Padre Peregrino – Theology from a wandering priest

17 07, 2025

Warning on Bad Prelates.
Warning on Bad Prelates.

Warning on Bad Prelates.

By Father David Nix|2025-07-18T11:30:26+00:00July 17th, 2025|Theology|

Lay Catholics are currently desperate for leadership in the hierarchical Church. Not finding any, they prop up fake-leaders. Why? There have been numerous psychological studies that show (in both secular and religious culture) men are more desirous of security than truth. Thus, Catholics today are following the normal patterns of humanity in this crisis. However, it’s more dangerous for Catholics because modernists (and apparently even trads) are now projecting true Catholicism on a non-Catholic leader (who has the whole world deceived as to leadership and devotion.) This is going to have dire eternal consequences upon countless souls. At this point, many Catholics think I am taking the dangerous road of [...]

15 07, 2025

From Charismatic To Traditional
From Charismatic To Traditional

From Charismatic To Traditional

By guest|2025-07-15T09:57:51+00:00July 15th, 2025|Theology|

This is a guest post written by my good friend Jesse Romero. With his permission, I reproduce it from his own site. I crosspost it because his move from charismatic to traditional was very much like my own, with both of our own parents having been involved in the Catholic charismatic movement. As always, Jesse's writing here is both clear and profound. Make sure to see my recent interview on his show starting at minute 21 here about a recent adventure in my life. The Toronto blessing started in 1994, it was something that swept Protestant pentecostalism by storm for several years and it made its way into the Catholic Charismatic [...]

10 07, 2025

The Priest As The Best-Man to Christ.
The Priest As The Best-Man to Christ.

The Priest As The Best-Man to Christ.

By Father David Nix|2025-07-09T19:02:54+00:00July 10th, 2025|Theology|

In Christ's Passion, we see what we ought to suffer for the truth, and in His resurrection, what we ought to hope for in eternity.—St. Thomas Aquinas At Golgotha in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, one can go to the exact site where Jesus Christ was crucified. Under a Greek altar, one can put one's fist into a hole going to the rocks split asunder and also where tradition tells us the Cross was placed during the crucifixion of the Son of God. Of all the icons that could have been used directly above the hole into the ground of Calvary's cross, they chose "Christ the Bridegroom." [...]

8 07, 2025

The Bombshell Without a Bang.
The Bombshell Without a Bang.

The Bombshell Without a Bang.

By Father David Nix|2025-07-08T10:45:28+00:00July 8th, 2025|Theology|

This month of July 2025, Miss Diane Montagna, an American journalist based in Rome, released an article here titled "Official Vatican Report Exposes Major Cracks in Foundation of Traditiones Custodes (TC.)" She writes: "The previously undisclosed text, which forms a crucial part of the official report by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on its 2020 consultation of bishops concerning Summorum Pontificum, reveals that 'the majority of bishops who responded to the questionnaire stated that making legislative changes to Summorum Pontificum would cause more harm than good.'" But only 30% of the bishops had even responded in that 2020 questionnaire. Miss Montagna asserts that a new report states [...]

3 07, 2025

The Human Soul is “Capax Dei.”
The Human Soul is “Capax Dei.”

The Human Soul is “Capax Dei.”

By Father David Nix|2025-07-03T23:07:57+00:00July 3rd, 2025|Theology|

St. Thomas Aquinas writes in the Summa I-II Q 2: Consequently man's happiness cannot consist in fame or glory. On the other hand, man's good depends on God's knowledge as its cause. And therefore man's beatitude depends, as on its cause, on the glory which man has with God; according to Ps. 90: "I will deliver him, and I will glorify him; I will fill him with length of days, and I will show him my salvation..." Fr. David: On social-media, I frequently see Catholics post pictures of saints while misrepresenting Church history or true theology. Such a post of a saint with bad theology may have thousands of likes [...]

1 07, 2025

US Bishops and Their Moneymaking Borders.
US Bishops and Their Moneymaking Borders.

