On this weekend of the Holy Name of Mary, we ask: If I want to reach up towards Mary’s unsurpassed charity, how do I reach down towards her unparalleled humility? We will see some practical answers, even though we’ll never be exactly like her. Special thanks to Enrique Aguilar for these music bumpers.
p/c Greg Derr, AP and Patriot Ledger. Politics and law are downstream of theology and philosophy. For better or for worse. It is currently September 2026 and the Lindsay Clancy trial was just declared a “mistrial.” As you probably know, in 2023, Clancy killed her three children, aged 5 years old, three years old and eight months old. That mother strangled her three children in Massachusetts, and she did it on purpose while her husband was running errands for her. She and her husband were apparently baptized Catholics. The trial has obviously entered the national spotlight due to the gruesomeness of the crime, the hung jury (one lone male standing [...]
Below is a letter I received from a mother of a large family. She and her husband gave me permission to publish it. I am keeping them anonymous, as well as their bishop and diocese. The TLM community in my diocese is suffering greatly. We are still mourning the loss of our Latin Mass; that school of holiness, valor, beauty, and love. It was our identity; the light of our families and the means of constant conversion in which we were all deeply happy and experienced such sweet holiness. Totally erased in the blink of an eye. It has been viciously torn away from us with absolutely no concern about [...]
-The Roman Catechism of Trent p. 350-360. -The Sacraments, ep. 35. -My site: https://www.padreperegrino.org/donate/
You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.—Our Lord Jesus Christ in Saint Matthew 5:14-16. Young Christians today claim they want an “aura” that “goes hard.” That’s good, but then why do boomer Catholic influencers still insist on being relevant? Older Catholic influencers may claim their “humanity is a [...]
As most of you know, I try to go to pray at the third largest Planned Parenthood in the world here in Denver, CO. As I have written before, they kill 10,000 babies a year. So, every other week, I go there to do minor-exorcisms, my Divine Office and the Rosary. My team of sidewalk counselors is usually better than me in English, but my team often uses me for the Spanish-speaking or French-speaking couples entering the center who may be abortion-minded. On the way to the abortion center one day this summer, I was listening to the Liturgy of the Hours audio-version just before pulling in to the parking [...]
From Gal 5 and Mt. 6.
p/c NYT. Middle-Eastern military-aged men entering Spain. In part 1, Race Relations Part 1: The State, we discussed "dialectical racism" at the level of the State, namely, the deceit of modern Marxists to overturn Western civilization under the pretext of being "non-racists." Today, we will see how something similar happens within (or rather, against) the true Catholic Church. Neo-modernists often cloak their heresy of religious indifferentism (the error that all religions lead to heaven) under a fake missionary spirit so as to remain immune from criticism from the right. Section A will be The Problem and Section B will be The Solution. At the risk of being self-centered, I am [...]
It's not 'reverse racism.' It's just racism. If it didn’t take the Holy Name of Jesus in vain, I would say that Clint Eastwood’s Gran Torino would be one of my top ten favorite movies. The main character, Walt Kowalski is played by Eastwood in that 2008 flick (see picture above.) Walt is a grumpy old white man disgusted by the shallowness and selfishness of his children and grandchildren. Meanwhile, he has good friends of many different races to whom he shows affection by endless racial slurs against them. They happily return the favor with insults to him. Real men often show affection by ripping on each other. Spoiler alert: [...]
-Minor Orders -The Roman Catechism of Trent (RCT) p. 345-350 -The Sacraments, ep. 34. -My Site: https://www.padreperegrino.org
