In Defense of Archbishop Viganó
Last week, Archbishop Viganó wrote this on his site: "The Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith has informed me, with a simple email, of the initiation of an extrajudicial penal trial against me, with the accusation of having committed the crime of schism and charging me of having denied the legitimacy of 'Pope Francis' of having broken communion 'with Him' and of having rejected the Second Vatican Council. I have been summoned to the Palace of the Holy Office on June 20, in person or represented by a canon lawyer. I assume that the sentence has already been prepared, given that it is an extrajudicial process. I regard the accusations against me as an honor. I believe that the very wording of the charges confirms the theses that I have repeatedly defended in my various addresses. It is no [...]
Jesse Romero, Paul Clay and I on the Sacraments
First hour we talk about TLM rumors and the emergency sacrament that lay people can give:
Bad and Good Catholic Art
The top-left picture was drawn by Fr. Mario Rupnik SJ. The top-right is an icon I snapped at the Greek Catholic Church in Athens earlier this year. National Catholic Register wrote about the Jesuit who drew the above left picture: "Father Rupnik, a priest and artist, has been accused of spiritual, psychological, and sexual abuse of religious sisters. He was removed from the Jesuits last June." Even the Knights of Columbus wanted his removed from the National Basilica in DC as Detroit Catholic reported. It's unfortunate that "art" which mocks Our Lord and Our Lady and the saints is asked to be removed only once "the artist" is found to be a sexual criminal. Rupnik's "art." Recently, GloriaTV quoted Mr. Martin Mosebach, a German traditionalist and author, in saying that Catholic art globally "had embraced a theology that [...]
More Reasons for Kids Not to Have Cell Phones
Many conservative and traditional Catholic parents know the dangers of kids having cell phones. These dangers include inappropriate images and bullying. But most good Catholic parents somehow still think their children are beyond the reach of predators because they have relatively-obedient children. In this article, you're going see why that's you need to put away that pipe-dream forever. Ex-SEAL Shawn Ryan now has over 2.5M subscribers on his YouTube channel alone, not to mention many more listeners on other forums. He's a conservative podcaster who recently became a Christian. A year ago, he twice had on his show a 30 year old man named Ryan Montgomery who is known as the world's "#1 Ethical Hacker." Specifically, the name of that two-part series was: "#1 Ethical Hacker Who Hunts Child Predators." The language was too dark and filthy for YouTube, for [...]
VLX 151: Mt 26:30-36. “A Place Called Gethsemane.”
-Fr. Walter Joseph Ciszek SJ’s Four Years in Purgatory: https://youtu.be/17AllrONbKU -Donate: https://www.padreperegrino.org/donate/ -Telegram: https://t.me/padreperegrino -STV: https://spiritustv.com/@padreperegrino Gospel: And when they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives. Then Jesus said to them, “You will all fall away because of me this night. For it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’ But after I am raised up, I will go before you to Galilee.” Peter answered him, “Though they all fall away because of you, I will never fall away.” Jesus said to him, “Truly, I tell you, this very night, before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.” Peter said to him, “Even if I must die with you, I will not deny you!” And all the disciples said the same. Then Jesus [...]
Flow-Chart For Salvation-Emergencies
What do you do if you come across a dying person? Should you prioritize getting a paramedic or a priest? What can a lay person do for a dying person who is baptized or unbaptized? What should a priest do for a dying person who is baptized or unbaptized? The traditional answers are relatively simple. They come from what the Bible and Catholic Church has always taught. The following Flow-Chart For Salvation-Emergencies is going to focus on the faith-aspects of helping people die. As an ex-paramedic who has come across a lot of emergencies even as a priest (and I wrote about one here) one needs to consider both the medical and sacramental side of things. Let's say two of you good Catholics walking together came across a man who fell off a ladder onto a crowded Manhattan sidewalk, one [...]
St. Catherine’s Letter to Cardinals Under an Antipope
These days, St. Catherine of Siena is frequently quoted in her love of the pope of her day (as well she should be.) However, she is less frequently quoted in what she had to say about the antipope of her day. There have been 20-40 antipopes in history, so a discussion on this topic is not “anti-Catholic," or "schismatic," as the following account of St. Catherine clearly demonstrates. The website Virgo Sacrata reads: “In 1378, after the election of Pope Urban VI, the majority of Cardinals, Prelates and the people recognized Clement VIl as pope, even though he was in reality an antipope. Thirteen out of sixteen cardinals questioned the validity of the election of Pope Urban due to the threat of violence from the Roman people against the Sacred College, and even Urban's few supporters immediately retracted their election, [...]
RCT 40: The Communion of Saints.
The Roman Catechism of Trent (RCT) p.113-116 The Creed, Article IX, Section E. My article on how any decent Catholic can recognize a heretic in "the hierarchy": https://www.padreperegrino.org/2023/01/whoinferior/ -Donate: https://www.padreperegrino.org/donate/ -Telegram: https://t.me/padreperegrino -STV: https://spiritustv.com/@padreperegrino
Discernment Rules on Secular Decisions
Last year I wrote an article titled, Why Do Rad-Trads Keep “Guessing” Everything Right? In it, I explained it was not a coincidence that traditional Catholics were accurate on everything from resisting "the covid vaccine" to seeing the current Church crisis accurately. Why is this? It wasn't because my Google-button worked better than the priests that were ordained before me. It wasn't because I wanted to save lives by avoiding an mRNA gene therapy injection while other more lukewarm Catholics wanted their loved-ones to die. The reason was not physical. Rather, it was spiritual. We all might have good-wills, but we were informed by different beings. If Rad-Trads Guessing was a "told-ya-so" article, this article is written so as to give insight on Discernment Rules influencing Secular Decisions going forward. As Michael Knowles repeatedly says (quoting Cardinal Manning, I believe) [...]
Should Those Who Commit Abortion Be Punished?
In the more righteous days of Christendom, Catholic countries did indeed reserve the death penalty for men or women who had killed children. This is seen in the fact that in both the Old Testament and the New Testament, the Church Fathers and the Popes held that the death penalty was not only for safety for society, but it was a just punishment upon the guilty. This was especially true when the guilty killed even one innocent person (like an unborn baby.) In case you think the Catholic Church has changed her teaching on the death penalty, just realize that such a notion is impossible. The dogma of the Catholic Church cannot change. The Roman Catechism of Trent is the only infallible Catechism of the Church. Unfortunately, it is rejected by modernist heretics who wrote Dignitas Infinita, as I explained [...]