Reminder that these are my weekly production goals: Monday: VLX (Video Lectio Divina) found on both YouTube and all podcast apps. Search Padre Peregrino. Tuesday: Blog here Wednesday: CPX (Catechism of Pius X) found on both YouTube and all podcast apps. Search Padre Peregrino. Thursday: Blog here Friday: Occasionally, TCE (Theology and Current Events) found on YouTube and all podcast apps. Saturday: Occasionally, See Life Update blog on pull-down section called Life.)
"They wound; they kill; they go down to hell."—St. Ignatius of Loyola, Spiritual Exercises #108. Leaving a sick call about 10 years into my priesthood, I ran into a gothic-looking fellow. He was about 30 years old and decided to strike up a conversation with me. I didn't have much time to talk, but I realized this would be one of his only interactions with a priest his whole life, so I couldn't brush him off. As usual, I had to listen to someone preach to me. (This is ironically more common than me preaching to someone.) In any case, this guy was a little different. He just wanted to [...]
Thoughts on how things have changed in higher education https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYjE7igRphI&t=27s
For I delivered unto you first of all, which I also received: how that Christ died for our sins, according to the scriptures: And that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day, according to the scriptures: And that He was seen by Cephas; and after that by the eleven.—1 Cor 15:3-5 DRB. The Apostle Paul is writing here that what he delivered over to the early Christians is exactly what he first received (tradidi enim vobis in primis quod et accepi.) And this tradition was not just "small-t tradition," but "Big-T Tradition." In other words, St. Paul delivered over Divine Revelation to others just as it [...]
Notice this tweet from the Catholic Charities of the diocese of Oakland, California and how it had one "like" in 22 hours. Perhaps nobody in the bay area pays attention to the Catholic Church anymore. Or perhaps most Bay Area LGBT folks who are ex-Catholic have no interest in "liking" a group that can't even stand for its own values. In other words, most people (straight or "gay") have no interest in "liking" a liberal branch of a conservative organization such as the Catholic Church. Everybody knows we Catholics traditionally stood for chastity and purity for those who are "straight" and those who struggle with other issues. However, twenty [...]
Should a young man who is a traditional Catholic "submarine" himself into his own diocese so as to get ordained? First, what does this question even mean? This means: "Should the young man who prefers the tradition of the Catholic Church join a Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) congregation -or- should he could join his home diocese by keeping his head down in a normie seminary so as to be ordained so that he can reach the average Catholic with the Gospel even if this means he must offer the new Mass in English (or Vietnamese or Spanish or French)? My answer is, "No, a young traditionalist should not 'submarine' through seminary [...]
We will consider weapons in Scripture and then weapons in the hands of Catholics if the 2nd amendment erodes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5Md51ev1aM
I'm fully aware there were heated debates on matters of speculative theology between Franciscans and Dominicans in the Middle Ages on topics such as "Is the intellect or the will the is the primary faculty in the beatific vision? (I think the Franciscans said the will and the Dominicans said the intellect.) I'm also fully aware there were heated political factions in the 19th century between Catholics and that already there were debates in politics between "liberals" and "conservatives." But far and away, Catholics in the 13th century and Catholics in the 19th century (and every century in between) did not use nasty titles modern like "traditional Catholic" or "liberal [...]
New Weekly Schedule: Mon: Video Lectio Divina (VLX) on YouTube or podcasts apps. Tues: Theology Blog (here) Wed: Catechism of Pius X (CPX) on YouTube or podcasts apps. Thurs: Theology Blog (here) Fri: Theology and Current Events (TCE) on YouTube or podcasts apps (if time.) Sat: Life Update under pull-down blog section called "Life" (if time.) The above is my new production schedule starting next week (barring retreats or emergencies. ) See "Padre Peregrino" on "Talks" section of blog or YouTube, Apple Podcasts, any Android podcast app and Bitchute. (Bitchute is my back-up to YouTube if the latter deplatforms me for not having "woke" enough material.) The picture at the [...]
In the Spring of 2019, 18 year old Kenrick Castillo, top left, charged an active shooter at his high school to block bullets from hitting his friends. Kenrick had already taken his Catholic faith very seriously and was only 18 years old when he died from this heroic act. A Catholic school teacher who knew him later recalled, “In a video from her class that she posted to Facebook, Kendrick [acted] out the part of Jesus, going to search for his apostles or to comfort a suffering person, blessing them with the sign of the cross and inviting them to join him." Kenrick's father, John Castillo, said to local news about his [...]
