Padre Peregrino – Page 15 – Theology from a wandering priest

10 02, 2023

Don’t Be Shocked the Dems’ FBI Hates Real Catholics
Don’t Be Shocked the Dems’ FBI Hates Real Catholics

Don’t Be Shocked the Dems’ FBI Hates Real Catholics

By Father David Nix|2023-02-10T17:11:35+00:00February 10th, 2023|Theology|

p/c above by Daily Citizen. The website UncoverDC (again, unlinked due to immodest ads) reported: The FBI’s Richmond Division would like to protect Virginians from the threat of “white supremacy,” which it believes has found a home within Catholics who prefer the Latin Mass. An intelligence analyst within the Richmond Field Office of the FBI released in a new finished intelligence product dated January 23, 2023, on Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists (RMVE) and their interests in “Radical-Traditionalist Catholics” or RTCs. The document assesses with “high confidence” the FBI can mitigate the threat of Radical-Traditionalist Catholics by recruiting sources within the Catholic Church. Following the above news, there's a [...]

9 02, 2023

Flow Chart of Grace
Flow Chart of Grace

Flow Chart of Grace

By guest|2023-02-09T23:08:07+00:00February 9th, 2023|Theology|

by Randall Grasso The Most Important Thing in Life What is the most important thing in life? The most important thing in life is to get to Heaven. Why is getting to Heaven the most important thing in life? Getting to Heaven is the most important thing in life because it the purpose for which God made us. God desires all men to be saved and to come to knowledge of the truth. 1 Tim. 2:4; 2 Pt. 3:9. God made us to love Him and serve Him in this life and to be happy with Him forever in the next. After death we enter eternity where we will forever [...]

7 02, 2023

A Circular Firing Squad of Catholics
A Circular Firing Squad of Catholics

A Circular Firing Squad of Catholics

By Father David Nix|2023-02-09T14:56:28+00:00February 7th, 2023|Theology|

Richard Williamson was born in the UK during WWII. He converted from Anglicanism to Catholicism in 1971. He was later ordained a priest in 1976 and consecrated a bishop in 1988, both by Archbishop Lefebvre. Bishop Williamson was a bishop for the SSPX and later departed from them. Last year (in Spring 2022) I met Bp. Williamson in England and even stayed with him one evening. I found him very intelligent and gracious. However, you don't have to appreciate Bp. Williamson as much as I do to appreciate a prophetic quote from him below. I think even people who find him too "extreme" or too "controversial" or too "disobedient" need to [...]

2 02, 2023

Early Martyrs Against Religious-Pluralism
Early Martyrs Against Religious-Pluralism

Early Martyrs Against Religious-Pluralism

By Father David Nix|2023-01-30T02:39:56+00:00February 2nd, 2023|Theology|

Most modernist Catholics have a sentimental devotion to the early martyrs. Perhaps in the eyes of modernist Catholics, the early martyrs seem like weak but ignorant victims at the hands of bygone Roman procurators. Perhaps this is simply how things happened in a more cruel time of world history? Yet, we must remember that St. Felicity had her execution delayed with St. Perpetua precisely because she was pregnant. Even the Roman Empire would not kill an unborn baby, as they admitted this was shedding innocent blood. So, which age is more cruel? Ours or theirs? Another thing we may overlook today is that the pagan procurators of the Roman Empire [...]

31 01, 2023

My Experience of the Sacraments in Africa
My Experience of the Sacraments in Africa

My Experience of the Sacraments in Africa

By Father David Nix|2023-01-31T14:38:06+00:00January 31st, 2023|Theology|

One of the few "racially insensitive" things I have said in my life (and by "insensitive" I mean how as a liberal, I spoke as a liberal, that is, talking down to ethnic folks while sounding like you're talking up to them) happened several years after my priestly ordination and I was visiting the FSSP seminary in Denton, NE. I met a Nigerian seminarian in the refectory and we talked about my mission work. (I told him how I had been on mission to Rwanda in 2014 as a priest. Then, I was still doing both the Novus Ordo and the TLM. See above picture and below picture.) In [...]

