VLX 119: Let the Children Come to Me
Mt 19:13-15. https://rumble.com/embed/v1fr0xt/?pub=e5jg1
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09, 2022
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09, 2022
Every Life Is a Pilgrimage
Recently, a French priest wrote me from Europe and asked me about the title of my blog, "Padre Peregrino." I admitted that "Father Pilgrim" sounds ridiculous in English, but it seems to work better in the romance languages and other languages. He wrote me about the title of my blog: "It seems to me that it corresponds well to the present circumstances, where we realize that we must move from the 'classic' type of parish to a less ordinary type, at least for a European of origin and education, of 'mission.'" I replied, "You understood correctly that 'Padre Peregrino' was an accidental term. I was kicked out of five Novus Ordo parishes [...]
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09, 2022
QuickPod: The Second Amendment and Third Secret
Dearmament year of Civilians in Genocidal Regimes with total deaths following - 1911 Turkey, then killed 1.5M Armenian EOs - 1929, Russia, 20M - 1935, China, 20M - 1940? German 6M Jews - 1956 Cambodia 1M - 1964 Guatemala 100k (Mayans) - 1970 Uganda 300k (Christians) https://rumble.com/embed/v1fqyb9/?pub=e5jg1
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09, 2022
Don’t Talk to the Dead Even If You Think They’re Saved
Except for asking for the intercession of canonized saints, our main contact with those who have gone before us should be praying for the souls in Purgatory. In other words, we're supposed to be praying to God for them, not usually discussing things with them. It is true that we can ask souls in Purgatory for help, but that has to be done in general asking their intercession, not specifically. In fact, it's either St. Alphonsus or St. Bellarmine who teaches that such requests on earth for intercession from the Holy Souls in Purgatory must be addressed to God first to then He asks the Holy Souls to intercede. (It's [...]
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08, 2022
RCT 5: An Unchangeable Faith
Roman Catechism of Trent p. 14-15. https://rumble.com/embed/v1eq75h/?pub=e5jg1
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08, 2022
TCE 48: Daily Leadership with a Navy SEAL
Mike, a retired Navy SEAL (and former parishioner of mine) discuss on today's podcast how to live daily virtue in a Catholic vocation in a society inundated with unnecessary information. Mike's CV is unusually impressive: He is a retired career naval officer who served 27 years in Naval Special Warfare, which is the formal community designation for the US Navy SEALs. During his time in uniform, he led or commanded SEAL platoons, task units, assault teams, squadrons, strike forces, and joint task forces during 13 deployments, seven of them to combat. He did three tours at Naval Special Warfare Development Group and was among the first special operators to fight [...]
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08, 2022
Specific Reasons to Give Thanks
I want to thank all my donors for your tremendous kindness to my way of life of prayer, study, podcasting, pro-life work and evangelization. One advantage to having many "small donors" instead of "big donors" is this: I am beholden to no one except Christ as I speak and write as best as I can on issues of reform of Church and State. When someone comes to the point that they don't like what I say or write, they simply leave my support team, and it doesn't affect me too much. I wish them all the best! I truly have no hard feelings at all. I would rather have the [...]
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08, 2022
American Mass Attendance Before and After “the Council.”
Photo credit above: Dr. Peter Kwasniewski. A new CARA study quoting Gallup polls has recently published statistics on current American Catholicism as seen above. We have all known for awhile that there were more ex-Catholics than Catholics in the USA, but the spread is enormous in the above numbers that just came out in 2022. In one graphic from CARA (above chart) see especially that there's almost 113 million US Catholics baptized but only about 53 million of them even attempt to attend yearly Mass at Christmas and Easter. Another study (above) came out a few years ago showing the striking comparisons between the faith-based practices of Catholics who currently go to [...]
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08, 2022
“Ecumenical:” Old and New Definitions
Top Left: An icon of St. Maximus the Confessor, a 7th century Greek monk loyal to Rome. Top Right: An "icon" of Fr. Hans Urs Von Balthasar SJ, a Jesuit of the 20th century. Ecumenical for the first thousand years of Christianity was an adjective to describe dogmatic meetings of orthodox bishops who cared about accurately defining the Catholic Faith. New Advent has a good definition: "Ecumenical Councils are those to which the bishops, and others entitled to vote, are convoked from the whole world (oikoumene) under the presidency of the pope or his legates, and the decrees of which, having received papal confirmation, bind all Christians." All 21 ecumenical [...]
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08, 2022
VLX 118: Eunuchs for the Kingdom
Mt 19:10-12 Donate: https://padreperegrino.org/donate/ https://rumble.com/embed/v1deb2v/?pub=e5jg1