How To Detach While Loving People
Lay folks are getting more and more into Carmelite theology. And that is a great thing. Carmelite theology is all about detaching from creatures in order to attach to the Creator. For a Carmelite priest like St. John of the Cross, this was ascetically difficult but strategically simple: Detaching from creatures will automatically make a soul in grace cling more closely to the Creator. Thus, a monk can live alone with The Alone. What Eastern Rite Christians call askesis is to detach from all creatures (people, food, pets, comforts, pleasures, locations) in order to go deeper into the prayer life. Some of the greatest authors on this topic of ascetical theology include the Desert Fathers. Every old-school canonized saint was a master of the ascetical life, even if they were married saints. But how can married people do this? How can [...]
Tucker Stumbles Across Fatima
Tucker Carlson recently had on his show the former Navy-man Jack Posobiec. Jack frequently attends the Traditional Latin Mass. Tucker seems to be on his way to Catholicism, or at least is taking his Christianity very seriously these days. I set the time stamp in the above video around 1:43:00 in a chapter called "The Subversion of Christianity." Part of their conversation goes like this: Jack: "And so maybe the fact that communism kills 100 million people actually is the point of communism. And it's not equality, justice, diversity, DEI, peace, land, bread... What if the point actually is the killing?" Tucker: "And maybe if the victims are disproportionately Christian, which they have been always, from French Revolution to present, maybe the actual point is opposing Christianity. Maybe your real enemy is Jesus. I'm just thinking. I mean if [...]
RCT 44: The Resurrection of the Body Pt. 2.
The Roman Catechism of Trent (RCT) p.126-128 The Creed, Article XI, Section B. -Donate: https://www.padreperegrino.org/donate/ -Telegram: https://t.me/padreperegrino -Music bumper “O Mary of Graces” found on YT channel @DaughtersofMaryPress
Romans Five Thoughts
Some thoughts from my pick-up truck on one of my favorite chapters of the New Testament. https://www.youtube.com/live/diH2__H2h_w?si=a1dqapVdvfg6rjlQ
Reason and Order Discouraged in US Seminary?
And I will give children to be their princes, and the effeminate shall rule over them.—Isaiah 3:4 Today, we're going to consider at who is allowed in a US seminary (the 6-7 year long post-graduate school where celibate men study for the Roman Catholic Priesthood.) But this article is not going to be macho. I am not going to argue for Catholic seminarians to weight-lift (admittedly a good idea) or know how to handle a firearm (also good idea) or to learn how to stave off feminism at their future parish (yet another good idea.) What worries me is that the very basics of male psychological health are being suppressed in some US seminaries. America Magazine recently ran an article titled The Changing Face of Seminary Formation and it included this paragraph: That “digital detox” is particularly urgent because of [...]
Bishops’ Indemnities Revisited
The Epoch Times recently estimated that 17,000,000 people have been killed by the "Covid-Vaccine." I believe that number is an extremely conservative estimate. Whether high or low, we now know that the injection causing so many deaths was not in fact a vaccine, but rather gene therapy made from aborted babies. It was released under emergency-use authorization by the FDA, and still has not been approved. Many Catholics died after taking it, including my own mother after taking a third dose. I wrote about her tragedy but good death here last year. Why did so many Catholics take it? Like most Americans of other religions, Catholics listened to their physicians and the mainstream media. But they also listened to the Vatican and their local clergy. I knew this was going to happen. Back in 2020 (when my mother was still [...]
VLX 154: Mt 26:57-58. “Peter Followed At a Distance.”
-Donate: https://www.padreperegrino.org/donate/ -Telegram: https://t.me/padreperegrino *** Gospel: “Then those who had seized Jesus led him to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders had gathered. And Peter was following Him at a distance, as far as the courtyard of the high priest, and going inside he sat with the guards to see the end.”
The “Universal Call to Holiness” Was Always There
Vatican II's Lumen Gentium's chapter five is titled "Universal Call to Holiness" and it includes this sentence: "Therefore in the Church, everyone whether belonging to the hierarchy, or being cared for by it, is called to holiness." By "cared for by it," it simply means lay people. In other words, lay folks are also called to holiness. Obviously, there is nothing wrong with that sentence. But it's also super obvious, so something else is behind it. What is it? I don't know, but there's an old Protestant myth that Catholic priests and nuns told lay people they're not called to holiness. Have modernists run with this in Vatican II? We will see below that the "universal call to holiness" to lay people was always there within the Catholic Church, so at the very least, Catholics need to stop acting like [...]
The Grey Wolves of Modernist Ambiguity
p/c North American Whitetail. Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will recognize them by their fruits.—Mt 7:15-16. Many traditional Catholics today rip on the ultra-leftists because it's easy to knock out of the park really low-hanging fruit like "Clown Masses" or social-justice warriors to oppose Eucharistic rallies because it detracts from the poor or even pro-abortion "Catholics." Trads tackling people that far left on the political and theological spectrum are after "easy likes" on Twitter and Instagram. The bigger problem is that neo-conservative (non-traditional) priests who may be found making pro-life statements or be seen headlining at a national "Eucharistic Congress" will often give heretical answers for nearly every doctrinal question except those two (pro-life and True Presence.) In other words, it's not good enough to say "Don't [...]
RCT 43: The Resurrection of the Body Pt 1.
The Roman Catechism of Trent (RCT) p.124-126 The Creed, Article XI, Section A. -Donate: https://www.padreperegrino.org/donate/ -Telegram: https://t.me/padreperegrino