26 01, 2023

The Mystical Body’s Ever-Changing Crucifixion
The Mystical Body’s Ever-Changing Crucifixion

The Mystical Body’s Ever-Changing Crucifixion

By Father David Nix|2023-01-26T16:10:09+00:00January 26th, 2023|Theology|

The earliest age of the Church was the age of blood martyrs. As I currently am reading the Victories of the Martyrs by St. Alphonsus, I am repeatedly shocked how spontaneously the earliest Catholic men and women and children chide their Roman procurators for their pagan worship. Before the threat of flames, little girls openly declare they would rather suffer several minutes in the flames than the eternal flames to which the Roman procurator will throw himself if he does not repent for his idolatry. That early age of the Church carried the physical cross of Jesus Christ. Indeed, many of the early martyrs were literally crucified, as was Our [...]

24 01, 2023

Revisiting “Santa Muerte”
Revisiting “Santa Muerte”

Revisiting “Santa Muerte”

By Father David Nix|2023-01-24T14:47:09+00:00January 24th, 2023|Theology|

On my video called Theology and Current Events (TCE) #41 I was joined in early 2022 by Armando Valenzuela to discuss the Mexican “devotion” called “Santa Muerte.” Mr. Valenzuela is a former police officer and special-agent from the Los Angeles Police Department. One thing Armando made clear (and no one can accuse him of "racism" since he's half-Mexican and half-Pima Indian) is that the Santa Muerte devotion is not an old Mexican devotion based in Catholicism, but a new diabolical act of worship of the demon of death introduced into the country by Mexican drug cartels. Or, more likely, as we will see later, it is a return of the [...]

19 01, 2023

Why (and How) to Baptize a Miscarried Baby
Why (and How) to Baptize a Miscarried Baby

Why (and How) to Baptize a Miscarried Baby

By Father David Nix|2023-01-19T17:30:44+00:00January 19th, 2023|Theology|

The following was written by Alana M. Rosshirt in a 1958 production of Marriage: The Magazine of Catholic Family Living. Please open the pdf here to read about importance of baptizing miscarried babies, and how to do it. Also, free to print it. Although the above pdf is the main thing that I hope you will read in this blog post, I want to mention a few more things about baptism. The following canons from the new code of Canon Law (released in 1984 under Pope John Paul II) reveal some of the most overlooked parts of the theology and practice of infant baptism. Keep in mind that that the [...]

17 01, 2023

The Four “C’s” of a Good Confession
The Four “C’s” of a Good Confession

The Four “C’s” of a Good Confession

By Father David Nix|2023-01-17T14:49:18+00:00January 17th, 2023|Theology|

Before going to confession, remember to never bring your phone in the confessional (as a phone even in airplane-mode may be hacked by the government or another enemy.) Rather, write out your sins on a piece of paper that you may wish to bring into the confessional. Then, begin your confession by saying to the priest your state in life (married, single, priest religious) and then say how long it's been since your last confession (one week, one month, one year, etc.). Say, "I accuse myself of the following sins..." as you keep in mind the traditional Four C's of Making a Good Confession: Clear. Someone recently told me about an [...]

12 01, 2023

The Four Lacunæ of the “New Evangelization”
The Four Lacunæ of the “New Evangelization”

The Four Lacunæ of the “New Evangelization”

By Father David Nix|2023-01-12T04:08:43+00:00January 12th, 2023|Theology|

The "old evangelization" is better than the "new evangelization" not because old things are better (which is generally true) or that human-nature is more fallen than it was in the 16th century (which is also probably true) but because of two other specific reasons: 1) The "old evangelization" goes back to Apostolic times where the ascetical life of union with Christ drove the exterior life of spreading the Catholic Faith (unlike the "new evangelization" that is reliant on people being relevant and "contagious.") 2) The old-evangelization worked, unlike the new evangelization. Even promoters of the new evangelization admit that in the United States, for every convert coming in the front-door [...]