IVF Kills Thirty Children For Every One That Survives
In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) is defined by Yale Medicine as "a procedure that involves retrieving a woman's eggs and a man's sperm sample and combining the two in a laboratory dish." Most Catholics in the pro-life movement are against IVF because "IVF replaces the marital act with a laboratory act and that an affront to the dignity of a child who is conceived." While that is true, the main reason we should be against IVF is not a violation of the 6th Commandment, but rather a violation of the 5th Commandment: IVF eradicates many embryos (new individuals) to yield only a few living children. A Catholic woman named Jenny Vaughn has a blog called Catholic Sistas in which she courageously shared her conversion story following the IVF procedures done by her and her husband. She wrote: The doctor had retrieved [...]
The Two Biggest Evils: Abortion and Trafficking (Video)
I join Fr. Philomeno and the Marian Franciscans at Radio Immaculata to discuss the two greatest threats to children in the world right now: https://www.youtube.com/live/nOs_2IDK57s?si=R79m63wlmCJ5gsHK
Christ’s Revelation Is Built Upon Natural Law
Top-left: St. Thomas Aquinas. Top-right: Person at funeral for trans.-person at St. Patrick's Cathedral in NYC, p/c Time Magazine. Recently, someone asked me about the Catholic Church's teaching on "transgenderism." Before we get to theology, we must realize that certain members of society identify as "transvestite." Transvestite means "one who has changed clothes." It is obviously possible to change your clothes, whether this be for ordered reasons (like a certain male-martyr described in the ancient Roman Martyrology who dressed up as a woman to save a Christian woman in a Roman prison in order to replace her) or for disordered reasons, like a man erroneously believing he is a woman. But to go transgender is biologically impossible. Here is why: There are between 36,000,000,000,000 and 100,000,000,000,000 cells in the human body. Each of 30+ trillion cells has a genome containing [...]
15 Signs of a Toxic Spiritual Director
Recently, a friend emailed me her concerns surrounding a traditional Catholic priest our age who insists he must be the director of various women we know. We agreed he manifests at least half of the following 15 signs of toxic-religion as seen in PsycheCentral: It begins with dichotomous thinking, dividing people into two parts. Those who agree with the narcissists beliefs and those who don’t. Interestingly, only the narcissist is the judge and jury of who belongs on which side. Your opinion is insignificant. Then the narcissist makes fun of, belittles, and shows prejudice towards other beliefs. This tactic is done to remind you that if you change your views, you will be treated likewise. Suddenly the narcissist becomes elitist and refuses to associate with people or groups they consider impure or unholy. They prefer isolation and insist you do [...]
RCT 35: The Holy Spirit, The Life-Giver.
The Roman Catechism of Trent (RCT) p.95-98 The Creed, Article VIII, Section C. -My site: https://www.padreperegrino.org -Donate: https://www.padreperegrino.org/donate/ -Telegram: https://t.me/padreperegrino
TCE 54: Liz Yore on Open Borders.
Anti-Trafficking expert Liz Yore (who worked side-by-side with the FBI for years when they were good) discusses Biden’s open-borders with Fr. David Nix on this episode of Theology and Current Events (TCE) #54.
Colorado Suicide Bill Eradicates Discernment Time
Most Americans in the pro-life movement do not know that first two states "to decriminalize abortion" in certain circumstances (like rape) were Mississippi and Colorado. Rep. Dick Lamb and Gov. John Love did this in Denver on the 25th of April 1967. This was six years before the Supreme Court's Roe vs. Wade, a landmark decision which would begin the largest genocide in the Western Hemisphere. Then, when this ruling of Roe was allegedly kicked-back to the States in 2022, abortion providers here in Colorado doubled-down, hoping to attract people from other states to their killing centers. Now in 2024, this attraction to murder others across State-borders is aimed not only at the unborn, but even towards the sick and old. Currently, anyone in Colorado with a terminal-illness can request a physician to "hasten" their death. But under prime-sponsors Senator [...]
Moving the Overton-Window on “Schism”
Above: Reconstruction of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, p/c S. Meyssonnier at Reuters. The Overton Window is what a group thinks to be believable in the eyes of others in its attempts to grow their faction in numbers. The left uses the Overton Window to determine which lies they can get away with as they approach the left-of-center in a bell-curve of opinion polls. The right also uses the Overton Window, but they use it to determine which aspects of the truth can be digested by the lukewarm on the right of the same bellcurve. Fiducia Supplicans greatly shifted the leftists' Overton Window on heresy to the point that even many non-traditional conservatives have raised some alarms about "schism" regarding the current teachings coming out of the Vatican. But are non-traditional conservatives even using that term "schism" correctly? Their concern [...]
VLX 145: Mt 25:1-13. “The Ten Virgins.”
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Tucker, Putin and Fatima
Why an American Episcopalian interviewing a Russian Orthodox leader matters to the Catholic Church.