Rafael Xavier Gonzalez studied Theology, Philosophy, Latin and Greek in two seminaries, one in Spain and another in Peru, specializing in Thomism, Suarism, and Molinism. He has lectured at varied parishes and centers on approved Marian apparitions. Rafael is also a veteran of the Iraq war. He is currently a teacher in a classic liberal arts high school and an adjunct professor of philosophy.
Author: Rafael Xavier Gonzalez
Theology 102: Theological Notes and Papal Heresy
Editor’s note: please see the essays “The Pre-Vatican II Decline of Theology” and “The post-Vatican II Collapse of Theology” for more introductory material on this subject. The topic of theological notes is essential since those who presume to dictate to …
Posthumanism and Theological Anthropology
What is Posthumanism and what does it mean for theology? First of all, any movement or time period with the prefix “post” attached to it (Postmodernism for example) lacks substance by its very name. It is literally defined by what …
Vatican I Also Defined Faith
Objective and Subjective Principle of Theology In general, theology is the science about God and about divine realities. As I have written elsewhere, natural theology is confused with supernatural theology in our theological collapse post-Vatican II. Natural theology is a …
Paganized Theology and the Most Holy Sacrament
Today’s distorted theology, rooted in Modernism, the heresy of all heresies according to Pius X, is primarily an inductive theology. It does not proceed from deducing truths from the principles given us from above, from Divine Revelation, as traditional theology …
Platonic Philosophy Must Balance the Liturgical Debate
I definitely recommend watching the full debate between Timothy Gordon and Timothy Flanders regarding the important and prevalent question: Can the Pope Abolish the Latin Mass? Both men had great points, relying on arguments of authority with their appeal to …
Plato and the Idea of Art
Plato was an ultra-realist that stressed, to an extreme degree, objective reality, to the point of believing that concepts were individual entities with their own independent reality, i.e., the world of the “Forms.” The soul actually existed in this intelligible …