Gerry Matatics Still Alive! (Says he'll prove it by embarking on August 5-15, 2010 lecture tour of New England & New York)
I want to begin by thanking the thousands of people who've been sending flowers, condolence cards, and links to online traditional Catholic dating services to my wife all this year.
Because I had not updated my website since December 28, apparently these good foik had concluded that the only possible explanation for this was my untimely (?) death. But as Mark Twain once famously quipped in a cable he sent to a newspaper that had mistakenly published his obituary, the reports of my death, too, have been greatly exaggerated (no doubt fueled by wishful thinking on the part of some).
By the way, I was totally kidding about the flowers, etc. (including, hopefully, about the dating services): no one really sent any condolences (or even congratulations) to my wife. To be fair, the lack of c... Read more
Christmastide Greetings / New website debuts Jan 1 (God willing)
Dear Friends and Supporters:
Apology
My apologies for being late in posting these greetings and best wishes for this blessed season celebrating the birth of Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. My two December trips ended up being far more complicated than I had originally anticipated, and wreaked havoc with my schedule as a result.
Please keep in mind that Christmas is not a single day, but rather a liturgical season -- in fact an entire "matching set" of mini-seasons of increasing scope, like a series of nested boxes, or a matching set of luggage with smaller suitcases fitting inside progressively larger ... Read more
Deadline 2012: Triumph of the New World Order?
From Saturday, November 28, through Wednesday, December 16, my 300-city “megatour” will continue, bringing a dramatically modified version of my trademark talk on the counterfeit Catholicism and connected crises of our day to several cities in New Mexico, west Texas, Oklahoma, as well as an unexpected return to Virginia and Maryland – two states I had already previously swept on my megatour and to which I had therefore not planned (until now) to return.
In our disheartening age of spiritual apathy and blindness, there is widespread indifference to such key theological issues as the true nature of the Second Vatica... Read more
Apology, and deadline extended on new 25-CD set
NOTE (added Sept 21): My deepest apologies for not having update... Read more
"Water, Water Everywhere" on the Feast of St. John the Baptist
“My brothers, count it all joy when you shall undergo various trials…” (James 1:2) “Through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God.” (Acts 14:21)
Once again I must crave my readers’ indulgence and ask their forgiveness for having allowed a lapse of a little over a month since the last time I updated my website, just as I was leaving on the May 14-28 segment of my ongoing “megatour.”
This latest segment cons... Read more
Exposing Lawlessness in Church and State: The Megatour Continues (May 14-27)
Once again I must apologize for not having updated my website for a few weeks. Unfortunately, the planning and preparation for this next upcoming segment of my multi-year, 300-city, cross-country megatour has been unusually difficult, and has consumed nearly all my free time for these past few weeks.
From May 14 to May 27 I will be driving to and speaking at thirteen events in eleven cities in seven states: Pittsburgh PA, Grand Rapids MI, South Bend IN, Chicago IL, ... Read more
A Useful Tool for Exposing Counterfeit Catholicism
[Note: We've made several new additions to our online store in the past few days: 5 books, audiotape versions of all our single CD titles, and now a 50% discount on the second edition of our "Counterfeit Catholicism" 6-CD (or 6-tape) set for those who previously purchased the first edition. Check it all out at www.gerrymatatics.org/shop]
This coming Easter — less than three weeks away now — will mark a spiritual 23rd anniversary for me. Although previously an adamantly anti-Catholic Protestant for 14 years, I eventually discovered, by God’s undeserved grace, the truth of the Catholic Faith. On Easter of 1986 I ... Read more
St. Joseph: Savior of God's Elect, Then and Now
[Note: Five new items have been added to our online store. Please go to www.gerrymatatics.org/shop to check them out!]
On March 3 I posted on this site an article entitled “St. Joseph, the Social Kingship of Christ, and the Solution to Our Nation’s Ills.” I did so because March is the month dedicated to St. Joseph, spouse of Our Lady and foster-father of Our Lord. (You can still read that article here: www.gerrymatat... Read more
The Keyes of the Kingdom? Barak and Benedict, Two Peas in A Pod
Alan Keyes on the legitimacy of the Obama presidency, and its remarkable relevance to an analogous ecclesiastical situation
There’s been a bit of media buzz recently – not only on the Internet but even on mainstream news networks such as MSNBC – about a recent video interview of Alan Keyes regarding the constitutional legitimacy of fellow African-American Barack Obama’s presidency. The 4-minute clip can be seen on YouTube here:
[I apologize to all my website's readers for not replacing the previous (February 9) article before now. This was due to technological tribulations beyond my control over the last two weeks. However, God sometimes uses even our failures to save souls: today (before the article was changed), out of the blue, I received a phone call from someone with a very strategic apostolate to the clergy of the Vatican II “church.” He happened to visit my website today and read the article (“Why, Grandma, What Big Ears You Have!”) which the present article now replaces. That article dramatically impacted his understanding of the current crisis, and we spoke for an hour upon the p... Read more
"Why Grandma, What Big Ears You Have!"
