Thinking Catholic Blog

This Blog seeks to turn the nominal Catholic into a thinking Catholic, to prod American culture toward return to Judao-Christian moral norms, and to prod Catholicism in America back to alignment with Rome. Supports the traditions of Western Civilization, and champions the orthodox Catholic ethos. Attacks heterodox Catholic teaching on sight. Promotes the return to critical thinking, the Scientific Method and Science. Attacks Scientism on sight.

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Jan 6, 2009, Request an article by Vic Biorseth for your website or publication.

This is where you can request an article by Vic Biorseth if your website or publication needs additional textual content.

Jan 3, 2009, A return to the American Ideal means a severe reduction in Government.

To return to positive growth and progress means, necessarily, purging our nation from all Marxist-Socialist philosophical influence and a return to the American Ideal.

Jan 1, 2009, The Thinking Catholic responses to questions re perpetual virginity of Mary.

From the "brothers of the Lord" to "The Davinci Code" to the word "until" in Matt. 1:24-25, the ancient Hebrew cultural notion of Professed Perpetual Virginity is doomed to be repeatedly challenged.

Dec 30, 2008, Is the world economic condition as rosey as all the Obama fans think it is?

Here comes Change. The question is whether it might be beneficial or catastrophic for the current world economic condition.

Dec 21, 2008, Definition of Socialism: Intermediary phase between Marxism and Communism.

Definition of Socialism: 1) The older ideology with "collective" ownership of power and means of production; 2) Marx's "Dictatorship Of The Proletariat" evolving toward Communist Utopia.

Dec 20, 2008, Definition of Communism: Marx's theoretical classless utopian society.

The Marxian definition of Communism involves the theoretical, perfect, classless society with common ownership of all economic "means of production."

Dec 19, 2008, The Infamous Byzantine 4th Crusade: A Total Failure in Direction and Purpose.

In the Byzantine 4th Crusade we find classic results of intrigues, sub-plots and greed overpowering and taking over good intention.

Dec 18, 2008, Vic Biorseth is the host of the Thinking Catholic Strategic Center WebSite.

Welcome to my site; allow me to introduce myself. My name is Vic Biorseth.

Dec 11, 2008, The Traditional Latin Tridentine Mass Explained, Step By Step.

With Benedict XVI's Motu Proprio 'Summorum Pontificum', the Traditional Latin Tridentine Mass may need explanation for the uninitiated.

Dec 5, 2008, The Rabbi Meir Kahane Open Letter to the World is a must read.

No decent world history course is complete without the Rabbi Meir Kahane Open Letter to the World.

Dec 5, 2008, Catholic American thinker items on Thinking Catholic Strategic Center WebSite.

The Catholic American Thinker repository WebPage linking to all articles by you, Vic, and all other contributors.

Dec 4, 2008, 2008 Obama Election: Disaster, or Turning Point?

The 2008 Obama Election may spell doom for Conservatism, or, mark a turning point back to basics.

Nov 23, 2008, The intellectual elite embrace Marxism and reveal their own true stupidity.

It is astounding that any philosophy so obviously fatally flawed as Marxism could ever have gained such wide support and alliance throughout the world.

Nov 3, 2008, Recommended Sites.

Links to sites recommended by the Thinking Catholic Strategic Center.

Oct 30, 2008, The Marxist Seeds of Disaster were sown long ago.

The Free Market is now reaping a bitter harvest born of the bitter seeds of Marxist Theory.

Oct 29, 2008, Regarding the perceptible depth of Marxist Infiltration in America.

How do we measure it? Number of bureaucrats on government payroll, or, Freudian slips of office holders?

Oct 25, 2008, Who is Barack Obama? What is his grounding, his ethos?

Toward defining Obama's grounds of being; his religious, moral and political guiding principles.

Oct 14, 2008, 2008 Political Crisis Pseudo-Intellectual Elite Fad of Marxism looms in America

2008 Political Crisis of Socialism looms over America and all of Western Culture

Oct 10, 2008, Financial Crisis, yes, but of who’s making?

American Free Market Capitalism may now be in crash and burn mode. Is it due to the inevitability proclaimed by Marxism, or due to government interference with the free market process?

Oct 8, 2008, A truly disgusting debate, which spells doom for conservatism.

There is no good candidate here. It's so tiresome to have to chose the lesser of two evils.

Sep 22, 2008, Critical Thinking: a brief explanation, and a link to further information.

