Ten Signs You Might Belong to a Cult.
The above left picture is Msgr. Ricardo Coronado-Arrascue, a former Augustinian who was born and raised in Peru. Msgr. Coronado taught me Canon Law at St. John Vianney seminary in Denver, CO. I still communicate with him frequently. The top right is Ana María Quispe Díaza, a woman whom Coronado canonically represented in his home country of Peru after she accused a different priest of abusing her when she was a minor. Msgr. Gene Gomulka, another canceled priest with whom I communicate in real life, writes the following about the two people in the above pictures: The three Peruvian abuse victims who accused Pope Leo of covering up their abuse were represented by Msgr. Ricardo Coronado, who also defended other victims who claimed that various Peruvian bishops, members of the Episcopal Conference of Peru, covered up abuse reported in their [...]
PIP 10: Rules #19-22.
Peregrino Ignatian Pathways (PIP) #10: Rules #19-22 in the discernment of spirits from the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola. (This is the final of a ten part series.) -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
RCT 70: Penance 1.
The Roman Catechism of Trent (RCT) p. 278-286. The Sacraments, ep. 22. -My Site: https://www.padreperegrino.org -Ex-gangster Dominic Morrow was shot and went to hell. But God gave him another chance on earth when he was resuscitated. Even though he is not Catholic, he is now a Christian, and his description of hell lines up well with the old-school Catholic mystics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAJShDqxM1E -15 Mortal Sins most miss: https://www.padreperegrino.org/2019/08/mortalsins/
The Ends Don’t Justify the Jeans.
Guest post by Dr. Ed Mazza PhD, edmundmazza.com. p/c OSV News photo/Neon. In 2024, Conservative “darling” Sydney Sweeney was the protagonist in the horror movie Immaculate (above) in which she manages both to mock Our Lady and promote pornography: “The film contains blasphemy, sacrilegious jokes, gory violence, including torture and infanticide, grisly images, partial upper female nudity…”[1] Yet moral outrage of the Woke-Left over the recent Sydney Sweeney American Eagle jeans ad recently had many Conservatives—including many Catholics—cheering a victory for Sweeney and the cause of Tradition and Beauty.[2]This reaction, however, only goes to show just how poorly catechized today’s Christians are and how far the Overton Window has shifted in recent decades. The first fashion choice in history as Genesis depicts, was Adam and Eve’s “fig leaves.” But why cover-up what God created true, good and beautiful? Scripture, in fact, [...]
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 [...]