Padre Peregrino – Page 24 – Theology from a wandering priest

25 10, 2022

Is This Church-Crisis a Mousetrap for All Heresies?
Is This Church-Crisis a Mousetrap for All Heresies?

Is This Church-Crisis a Mousetrap for All Heresies?

By Father David Nix|2022-10-22T14:57:34+00:00October 25th, 2022|Theology|

St. Augustine wrote about the Passion and Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ: The Devil exulted when Christ died, and by that very death of Christ the Devil was overcome: he took food, as it were, from a trap. He gloated over the death as if he were appointed a deputy of death; that in which he rejoiced became a prison for him. The cross of the Lord became a trap for the Devil; the death of the Lord was the food by which he was ensnared. And behold, our Lord Jesus Christ rose again. Where is the death which hung upon the cross? Where is the reviling of the [...]

20 10, 2022

The Speed of Science and Superstition
The Speed of Science and Superstition

The Speed of Science and Superstition

By Father David Nix|2022-10-25T16:39:07+00:00October 20th, 2022|Theology|

https://youtu.be/mnxlxzxoZx0 Many of you have already seen the above 45 second clip where Mr. Roos, a conservative member of the European Parliament, asks a Pfizer representative named Mrs. Small if Pfizer even tested their Covid-19 vaccine on stopping the transmission of the Covid-19 virus before its international rollout. Mrs. Small replies, "No [laugh]... We had to really move at the speed of science to really understand what is taking place in the market. And from that point of view, we had to do everything at-risk." So, notice that the Dutchman Mr. Roos is not asking about a certain amount of studies. Rather, he is simply asking if Pfizer did any [...]

18 10, 2022

The Evil of Feminism in Moral Theology
The Evil of Feminism in Moral Theology

The Evil of Feminism in Moral Theology

By Father David Nix|2022-10-18T16:05:20+00:00October 18th, 2022|Theology|

While it's true that this blog post is about the evil of feminism in moral theology, it's not about women, nor does it refer to sixth-commandment violations (except two passing examples.) Also, most of my readers would hopefully not conflate traditional Catholicism's rejection of feminism with an acceptance of violent misogyny or an arrogant machismo. Obviously, one evil does not balance out another evil. But feminism attempts to overturn a hierarchy that God has given to creation and to the family. The first aspect of hierarchy that is theologically rejected by feminism (implicitly, not explicitly) is that the Creator comes before the creature, in eternity and importance. That is, God is [...]

13 10, 2022

Mary, Destroyer of All Heresies Part II
Mary, Destroyer of All Heresies Part II

Mary, Destroyer of All Heresies Part II

By Father David Nix|2022-10-09T19:53:50+00:00October 13th, 2022|Theology|

In Part I, we discussed how Mary's interior life was entirely God-centered (not man-centered) and how her life, although ordinary in her daily duties, was a string of miracles from her Conception to her Assumption. Miracles overturns the heresy of modernism which is primarily a man-centered version of Catholicism that looks through the ancient faith through natural goggles instead of the supernatural vision given to us by Divine Revelation. I release this blog on 13th of October which is not only the anniversary of the greatest miracle since the Resurrection (namely, the miracle of the sun seen at Fatima by 70,000 believers and unbelievers alike on 13 Oct 1917) but [...]

11 10, 2022

Mary, Destroyer of All Heresies Part I
Mary, Destroyer of All Heresies Part I

Mary, Destroyer of All Heresies Part I

By Father David Nix|2022-10-11T13:03:03+00:00October 11th, 2022|Theology|

Although she is the most tender of mothers, Mary has also been known for centuries as "the destroyer of all heresies." Why? Most of my readers probably know from Church history that any correction of a Marian heresy was usually de facto a correction of a Christological heresy afflicting the faithful. For example, Bishop Antonio de Castro Mayer (of holy memory) points out that "the Council of Ephesus taught categorically and definitively that in Jesus Christ there is only one person, the Person of the Son of God, in which subsist two natures, really distinct, the divine nature, by which Jesus Christ is truly God, and the human nature which [...]

