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
Two Reasons the Coup is Not Complete
Not long ago, I wrote an article about why leftists promote the "errors of Russia." The "errors of Russia" is obviously leftism, which Mary warned against at Fatima. In that article, I cite Jack Posobiec and Tucker Carlson, for they show that Marxism has killed 100 million people in the name of compassion. This has happened everywhere from Cambodia to Czechoslovakia. We also in the United States have been on the precipice of a communist coup for several decades, but we haven't gone over the precipice. Why? Many people will say "God." Of course, I agree with this, as everything falls under Divine Providence. However, I believe that (besides China) the United States has become the most evil empire on the planet. (I was a huge patriot several years ago, so it pains me to write that.) Our country of [...]
VLX 156: Mt 26:69-75. “Before the Rooster Crows.”
-Donate: https://www.padreperegrino.org/donate/ -Telegram: https://t.me/padreperegrino Gospel: Now Peter was sitting outside in the courtyard. And a servant girl came up to him and said, “You also were with Jesus the Galilean.” But he denied it before them all, saying, “I do not know what you mean.” And when he went out to the entrance, another servant girl saw him, and she said to the bystanders, “This man was with Jesus of Nazareth.” And again he denied it with an oath: “I do not know the man.” After a little while the bystanders came up and said to Peter, “Certainly you too are one of them, for your accent betrays you.” Then he began to invoke a curse on himself and to swear, “I do not know the man.” And immediately the rooster crowed. And Peter remembered the saying of Jesus, “Before [...]
Courage in the Immaculate Heart of Mary
There's a lot of people on the good side of the Church crisis who strangely still choose silence under pretext of prudence. Decent priests may say things like, "I won't preach against the heresy coming from the Vatican because I don't want to be removed from my congregation," or "I'll offer the Traditional Latin Mass secretly, but I can't be public about it because then it will harm my parish in the long run," or "I'll be suspended if I really say what I think about the papacy." Lay people may say things like, "I know I should correct my boss for taking Our Lord's name in vain, but I can't lose my job," or "I know my priest preached against the true faith but I don't want to correct him because it will harm my family's long-lasting legacy [...]