-Fr. David Nix continues "Peregrino Ignatian Pathway" (PIP) #3. Today we discuss rules no. 5 and 6 of discernment from the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola. -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.”
We walk through the Via Dolorosa in Jerusalem (including a hidden passageway through two Eastern Monasteries) to trace the footsteps of Christ's Passion. https://youtu.be/vN-m9jlTHTg
Question: Who became the head of the Church of England after the death of King Henry VIII? Answer on AI: "After Henry VIII (top-left) died in 1547, his son Edward VI (top-right) succeeded him as the head of the Church of England. During Edward VI's reign, England became more Protestant, and policies were enacted to enforce Protestant doctrine." Answer in reality: Both after and before the death of King Henry VIII, the head of the “Church of England” remained the Roman Catholic Primate of England, provided he never defected to heretical Anglicanism. You see, when a heretic like Henry VIII hijacks the Catholic Church in his region, it does not [...]
-The Roman Catechism of Trent (RCT) p. 230-236. -The Sacraments, ep. 15. -My site: www.padreperegrino.org
On 26 July 2025, I reposted the Facebook (FB) post of a married woman named Christine Ruby. Her original post from 14 July 2025 was 1,512 words long. The first words to her post read: "Sinful Foreplay, Oral Sex, Sodomy, Use of Contraception, Enhancement Drugs, and Sex Toys Are Morally, Mortal and Grave Sins." In regards to acts disallowed by the Catholic Church in the marriage bed, Mrs. Ruby quoted definitive sources like Pope Pius XI's Casti Connubii. She also quoted at length St. Alphonsus Liguori and even the new Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC.) As I mentioned above, I only reposted her long and catechetical post on my [...]
Before Mass: Almighty, everlasting God, look down in mercy upon me, Thy servant, who now again draws near to the most holy sacrament of Thy only-begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ. I approach as one who is sick, to the physician of life; as one unclean, to the fountain of mercy; as one blind, to the light of eternal brightness; as one poor and needy, to the Lord of heaven and earth. I implore Thee, therefore, out of the abundance of thy boundless mercy, that Thou wouldst vouchsafe to heal my sickness, to wash away my defilement, to give sight to my eyes, to enrich my poverty, and to clothe [...]
Your Eminence Leo Cardinal Burke, Ave Maria. On this Vigil of the Feast of St. James, I write to you today with the utmost respect for your office since I recognize you as a Prince of the Holy Roman Catholic Church. Your Eminence, I remember learning about you five years after my ordination as a Catholic priest when you tenaciously exposed the errors of Amoris Laetitia. You made a private correction, but then you went public. Nine years ago, in 2016, you boldly wrote a public paternal correction in the form of several “dubia” (doubts) in regards to the moral theology heresies of Amoris Laetitia. If it went unanswered, you [...]
Recently, the Pillar reported: "Nine years ago, the Canadian government legalized a Medical Assistance in Dying program, making physician assisted suicide widely accessible across Canada for those who qualified for the program. To date, roughly 75,000 people have died from MAiD, including many Catholics." Now, I don't really like the current medical definitions for active euthanasia vs. passive euthanasia, but here's the basics of the vocabulary that weak bioethicists throw around today: Active euthanasia involves deliberately causing a patient's death, while passive euthanasia involves withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining treatment, allowing the patient to die naturally. The problem with their definition is that both are murder, which is why I don't [...]
Fr. Dave Nix continues the "Peregrino Ignatian Pathway" (PIP) 2: Rules no. 3 and 4 of discernment from the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola. -Suscipe prayer: “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.” -St. Ignatius' rules (without commentary:) https://www.padreperegrino.org/2025/06/literalrules/
In the theology section of my site, I write very confidently about tradition versus modernism. But to be honest with the few readers who read the Life Update section of my site here, I have to admit I am very confused at the current Church crisis. Try as people might compare it to past crises in the Church, it always falls flat. We've never had someone on the Chair of Peter worship a demon-idol (Pachamama) or promote gay-blessings (Fiducia Supplicans) before the 21st century. And then the next guy on the Chair tells us all he's in heaven and he's going to totally imitate his synodal church. Lay folks who [...]
