TCE 45: Dating Advice to Young Catholics
Theology and Current Events (TCE) #45 is "Dating Advice to Young Catholics." It's based on my recent blog post: https://www.padreperegrino.org/2022/06/courting/
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07, 2022
To Beloved Donors: Three Small Changes
In the Roman Canon, after mentioning the Pope and bishop, the priest prayers for his own personal intentions. The first people I mention every Mass (even if not by name, but sometimes—yes, by name!) is "all of my benefactors both spiritual and material." I am so thankful to both the person who gave a big donation for my condo all the way down (or rather, up the latter) to the older lady offering suffering for me who gives nothing financial. I'm not trying to sound pious as I write: I am more in need of suffering and sacrifice offered for me than money because of the great spiritual attack in [...]
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07, 2022
The Dark Night of the Soul: What It Is Not.
In seminary, my favorite professor taught both ascetical and Carmelite theology. I agree with him that St. John of the Cross was probably not a sullen melancholic. St. John is made out to be today as a debby-downer (especially by us perman-grin Americans) because he writes so much about detachment. But even a cursory study of the life of St. John of the Cross reveals his high levels of energy, not only towards the ascetical life, but even the evangelical life of helping the townsfolk outside his 16th century monastery in Spain. St. John of the Cross' pathway of the Nada, Nada, Nada is where we arrive at the apex [...]
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07, 2022
How Conservative Family Lines Went Woke
Really, the full title of this blog should be How Conservative Family Lines Went Woke In Just a Few Generations. It didn't happen overnight. This is not a blog post to cheer on the right and condemn the leftists. It's to ask how our every country in the West went from being civilized to uncivilized in less than 100 years. You all know my theological answers on this, on how "politics is downstream of politics" and how "every grace and error flows from the altar." I also now admit that Vatican II was not the root of modernism, but was just the "coming out" party for modernism. But at the [...]
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07, 2022
VLX 114: The One and the Ninety-Nine
Mt 18:11-14 To donate: https://www.padreperegrino.org/donate/ https://rumble.com/embed/v17plsa/?pub=e5jg1
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07, 2022
“Ecclesia Dei Adflicta” Turns 34 Years Old
June and July mark some bittersweet anniversaries in the traditional movement. It was on 30 June 1988 that Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre and Bishop Antonio de Castro Mayer did episcopal consecrations without the approval of Rome. Pope John Paul II quickly wrote a document called Ecclesia Dei Adflicta, meaning "On the Afflicted Church of God." This is a barely-veiled reference to imply that Archbishop Lefebvre himself was "afflicting the Church of God" by consecrating bishops without the Pope's approval. Three weeks later, on 18 July 1988, the FSSP was founded with the approval of Rome to remain both canonically regular and maintain the old-rite sacraments. I believe one of the main [...]
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07, 2022
QuickPod: Planned Parenthood post-RvW Being Overturned
9 minutes on contraception vs. abortion as well as how to get involved in the pro-life movement after the Supreme Court handed the decision on abortion "laws" to the individual states. https://rumble.com/embed/v18361v/?pub=e5jg1
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07, 2022
The Last CPX (and my Upcoming RCT)
Yesterday, we released the very last CPX video, found on this YouTube playlist. CPX stands for Catechism of Pius X. It is my doctrinal and catechetical series of 15 minute videos numbered from 1 to 113. Each video contains about five minutes of my reading an old-school catechism and then about ten minutes of my commentary on it. Of course, my commentary is not as important as the words of a canonized Pope from 100 years ago. However, my application to a post-modern man who is battling the heresy of modernism is something the holy Pope never expected to be in the battle-array of a priest in the not-too-distant [...]
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06, 2022
CPX 113: The Last CPX (The Worst Sins)
Catechism of Pope St. Pius X (CPX) p.154-155 Q/A 1-9. https://rumble.com/embed/v16w8mb/?pub=e5jg1
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06, 2022
Pro-Life Martyr Jim Pouillon
Even the Wikipedia page for Jim Pouillon reads that "the murder of Jim Pouillon occurred on September 11, 2009... Pouillon was killed while protesting against abortion in front of Owosso High School in Owosso, Michigan." The man who killed Pouillon is named Harlan James Drake. That same day, he shot a businessman named Michael Fuoss at a different location. Fuoss was also killed. May God rest his soul. Because the two events were unrelated, and because the second shooting had nothing to do with the abortion debate, one might argue that Pouillon just happened to be at "the wrong place at the wrong time," namely, in front of an abortion center. Furthermore, I [...]