Fr. Isaac on New “Marian” Vatican Document.
-Fr. Isaac on Rumble: https://rumble.com/user/SOTI?e9s=src_v1_cbl -Fernandez’ “Mater Populi Fidelis”: https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_ddf_doc_20251104_mater-populi-fidelis_en.html -Francis wanting to call the angel a “liar:” https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2015/may/documents/papa-francesco_20150529_bambini-malati-santa-marta.html -Francis’ blatant heresy on Mary: “No one is born saint:” https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/speeches/2018/december/documents/papa-francesco_20181221_dipendenti-vaticani.html -WM review: https://www.wmreview.org/p/co-redemptrix-the-testimony-of-popes?r=nz485&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=audio-player
PIP 9: Rules #17-18.
-Peregrino Ignatian Pathways (PIP) #9: Rules #17-18 in the the discernment of spirits from the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola. -The Suscipe prayer of St. Ignatius: “Take, Lord, receive all my liberty, my memory, my understanding, and my entire will. All I have and call my own, You have given all to me. To You, Lord, I return it. Everything is Yours: do with it what You will. Give me only Your love and Your grace, that is enough for me.” -Donate: https://www.padreperegrino.org/donate/ -Telegram: https://t.me/padreperegrino
The Faithful Departed: Seven Things Catholics Forgot.
NB Because this article is so long, yet so important for the month of November, it will be my only article this week (except for perhaps another one on the infrequently-viewed Life-Update pull-down.) November is the month where we pray for our faithful departed, for those who repose in the Lord. Clearly, those in heaven cannot benefit from our prayers. Similarly, those in hell cannot benefit from our prayers, either. Thus, our prayers on earth may only benefit those who are currently in Purgatory. Purgatory is that temporary state of purging fire that heals the deceased who are saved, yet must still answer to God's justice for those sins for which they have not yet made reparation while they were on earth. All those in Purgatory will eventually make it to heaven. Thus, those Poor Souls in Purgatory are God's [...]
The “Seamless Garment” Is Quiet Propaganda for Abortion.
In 2023, Bishop Prevost spoke in Spanish at a Catholic University in Peru after receiving an honorary doctorate. Here are two extremely important paragraphs, originally translated from the Spanish to English here: These reflections particularly concern issues related to the value of human life. Last week, Cardinal Blase Cupichdelivered another address at Fordham University in New York, marking the 40th anniversary of Cardinal Bernardin’s original speech. Cardinal Bernardin, deeply concerned about how abortion and other social justice issues had come to divide certain sectors within the Church, offered an important response rooted firmly in Church doctrine. From this teaching, he proposed looking outward, towards society, within a framework he called a “consistent ethic of life.”Cardinal Bernardin continued developing this idea up until his death. “Bernardin’s vision suggested understanding the Church’s moral teachings as responding holistically to the many challenges affecting [...]
Ratio of Death Penalty to Abortion Deaths
The above is not an abortion. It is a famous picture of surgery performed on an unborn baby. I only use it because it is more appropriate to this family-friendly article than an image of violence. Abortion Stats In 2023, I wrote an article titled “The Pill” Kills More Than Surgicals where we consider how the Oral Contraceptive Pills (not only the so-called "Morning After" Pills) have abortifacient capabilities. I propose in that article that an extremely low estimate of zygotes killed after fertilization (but before implantation) is about one billion a year globally, especially when one considers breakthrough ovulation. Again, the Pill kills more than a billion babies a year. Similar stats are found in Who's At The Center of Your Marriage... the Pill or Jesus Christ? Contraception's Disintegrating Effect on Marital Harmony a book by Mr. Patrick McCrystal, [...]
RCT 69: The Mass is a Sacrifice.
-The Roman Catechism of Trent (RCT) p. 269-277. -The Sacraments, ep. 21. -My Site: https://www.padreperegrino.org -Telegram: https://t.me/padreperegrino
Reception of Catholic Converts in Tradition.
As we will see below, the order of operations is: 1) Accept Christ. 2) Abjure past errors and make a profession of the Catholic Faith. 3) Actual (or conditional baptism.) 4) Lifetime confession. 5) All other sacraments. Recently, God has been using me to bring some older folks into the Catholic Church. One of these was the mother of a friend of mine who had been raised Lutheran. After her daughter and her granddaughter and I visited her in the nursing home, she decided to go from Lutheran to Catholic on her deathbed. At the time she made this decision, she had almost no dementia or senility, so no one can accuse us of making a "gullible conversion." In other words, she entered the Church with her full consent of the will. What is the key to such a conversion? [...]
Leftism: The Easiest Way to Be Selfish.
p/c BBC. Driving across the desert, I was thinking of my favorite saint (outside the 1st century) St. Francis Xavier. St. Francis was converted by St. Ignatius of Loyola in the 16th century at the University of Paris and he went on to baptize a half million people in East Asia. On his missions, he was pure charity to the Indians but he was sometimes fire and brimstone to the Portuguese settlers who he constantly found whoring, trading, slaving and fighting. After numerous fruitless warnings on the eternal salvation of these men who were impeding his mission, Xavier finally wrote King John of Portugal to tell him (in sober, respectful terms as only a Spaniard can do) that if King John (who normally ordered people around) didn’t tell the Portuguese soldiers to stop the pillaging of the colonies, he would [...]
PIP 8: Rules #15-16.
Fr. Dave Nix continues “Peregrino Ignatian Pathways” (PIP) # 8: Rules #15 and 16 in the discernment of spirits from the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola. -The Suscipe prayer of St. Ignatius: “Take, Lord, receive all my liberty, my memory, my understanding, and my entire will. All I have and call my own, You have given all to me. To You, Lord, I return it. Everything is Yours: do with it what You will. Give me only Your love and Your grace, that is enough for me.” -Donate: https://www.padreperegrino.org/donate/
A Day In The Life (Audio.)
Airport tales and meeting an old bishop friend again. I will be speaking at LifeSite News' Rome Life Forum on 5 December 2025. Please come to Rome and we can hopefully find time together after the conference.