31 10, 2024

Catholic Numbers Tank Globally

By |2024-10-30T22:36:00+00:00October 31st, 2024|Theology|

Before Vatican II, numbers of Catholics across the globe were exploding.  Consider just a few stats regarding American Catholics as listed in the Index of Leading Catholic Indicators: In 1930, the USA had 27,000 priests, but by 1965 that number nearly doubled, bringing the total number of American priests to 58,000. In 1930, the United States had 20,203,702 Catholics.  By 1965, that number had sky-rocketed to 45,640,619.  This means Catholics were not just reproducing, but making many converts. By 1965, American priests, nuns and lay people had built the world's largest conglomerate of hospitals, universities, high schools, grade schools and charitable organizations ever seen in the history of a young [...]

27 10, 2024

The Co-opting of Two Female Saints in “Dilexit.”

By |2024-10-27T20:58:18+00:00October 27th, 2024|Theology|

Jansenism was a heresy found over the past 400 years that put the emphasis on God's justice instead of God's mercy.  Jansenism is a bit like a mix between Calvinism and Catholicism.  Because of St. Margaret Mary and St. Therese's teaching of total trust in God, they are both often credited with putting the final nail in the coffin of Jansenism.  Indeed, that heresy was particularly strong in France in the 18th and 19th centuries.  Those two female saints are rightly credited for nearly ending Jansenism. However, modernism is the major heresy that threatens the Church today.  For the past 50 years, modernists have often labeled traditional Catholics as "Jansenists." [...]

24 10, 2024

St. Teresa of Ávila on Edifying Speech

By |2024-10-22T21:50:14+00:00October 24th, 2024|Theology|

St. Teresa of Ávila (top left) had much to say on holy speech, but it was summarized by an anonymous Jesuit (a loyal son of St. Ignatius of Loyola, top right) in a book now called Practical Meditations.  I know this is a short article for the second half of this week, but I found every sentence extremely convicting, so, I hope you do, too.  He summarizes her as writing: Speak little, especially when you are with many people.  Never praise yourself, your knowledge, your good actions, or your birth, unless you have reason to hope that it may be of use, and then do it humbly, remembering that these [...]

22 10, 2024

Dogma Evolves As Well As a Species

By |2024-10-22T12:40:31+00:00October 22nd, 2024|Theology|

p/c Nordic Biosite Dr. David Hillel Gelernter Ph. D is a Jewish man who is professor of computer science at Yale University.  At one point, he believed in Darwinian evolution.  But in 2019 he wrote a groundbreaking article called Giving Up Darwin that reveals his reversal on this.  It is probably my favorite proof against species-based evolution because it is neither biological nor theological, but rather mathematical.  I encourage you to read the entire article, but one excellent paragraph reads thus: "Do the numbers balance out? Is Neo-Darwinian evolution plausible after all? Axe reasoned as follows. Consider the whole history of living things—the entire group of every living organism ever. [...]

21 10, 2024

VLX 158: Mt 27:15-19. “I Have Suffered in a Dream.”

By |2024-10-21T16:24:34+00:00October 21st, 2024|Podcasts, Sermons, Talks|

-STV: https://spiritustv.com/@padreperegrino -Donate: https://www.padreperegrino.org/donate/ -Telegram: https://t.me/padreperegrino Gospel: Now at the feast the governor was accustomed to release for the crowd any one prisoner whom they wanted. And they had then a notorious prisoner called Barabbas. So when they had gathered, Pilate said to them, “Whom do you want me to release for you: Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Christ?” For he knew that it was out of envy that they had delivered him up. Besides, while he was sitting on the judgment seat, his wife sent word to him, “Have nothing to do with that righteous man, for I have suffered much because of him today in a dream.”

20 10, 2024

Convergence of Vocations

By |2024-10-20T16:15:37+00:00October 20th, 2024|Life|

At the end of summer 2024, I was in Western Europe and Western Africa on different missions.  While in Europe, I was about to offer Holy Mass a pro-life center and I noticed after donning my alb and cinture that I had the rest of my vestments on a car seat (see above picture.)  As it was a pro-life center across from an abortion center, the car seat was clearly destined for a poor family who would say "no" to abortion after being abortion-minded.  (Notice I don't say that we hope they would say "yes" to life, as saying "yes" to life already happened the minute they chose to unite [...]

17 10, 2024

Heresies Always Start Small

By |2024-10-18T01:28:23+00:00October 17th, 2024|Theology|

The Council of Nicea teaches that God the Son exists as one substance (homoousian) with God the Father, even though they are different persons of the Blessed Trinity. The word homoousian is Greek for consubstantial in Latin (which you say or sing every Sunday or Feast day at Holy Mass during the Creed.)  To deny the persons of the Trinity being consubstantial is to deny both the Divinity of Christ and the Blessed Trinity. This fact of orthodox Catholicism seems obvious to most Catholics today who have taken even one week of Christology classes at a Catholic University or seminary.  But in the fourth century, the heretic Arius denied this, [...]

15 10, 2024

Stop Compromising on These Two Commandments!

By |2024-10-15T16:00:45+00:00October 15th, 2024|Theology|

Featured image above shows two stained glass windows in the "Mary Keane Chapel" at the "La Salette Shrine" in Enfield, New Hampshire. There is a little-known but Vatican-approved apparition called Our Lady of La Salette.  Catholic Straight Answers explains the basics: "On Saturday afternoon, September 19, 1846, two children– Maximin Guiraud (age 11) and Melanie Calvat (age 14)– were tending sheep for their employers near La Salette in the French Alps. The effects of the French Revolution which had terrorized the Church, the blood spilt during the reign of Napoleon, the increasing secularization of social thought, and the rising political turmoil enveloping Europe had taken a serious toll on the [...]

14 10, 2024

Catholics Rescuing in North Carolina

By |2024-10-18T04:30:17+00:00October 14th, 2024|Podcasts, Sermons, Talks|

Ex-military and current trad-Catholic Logan Reed tells us of the supplies they're bringing to the storm victims of North Carolina following Hurricane Helene which hit October of 2024. Follow Logan Reed (@loganreednc) on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/loganreednc?igsh=bTRrMzlxYnFldnd1

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