Trads Behind the Iron Curtain.
The only novel I have read since ordination was Michael O'Brien's Island of the World. It's a gripping and grinding historical-fiction account about a man named Josip who grows up in Croatia in the 1940s. His family and community is then destroyed by Tito's communism. Josip is sent to a gulag called Goli Otok in real life. There, he is tortured and loses his faith. After escaping, he wanders Italy and finally ends up a janitor in NYC. Does he regain his faith? You'll have to read the book. It was so good I read it twice since ordination. Since reading Island of the World, I have had a healthy fascination with Croatia. The book captures the fact that Croatia is the crossroads between a Catholicism that can be described as both Western and Eastern (although it is certainly more [...]
RCT 74: Making a Good Confession.
-The Roman Catechism of Trent (RCT) p. 304-310. -The Sacraments, ep. 26. -General Confession: https://youtube.com/live/6u1ZjJMBTiw -15 Mortal Sins: https://www.padreperegrino.org/2019/08/mortalsins/ -Marital Chastity: https://www.padreperegrino.org/2026/03/samb/
Annunciation Sermon.
Let's help both the protestants and the modernists better understand the Immaculata. -Donate = https://www.padreperegrino.org/donate/
Marital Chastity.
Warning: This is an article for adults, not children. The topic today is this: What is permitted behavior in the bedroom between Catholic spouses? From the start, I have to give this disclaimer: I despise writing about this topic, especially since I endanger my own soul in bringing potentially-immodest writings to the internet (as if the internet does not already have enough.) However, I have discovered that the question of exotic behavior in the bedroom is unfortunately on the minds of countless Catholic couples across the globe. Similarly, I have unfortunately found that 98% of priest-confessors out there are misleading the Catholic laity on this topic. By what authority can I claim they are "misleading" them while I seem to know better? Because we actually have the answers from the Church Fathers and the Doctors of the Catholic Church. Some [...]
The Chaplet of the Sacred Heart.
Shortly after my conversion in my early 20s (during the 1990s) I ended up doing street evangelization in NYC. More specifically, I was sharing the faith in lower Manhattan at Washington Square near NYU. I noticed that one young man in my group was both extremely truthful and extremely charitable in his outreach to a very hostile neighborhood. I asked his secret to this balance. He told me that he prayed the Chaplet of the Sacred Heart of Jesus every day. I had never heard of it. The Chaplet of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is a 10 minute prayer stemming from the apparition of Christ to St. Mary Alacoque in Paray-Le-Monial, France. Of course, that 17th century apparition was all about the great love for mankind found in the burning furnace of charity, namely, Christ's Sacred Heart. For those [...]
Blessed Elena: Russia Will March on Rome.
Russia will march upon all the nations of Europe, particularly Italy, and will raise her flag over the dome of St. Peter's.—Blessed Elena Aiello (1895-1961.) As most of you know, Public Revelation is comprised of the Bible and the Magisterium. It is necessary for salvation because it is the Divine Revelation of the Blessed Trinity. Man, because of original sin and actual sin, cannot see God without God's help. This is why public revelation is absolutely necessary for us to obtain the Beatific Vision. Private Revelation, on the other hand, includes mystical visions and locutions given to holy people following the death of the last Apostle (St. John.) One need not believe even approved Private Revelations to be saved. (However, if a Catholic rejects a private revelation as big as Fatima, one has to worry for one's salvation.) Outside of [...]
Social Reign of Christ the King.
This is a talk I gave in Croatia on the Social Reign of Christ the King for the Apologetic Association of the Blessed Ivan Merz in Zagreb. Above is a picture of me praying at the tomb of Blessed Cardinal Stepinac, poisoned to death by the communists in the 1950s (who died later in 1960 due to it.) Below is the banner for the conference:
English Genocide Against the Irish.
p/c WM Review. Although the phrase “history is written by the victors” was attributed to Winston Churchill, it was spoken in several different languages before that. In fact, the most infamous use of that phrase in World War II did not come from Churchill, but rather from the German named Göring who reportedly said at Nuremberg, “The victor will always be the judge, and the vanquished the accused.” This was at least the phrase spoken by the actor playing Göring in the movie titled The Reportand it’s believed to be historically accurate. In no other case of history is this phrase more true than the alleged Irish Potato Famine of 1845-1850. While it is true there was a minor potato famine in Ireland during that time, the bigger issue is what happened on top of that famine, namely, that the [...]
Eighth Commandment Insinuations.
You shall not spread a false report. You shall not join hands with a wicked man to be a malicious witness... Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent and righteous, for I will not acquit the wicked.—Ex 23:1, 7. This is a made up story, but imagine a Catholic woman named Nancy is flanked in her condo to the west by a married woman named Sandy and to the east by a married man named Steve. Imagine she sees Sandy leaving Steve’s condo at 10pm one night. The next day, Nancy puts on the Next Door app: “Very interesting that a certain Sandy is leaving Steve’s place with big smile on her face at 10pm. Guess marriage vows mean nothing in the Anthem Condo complex!” Because she is a Catholic, she thinks she has technically [...]
Third Sunday of Lent Sermon.
TLM sermon on Eph 5:1-9 and Luke 11:14-28.