or, Why Real Catholics, like Red Riding Hood, Realize That Recognizing [Spiritual] Wolves Is Not Only Our Right But Our Responsibility
[Updated note: I've decided to leave the current essay up until the end of the month, i.e., Saturday, February 28. This gives me time to send a final bunch of e-mails&nbs... Read more
Why No New Article Yet (to Replace the One on Our Online Store's Grand Opening)
My apologies to all readers of my website. I have had many unforeseen setbacks and attacks on me yesterday and today that have prevented me from getting my new weekly essay posted today (Monday, January 26). It is now 2 am and I have an extremely painfully inflamed and incapacitated right wrist and arm (a severe case of carpal tunnel syndrome, I surmise -- for the first time in my entire life, after decades of computer work).
I hope to post something on the website Tuesday or Wednesday, God willing, but it will not be on Obama's presidency but on something I fear is far more dire (as the spiritual always outweighs the physical, for good or ill), and that is last week's much-trumpeted non-ev... Read more
Christmas Wishes, Year-End Report, New CDs, and Exciting Announcements
At this holy season of Our Lord's birth I want to express my deepest appreciation for the continued interest and support so many of you have shown me this year. As a family we pray the Rosary for all our supporters and their loved ones, living and deceased, every day.
Thanks to the generosity of our donors, 2008 was, for my full-time apologetics and evangelization apostolate’s 18th straight year in a row, our busiest year ever. As you know, in 2006 I launched my last-ever speaking tour, a “mega tour” to bring my case for “consistent Catholicism” to every one o... Read more
Gerry to present case for Catholicism to Baptist group, and to speak in UT, WY, CO, NM, west TX, and OK
Ever since getting back from July 8-25 speaking tour of New Zealand and Australia (the trip took place before, during, and after World Youth Day, which I forced myself to attend in Sydney) I've been eager to tell you all about my many exciting adventures on that trip -- including some amazing antics of the SSPX! But that, unfortunately, will have to wait for my next posting. (Stay tuned!) Something more urgent has just come up.One of the foremost Catholic educational leaders in our country has just presented me with a unique opportunity to make the Biblical case for Catholicism to a Baptist group in Albuquerque, New Mexico in the next month or two.Tonight I conclude my speaking tour of New Zealand, having spoken in Whangarei (July 11), Auckland (July 12), Wanganui (July 13), and Wellington (July 14) on the north island, and speaking tonight in Christchurch on the south island.
In every city I gave the talk I am giving all over the English-speaking world, "Counterfeit Catholicism: Why Vatican II, the New Mass, and Benedict XVI Are Not What They Claim to Be." In Auckland I not only gave this talk, I had a 4-hour debate with Mr. Kevin Bennett, SSPX lay apologist, on the topic, "Is Benedict XVI a true pope of the Roman Catholic Church?" A CD recording of the lively debate will be available soon.
Although at each location I'll give my showcase talk on "Counterfeit Catholicism: Why Vatican II, the New Mass, and Benedict XVI Are Not What They Claim to Be," this trip is unusual in that I will be giving numerous other talks as well on apologetics, family isues, and the sacraments, in order to make new digital recordings (with updated, improved content) of many talks I've been selling record... Read more
Final week of spring 2008 segment of mega tour: Gerry speaks in SC, NC, VA & MD April 28 - May 3
Since leaving home early Easter Monday morning to embark on my current nine-state (MD, VA, NC, SC, GA, FL, MS, LA, TX), 35-city spring 2008 segment of my six-year, 350-city mega tour, I've already driven nearly 7000 miles. And I still have seven cities and another 1000 miles to go.