US Bishops and Their Moneymaking Borders.

By Father David Nix|2025-07-02T01:07:01+00:00July 1st, 2025|Theology|

p/c PBS The USCCB continues to issue statements against Trump as they clamor for the billions back once received for illegal activity under the Biden Administration in facilitating open-borders in the United States. However, the Department for Homeland Security also takes the offensive. Homeland issued the following statement to Catholic Charities and the USCCB, among other NGOs: “The chairmen are examining whether these NGOs used taxpayer dollars to facilitate illegal activity, as the previous administration incentivized millions of inadmissible aliens to cross our borders—many of whom were subsequently aided by NGOs after being released at the border under the Biden-Harris administration’s mass catch-and-release policies.” Over the last 14 years, leftist [...]

26 06, 2025

Primacy of Conscience vs. Divine Revelation
Primacy of Conscience vs. Divine Revelation

Primacy of Conscience vs. Divine Revelation

By Father David Nix|2025-06-25T22:38:05+00:00June 26th, 2025|Theology|

For fifty years, heretics have been promoting the primacy of conscience. Taking a single line from St. Thomas Aquinas out of context, these clowns teach that if your conscience tells you to do one thing and the Bible tells you to do another thing, you should follow your conscience. Furthermore, they also say that an action classically-defined by the Magisterium as sinful is not a sin as long as you can prove to yourself that you either had ignorance in your actions or no-malice in your heart. You might think I am exaggerating here, but I saw this error creeping into moral theology so intensely twenty years ago that [...]

24 06, 2025

Ignore the Demoralization and Fight for Christ
Ignore the Demoralization and Fight for Christ

Ignore the Demoralization and Fight for Christ

By Father David Nix|2025-06-24T12:48:26+00:00June 24th, 2025|Theology|

p/c vladtepesblog.com Mr. Yuri Bezmenov was a KGB-defector from the USSR who came to the Western Hemisphere in the 1970s. Yuri once explained how ideological subversion always has to precede the Marxist physical revolution. He insisted that America had already undergone a communist moral revolution by the early 1980s. In that speech, Yuri said the goal for Communists upon America (even before any physical invasion) was "to change the perception of reality, of every American to such an extent that, despite the the abundance of information, no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interest of defending themselves, their families, their community and their country. It's a [...]

19 06, 2025

Islam Is Now Growing Faster Than Christianity.
Islam Is Now Growing Faster Than Christianity.

Islam Is Now Growing Faster Than Christianity.

By Father David Nix|2025-06-19T16:18:51+00:00June 19th, 2025|Theology|

I snapped the above picture in Cairo, Egypt last year. To the left is a Coptic Orthodox Church and to the left is a fabric store with writing in Arabic. I was on a reconnaissance mission to figure out what it would take Muslims to become Christian and what it would take to get non-Catholic Christians to become Catholic. My findings were reflected in some recent secular studies: The Pew Research Center recently reported: "Christians remained the world’s biggest religious group. But Christians (of all denominations, counted as one group) did not keep pace with global population growth from 2010 to 2020. The number of Christians rose by 122 million, [...]

17 06, 2025

St. Ignatius’ Rules For Discernment (Literal Translation)
St. Ignatius’ Rules For Discernment (Literal Translation)

St. Ignatius’ Rules For Discernment (Literal Translation)

By Father David Nix|2025-06-17T13:28:46+00:00June 17th, 2025|Theology|

Last year, I reproduced St. Ignatius’ Rules For Discernment (Dynamic Translation.) Today, I reproduce a literal translation for use with my new podcast series called Peregrino Ignatian Paths on the Rules of Discernment and Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola. We will be using both translations, but primarily the following. St. Ignatius writes: The soul is moved by diverse spirits, which it is important to discern, in order to follow the good and repel the bad. The following are some rules, of which the first are suited to souls less perfect and the others to those who are more so. 1. Let us suppose a soul that easily falls [...]