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10 09, 2024

Single-Celibacy and Consecrated-Virginity Part 1

By |2024-09-10T04:25:10+00:00September 10th, 2024|Theology|

Most Catholics are called to be married folks or priests or nuns/sisters.  But there are some other unusual vocations in the Church that good Catholics are talking about more and more.  An infrequent but valid vocation is a single-celibate or consecrated-virgin living in the world.  It is most certainly a real vocation if one takes private promises (or vows) through a permanent (or temporary) spiritual director (or mentor.) Sometimes these lay brothers or consecrated virgins living in the world refrain from wearing religious habits, but live in community.  Sometimes, they refrain from both religious habits and communities.  These people choose to live alone, or perhaps have no option based on [...]

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9 09, 2024

End of Life Catholic Bioethics

By |2024-09-11T22:53:43+00:00September 9th, 2024|Podcasts, Sermons, Talks|

What is required in good Catholic bioethics regarding end of life decisions? 1) Heretical “Pontifical Academy for Life’s” errors summarized at "New Daily Compass": https://newdailycompass.com/en/vatican-pavs-latest-publication-condones-euthanasia-and-assisted-suicide 2) Avoiding euthanasia with true and traditional Catholic bioethics: https://www.padreperegrino.org/2024/08/paleuthansia/ 3) Palliative care and its deceptive cover: https://clmagazine.org/topic/end-of-life/palliative-care-the-new-stealth-euthanasia/ 4) Why to say “no” to organ donation: Mine: https://www.padreperegrino.org/2019/04/no-organ-donation/ USA Today: https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2019/05/02/organ-donation-physician-assisted-suicide-death-disability-column/3628448002/ 6) Durable power of attorney and living will documents for your family: https://www.padreperegrino.org/2023/03/dpa/

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8 09, 2024

The Type of Man I Want to Be

By |2024-09-08T13:39:11+00:00September 8th, 2024|Life|

Fr. Prümmer wrote the definitive book on Catholic morals in 1921. His section on Magnanimity is worth printing out and putting on your wall (as I did in my hermitage:) "The characteristics of this virtue are well portrayed by St. Thomas following the teaching of Aristotle: the magnanimous man a) takes a restrained delight in even the greatest honors offered to him, b) remains unruffled both by prosperity and adversity, c) willingly helps others although he himself asks hardly anyone to help him, d) does not fawn upon important personages neither does he allow his liberty to be restricted by their authority, e) is not ambitious, f) expresses his opinions [...]

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5 09, 2024

The Innovation of the “Vocation Director.”

By |2024-09-10T04:35:57+00:00September 5th, 2024|Theology|

I went to a mainstream seminary that touted itself as conservative but not traditional.  There, we had a Monsignor from South America who taught us canon law, and he was admittedly quite traditional.  He told us one day in class that back in Peru, there were no vocation directors.  Msgr. explained that good priests spiritually inspired young men to become priests.  If a lazy parish priest did not get vocations from their parish, he got sent to the hinterlands.  I liked this plan, but even in seminary I recognized that this sounded like the opposite of North America, namely, where good priests get sent to the hinterlands. In any case, [...]

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3 09, 2024

The Fashion Warned Against at Fatima

By |2024-09-03T01:54:51+00:00September 3rd, 2024|Theology|

Similar to the recent talk I gave at a women's conference called Restore Tradition, my article today is about the history of women's fashion, long before it is a statement on morality.  Even non-traditional Catholic believe the miracle of Fatima was real.  Thus, they should equally believe one of the seers, Bl. Jacinta of Fatima, who said before dying, “The sins which cause most souls to go to hell are the sins of the flesh.”  Many modern Catholics have heard that scary claim, but most Western Catholics think she was talking about sins worse than theirs.   Rather, the key to understanding this is that the Mother of God said [...]

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29 08, 2024

Should a Wife Obey a Secular (or Lazy) Husband?

By |2024-09-01T23:45:06+00:00August 29th, 2024|Theology|

A reader gave me permission to publish her letter to me (anonymously).  I include my reply below, too: Dear Father Nix, I just listened to your homily on Sensus Fidelium about Woman's Submission where you encourage and admonish the husbands to live like Christ in their marriages. I thought it was a wonderful homily and so true as to how easy it is for us wives to submit to and love well such a husband. However, it, and other homilies and conferences on the subject, leave me with a gaping question: How am I, a revert to Catholicism with a secular/agnostic husband (who was also born and baptized Catholic like [...]

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27 08, 2024

Two Reasons the Coup is Not Complete

By |2024-09-01T23:37:16+00:00August 27th, 2024|Theology|

Not long ago, I wrote an article about why leftists promote the "errors of Russia." The "errors of Russia" is obviously leftism, which Mary warned against at Fatima.  In that article, I cite Jack Posobiec and Tucker Carlson, for they show that Marxism has killed 100 million people in the name of compassion.  This has happened everywhere from Cambodia to Czechoslovakia.  We also in the United States have been on the precipice of a communist coup for several decades, but we haven't gone over the precipice.  Why? Many people will say "God." Of course, I agree with this, as everything falls under Divine Providence.  However, I believe that (besides China) [...]

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