The short version of this podcast is that I am taking this next month offline, unless we (God-forbid) have another 9/11 or something. I am not only going to try to avoid posting and scrolling. I’m even going to do my best to refrain from writing articles or making podcasts from 19 Sept 2026 to 19 Oct 2026. Continue reading here.
The short version of this article is that I am taking this next month offline, unless we (God-forbid) have another 9/11 or something. I am not only going to try to avoid posting and scrolling on FB, IG, X, and TG. I’m even going to do my best to refrain from writing articles or making videos and podcasts from 19 Sept 2026 to 19 Oct 2026. This includes Substack. Even though this media blackout will not involve me being more secluded than my current life, I am still going to call this “a retreat” so I can go deeper into prayer. As I say to friends frequently, “This whole hermit [...]
p/c Pietro Torrigiano, John Fisher as a Young Man, Wikipedia. This is a letter I composed from one real bishop to another—the Bishop of Durham to St. John Fisher of England—but fictionally, some time in the 16th century. Your Lordship Bishop John Fisher, I greet you in the name of God, the most Blessed Trinity. And I, Bishop Cuthbert Tunstall, the Bishop of Durham, have been asked by Our Lord and King in his great mercy to grant you one last chance for you to re-consider your way of thinking, nay, for you to fall in line with the guidance of God under every bishop in England, except yourself. As [...]
This is a fictional letter I imagined from niece to uncle somewhere around the Mediterranean in the first century. My dearest beloved Uncle John, I write you in the love of God who is One, and our family who misses you greatly. At least, most of the family misses you. As you know, it has been four years since I have seen you. My mother (your beloved sister) tells me you are living across the Great Sea with the mother of the rabbi. But there are also horrible rumors you have been taken prisoner to a strange island of the Hellenists. If this rumor is true, who is taking care [...]
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 [...]
p/c Álex Zea, Europa Press, Andalusia, Spain. 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 [...]
-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 [...]
