Fr. David Nix interviews Fr. Calvin Robinson on the history of Christian border-defense and foreign invaders. Fr. Robinson’s new book is titled “The Silent Jihad” and it can be found here: https://shop.newchristianright.com/products/the-silent-jihad -Subscribe to Fr. Nix’s YouTube channel for free here.
p/c sjvcenter.org In Priest Psych Unit: Part 1, I gave an introduction to what happens to Catholic priests who are sent to psychological behavioral centers. Some men request a sabbatical there. But other priests (usually the conservative ones) are sent there by a bishop to break them of their orthodoxy (usually hung on the red-herring of "rigorism" or "scrupulosity.") Today, I interview a priest in the latter category. In the below interview, he will go by the pseudonym of "Fr. Paul." However, he is a friend of mine and he is a priest from a different diocese who was sent away for "treatment." Before this interview, let me give a [...]
-The Roman Catechism of Trent (RCT) p. 316-327. -The Sacraments, ep. 29. -My site: https://www.padreperegrino.org/donate/ -My Substack: https://padreperegrino.substack.com
p/c Globe photo/Lisa Kay, St. Luke Institute, Silver Spring, MD. Some priests were sent by their bishop to the funny-farm to heal them. Others were sent there to break them of their intransigent orthodoxy. By now, most American Catholics who are at least 30 years old know of one Catholic priest (or two) who has been sent away for "treatment" by the diocese. If the priest was liked by the parish, most of the faithful remained hush-hush about why he got sent packing. If he was a distrusted priest, well, lay-lips might be a little looser: Was Father sent away for alcoholism? Did he have a girlfriend? Did he [...]
p/c V. Cardenas at TPR. Spoiler alert: I'm going to ruin the end of a book by Michael O'Brien called The Lighthouse. The spoiler only applies to this paragraph, not the rest of my article. The main character in the book is a loner named Ethan who runs a lighthouse in Canada. By the end of the book, it seems his life is a failure. However, he ends up giving his life in a storm for a Nigerian man who later becomes a priest. Also, a wooden-sculpture of a bird he made in Canada washes up on a beach in Brazil to the delight of a little girl who finds [...]
For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through Him.—St. John 3:17. Perhaps the most debated dogma within the Catholic Church today is the teaching that "outside the Church there is no salvation." In Latin, that is Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus (EENS.) Even though I'm no huge fan of the new Catechism, even that CCC has a whole section titled "outside the Church there is no salvation," in which the ancient teaching is upheld (albeit with excessive nuances) beginning in CCC 845. Of course, 19 centuries of real teaching of Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus was [...]
Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”—Genesis 3:1. In Part 1 of Did God Really Say (Found on the Update section of my site this week) I told my own conversion story, explaining how God initially moved me from a progressive view of Biblical scholarship to a traditional Catholic view. This set the ground for my later conversions on both the moral life and even the liturgical life as a priest. I specifically credited a Hahn tape set on Providentissimus Deus [...]
Or how I became a "Catholic Fundamentalist." In 2024, I gave a talk at a women's conference at a traditional Catholic parish called My Two Conversions. I explained how in high school, I was a pretty liberal Catholic who worked at The Catholic Worker Soup Kitchen in the afternoons. Perhaps in the evening, I might be found at a downtown Denver coffee-shop writing letters against the death penalty for Amnesty International. But, at 16 years old, I had a big conversion and I came to believe that Christ was truly present in the Blessed Sacrament. Then, another 16 years later (several years after ordination, in fact) I became a traditional [...]
-How Mary as the Moon guides us to Christ the Sun in an unprecedented Church eclipse. -Donate = https://www.padreperegrino.org/donate/
The top left is John Calvin, the theological father of modern Presbyterianism who believed in Double-Predestination (the notion that God creates some people for heaven and God creates others for hell.) The top right is St. Francis De Sales, a Catholic saint and doctor of the Church. Both said a lot about pre-destination. Granted, we Catholics have some Church Fathers who seemed to have flirted with Double Pre-Destination even before John Calvin did, so it's not a clear-cut topic. But ultimately, St. Francis De Sales navigated the true way between the Fathers and Common-Sense on God's mercy. Fr. Ludwig Ott has a book titled Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma in [...]