So far my trip has taken me to Winston-Salem NC (March 24), Greenville SC (March 25), Atlanta GA (March 26), Jackson MS (March 27), Shreveport LA (March 28), Tyler TX (March 29), Dallas TX (March 30 afternoon), Ft. Worth TX (March 30 eve), Austin TX (March 31), San Antonio (April 1), Corpus Christi TX (April 2), Houston TX (April 3), Lafayette LA (April 4), New Orleans (April 5), Savannah GA (April 6), Asheville NC (April 7), Roanoke VA (April 17), Lynchburg VA (April 18), Charlotte NC (April 19 afternoon), Columbia SC (Ap... Read more
Gerry's Mega Tour continues March 24 - May 3
Dear Friends:
Please forgive me once again for having delayed so long in updating my website! I've written, and intended to post, many essays since my last posting (at Thanksgiving!) -- essays on the need to keep Advent as a penitential season, on the incarnational implications of Christmas, on the rigors of Lent, on the glories of Easter, on various favorite saints whose feast days have come and gone during the past few months, on Church teaching on the necessity of abjurations, on the truth regarding the baptism of desire/baptism of blood controversy, on legal vs. illegal clergy during the current crisis, on the latest Ratzinger razzle-dazzles (which, astoundingly, are bamboozling so many supposed "traditionalists"; witness, for instance, wha... Read more
A Unique and Urgent Christmas Gift
I just returned a few days ago from yet another whirlwind speaking tour (November 5-16), this time throughout central and southern Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, and portions of northern Alabama and southern Virginia.On this huge, hectic, high-speed trip I put over 3,300 miles on my car - which (thanks be to God) was fortunately (and amazingly) still drivable throughout the entire trip after hitting a large deer at 55 mph only three hours into my trip at 2:30 am in western PA. The impact not only caused everything in my car to come flying forward and completely cover myself and my 16-year-old son Peter, it crumpled and jammed shut the hood, smashed the front grill and both front fenders, but mercifully didn't disable the headlights.
Undaunted - and with no time to spare ... Read more
Arkansas At Last (and Tennessee, and more of Missouri)
My seven-year-long (2006-2012) Mega Tour has already hit 76 cities since it started last year. (For the complete list so far, click here.) I just finished, less than a week ago, a sweep of 8 cities in 6 days (Oct 18-23) throughout eastern PA, New Jersey, and Delaware. That was shortly after a ten-day trip (Sept 29-Oct 8) throughout western PA and Michigan, which in turn followed hard on the heels of a six-day tour (Sept 11-16) of West Virginia, Louisville KY, and Indianapolis IN.
When I spoke in Indianapolis, by the way (on Saturday, September 15), my six-hour-long version of the mega tour's message of "Consistent vs. Counterfeit Catholicism" (on weeknights I can only give a single-talk abridgement of this fuller presentati... Read more
Ten Facts to Face Up to
I've only just returned home on Monday of this week (Oct 8) from a speaking tour of western Pennsylvania and Michigan (11 cities in 9 days), but next Thursday I'm off again on another tour (Oct 18-23), this time an 8 cities in 6 days sweep of eastern PA, New Jersey, and Delaware. (See the "Upcoming Events" section of this website for exact dates and locations.) As with every segment of my six-year, 300-city mega tour (which has already hit 68 cities since it started last year), this will be my LAST speaking tour EVER of these areas, and may well be, therefore, the only chance for people living there to hear this urgent talk (described below) in person.
For those who can't hear my "live" presentation, let m... Read more
Do the FACTS Really Support "Sedevacantism"?
Starting tomorrow and for the next nine days (Sept 30 - Oct 7) my six-year-long (2006-2012), 300-city Mega Tour, which has already hit over 55 cities since it started last year, continues with talks in Erie PA (Sat, Sept 29), Jackson MI (Sun afternoon, Sept 30), Lansing MI (Sun eve, Sept 30), Kalamazoo MI (Mon, Oct 1), Grand Rapids MI (Tues, Oct 2), Traverse City (Acme) MI (Wed, Oct 3), Saginaw/Flint (Birch Run) MI (Thurs, Oct 4), Ann Arbor MI (Fri, Oct 5), Detroit (Southfield) MI (Sat, Oct 6), Pittsburgh PA (Sun afternoon, Oct 7), and Altoona PA (Sun eve, Oct 7). See the "Upcoming Events" section of my website's home page for exact times, locations, and other details.
Since my objective at each stop on my tour is the same -- to deliver in that city or ... Read more
How to Give Gerry's MegaTour a 50/50 chance
My 300-city Mega Tour has gone well so far, thanks be to God. I've been able, by God's grace, to speak in over 50 cities to date. (The complete list can be found elsewhere on my website.)
