Should a young man who is a traditional Catholic "submarine" himself into his own diocese so as to get ordained?  First, what does this question even mean?  This means:  "Should the young man who prefers the tradition of the Catholic Church join a Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) congregation -or- should he could join his home diocese by keeping his head down in a normie seminary so as to be ordained so that he can reach the average Catholic with the Gospel even if this means he must offer the new Mass in English (or Vietnamese or Spanish or French)? My answer is,  "No, a young traditionalist should not 'submarine' through seminary [...]

New Weekly Schedule: Mon: Video Lectio Divina (VLX) on YouTube or podcasts apps. Tues: Theology Blog (here) Wed: Catechism of Pius X (CPX) on YouTube or podcasts apps. Thurs: Theology Blog (here) Fri: Theology and Current Events (TCE) on YouTube or podcasts apps (if time.) Sat: Life Update under pull-down blog section called "Life" (if time.) The above is my new production schedule starting next week (barring retreats or emergencies. ) See "Padre Peregrino" on "Talks" section of blog or YouTube, Apple Podcasts, any Android podcast app and Bitchute. (Bitchute is my back-up to YouTube if the latter deplatforms me for not having "woke" enough material.) The picture at the [...]

In the Spring of 2019, 18 year old Kenrick Castillo, top left, charged an active shooter at his high school to block bullets from hitting his friends.  Kenrick had already taken his Catholic faith very seriously and was only 18 years old when he died from this heroic act.  A Catholic school teacher who knew him later recalled, “In a video from her class that she posted to Facebook, Kendrick [acted] out the part of Jesus, going to search for his apostles or to comfort a suffering person, blessing them with the sign of the cross and inviting them to join him."  Kenrick's father, John Castillo, said to local news about his [...]

Some Catholics hold their private beliefs as different from their public beliefs. It's starting to resemble the Muslim notion of taqiyah (in Arabic above in the featured image.) I thought for a long time that taqiyah was permission from Mohammed to lie about Islam precisely for the promotion of Islam. But the more I studied it, the more I realized that taqiyah is dialing down your own beliefs so as fit into a different culture (at least, until you constitute the majority of a population.) Taqiyah (Arabic: تقیة‎ ) is defined as "a precautionary dissimulation or denial of religious belief and practice in the face of persecution...dissimulation by silence or [...]