As the art of Critical Thinking slowly dies, and Critical Thinkers become more rare, increasingly shaky "knowledge" is passed down by the "Intelligentsia" to be uncritically accepted by most of us.

Sep 19, 2008, BMDFP is the pseudoname for the ethos of Baboons, Mongrel Dogs, and Filthy Pigs.

I call on BMDFP whenever I feel the need to "name that ethos"; legion are they who claim an ethos superior to ours, but they never have a name for it. Problem resolved.

Sep 18, 2008, Welcome to America's Protected Multi-Billion Dollar Masturbation Industry .

That the government simultaneously censors Christian expression and protects pornography, the product of the Masturbation Industry, is a pure national disgrace.

Sep 12, 2008, Radiocarbon dating as an aging method is accurate up to a point.

Radiocarbon dating is reliable up to 6,000 years, shaky at best up to 40,000 years, and completely useless beyond 70,000 years.

Aug 29, 2008, Back Home Again

Work has changed so that I may be home on a daily (and/or nightly) basis, and most weekends free, which means more time to devote to the web site. Time is still limited, but at least I should be able to put in a little time on a regular basis from now on.

Still have entirely too large a backlog of questions and input from all of you to properly address in any reasonable timeframe. First priority is to get the work that has been standing still for so long completed. To that end, the 1962 Latin Mass page is now completed, and work has resumed on the Byzantine 4th Crusade Page. When that is completed, I hope to go over the whole site doing some overdue modifications and corrections to situations that have cropped up over time, such as broken links and so forth.

Then, as I see it now, I will start a page of Arguments, Pro and Con, whereby I hope to respond in one place the sum of the most outstanding questions, suggestions and criticisms that have collected while I've been gone over-the-road. It will contain links to separate new pages that will lay out the arguments (positions or contentions) under girding the Thinking Catholic Strategic Center.

Once that is done, I hope to begin responding more directly to current questions, suggestions and criticisms from you. and trying to keep up with them. I'm sorry, but the backlog is just to huge and seemingly impossible to attend to with my still limited time. I hope you will forgive me if your input has not been addressed. Please give me a little more time, watch the "Arguments Pro and Con" once they start up, see if your entry has been responded to, and then, if not, just resend it. Thank you for your patience, I hope it will continue, knowing that the Lord only gave me two hands and a specific number of hours in each day.

May He bless you, and may you please Him, and may we all do His will to the best of our abilities.

Aug 21, 2008, Tridentine Mass Implements and Vestments

Describing the required Tridentine Mass Implements and Vestments

Jun 8, 2008, Materialistic Culture Versus The Catholic Thinker

The Catholic Thinker is called to openly oppose Materialistic Culture.

Jan 28, 2008, Still Too Busy, and Too Little Time at Home

Sorry, but I'm only home on average one day per week, and I have a house to take care of, Liturgy to attend, family matters and relationships, and just not enough time to devote to this website, a major love of mine. Have been receiving hundreds of comments and emails and just can't get to them all in the one home day I have per week. Don't want to beat up the laptop by dragging it around with me when there's no guarantee that there will be a hotspot or connectivity wherever I am anyway, or that I will have time to put it to good use.

In partial answer to some of your questions, I tried to kill many birds with one stone (or two) with the last two essays published herein; you should see them directly below this post. I just can't get to you all individually right now. Hopefully that might change in the future, but right now, I hope I've responded to at least a large number of you with these two entries.

No real time to do the time-consuming research and entry needed for the Latin Mass page and the 4th Crusade page in work. The only reason I could do the other two web pages is that it was right off the top of my head, and I can type pretty fast. Researching to get it right takes a lot longer.

Please bear with me; it won't be forever.

God bless,

Vic

Jan 27, 2008, Indifferentism and Moral Relativism eats away at Catholic Culture

Catholicism stands against Indifferentism. Where do you stand?

Jan 4, 2008, The conservative Catholic forum promotes orthodoxy and attacks heterodoxy.

Actually, Conservative Catholic Forum (or Liberal) make no real sense here. A Catholic teaching is either correct, or it is incorrect, according to official Catholic Church authority.

Dec 24, 2007, Home For Christmas

Website Getting Active Again

Dec 23, 2007, Back In Town Weekly

I'm Home for Christmas.

As many of you have noted, I have been out of town more or less continuously for some time now. A new change involves my being home approximately weekly, when I may or may not have an opportunity to update the site with new pages or continue progress on pages-in-work. Meaning, currently, the Latin-Mass page and the 4th Crusade page, as well as any blog entries or responses that might be called for. So, getting somewhat active again on the site; stay tuned.