At each venue I speak on "Counterfeit Catholicism: Why Vatican II, the New Mass, and Benedict XVI Are Not What They Claim to Be," a talk I am continually updating, refining, and adding new elements to. In it I try to provide everything necessary to understand the magnitude of the current crisis (the worst in the 2,000-year history of the Church):
• what Sacred Scripture, Our Lady, saints (such as St. Nicholas of Flue) and Doctors of the Church predict about the great apostasy
• the long-standing plans of Freemasonry, Judaism, and Co... Read more
The Mega Tour and the Message, Part 1
Once again I must make an abject apology for not having updated my website for awhile. (My last posting was mid-October!) Keeping up the frantic pace of my “Mega Tour,” in which I am determinedly revisiting and speaking in every city and town I’ve ever spoken in throughout my entire 17-year career as a full-time Catholic apologist (speaking in a different state nearly every month, and on each occasion sweeping the entire state) – has proven far more time-consuming than I could ever have imagined.As a result of the rigors of my schedule I consistently fall hopelessly behind in attending to other aspects of my apostolate. This is true not only during the days when I’m actually on the road, but even in between trips as well, when much of my time is taken up with designing fliers and ads in order to publiciz... Read more
Wake Up, New England!
What should faithful, orthodox Catholics in New England who love our Catholic Tradition think of Vatican II, the New Mass and new sacraments, and Benedict XVI?
Over the next few days I hope, by God's grace, to be answering that question from Sacred Scripture, Sacred Tradition, the Fathers and Doctors of the Church, and the infallible teachings of the Catholic Magisterium, as I speak in various New England cities and towns:
Portsmouth NH: Wednesday, August 16, 7:30 pm
Fitchburg MA: Thursday, August 17, 7:30 pm
Portland ME: Friday, August 18, 7:30 pm
Worcester MA: Saturday, August 19, 1:30-5:30 pm
Newton MA (Boston area): Sunday, August 20, 2:30-6:30 pm
Warwick RI (Providence... Read more
Standing for the Truth, Part 2: Banned Near Boston (revised July 27)
Ever since my conversion to Catholicism, by God's grace, on Easter of 1986, I have studied and struggled to adequately account for the prevailing heterodoxy -- if not outright apostasy -- of the post-Vatican II establishment. In this new series of weekly essays, to be posted here over the next several weeks, Gerry talks about the new Biblical Foundations International, considers the cunning of clever counterfeits and the cabals that conceive them, blows the whistle on Benedict XVI, sounds off about "sedevacantism" and the SSPX, exposes the prevalence of previously-condemned heresies in "conservative" and even "traditionalist Catholic" circles, explains his "episcopal epiphany" and bemoans the blight of bogus bishops, rediscovers the recusant Roman Catholics of the English "Reformation," reveals why he no longer attends the churches of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP), unmasks the New Mass for what it is, blasts those who use "baptism of desire&quo... Read more 15 October 2005 (revised October 16) Dear Friends: Dear Friends: 1) To demonstrate the Biblical foundations of the Catholic Faith, in order to vindicate authentic Catholicism, not Protestantism, as the real "Bible-believing Christianity," and to expose the varieties of Protestantism as man-made frauds. 2) To equally expose the "neo-Catholicism" that has taken over the structures of the Catholic establishment since the Second Vatican Council as being a counterfeit Catholicism, whose radical departures from traditional Catholic teaching, worship, and life have over the last forty years (a biblical "generation") successfully robbed millions of Cathol... Read more
For nearly two decades I resisted the rather troubling results of my researches. But, as all readers of these words presumably know by now, early last year I finally came to some decidedly unpopular but unavoidable conclusions regarding the un-Catholic nature of the Vatican II “Church,” due to its novel doctrines in the areas of ecclesiology, ecumenism, Church-state relations, and r... Read moreStanding for the Truth, Part 1
A Long-Overdue Update, Apology & Invitation
St. Teresa of Avila, Virgin
I’m quite vexed (and not a little embarrassed) that it has taken me this long to simply find the time to update the “Gerry’s Word” feature on my website. I posted the previous one on June 30th — three and a half months ago!
Ever since I launched Biblical Foundations International in January 1991 (this is our fifteenth year!), I’ve always bitte... Read moreApology, Summer Update, and Exciting Announcement
I have an exciting announcement to make regarding the St. Jerome Study Center, but first I wish to apologize to my website visitors for not having been able to update it (before now) since March!
As many of you know, I had a horrendously hectic speaking schedule for the entire month of April, giving over two dozen talks in over a dozen cities up and down the East coast (having to drive to each one).
First, I left home on April 1 for a 4-day whirlwind speaking tour (with Michael Semin, Director of the St. Joseph Institute in Prague) of New York City, Newark NJ, Philadelphia PA, Baltimore MD, and Washington DC. From Washington I had to immediately drive the 5 hours back home to Scranton PA, pick up materials, and drive to a five-day traditional Catholic ... Read moreOur Mission, and Archbishop Sheen's Prophecy
The mission of this apostolate, Biblical Foundations International, is two-fold: