Five Hidden Pitfalls to Catholic Social Media
Catholics (including myself) often justify our presence on social media by evangelization, teaching and Church reform. But do the advantages really outweigh the benefits for even the most astute apologists online? Besides the big pitfalls of porn and bullying, there are some other smaller hazards to Christians on social media. I'm not speaking of simply manners, but things that will affect people's salvation. Let's look at five other hidden pitfalls to social media: Fake Romances, Fake Friendships. Many marriages have been broken up when a spouse meets another person online. Sometimes that spouse commits adultery with the new squeeze met online. But sometimes the married person leaves for a person that doesn't even exist! Imagine leaving your spouse for a robot... Also, there is the less-serious danger of thinking your "friends" online are actually friends. Although that last sentence [...]
RCT 53: The Effects of the Sacraments.
The Roman Catechism of Trent (RCT) p.164-168. The Sacraments, ep. 5. *** -Baptism by desire? https://www.padreperegrino.org/2022/02/baptism/ -Anonymous Christian? https://www.padreperegrino.org/2020/11/extraecc/ -STV: https://spiritustv.com/@padreperegrino -Donate: https://www.padreperegrino.org/donate/ -Telegram: https://t.me/padreperegrino
Traitors’ Last Ditch Effort in Church and State
I have to admit I didn't have it in my bingo cards that 2025 was going to be the big year when hundreds of thousands of mainstream Catholics wake up to the corruption that a few of us have known about for years in certain Catholic organizations. I'm quite thrilled to see how many Catholics are now standing up against the imposters in Rome, the corruption of the USCCB and the criminal activity of Catholic Charities that some of us have been sounding the alarm about for years. (Notice I wrote that above-linked article exposing "Catholic Charities" of Galveston-Houston last year before Trump was even in power to defund that corrupt organization.) What we are talking about is not politics, but treachery or betrayal of an entire Church, of an entire country. Dante placed those who commit treachery in [...]
If You Build It, They Will Come
He said therefore to them again: "Peace be to you. As the Father hath sent Me, I also send you." When He had said this, He breathed on them; and He said to them: "Receive ye the Holy Ghost. Whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them; and whose sins you shall retain, they are retained."—St. John 20:21-23. Most of my articles are directed to Catholic laity, but this is one of the rare ones where I am writing to other priests. The only message of this article is: Please add more confession times. If you do, the penitents will come. In rural areas, it might take some penance on the part of the priest to drum up penitents. Even though the rural areas of the United States are clearly more conservative than the urban areas, it is my [...]
Red Rose Rescue Update
On today's episode, we discuss my upcoming trial and potential jail time in 2025 for a 2019 rescue inside an abortion center. We also discuss our predictions on a future traditional Pope. This is a reproduction of an interview that John-Henry Westen did of me on LifeSite News.
The Holy Sacrifice and the Unholy Sacrifice.
p/c New Liturgical Movement, NBC. The priest sunders with unbloody cut the body and blood of the Lord, using his voice as a sword.—St. Gregory Nazianzen. The above is a quote from an Eastern Church Father (recognized as a saint by both the Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Christians.) St. Gregory in that quote means that the dual consecration at Mass (the bread becoming the body and the wine becoming the blood) effects a mystical and unbloody separation of the body and blood. This is because it happens in two separate sets of consecration. In a mystical way, this separation of blood from body somehow comprises the fact that the Mass is a sacrifice. Indeed, all sacrifice is made up of blood being removed from a body at at least some point. This may be why before Vatican II, [...]
Immaculate Mary: Mirror of Justice.
Every angel saw nearly all of creation during its creation in what was called the "first instance" (not found in the same time frame as us on earth.) During the "second instance," each angel had the chance to obey God or disobey Him through some act of sacrifice of its will in regards to its specific mission (where it stayed an angel or became a demon.) Then, the "third instance" was immediate reward with the beatific vision (if the angel obeyed) or damnation into hell where its will is locked into rebellion against God forever. There is a talk by the exorcist Fr. Ripperger titled Our Lady of Sorrows and Healing, in which the demon Beelzebub was speaking through a possessed woman in the solemn rite of exorcism. The demon was using the vocal cords of the possessed woman to [...]
Bas Rutten Interviewed by Padre Peregrino
Dutchman Sebastiaan Rutten was inducted into the Ultimate Fighting Championship Hall of Fame in 2015. Shortly after that, he became a traditional Catholic.
How to Evangelize Leftists.
p/c Jeffrey Bruno For the longest time, I believed the Right could reason with the Left with evidence on the many incendiary issues lighting up Church and State over the last decade. Because I had two conversions (from left to neo-con, and then neo-con to trad as I recounted in this video here) I believed everyone else had a desire to seek the truth as I did. "If the evidence were simply presented in charity," I reasoned in regard to any dozen topics of Church and State, "then many more people would repent of their former errors and quickly convert." I actually still think that is true, but there's a deeper and darker side we need to consider. At one point in my adult life, I believed if we could just show pictures of the ripped-up unborn babies, the [...]
The Great Inversion of Love
Many new traditionalists may be ignorant of the fact that the first heretics excommunicated by Pope St. Pius X were heretics in their denial on the inerrancy of Sacred Scripture. For instance, Pope St. Pius X excommunicated the French seminary professor, Fr. Loisy, for denying the supernatural aspects of the Bible. Notice that Fr. Loisy was not excommunicated for liturgical issues or even moral issues, but denying the Bible. This makes sense the initial heretics of modernism doubted Scripture, for Satan himself first said "Did God really say...?" Later in the 20th century, we saw the heresies of Fr. Loisy and others mushroom out into the heresy of modernism that then encapsulated liturgical novelties, overhauling all the old sacraments, re-arranging the Catholic calendar and overturning nearly every moral tenet of the Catholic faith, included but not limited to contraception and [...]