Father David Nix, Author at Padre Peregrino

29 08, 2022

TCE 48: Daily Leadership with a Navy SEAL
TCE 48: Daily Leadership with a Navy SEAL

TCE 48: Daily Leadership with a Navy SEAL

By Father David Nix|2022-08-29T14:23:13+00:00August 29th, 2022|Podcasts, Sermons, Talks|

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 [...]

27 08, 2022

Specific Reasons to Give Thanks
Specific Reasons to Give Thanks

Specific Reasons to Give Thanks

By Father David Nix|2022-08-27T15:17:49+00:00August 27th, 2022|Life|

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 [...]

25 08, 2022

American Mass Attendance Before and After “the Council.”
American Mass Attendance Before and After “the Council.”

American Mass Attendance Before and After “the Council.”

By Father David Nix|2022-09-04T14:09:49+00:00August 25th, 2022|Theology|

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 [...]

23 08, 2022

“Ecumenical:” Old and New Definitions
“Ecumenical:” Old and New Definitions

“Ecumenical:” Old and New Definitions

By Father David Nix|2022-08-24T14:18:17+00:00August 23rd, 2022|Theology|

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 [...]

22 08, 2022

VLX 118: Eunuchs for the Kingdom
VLX 118: Eunuchs for the Kingdom

VLX 118: Eunuchs for the Kingdom

By Father David Nix|2022-08-22T14:16:11+00:00August 22nd, 2022|Podcasts, Sermons, Talks|

Mt 19:10-12 Donate: https://padreperegrino.org/donate/ https://rumble.com/embed/v1deb2v/?pub=e5jg1

21 08, 2022

One Year into My Two-Year Prediction
One Year into My Two-Year Prediction

One Year into My Two-Year Prediction

By Father David Nix|2022-08-21T20:12:32+00:00August 21st, 2022|Life|

The above picture is Dr. Peter McCullough MD and myself at the recent LifeSite News Gala in Florida, August 2022. Dr. McCullough is a Texas-based cardiologist has stood courageously against the dangerous COVID vaccines on both Tucker Carlson and the Joe Rogan show. Recently, someone posted the above FB post of mine back to my FB profile comments to remind me of what a ridiculous prediction I made about the COVID vaccine one year ago this week. The person who posted that against me must not be looking at medical news too much, because I'm hardly ashamed of that FB post last year. The sad and sobering fact is [...]

18 08, 2022

God Once Permitted Most Bishops to be Arians
God Once Permitted Most Bishops to be Arians

God Once Permitted Most Bishops to be Arians

By Father David Nix|2022-08-09T03:09:35+00:00August 18th, 2022|Theology|

Shielding your conscience on moral or doctrinal or liturgical issues on anyone in the hierarchy right now won't get you to heaven. You must study the Bible and the Magisterium to do that. Christ said 2000 years ago towards those blue-collar folks who would hang their hat on the Jewish hierarchy, For I tell you, that unless your justice abound more than that of the scribes and Pharisees, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.—Mt 5:20. A few hundred years later, most Arians were bishops and most Catholics trusted them. Maybe they said things like "These are protected offices so God couldn't let 99% of all bishops be wrong." [...]

17 08, 2022

RCT 4: The Creed and Pope St. Pius V
RCT 4: The Creed and Pope St. Pius V

RCT 4: The Creed and Pope St. Pius V

By Father David Nix|2022-08-17T12:17:44+00:00August 17th, 2022|Podcasts, Sermons, Talks|

Roman Catechism of Trent p. 1-13 (TAN books pagination.) https://rumble.com/embed/v1c0k5h/?pub=e5jg1

16 08, 2022

Epikeia: Why Common Sense Trumps Legalism
Epikeia: Why Common Sense Trumps Legalism

Epikeia: Why Common Sense Trumps Legalism

By Father David Nix|2022-08-27T02:10:33+00:00August 16th, 2022|Theology|

Wiktionary erroneously defines epikeia as "the principle in ethics that a law can be broken to achieve a greater good." Of course, the notion that the end justifies the means can never be squared with Catholic moral theology. As soon as one believes that the end justifies the means, one approaches the moral theology heresies of consequentialism and proportionalism. I blogged against those errors here in a post called The Greater Good is Not a Catholic Moral System especially when applied to forcing people to take an experimental injection "for the greater good" a couple years ago. But St. Thomas Aquinas did hold epikeia to be an important virtue. St. Thomas essentially [...]

13 08, 2022

A Sacramental Phone Adventure
A Sacramental Phone Adventure

A Sacramental Phone Adventure

By Father David Nix|2022-08-07T17:07:24+00:00August 13th, 2022|Life|

Leaving a dinner with a few families in Fort Collins, CO around 11pm one Saturday evening in the summer, I got a text from another friend that he needed a sacrament. I asked if he and I could meet halfway in Thornton just before midnight at the parking lot of a coffee shop. (See above picture.) Funny thing is: A priest had heard my confession in my car earlier that day in Fort Collins and we kept our phones outside the car. Probably any sacraments done should be without phones around. The government can hack phones even in airplane mode. If you think this is a conspiracy theory, just try [...]

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