VLX 114: The One and the Ninety-Nine
Mt 18:11-14 To donate: https://www.padreperegrino.org/donate/ https://rumble.com/embed/v17plsa/?pub=e5jg1
“Ecclesia Dei Adflicta” Turns 34 Years Old
June and July mark some bittersweet anniversaries in the traditional movement. It was on 30 June 1988 that Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre and Bishop Antonio de Castro Mayer did episcopal consecrations without the approval of Rome. Pope John Paul II quickly wrote a document called Ecclesia Dei Adflicta, meaning "On the Afflicted Church of God." This is a barely-veiled reference to imply that Archbishop Lefebvre himself was "afflicting the Church of God" by consecrating bishops without the Pope's approval. Three weeks later, on 18 July 1988, the FSSP was founded with the approval of Rome to remain both canonically regular and maintain the old-rite sacraments. I believe one of the main fulcrum points in these events of 1988 was Pope John Paul II's motu proprio entitled Ecclesia Dei Adflicta. Today, 2 July 2022, is the 34th anniversary of that document. The paragraph I [...]
QuickPod: Planned Parenthood post-RvW Being Overturned
9 minutes on contraception vs. abortion as well as how to get involved in the pro-life movement after the Supreme Court handed the decision on abortion "laws" to the individual states. https://rumble.com/embed/v18361v/?pub=e5jg1
The Last CPX (and my Upcoming RCT)
Yesterday, we released the very last CPX video, found on this YouTube playlist. CPX stands for Catechism of Pius X. It is my doctrinal and catechetical series of 15 minute videos numbered from 1 to 113. Each video contains about five minutes of my reading an old-school catechism and then about ten minutes of my commentary on it. Of course, my commentary is not as important as the words of a canonized Pope from 100 years ago. However, my application to a post-modern man who is battling the heresy of modernism is something the holy Pope never expected to be in the battle-array of a priest in the not-too-distant future. In other words, Pope St. Pius X warned us that modernism could get bad, but never did he expect it to be so bad that nearly the entire hierarchy [...]
CPX 113: The Last CPX (The Worst Sins)
Catechism of Pope St. Pius X (CPX) p.154-155 Q/A 1-9. https://rumble.com/embed/v16w8mb/?pub=e5jg1
Advice to Young Courting Catholics, Part II
N.B This blog post is from a lay guest writer. NOTES FROM A BATTLEFIELD OBSERVER I write this from the perspective of a fifty-something Catholic father with three grown children. Watching my children become young adults has given me a ringside seat from which to view many of the follies and customs of today’s young people, around dating, courtship, and views on marriage. What follows is practical advice. It seems obvious to me that “love” is almost wholly misunderstood, and because it’s misunderstood, it’s highly overrated. That tingle you feel – it’s most likely just a touch of eros. This is not enough on which to base a permanent relationship. Not even close. You young folks who think you’ve found true love, in the process of courtship, most certainly have not. You won’t know true love until after many, many [...]
Pro-Life Martyr Jim Pouillon
Even the Wikipedia page for Jim Pouillon reads that "the murder of Jim Pouillon occurred on September 11, 2009... Pouillon was killed while protesting against abortion in front of Owosso High School in Owosso, Michigan." The man who killed Pouillon is named Harlan James Drake. That same day, he shot a businessman named Michael Fuoss at a different location. Fuoss was also killed. May God rest his soul. Because the two events were unrelated, and because the second shooting had nothing to do with the abortion debate, one might argue that Pouillon just happened to be at "the wrong place at the wrong time," namely, in front of an abortion center. Furthermore, I do not know if Pouillon died a Catholic. To be a martyr, one must die in odium fidei. To die in odium fidei means to die "in hatred of the [...]
QuickPod: Roe versus Wade overturned on Feast of Sacred Heart
https://rumble.com/embed/v174o7h/?pub=e5jg1
Why Murder of an Unborn Child May Be Worse than Murder of An Adult
Here's four ways abortion is possibly worse than the murder of an adult: 1. The level of innocence. I am not saying any babies are conceived without original sin. I'm simply saying they have no actual sin on their hands at the moment of their slaughter, unlike adult victims of homicide. 2. Abortion is a bloody sacrifice to demons as a mockery of the Mass. The Mass is an unbloody sacrifice to God. 3. Every abortion drags a dozen people to hell, regardless of where that baby goes (heaven, or much more likely—limbo.) 4. By the sheer number of these murders, chaos is introduced into a society and demons' power increases. Remember, there doesn't have to be an “end game” to demons promoting abortion, except the fact their destruction (and humans cooperating with it) is a direct affront to God, [...]
Balancing Self-Confidence with Humility
One of the things I find fascinating about Special Forces guys in the US Military is that they are usually soft-spoken. One of the things I find fascinating about fully-certifiable narcissists is that they are always the opposite: Whereas narcissists frequently speak about themselves in a self-centered manner, they secretly have extremely low self-confidence. So, what is the relationship between self-confidence and humility? The pious answer goes like this: "One should have confidence in God, not oneself." While this is true, it does not take into consideration the difficult balance that St. Thomas Aquinas makes between magnanimity and humility. In the Second Part of the Second Part of his Summa Theologiae, St. Thomas Aquinas writes: Pride is the "inordinate desire of one's own excellence."—Q 162. “Magnanimity urges the mind to great things in accord with right reason. Hence it is clear that [...]