Debating Protestants.
Happy Easter, Christ is Risen! Christ is Truly Risen! Χριστὸς ἀνέστη! Ἀληθῶς ἀνέστη! As you probably know, I currently spend more time attacking the heresy of Modernism than Protestantism. Why? Because the former is a cancer that any traditionalist Catholic will admit is more hidden, ubiquitous and destructive than the latter. So, I will keep defending the original Apostolic Faith against modernists who control the buildings. But I first cut my teeth on defending the True Faith by doing open-Bible debates with Protestants in my world travels starting 30 years ago. Before getting to how I did this, let’s define terms. Even National Geographic or a secular Social Studies book will admit there’s only three main branches of Christianity: Catholicism, Orthodoxy and Protestantism. Yet, today I meet many evangelicals, Pentecostals, “emergent church” folks and non-denominationalists who all dislike the term [...]
“Dominica in Albis” Sermon 2026.
-2026 Sermon for the Octave of Easter on 1 John 5 and John 20. -Donate: https://www.padreperegrino.org/donate/
More Conversions (and Departures.)
p/c University of Notre Dame. Doubtless by this point you have seen the news of massive amounts of conversions of non-Catholic young adults coming into American Catholic parishes. This news has been covered by both religious outlets as well as secular ones. Many of these conversions are in unlikely places, like New York City. NCR/EWTN recently reported on a Dominican parish in lower Manhattan serving NYU: "88 people received the sacraments of baptism or confirmation at the Easter vigil this year." Part of this was due to current events: "Many of those coming into the Church, he said, have told him that conservative Christian influencer Charlie Kirk’s murder had a huge effect on them." The conversions are good news. But we need to zoom out a little bit to see what is happening in the big picture. People are going [...]
Easter Sermon 2026.
-To whom does the Preface refer when we hear that “he who conquered at the wood would be conquered at the wood”? -See where Adam is buried: https://www.padreperegrino.org/2025/08/skulladam/
St. John and the Synoptics in the Triduum.
Every Triduum, thousands of Catholics (including me) ask the following question: Why do the Synoptic Gospels (Saints Matthew, Mark and Luke) place the Passover on one date and it seems that St. John places it on a different date? The answer I gave for several years was the calendar of the Pharisees was different from that of the Essenes. However, I discovered that that answer leads to more problems than solutions. Before we look at the real answer, I want to remind you of a definition known to most traditional Catholics. Archaeologism is a modernist fad found in Church history and liturgical studies, often used by charismatics. One aspect of this error is to foist Medieval Jewish practices upon the Catholic sacraments. Of course, there is nothing wrong with the fact that God Himself used Old Testament rituals as the [...]
Trads Behind the Iron Curtain.
The only novel I have read since ordination was Michael O'Brien's Island of the World. It's a gripping and grinding historical-fiction account about a man named Josip who grows up in Croatia in the 1940s. His family and community is then destroyed by Tito's communism. Josip is sent to a gulag called Goli Otok in real life. There, he is tortured and loses his faith. After escaping, he wanders Italy and finally ends up a janitor in NYC. Does he regain his faith? You'll have to read the book. It was so good I read it twice since ordination. Since reading Island of the World, I have had a healthy fascination with Croatia. The book captures the fact that Croatia is the crossroads between a Catholicism that can be described as both Western and Eastern (although it is certainly more [...]
RCT 74: Making a Good Confession.
-The Roman Catechism of Trent (RCT) p. 304-310. -The Sacraments, ep. 26. -General Confession: https://youtube.com/live/6u1ZjJMBTiw -15 Mortal Sins: https://www.padreperegrino.org/2019/08/mortalsins/ -Marital Chastity: https://www.padreperegrino.org/2026/03/samb/
Annunciation Sermon.
Let's help both the protestants and the modernists better understand the Immaculata. -Donate = https://www.padreperegrino.org/donate/
Marital Chastity.
Warning: This is an article for adults, not children. The topic today is this: What is permitted behavior in the bedroom between Catholic spouses? From the start, I have to give this disclaimer: I despise writing about this topic, especially since I endanger my own soul in bringing potentially-immodest writings to the internet (as if the internet does not already have enough.) However, I have discovered that the question of exotic behavior in the bedroom is unfortunately on the minds of countless Catholic couples across the globe. Similarly, I have unfortunately found that 98% of priest-confessors out there are misleading the Catholic laity on this topic. By what authority can I claim they are "misleading" them while I seem to know better? Because we actually have the answers from the Church Fathers and the Doctors of the Catholic Church. Some [...]
The Chaplet of the Sacred Heart.
Shortly after my conversion in my early 20s (during the 1990s) I ended up doing street evangelization in NYC. More specifically, I was sharing the faith in lower Manhattan at Washington Square near NYU. I noticed that one young man in my group was both extremely truthful and extremely charitable in his outreach to a very hostile neighborhood. I asked his secret to this balance. He told me that he prayed the Chaplet of the Sacred Heart of Jesus every day. I had never heard of it. The Chaplet of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is a 10 minute prayer stemming from the apparition of Christ to St. Mary Alacoque in Paray-Le-Monial, France. Of course, that 17th century apparition was all about the great love for mankind found in the burning furnace of charity, namely, Christ's Sacred Heart. For those [...]