Today’s parable includes angels, demons, good humans and bad humans at the end of time. It also explains the Church crisis. See a recent article on Cardinal Bernardin written by a guest writer at my site here: https://www.padreperegrino.org/2026/11/bernardins/
Last week I (Fr. David Nix) had a four hour dinner with Bernardin's victim and her husband. She is now 80 years old. The Satanic Ritual Abuse happened to her about 70 years ago by Fr. Joseph Bernardin (later Cardinal Archbishop of Chicago, top-left.) The abuse happened at St. Mary's Church in Greenville, SC (top-right.) My mother is from Chicago (and my father is from West of Chicago) so I grew up hearing from extended family that one day Cardinal Bernardin would be canonized. Much in my life has changed since then. Another thing that has changed is Rome's recent attempt to rehabilitate the reputation of Bernardin. Keep in mind [...]
Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which you have learned, whether by word, or by our epistle.—2 Thess 2:14. As most of you know, I have been a priest for sixteen years. Ten years ago, I switched from the 1969 calendar and the Novus Ordo Missae (NOM) to the 1962 calendar and the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) as well as the other six sacraments of the ancient Roman Rite. Then, about seven years ago, I heard a traditional religious brother talking about the pre-1955 calendar. I rolled my eyes thinking, "Nothing is good enough for these traditionalists!" Why in the world would one rad-trad with a 1954 [...]
-Qualifications for the Priesthood. -The Roman Catechism of Trent p. 357-361. -The Sacraments, ep. 36.
A continued discussion on perfect contrition leading into the death penalty with Jesse Romero, former Los Angeles County Deputy Sheriff. p/c Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times.
Today Jesse and I discuss why grace is necessary on the death bed to be saved, either via the sacraments (preferred) or perfect contrition (when there is no priest nearby.) Jesse describes an impenitent priest dying of AIDS who he convinced to go to confession at the 11th hour.
The short version of this podcast is that I am taking this next month offline, unless we (God-forbid) have another 9/11 or something. I am not only going to try to avoid posting and scrolling. I’m even going to do my best to refrain from writing articles or making podcasts from 19 Sept 2026 to 19 Oct 2026. Continue reading here.
The short version of this article is that I am taking this next month offline, unless we (God-forbid) have another 9/11 or something. I am not only going to try to avoid posting and scrolling on FB, IG, X, and TG. I’m even going to do my best to refrain from writing articles or making videos and podcasts from 19 Sept 2026 to 19 Oct 2026. This includes Substack. Even though this media blackout will not involve me being more secluded than my current life, I am still going to call this “a retreat” so I can go deeper into prayer. As I say to friends frequently, “This whole hermit [...]
p/c Pietro Torrigiano, John Fisher as a Young Man, Wikipedia. This is a letter I composed from one real bishop to another—the Bishop of Durham to St. John Fisher of England—but fictionally, some time in the 16th century. Your Lordship Bishop John Fisher, I greet you in the name of God, the most Blessed Trinity. And I, Bishop Cuthbert Tunstall, the Bishop of Durham, have been asked by Our Lord and King in his great mercy to grant you one last chance for you to re-consider your way of thinking, nay, for you to fall in line with the guidance of God under every bishop in England, except yourself. As [...]
This is a fictional letter I imagined from niece to uncle somewhere around the Mediterranean in the first century. My dearest beloved Uncle John, I write you in the love of God who is One, and our family who misses you greatly. At least, most of the family misses you. As you know, it has been four years since I have seen you. My mother (your beloved sister) tells me you are living across the Great Sea with the mother of the rabbi. But there are also horrible rumors you have been taken prisoner to a strange island of the Hellenists. If this rumor is true, who is taking care [...]
