End of Life Issues with Dr. Taylor Marshall
We discuss euthanasia, living wills, ordinary vs extraordinary care, hospice, health care proxies and narcotics. Watch on Rumble, also embedded from Rumble below:
Single-Celibacy and Consecrated-Virginity Part 2
Above left is St. Mary of Egypt and above right is St. Benedict Labre. Both were single celibates wandering around without community who later became canonized. It is not the ideal to go through life without a family or convent, but it is possible to become a saint in such unusual circumstances. This article is a follow up to Single-Celibacy and Consecrated-Virginity Part 1 from earlier this week. Let's now look at what the Holy Spirit said through the Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 7:25-35. As always, words of Scripture will be in italics. My less-important commentary will be in orange bold. Now concerning the betrothed, I have no command from the Lord, but I give my judgment as one who by the Lord's mercy is trustworthy. I think that in view of the present distress it is good for [...]
Single-Celibacy and Consecrated-Virginity Part 1
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 past wounds. Again, this is a very pleasing vocation to God, provided that the single-celibate make private promises to God through a priest or mentor. As we will see later, [...]
End of Life Catholic Bioethics
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/
Smack Dab In Between the Pharisees and Sadducees?
Is the truth always in the middle of an opinion poll? Certainly not on dogma in times of a Church crisis. Three minute video:
The Innovation of the “Vocation Director.”
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, our canon law professor in seminary implied that the notion of a "vocation director" was a new and failed idea. Basically, the "vocation director" was invented in recent years in [...]
The Fashion Warned Against at Fatima
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 in 1917 the following: “Certain fashions will be introduced that will offend Our Lord very much.” She said that is 1917. What fashions did she warn against? I don't [...]
RCT 46: “Life Everlasting.”
The Roman Catechism of Trent (RCT) p.137-141. The Creed, Article XII, Section A. -Donate: https://www.padreperegrino.org/donate/ -Telegram: https://t.me/padreperegrino
Should a Wife Obey a Secular (or Lazy) Husband?
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 I was, but same as me, was removed from Catholicism in early childhood and raised anti-Catholic), to submit to and properly order myself to a husband who does not lead [...]
My Two Conversions
This is a talk I gave at the 2024 “Restore Tradition” Women’s Conference, in Littleton, CO. -Donate: https://www.padreperegrino.org/donate/ -Telegram: https://t.me/padreperegrino