Padre Peregrino – Page 39 – Theology from a wandering priest

12 10, 2021

Self-Incriminating Struggle Session

By Father David Nix|2021-10-12T14:40:16+00:00October 12th, 2021|Theology|

The man at the top right is Jack Posobiec. He is a 35 year old husband and father and a Traditional Latin Mass Catholic. He learned Mandarin and lived in China working for the US Chamber of Commerce. He was also in the Navy including several tours as well as serving for the Office of Naval Intelligence. Jack now has 1.4M followers on Twitter, mostly conservatives like him. Recently, on a podcast, he was describing tactics of the Chinese communists, including "struggle sessions." In a "struggle session," a person convicted of thought crimes against communism was frequently to incriminate himself by confessing the "sins" against a state in a struggle-session. [...]

10 10, 2021

Does Excommunicating Pro-Abortion Politicians Do Anything?

By Father David Nix|2021-10-11T03:46:45+00:00October 10th, 2021|Theology|

The new Code of Canon Law in Can. 1398 explains that anyone who "procures" an abortion is automatically (latæ sententiæ) excommunicated. That is, anyone who participates in an abortion (mother, father, driver, doctor, nurse, etc.) is excommunicated by the very act of abortion (without a need of a penal declaration from a bishop.) Hence, it was automatic. Now, there is some debate if a pro-abortion politician who publicly promotes abortion is also ex-communicated automatically, for Canon 1329 speaks of circumstances "where a number of persons conspire together to commit an offense." Either way, the local bishop is required to publicly state the excommunication of a pro-abortion politician for the sake [...]

9 10, 2021

An Alternative Religious-Exemption Form
An Alternative Religious-Exemption Form

An Alternative Religious-Exemption Form

By Father David Nix|2021-10-09T15:19:17+00:00October 9th, 2021|Theology|

A Catholic lawyer I know recently wrote a religious exemption that I found to be short and strong that I wish to share below. Each employee will need to personalize their letter based on the specific job. Keep in mind that your employer is not necessarily required to give anyone an exemption, but they should at least consider the request and work with you. The below form is not legal advice. It is only a form letter with some interesting new suggestions that individual Christians may want to consider. Every employee's job, personal conscience, and situation is going to be different. If you need specific advice about your situation, then you [...]

7 10, 2021

To Banish the TLM to the Catacombs
To Banish the TLM to the Catacombs

To Banish the TLM to the Catacombs

By Father David Nix|2021-10-05T04:03:41+00:00October 7th, 2021|Theology|

Recently, I heard a middle-aged exorcist give a talk about how all the elderly exorcists in the world agree that something happened in 1963 that tanked the power of the Church in exorcisms. The middle-aged exorcist did not say what this event was. I asked his friend, and his friend suspected it was this event that happened in 1963, reported even [barely] by Wikipedia: "Windswept House describes a satanic ritual – the enthronement of Lucifer – taking place at Saint-Paul's Chapel inside Vatican City, on June 29, 1963. The book gives a depiction of high-ranking churchmen, cardinals, archbishops and prelatees of the Roman curia, taking oaths signed with their own [...]

5 10, 2021

Dream of a Restored Church

By Father David Nix|2021-10-03T19:49:54+00:00October 5th, 2021|Theology|

I frequently think that the return of Christ may be imminent, especially since it seems much of Matthew 24 has been fulfilled in the past 100 years and how much of 2 Thess 2 has been fulfilled in the past 10 years. But a dream (literally a dream) this past week pumped the breaks on that expectation. I decided against writing that entire dream here in my blog, and I certainly don't claim it was a private revelation, but I can say that the joy, peace, truth, love and light in the life of Catholics in that dream reminded me of the following approved private revelations on the restoration of [...]

30 09, 2021

My Servant, Who Suffers a Great Deal for the Faith
My Servant, Who Suffers a Great Deal for the Faith

My Servant, Who Suffers a Great Deal for the Faith

By andromeda|2022-04-14T01:30:10+00:00September 30th, 2021|Theology|

Guest Author: Andromeda Prologue: Until today, I had never heard of Professor Albert Drexel (1889-1997). He was born in Hohenems, in the Voralberg Province of Austria and was the third of five brothers, who, like him, were all priests. He was ordained in 1914. He held three doctorates in philology (i.e. study of language, strongly connected to the study of etymology). A week or so ago, I had started to formulate a desire to implore help from The Mother of God, namely, in the form of a visible sign that I could clearly understand. Knowing the seriousness of such a favor, and with childlike hope, I let it sit, and [...]

28 09, 2021

How Christians Should Mock Death

By Father David Nix|2021-09-21T20:59:28+00:00September 28th, 2021|Theology|

“For when one sees human beings, who are weak by nature, leaping towards death, neither shrinking from its corruption nor fearing the descent to hell, but with an eager spirit challenging it and not flinching from torture, but rather for the sake of Christ preferring instead of this present life zeal for death; or if one were to watch men and women and young children rushing and leaping towards death on account of their devotion to Christ, who is so silly or who is so incredulous, or who is so maimed in mind, as to not understand and reason that it is Christ, to whom human beings are bearing witness, [...]

23 09, 2021

‘The Prophesy of St. Francis’ and the ‘Franciscans of the Immaculate’
‘The Prophesy of St. Francis’ and the ‘Franciscans of the Immaculate’

‘The Prophesy of St. Francis’ and the ‘Franciscans of the Immaculate’

By Father David Nix|2021-10-04T15:12:27+00:00September 23rd, 2021|Theology|

This is a prophesy of St. Francis of Assisi. Notice it is sourced at the end: “Act bravely, my brethren; take courage and trust in the Lord. The time is fast approaching in which there will be great trials and afflictions; perplexities and dissensions, both spiritual and temporal, will abound; the charity of many will grow cold, and the malice of the wicked will increase. The devils will have unusual power; the immaculate purity of our Order, and of others, will be so much obscured that there will be very few Christians who obey the true Supreme Pontiff and the Roman Church with loyal ears and perfect charity. “At the [...]

9 09, 2021

Red Rose Rescue: Why We Rescue

By guest|2021-09-09T15:19:30+00:00September 9th, 2021|Theology|

I asked my friend Will Goodman (seen above) why we joined a group called Red Rose Rescue (RRR). RRR is a rescue arm of the pro-life movement today. Will Goodman (with whom I have been arrested for peaceful prayer inside of abortion centers) wrote the following about why we do RRR:Red Rose Rescue is a national coalition of pro-lifers committed to rescuing Moms and babies from the murderous violence of prenatal homicide. This is why we rescue. Obedience. Almighty God gives us a Commandment in the Book of Proverbs: “Rescue those being taken to death, and spare those drawn towards slaughter.” (PRV 23:11) This is not a suggestion. It is [...]

7 09, 2021

Rivers of Living Water
Rivers of Living Water

Rivers of Living Water

By Father David Nix|2021-09-04T02:23:09+00:00September 7th, 2021|Theology|

Et sustínui qui simul contristarétur, et non fuit: et qui consolarétur, et non invéni.—Ps 68:21 Many people ask me with our crisis in the Church, "What are we to do?" At the risk of sounding saccharine-sweet, I'm going to propose that one of the best things you can do is to give your heart to Jesus to let His heart break in yours here on earth over the state of the Church. If St. Teresa of Avila wrote, "Christ has no hands but yours; Christ has no feet but yours," and since we know that Saul (before becoming Paul) in persecuting the Church was literally persecuting Christ-Himself (cf. Acts 9:4) [...]