7 10, 2022

My Favorite Full-Length Movies on YouTube
My Favorite Full-Length Movies on YouTube

My Favorite Full-Length Movies on YouTube

By Father David Nix|2022-10-07T04:32:13+00:00October 7th, 2022|Theology|

Note: Click on the title of any movie embedded in a blog to leave it and go straight to YouTube. https://youtu.be/cYbXeN_I2KE Padre Pio: Miracle Man. Padre Pio is played by Sergio Castellitto in this movie produced in 2000. Italians tend to make film of saints that either get the natural right or the supernatural right, but this gets both right on Padre Pio. It's 3.5 hours long. I don't think any Padre Pio flick will soon top Miracle Man starring Castellitto. Regarding a newer production on the life of the great saint of Padre Pio, I wrote a month ago on social media that I believe Shia LaBeouf's conversion is genuine, [...]

4 10, 2022

238 Infallible Dogmas of the Catholic Church
238 Infallible Dogmas of the Catholic Church

238 Infallible Dogmas of the Catholic Church

By Father David Nix|2024-08-29T15:12:26+00:00October 4th, 2022|Theology|

One of the most common questions I get is: "Which Dogmas are Infallible in the Catholic Church?" In 2013, the website Tradicat was able to conglomerate from the late Dr. Ludwig Ott's book, Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma about 238 dogmas that are either De Fide (defined by the Catholic Church as infallible) or Sent. Certa (infallible by corollary.) I improved Tradicat's numbering system a bit below, but Dr. Ott and Dr. Daniel Stramara did the hard work on this long ago. More recently, Fr. Paul Kramer and Dr. Edmund Mazza have revealed that despite being a modernist, and despite hiding the Third Secret of Fatima, Pope Benedict XVI has denied none [...]

29 09, 2022

Either Deceived by Satan Or Discredited by Men
Either Deceived by Satan Or Discredited by Men

Either Deceived by Satan Or Discredited by Men

By Father David Nix|2022-10-04T00:30:46+00:00September 29th, 2022|Theology|

The The Devil's Final Battle (DFB, henceforth in this blog-post) is a book published in 2002 and edited by Fr. Paul Kramer. In it, we read: "In 1917, the very year Our Lady appeared at Fatima, St. Maximilian Kolbe as in Rome, where he saw the Masons showing their open hostility to the Catholic Church and carrying placard announcing their intention to infiltrate the Vatican so that satan would rule from the Vatican and the Pope would be his slave. They also boasted at the same time that they would destroy the Church. The intention of the Masons to destroy the Church fits in perfectly with the well-known Masonic dictum, 'We [...]

27 09, 2022

The Early Church Was More Rigorous Than the Medieval Church
The Early Church Was More Rigorous Than the Medieval Church

The Early Church Was More Rigorous Than the Medieval Church

By Father David Nix|2022-09-26T00:35:36+00:00September 27th, 2022|Theology|

The above picture is one of the earliest discovered paintings of Madonna and child in the catacombs of Rome. It is found in or near the Church of St. Priscilla. The earliest Christians were certainly full of the fruits of the Holy Spirit as listed in Galatians (love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control) but that does not mean that they were shallow, smiley, happy or clappy in their approach to life. The notion that the early Church's liturgy was simplistic is overturned in these videos I did on Antiquarianism and Archaeologism. (In these videos I show that the ancient Mass is closer to the TLM [...]

24 09, 2022

We Need to Change Our Strategy with Infiltrators
We Need to Change Our Strategy with Infiltrators

We Need to Change Our Strategy with Infiltrators

By Father David Nix|2022-09-24T16:04:41+00:00September 24th, 2022|Theology|

When I saw this tweet by Matt Gaspers, I realized we were being trolled by the left. Or, Satan was openly trolling the left and still all leftists don't realize they are now fully under the grip of who St. Ignatius calls "the enemy of human nature." Either way, there are currently no attempts by the left anymore to hide their evil intentions or actions. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote: "We know that they are lying. They know that they are lying. They even know that we know they are lying. We also know that they know we know they are lying. But they still continue to lie." That's because the big-time [...]