to Introibo
Editor’s Note: My wife, Laura Robbins, wrote an open letter to the author of the Introibo Ad Altare Dei blog, in response to the post “Get The Correct Interpretation And You’re Home Free.” I thought it was very well written, and I…
And We Shall Be as Gods
We live during the time of the Great Apostasy foretold in Holy Scripture. That is a fact as plain as the color of the sky, and equally as visible. And yet, there are those, many in fact, who do not know it.…
The Nude a Desecration of the Holy Place?
I am coming to the conclusion that there may yet be almost no Catholics left in the world. Through correspondence, social media, and, of course, conversations with people in person, it has become more and more evident that there is some one…
If It Be of God: Our Lady of Fátima
Guam is a dot of an island in the Pacific Ocean, about a mile across and thirty miles long, and over a thousand miles from any other landmass. I was flown off the aircraft carrier during deployment, just as we were passing…
In Defense of CatholicEclipsed
A very well-informed and good-willed Catholic just trying to get to the grave with his soul intact no doubt, emailed me with some arguably well-founded criticisms regarding the things I have published here on CatholicEclipsed; the most important perhaps being an accusation…
Dialectic as an Antidote to Delusion
Someone recently shared a video with me about flat earth, which I thought was entertaining and interesting and even convincing, at least when I watched it alone. But after discussing it over with my wife, who watched it herself alone, I came…
Ekklesiametry
And he that spoke with me, had a measure of a reed of gold, to measure the city and the gates thereof, and the wall. Oftentimes when I am busy on Twitter trying to disabuse people of the notion that Sedevacantist clergy…
Faith Like a Bottle of Mustard
My family will be celebrating our third anniversary with the upcoming Solemnity of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, and we will be renewing the enthronement of the Sacred Heart in our home. Now, I am not one of those good and…
No Thanks to a Millstone Necklace
In a Loud Color Anyway To avoid scandal, let me make a few corrections. Pope Benedict XV, in Ad Beatissimi Apostolorum, wrote: “…let each one subject his own opinion to the authority of him who is his superior, and obey him as…
Catholic Conversations
Episode II: Sede Clergy and the Question of Jurisdiction Please read the following article before watching! No Thanks to a Millstone Necklace
The Church is an Aircraft Carrier
We who keep the Faith, who keep to the laws of the Church and believe everything that the popes have taught, the councils have promulgated, we who do not solicit sacraments from dubitable priests, labor under a terrible burden. We do not…
Out of the Mouth of Babes
Children are the most mysterious creatures in existence. Walking, talking monuments of morality, children at once can teach us everything we could possibly need to know and yet not be able to tie their own shoes. They have within themselves that perfect…
Catholic™
“I’m Catholic.” This simple sentence a hundred million people say every day. Those who worship Satan say it. Those who bash the one they believe to be the Vicar of Christ say it. Now there is a group of “Catholics” who also…
Suspected of Heresy: MHFM, VaticanCatholic
Speaking of flaming heretics, oh, yes, the VaticanCatholic website of the Most Holy Family Monastery. If you didn’t know better, you’d think you’d loaded the webpage for the Catholic version of the National Enquirer instead of a publication supposedly dedicated to disseminating…
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