RCT 67: “The Effects of the Eucharist.”
-The Roman Catechism of Trent (RCT) p. 256-260 -The Sacraments, ep. 19. -Donate: https://www.padreperegrino.org/donate/
Got Hope in Human Nature?
For if they do these things when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?”—Luke 23:31. The head of the synodal church (his words, not mine) recently stated to Crux: “We keep hoping. I believe strongly that we cannot give up hope, ever. I have high hopes in human nature. There is the negative side; there are bad actors, there are the temptations. On any side of any position, you can find motivations that are good and motivations that are not so good.” Hope in human nature? Not in Jesus Christ? Not the Catholic Church as the only way of salvation? Nope... hope in human nature. Some of you might think I am nitpicking his theology to be a tough-guy, but his words demonstrate the pinnacle of modernism—promoting not just a man-centered “church,” but even the alleged [...]
What Charlie Thought of Francis and Leo.
It is common at the death of a great man for smaller minds to weaponize great minds for their own personal wheelhouse of ideas. For example, in regards to the fallen Charlie Kirk, his friends on earth are currently engaged in bitter debates on if he was changing his once-favorable views towards the current state of Israel. (We will not be delving into that today.) People are also debating if Charlie Kirk was on his way to Catholicism before his assassination. Of course, Catholics are insisting he was. Evangelical Protestants are saying he was not. In previous articles, I wrote that I believed there was a good chance he was a catechumen in his heart, even if not on paper. While I can't prove this, I still hold to that as a serious possibility. Erika Kirk recently had an interview [...]
PIP 6: Rules # 11-12.
-Fr. Dave Nix continues “Peregrino Ignatian Pathways” (PIP) #6: Rules no. 11 and 12 of discernment from the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola. -Suscipe: “Take, Lord, receive all my liberty, my memory, my understanding, and my entire will. All I have and call my own, You have given all to me. To You, Lord, I return it. Everything is Yours: do with it what You will. Give me only Your love and Your grace, that is enough for me.” -Donate: https://www.padreperegrino.org/donate/
Why Are Protestants Chanting “Christ Is King”?
p/c Eric Daugherty. Why are Protestants chanting "Christ Is King" while Catholic bishops promote Black Lives Matter? Shouldn't it be the opposite? St. Thomas Aquinas once wrote "Grace builds on nature without destroying it." Similarly, we could say that Divine Revelation is built on the Natural Law without destroying it. When St. Thomas Aquinas wrote that, he never would have guessed large populations of so-called Catholics would be one day rejecting the bare-bones basics of the Natural Law like "Unborn children deserve to live" and "Marriage is between only one man and one woman" and "It is bad to mutilate your children, even if they have mental disorders." This is why liberal Catholics aren't actually Catholic. That’s not me being mean or looking for click-bait. You see, to be Catholic means your whole life is founded on the Divine Revelation. [...]
Interview with “Mass-Conversions.”
Today I am interviewed by two young traditional women on everything from my conversion to tradition to Charlie Kirk to embryo rescue. Full video: https://youtu.be/GvIwskeSwSk?si=4y73I3vhVEpX4OyN
The Death of Dialogue in Church and State.
Above, Mrs. Erika Kirk mourns at the casket of her fallen husband, Mr. Charlie Kirk. Charlie was assassinated on 10 Sept 2025 by a male shooter (who had a trans-identifying boyfriend.) Candace Owens recently stated: “I can tell you factually: Charlie was praying the Rosary. Charlie was going to Mass.” Additionally, I am told by a good authority in Phoenix that Charlie and Erika had their marriage convalidated in the Catholic Church the day before his assassination. Thus, more and more evidence is surfacing indicating that God Himself might honor Charlie not just as a political martyr, but perhaps even as a religious martyr. Of course, many normy Catholics will scoff at my last paragraph: "Silly rad-trad, of course he was a martyr even if he just died a Christian but not a Catholic." But it's not that simple. Old [...]
RCT 66: Transubstantiation.
-The Roman Catechism of Trent (RCT) p. 250-256 -The Sacraments, ep. 18. -My Site: https://www.padreperegrino.org -Substack: https://substack.com/@padreperegrino
How to Meditate at the TLM.
A few years ago, I had spliced in scenes of the Passion of the Christ into a video on Vimeo of my own low Mass with the words I had thought came from St. Francis De Sales. While it probably didn’t come from him, it is found on page 103 of this old Redemptorist devotional book. You can use those words to meditate at each part of the Traditional Latin Mass: When the priest goes to the foot of the Altar: Jesus enters the garden. O Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the Living God, Who wast pleased voluntarily to endure mortal terror and anguish at the view of Thine approaching passion, give me grace henceforth to consecrate all my sorrows to Thee, O God of my heart! Assist me to support my trials in union with Thine agony, that through [...]
Schism: The Pressure-Release Valve to Heresy.
This is a long one, but I think it's worth the read. Before getting into the recent news in the Vatican, we need to go through a few definitions. Apostasy is the denial of Christ by a person who once claimed to be Christian. Heresy is the denial of one or several dogmas of the Catholic Church. Schism is to break ties with the Pope in Rome and/or the Holy See. However, the last definition requires some qualification. A Catholic cannot be called "a schismatic" for failure to join his heart and mind to a heretic. A Christian cannot be called "a schismatic" for failure to unite to a heretic. When St. Catherine of Siena saw that the Cardinals chose an obvious antipope to call "the Pope in Rome," she wrote them these exact words, among many others: "That evil [...]