Also, in the more distant future, there may be an opportunity for me to continue my driving but on a daily basis, meaning, being home every night and every weekend. Almost like a real person. If that happens, I will be back in site updates as regularly as before.

Thanks for your patience.

May the infinite peace of the Christ Child enter your homes and remain with you and yours throughout the New Year. I bid you a very Merry Christmas, a Happy Hanukkah, and a most Blessed New Year.

May you please God, and may you live forever.

Regards,

Vic

Nov 12, 2007, Background history of the recent Catholic reformation (revolution?) in liturgy.

Reform of the Liturgy began with good intentions toward minor changes, yet almost permanently trashed Latin, and Chant, and, etc., etc., etc.

Nov 12, 2007, Woodcarver George Mikalauskas produces unique, and custom, Lithuanian crosses.

A Dayton, Ohio native of Lithuanian heritage, George prayerfully produces crosses in the ancient Lithuanian style.

Aug 16, 2007, The website is going on hold for at least the next five weeks.

Business calls, and I must respond. Will be traveling, and not taking the laptop this time.

Aug 16, 2007, The Thinking Catholic Ebook page presents web pages and articles in Ebook form.

Get any Thinking Catholic Ebook via email, to read off-line, print yourself, or forward to you local print shop for printing.

Jul 22, 2007, Thinking Catholic direction: threats to America, Church, Ethos, even History.

The Thinking Catholic Direction is multi-faceted, facing threats to American National Existence, Catholic Liturgy, our common Guiding Ethos - emphasis changes to meet the threat of the moment.

Jul 17, 2007, The Explanatory Note on Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum.

An 'Explanatory Note on Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum' issued by the Vatican.

Jul 17, 2007, The Pope's Letter to Bishops on Summorum Pontificum.

Benedict XVI's Letter to Bishops on Summorum Pontificum issued the same day as the Motu Proprio.

Jul 17, 2007, Benedict XVI's Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum; Apostolic letter on 1962 Rite.

The Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum confirms the 1962 Latin Rite as the 'Extraordinary' Roman Liturgical Rite.

Jul 17, 2007, The Chastity Vs Sophistication division: Wisdom Vs Elitist Celebritwittery.

'Naïve' Chastity Vs Sophistication of the Elite. Lechery, promiscuity, perversion are Sophisticated; chastity equates to naiveté. See?

Jul 13, 2007, The Islamic Theocracy menace Vs. the U.S. Constitution First Amendment.

How to attack the expanding Islamic Theocracy here while remaining true to the Constitution: SANE may have found the way.

Jul 9, 2007, The Christian Medieval Crusade, the preceding events, and the aftermath.

The Medieval Crusade describes what is popularly called The Crusades; Christendom's attempt at self defence, and the freeing of the Holy Land.

Jun 26, 2007, The Galileo Inquisition: Contemporary Icon for the Enlightenment and Scientism.

The Galileo Inquisition was no small affair at the time, but over the centuries it has grown and become a club with which to beat the Church, and to promote the myth of the "Dark" ages.

Jun 26, 2007, It's The Inquisition Myth, Vs. the various Catholic and Protestant Inquisitions.

On the history of the inquisitions (plural) that existed, and The Inquisition, which did not. The Inquisition Myth became a handy club with which to abuse Catholicism and Catholic history.

Jun 20, 2007, How Orthodox Mainstream Islam Opposes America, and all other National Existence.

Islam's Lesser Jihad seeks to (1) Convert All, or (2) Subjugate All, or (3) Kill All. Islam opposes America and American national existence.

Jun 18, 2007, The Enlightenment and Scientism advance at the expense of Western Civilization.

From Voltaire to Enlightenment and Scientism to Modernism, the ill-informed cheer the process along even as it destroys Western Culture.

Jun 14, 2007, The Jewish Shabbat

Description of Jewish Shabbat (Sabbath) from my Holy Land item supplier.

Jun 11, 2007, Don't be satisfied with your website if you can get a better website ROI.

There ain't no such thing as a free website that gets any attention or does anything meaningful. Concentrate a little less on initial cost and more on a better website ROI.

Jun 8, 2007, The Necessity of War: Is there such a thing? Do we ever need war?

The Thinking Catholic looks at the seemingly perpetual argument over the very Necessity of War.