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Guiding Light, Bot-Farms & Usury
Vatican II Reaffirmed
I am sure you are already aware of this new series of catechesis by Pope Leo XIV.
T.H.
Pope Leo XIV announced Wednesday [January 7, 2026] that he is beginning a catechesis series to “closely” study the Second Vatican Council, which many priests and scholars have affirmed to be in need of correction.
“We are beginning a new catechesis series dedicated to the Second Vatican Council and to a fresh reading of its Documents,” Leo wrote in an X post. “The Council’s Magisterium remains even today the North Star guiding the Church’s journey.”
“Closely studying the Council documents will help us to be attentive interpreters of the signs of the times, and to proclaim the Gospel to all,” Leo said Wednesday during his general audience.
In Leo’s strong support for Vatican II, he aligns himself with Pope Francis, who described the Council as “a visit of God to His Church,” and as “irreversible.”
The pope has not given further details thus far on the forthcoming “catechesis” of Vatican II. However, during his general audience on Wednesday, he highlighted aspects of the Council that he highly esteems.
For example, Leo praised the “liturgical reform” launched by Vatican II, which laid the groundwork for the revolutionary Novus Ordo Missae, the new Mass. The Council “set in motion an important liturgical reform by placing at the center the mystery of salvation and the active and conscious participation of the entire People of God,” Leo said in his general audience.
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‘Botfarms’: Flooding Social Media with Propaganda
Salve Maria!
I saw this piece of news and have been interested in this story: Foreign agents are now using bots - fake social media profiles run with AI - to flood social media with propaganda (comments in the comment section). One video cited the fact that, in one instance, 1 in 3 comments on X were by bots…
There have been multiple videos exposing this. Some examples: here, here, here, here, here and here.
Could this explain why TIA all of a sudden gets loads of comments immediately on a specific post? Could some of these comments be bots attempting to influence Catholics to accept the Revolution in the Church?
I hope you can consider this… It certainly has opened my eyes to the fact that many people commenting against your counter-revolutionary posts are bots.
In Jesu et Maria,
S.B.
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Is Usury a Mortal Sin?
I greatly appreciate your website. I was not able to find much information on usury – one article that briefly addresses the topic is "Socialism and Gnosis part 3" which says interest is ok.
My understanding is that interest aka usury is a mortal sin and though this may not be "enforced" by the modern church and is widespread and accepted nowadays, it is nonetheless serious sin in Church teaching. Wondered if you thought that is a fair assessment.
A source is Michael Hoffman Usury in Christendom The Mortal Sin that was but Now is Not if it's helpful.
Thanks.
M.S.
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TIA responds:
Hello M.S.,
Thank you for your expression of appreciation for our website. Your words are very encouraging.
Regarding usury there is a general misunderstanding among American Catholics, especially traditionalists.
Let us try to discuss briefly the topic.
- According to Natural Law. If a person saved enough during his life he may buy not only one house, but two. Since he does not need the second
to live in, he rents it out. The tenant of his house pays him a rent as justice demands, which habitually is established by the market price. Is it fair for the owner of the property to receive that rent? Obviously, it is just. Many men in the past used to buy one or two extra houses so that after their deaths, their wives and children could live from the rent.
- If it is according to justice to receive the rent from one or two houses that a man has acquired honestly or inherited from his father, it is also just for him to invest the money value of a house in a financial operation to earn a profit analogous to the rent of that house.
- Therefore, to earn an interest from a capital that a man accumulated honestly is according to the Natural Law.
- The question of justice applies only when the interest of the capital is disproportionate to the invested value. If the profit is above what is reasonable, it is not just.
- According to Catholic doctrine. These principles of Natural Law are ratified by Catholic Morals with the parable of the talents Our Lord
preached in the
Gospel of Matthew (25:14-30).
Indeed, censuring the servant who hid the talent he received, Our Lord said: “Thou oughtest therefore to have committed my money to the bankers, and at my coming I should have received my own with usury.” (Matt 25: 27) Usury here means interest.
So, from the Divine Lips we learn that it is morally correct to invest money with bankers and have a reasonable profit. - Since to have a profit of a capital is morally correct, the question becomes knowing how much – what percentage – a person can profit from that capital.
- On this point, given the anti-capitalist and socialist bent the post-Conciliar Church has taken in the last 60 years, this question has not been updated properly. As far as we remember from the previous Magisterium, the profit of the capital should be in accordance with the laws of the land, plus the depreciation and maintenance expenses.
- So, the just profit would be this; above a certain amount it is not just. It is to this excessive profit that the word usury is normally applied today.
We hope this explanation answers your question.
Cordially,
TIA correspondence desk
Posted January 20, 2026
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Enclosed please find an additional check (donation) for your work. Thank you (again!) for all that you do. My last note was handwritten and no doubt barely legible, so I include here a few more words of praise and appreciation.
You dedicate your lives to helping others and to defending the True Faith. I’m sure that this is at times a lonely endeavor. Most especially – for you and others like you – who work through mass media communication. And although I know that you hear back from many you help, it would be impossible for you to know of all of those for whom you’ve been a guiding light, a friend, and a profound influence. Even if it were possible for every one of these people to write to you, you’d still never known about all of the people that they, in turn, were able to help after having learned from you.
The story of TIA, your story, is even more inspiring in view of the small numbers of us who still hold the True Faith. You at TIA are great warriors working to preserve and restore the Faith in this most difficult of times. It is not possible to overstate the importance of your work and of your accomplishments over the past two plus decades.
It was only last February when I first learned of Our Lady of Good Success and TIA; I was introduced to both through your outstanding 3-part video series on YouTube. Watching these videos and spending the next several months studying your website archives was so amazingly helpful to me. And to my husband as well. We are now working our way through the many great books you’ve written, translated and published along with books you’ve recommended by other authors.
I think I shared with you before that I’ve struggled practically my entire life trying to understand the world in which we now live. That lifetime of confusion ended abruptly and completely when you introduced me to Our Lady of Good Success. No words can ever express my gratitude!
In closing, allow me to share one more happy thought. That comfort and understanding was brought to me by Our Lady of Good Success is most fitting! You see, I came into the world on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception on the first day of a special Marian year – the first in Church’s History. Fulgens Corona was declared by Pope Pius XII in commemorative photos from back then I thought you’d like. I look forward to the day when pictures of our beautiful Blessed Mother will again be displayed all around the world, including on postage stamps!
Thank you again, from the bottom of my heart.
You are in my prayers
K.M.S.