RCT 59: Baptism as Regeneration.
The Sacraments, ep. 11. -My Site: https://www.padreperegrino.org -Emergency baptism for lay people to do: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOY3cDtF4gA
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06, 2025
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05, 2025
Relief Comes From Unanticipated Quarters.
Editor's Note: This piece is from Mike, a husband, father and convert to the Catholic faith. Mike is a retired SEAL officer who spent many years at SEAL Team Six. He attends the Traditional Latin Mass. On a Sunday night in October, 1989, Hell Week began. Gunfire, flash-bangs, yelling, confusion: all designed to induce the maximum stress and chaos among us SEAL trainees. It continued non-stop for the next 4-1/2 days. Attrition was about 70%: a typical rate. I was a 22 year old Navy ensign leading a “boat crew” of six fellow trainees. About 48 hours into Hell Week (it was Tuesday evening), we paddled our inflatable rubber boats [...]
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05, 2025
Damage-Control for a Material Heretic
The traditional Magisterium of the Catholic Church listed nine ways to being an accessory to another’s sin: 1. By counsel 2. By command 3. By consent 4. By provocation 5. By praise or flattery 6. By concealment 7. By partaking 8. By silence 9. By defense of the ill done. In traditional Catholic morality, we usually apply the above to matters of sexuality, gossip or finances. And we should. But have we ever thought of what it means to cover for another’s heresy under pretext of “giving the benefit of the doubt” to a "Catholic" teaching error? St. Thomas Aquinas teaches that heresy is “any deviation from the rectitude of [...]
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05, 2025
“Peregrino Ignatian Path” (PIP): Intro A
The Supremacy of the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius and the Holy Spirit's gift of Counsel. **** -Rules of Discernment: https://www.padreperegrino.org/2025/01/allrules/
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05, 2025
Six Different Attitudes to the TLM
One hundred years ago, Catholics were Catholics. Some were good Catholics and some were bad Catholics. But we didn't have political terms like "liberal Catholic" or "conservative Catholic." All Catholics one hundred years ago were traditional Catholics because that's all there was. However, Vatican II fractured Catholics all over the world. Now, every Catholic needs an adjective to describe where he is on a spectrum. Of course, Jesus Christ never designed it to be that way. As much as I dislike political terms, we will—for the sake of brevity—look at six common die-hard attitudes towards the TLM using terms that are found on that spectrum from left to right. Following [...]
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05, 2025
Why Does God Allow Temptation?
Today, we're going to look at St. Thomas Aquinas on why God allows temptations. Below in black italics will be quotes from St. Thomas' Summa, part one, Question 114. As usual, my commentary will be in orange below. St. Thomas: I answer that, Two things may be considered in the assault of the demons---the assault itself, and the ordering thereof. The assault itself is due to the malice of the demons, who through envy endeavor to hinder man's progress; and through pride usurp a semblance of Divine power, by deputing certain ministers to assail man, as the angels of God in their various offices minister to man's salvation. Nix: The [...]
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05, 2025
Email From a Reader on the Church Crisis
The following is an email I received from an attorney here in the USA. He didn't expect me to publish it, but he did give me permission to do that, provided I remove his name. Dear Father Nix: I am not a scholar, influencer, or thought leader as you certainly are. I am just a profane, vulgar, pew-sitting, often disaffected Catholic who has, by virtue of his professional training, often been elevated to a higher station than his merit or virtue warranted. The election of Robert Prevost, OSA to the papacy has been one of those times when I feel as if I were among the last sane individuals on [...]
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05, 2025
RCT 58: The Effects of Baptism.
The Roman Catechism of Trent (RCT) p. 193-198. The Sacraments, ep. 10. My Site: https://www.padreperegrino.org Emergency baptism for lay people to do: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOY3cDtF4gA
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05, 2025
The Magical “Convert-Making” Chair-of-Peter
They refused to love the truth and so be saved. Therefore God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false.—2 Thess 2:10-11. Before the 2025 Conclave, Archbishop Viganó stated: "The Apostolic Constitution Universi Dominici Gregis that regulates the Conclave, confirmed by the Motu Proprio of Benedict XVI Normas Nonnullas, peremptorily establishes that the number of Cardinal electors must not exceed 120 individuals. But the Cardinal electors who make up the imminent 'conclave' are 136: we are therefore faced with a very serious violation that alone would be enough to undermine the legitimacy of any supposedly valid Conclave. Furthermore, a College of Cardinals composed of 108 [...]
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05, 2025
Prevost Cover-Ups?
Posted on X by Dr. Taylor Marshall on 8 May 2025. See time stamp 7:55 for the above. A few minutes later for the abuse cover-ups.