Are Irreverent Masses Binding On Sundays?
The most common question I receive from my readers is: "Do I have to attend a Novus Ordo Mass on a Sunday when there is no Traditional Latin Mass nearby?" I was going to title this article that very question, but then I realized that question is only sixty years old. Then I thought to title this article: "Is it a mortal sin to skip an irreverent Mass on Sunday if I can't get to a reverent Mass?" but that was too long. I then realized the entire topic of the Third Commandment was at stake. What does Church history tell us before 1960? Dr. Peter Kwasniewski emailed me the pdf to his article normally behind a paywall on his Substack that delves into much older and broader questions of when the Sunday Mass obligation is not binding on lay [...]
New Stations of the Cross
These are the Stations of the Cross as written by Fr. Simoulin SSPX. I'm re-publishing it in a slower manner, for I read it too rapidly a few years ago. I hope you can pray it devoutly this time.
The Red Guard of Tradition
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.—George Orwell, 1984. Tucker Carlson recently interviewed a Chinese woman named Xi Van Fleet. After Mao's culture revolution, Xi sought and received asylum in the United States in the 1970s. She soon came to love and defend America. This became especially evident when, in 2020, she realized the United States was undergoing a communist revolution, fabricated not upon a conflict of class, but rather that of race. (Fabricated is the operative word in the last sentence.) Although Xi never wanted to be involved in politics in the United States, she spoke at a Loudon Co. (VA) school board meeting. This was because she feared the youth of this country was being brainwashed like those in Mao's China in the 1960s. Xi quickly gained a massive following [...]
Don’t Be Afraid of the Natural Sciences
I frequently hear traditional Catholics say something like, "The natural sciences are inferior and subject to the theological sciences." While this is true, many traditional Catholics often imply there is a contradiction between science and Divine Revelation. Or some believe if there ever were to be found to be a contradiction between biology and religion, religion trumps science. This also is true, but the contradiction is often framed by traditional Catholics as if there really could be a contradiction between our Catholic faith and the natural sciences. (By natural sciences, I mean biology, chemistry, astronomy, geology, meteorology, genetics, etc.) The fear of leftists treating science as a religion is well-founded among us traditionalists. Many leftists and atheists claim "science" as their reason for rejecting God. Strangely, they then accept unscientific principles like abortion and evolution. The traditional Catholic rightly has [...]
VLX 147: Mt 25:31-46. “When Did We See You Hungry?”
-Donate: https://www.padreperegrino.org/donate/ -Telegram: https://t.me/padreperegrino -Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-1209063 **** Gospel: When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left. Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, [...]
An Unusual Proof of Traditional Catholicism
You always take the most fire over the target. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41JMkz9kau0 My Telegram channel: https://t.me/padreperegrino
Mr. Morrow’s Near-Death Experience of Hell
Mr. Dominic Morrow was a Chicago gangster who was shot twice in the stomach. He died and went to experience an antechamber to hell, but Our Lord gave him another chance as his soul returned to his body in the hospital where he had arrested. Dominic was not a Christian before his near-death experience (NDE.) Now, he is a Christian, but still not Catholic. Nevertheless, his account of what he saw in hell conforms to what I have read in the Church Fathers and St. Thomas Aquinas. It even supports what the mystics of the Catholic Church have stated in their visions of hell. One small example is that he saw very clearly that the souls in hell have tremendous and everlasting remorse for their sins on earth but no repentance. This lines up exactly to what St. Thomas Aquinas [...]
Relevance, Compromise and Conversion
The Bad News: The above picture is a French Catholic priest recently snapped. According to the caption I read online, his Mass vestments reflect the uniform of the French soccer (football) team. There are not many young people around him as you can see. Clergy seeking "relevance" among peers in modern culture has made very few converts. "We're the exact same as you, so please join our club!" Why? Why would I join a club of old people trying to act young? Below are graphs on the Catholic Church in the United States from Index of Leading Catholic Indicators, a book written in 2003 by Kenneth Jones, a graduate of University of Notre Dame. Notice the great growth of the number of priestly vocations in America before Vatican II: Religious priests tanked after Vatican II, as seen above. Diocesan [...]
RCT 36: The Holy Catholic Church.
The Roman Catechism of Trent (RCT) p. 99-102. The Creed, Article IX, Section A. *** The Catholic Church is the faithful dispersed throughout the entire world who have forsaken the darkness of ignorance and error and now worship the living and true God piously. *** -My site: https://www.padreperegrino.org -Donate: https://www.padreperegrino.org/donate/ -Telegram: https://t.me/padreperegrino ******
Mel Gibson Discusses “Hacksaw” with Me on “Babylon”
This was our discussion with Mel Gibson on a recent episode of Avoiding Babylon: https://youtu.be/JxZP5rDT208?feature=shared