Doctrinal Pitfalls to Each Traditional Group.
Today we consider the intellectual pitfalls to the FSSP, SSPX and sedevacantists, specifically on the topics of the papacy and Vatican II to show no one has the "Rosetta Stone" to the Church crisis. This is a very long one, but I think you’ll find it worth it if you can find the time to sit down and read it. It’s ultimately to unify—not divide—all the traditional groups under Jesus and Mary. But we have to start with humility towards each other. Humility is why you will see that I try to disprove even my own camp of views towards the Church crisis below. But let's start at the basics for the few readers who are new to these debates: Many newcomers to the debates on the Fraternal Sacerdotal Society of St. Pius X (FSSPX or SSPX) are surprised to [...]
8th Sunday After Pentecost Sermon.
This may be the most confusing line in the New Testament: "Make unto you friends of the mammon of iniquity, that when you shall fail, they may receive you into everlasting dwellings."—St. Luke 16:9. Let's see what the Church Fathers say about it. -Donate: https://www.padreperegrino.org/donate/
Death Penalty for Post-Aborts?
p/c Statesman Journal. My answer is "No" to the death penalty for those who have committed abortion, but the abolitionists make a logical argument. Before I get to my answer, let me say I am no softie on abortion. I still try to pray and counsel at the abortion center every other week. I have been arrested for peaceful prayer inside abortion centers on the East Coast twice. But I am not as extreme as the "abolitionists" and a few Catholics who say that women who have had abortions should receive the Death Penalty. Do people really say such things? Yes. Although NPR is rarely to be trusted, they quoted a pro-life woman who stated this on that topic: "God values human life so highly that when one human chooses to murder another innocent human, they forfeit their own life. [...]
RCT 79: Extreme Unction 1: Institution.
-The Roman Catechism of Trent (RCT) p. 328-333. -The Sacraments, ep. 31. -Donate: https://www.padreperegrino.org/donate/
Due-Process: Torquemada vs. Tucho.
Today, we are going to look at canonical due-process as executed by the 15th century Spanish Grand Inquisitor, Tomás De Torquemada (top left) versus that of Cardinal Tucho Fernandez (top-right.) Tucho is the Cardinal who allegedly-excommunicated the SSPX recently on 2 July 2026. (SSPX is the American abbreviation for FSSPX which stands for the Fraternity of the Priestly Society of Pope St. Pius X.) Although a heretic can’t excommunicate anyone (as explained here by the WM Review) we are going to suspend that obvious ecclesial reality in order to evaluate the difference in legal process between the 15th century Dominican and the porn-writer currently living in the Vatican. Fr. William Saunders of the Diocese of Arlington wrote a short two-piece series on the Inquisition. In Part 1, he wrote the basics of why the Inquisition was established: The Lord entrusted [...]
Sixth Sunday After Pentecost.
-Traditional Latin Mass sermons by Fr. David Nix. Today I preach on St. Mark 8:1-9. -Donate: https://www.padreperegrino.org/donate/
The Heresy of Consequentialism.
Even JP2's Veritatis Splendor tackles the modernist heresies of moral theology called "consequentialism" and "proportionalism." These two errors "claim to draw the criteria of the rightness of a given way of acting solely from a calculation of foreseeable consequences deriving from a given choice." He continues that proportionalism "weighs the various values and goods being sought, focuses rather on the proportion acknowledged between the good and bad effects of that choice, with a view to the 'greater good' or 'lesser evil' actually possible in a particular situation."—Veritatis Splendor #75. In fact, Veritatis Splendor quotes Christ telling the rich young man that to be saved, he first must keep the commandments. So what do keeping the commandments have to do with the recent heresies of moral theology called "consequentialism" and "proportionalism"? To understand consequentialism, picture this imaginary story that has happened [...]
RCT 78: Emergency Sacraments.
The Sacraments, ep. 30. -Donate = https://www.padreperegrino.org/donate/ -Act of Perfect Contrition: https://youtu.be/ncNNME98vyA?si=xLiq4rPOiee8PGq6
Fifth Sunday After Pentecost Sermon.
Sermon from Fr. David Nix on the 5th Sunday After Pentecost on 1 Pet 3 and Luke 15. Music bumpers by Enrique Aguilar.
Did the Pharisees Keep the Law?
One of the hazards in growing up in a Protestant nation like the USA is that our theology is suffused with dispensationalism and odd evangelical movies. Because of this, many American Christians (including Catholics) picture Jesus as a hippie with no concern for the moral law. The Pharisees, on the other hand, are portrayed as the people of the First Century in Israel who were overly-concerned with the Commandments and the Jewish law. Indeed, many Christian movies make Jesus out to be the beatnik who dissolved the moral law while the Pharisees were not only hypocrites, but even bad for thinking the Commandments mattered. The Church Fathers, however, paint a very different picture. As we will see from Scripture and the Fathers below, the Pharisees were not only hypocrites—they didn’t even take the Jewish law seriously. Firstly, let us remember [...]