The Near-Martyrdom of St. John the Apostle
As most of you know, the only apostle not martyred was St. John the Beloved (also called St. John the Theologian.) But as seen in the FSSP Ordo today (the 6th of May) there is an optional 4th class feast of St. John's near-martyrdom in boiling oil at the Latin Gate that is even celebrated in red (R) by the priest (if he can find it at the back of his '62 Missal!) Here's the Roman Calendar as produced by the FSSP: As the definitive and ancient Roman Martyrology reads on the 6th of May, "In Rome, the feast of St. John before the Latin Gate. Being bound and brought [...]
Totalitarianism Must Be Total
The above picture I snapped while traveling in New Orleans. I'm not sure why it was necessary to put that up since nearly no one in New Orleans dares to go into a restaurant without a mask. It's not like the above picture is actually stopping this imaginary 50% of the population of "right-wing science-deniers" who would "endanger the average population" in the overwhelming fear still set in motion on this coronavirus "pandemic" that has allegedly "overwhelmed the hospitals." Rather, the above sign of No Mask, No Service is simply a reminder that the shop-owners are in cahoots with the brainwashing team. The above picture I also took in New [...]
Do We Need Catholic Labels in the 21st Century?
I'm fully aware there were heated debates on matters of speculative theology between Franciscans and Dominicans in the Middle Ages on topics such as "Is the intellect or the will the is the primary faculty in the beatific vision? (I think the Franciscans said the will and the Dominicans said the intellect.) I'm also fully aware there were heated political factions in the 19th century between Catholics and that already there were debates in politics between "liberals" and "conservatives." But far and away, Catholics in the 13th century and Catholics in the 19th century (and every century in between) did not use nasty titles modern like "traditional Catholic" or "liberal [...]
God Wants To Save Us From Ourselves
A wise philosopher who taught me at Boston College was once asked at a public talk, "Why does man sin?" The philosopher thought about it and said, "I suppose that is the one thing that even God Himself does not know, as we see in what He says to do the damned, I do not know you. (cf Mt 25:12) Even if not dogmatically true, it's at least "poetically true" that perhaps even God Himself does not know why man sins. Indeed, if God made man for Himself, then to turn from Eternal Love Himself is so foolish as to be incomprehensible to, well, Eternal Truth Himself. We know that on the [...]
Blasphemy Against Mother Mary in “The Chosen”
Section A: The Scene The Chosen is a streaming video series on the life of Our Lord Jesus Christ with record-breaking viewership. They did a decent job in Season 1, but a scene found in Season 2, Episode 3 has major blasphemy against the Mother of Jesus. In this scene, a female disciple of Jesus named Rama is sitting next to Mother Mary and expresses her concern about how to know and follow Jesus in a better way. (As St. Mary Magdalene is also in this scene, I will refer to the mother of Jesus below as "Mother Mary.") Rama says, “I feel like I need to not make anymore [...]
Hermeneutic of Continuity or Hermeneutic of Rupture?
As a middle-of-the-road conservative in seminary, I would frequently say things like, "Vatican II did not change Catholic doctrine, but it did change how we package it for the post-modern mind." Or, perhaps I would say, "Dogma can't change but how we explain it can change." Phrases like this demonstrate the hermeneutic of continuity we clung to. We believed the Catholic Church before 1963 was the same as the Church after 1963. We just had to return to "the early Church" in order to "get back to the sources" if we wanted to square the circle, if we just lined up the stars correctly between the teachings of Pope St. [...]
Immune System Thoughts from a Mayo-Trained Pathologist
Dr. Ryan Cole MD founder of Cole Diagnostics is a Mayo clinic trained board-certified pathologist who has seen 350,000 patients and tested 100,000 COVID-19 tests in the past year. Dr. Cole MD is not an anti-vaxxer and yet he speaks very clearly about coronavirus and its easy solutions. Anyone pregnant and anyone hoping to get pregnant should watch this video: https://rumble.com/embed/vcv8r5/?pub=4
New Weekly Production Schedule
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 [...]
UK Gov’t Reports Pfizer Vaccine’s “Adverse Reactions”
Compare this: https://twitter.com/abirballan/status/1379436287107559427?s=20 to this: Looks like God will not bless a vaccine taken from lines of babies dissected while alive for their "life-giving science." Also, as many of you already know, even the former Pfizer-VP has claimed the vaccine will lead to massive-scale depopulation.
Two Colorado Catholic Heroes Who Gave Their Lives For Others
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 [...]