Visibility vs. Infallibility in the Catholic Church
When the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on earth?—Christ in Saint Luke 18:8. From 2013 to 2020, a website called The Wild Voice conglomerated all of Francis' heresies, errors and leftist statements. After listing hundreds of these, the site-manager apparently couldn’t keep up and stopped compiling it in 2020. Now, Leo continues the exact same theology, but presented in a less bombastic manner. But what if Leo goes further and "ordains a woman" or "changes the words of consecration"? Of course, leftists will celebrate. Mainstream US bishops, however, will ignore it. They will simply hope the fall-out from this next iteration of apostasy fall on the heads of successors—not themselves. Yet the traditional response will be more complex. There will be three categories of traditionalists in reaction: 1. Those who opposed his validity from the start (and [...]
From Novus To Tradition with Elizabeth.
Mrs. Elizabeth Leblanc interviews me on my move from novus to tradition. She can be followed on her podcast “The Little Way Home” on any podcast app.
“Not My Fault If He Looks At Me Lustfully.”
Catholic men and women frequently debate modesty both online and in real life. Inevitably, a woman will chime in and say: “It’s not my fault if a man looks at me lustfully.” Well, sometimes it is and sometimes it's not. The fact is that this is based much more on what you are wearing than how much beauty God has given you. Thus, I have written here and podcasted here on pre-Vatican II parameters of modesty. I still hold to those. But today we're going to look Scripturally at the ancient-wound from the Fall in the Garden from a more philosophical than practical point of view. I’m sure some readers have already had an epinephrine dump in their system with such a volatile topic, but let’s take a deep breath and go way back to Adam and Eve. You see, [...]
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 https://youtu.be/1ki_djhOkag
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? [...]