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23 10, 2025

Reception of Catholic Converts in Tradition.

By |2025-10-23T12:21:57+00:00October 23rd, 2025|Theology|

As we will see below, the order of operations is: 1) Accept Christ.  2) Abjure past errors and make a profession of the Catholic Faith.  3) Actual (or conditional baptism.)  4) Lifetime confession.  5) All other sacraments. Recently, God has been using me to bring some older folks into the Catholic Church. One of these was the mother of a friend of mine who had been raised Lutheran. After her daughter and her granddaughter and I visited her in the nursing home, she decided to go from Lutheran to Catholic on her deathbed. At the time she made this decision, she had almost no dementia or senility, so no one [...]

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21 10, 2025

Leftism: The Easiest Way to Be Selfish.

By |2025-10-21T12:39:03+00:00October 21st, 2025|Theology|

p/c BBC. Driving across the desert, I was thinking of my favorite saint (outside the 1st century) St. Francis Xavier. St. Francis was converted by St. Ignatius of Loyola in the 16th century at the University of Paris and he went on to baptize a half million people in East Asia. On his missions, he was pure charity to the Indians but he was sometimes fire and brimstone to the Portuguese settlers who he constantly found whoring, trading, slaving and fighting. After numerous fruitless warnings on the eternal salvation of these men who were impeding his mission, Xavier finally wrote King John of Portugal to tell him (in sober, respectful [...]

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20 10, 2025

PIP 8: Rules #15-16.

By |2025-10-20T20:37:43+00:00October 20th, 2025|Podcasts, Sermons, Talks|

Fr. Dave Nix continues “Peregrino Ignatian Pathways” (PIP) # 8: Rules #15 and 16 in the discernment of spirits from the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola. -The Suscipe prayer of St. Ignatius: “Take, Lord, receive all my liberty, my memory, my understanding, and my entire will. All I have and call my own, You have given all to me. To You, Lord, I return it. Everything is Yours: do with it what You will. Give me only Your love and Your grace, that is enough for me.” -Donate: https://www.padreperegrino.org/donate/

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16 10, 2025

We Need Another “Dagger John.”

By |2025-10-15T16:56:13+00:00October 16th, 2025|Theology|

p/c NYT My mother's four grandparents came from Ireland to the United States. They settled in Chicago by way of New York City in the first half of the 20th century. But in the 19th century, the Irish immigrants were so involved in sex, violence and drink that their mortality rate in New York City was higher than African-Americans in either Chicago or Baltimore today. City Journal (a non-Catholic production out of NYC) paints a bleak picture about the first Irish immigrants who crossed the Atlantic to the United States: “In 1847 about 40,000 died making the voyage, a mortality rate much higher than that of slaves transported from Africa [...]

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14 10, 2025

“Dilexi Te:” Treating the Poor As Slaves.

By |2025-10-14T13:02:01+00:00October 14th, 2025|Theology|

One of the most blasphemous lines in Dilexi Te comes under the chapter heading titled, “Accompanying migrants.” It reads: “Mary and Joseph flee with the child Jesus to Egypt. Christ himself, who ‘came to what was his own, and his own people did not accept him’ (Jn 1:11), lived among us as a stranger. For this reason, the Church has always recognized in migrants a living presence of the Lord…” The author then misappropriates the Holy Family to argue for open-borders. Clearly, the Bible and the Catholic Church have always opposed chaos on national borders, as the true God is a God of order. But manipulating the Holy Family’s desperate [...]

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9 10, 2025

Where Mercy Meets Justice On the Gallows.

By |2025-10-06T17:42:12+00:00October 9th, 2025|Theology|

When I was a student attending a liberal Jesuit high school, I was very much against the death penalty.  I even wrote letters for Amnesty International (before they had taken their pro-abortion stance) with my friends in Denver cafes at night, while other guys were out partying.  Back in the early 1990s when I was in high school, I also knew of the book Dead Man Walking about an anti-death penalty sister who spent time on death row named Sr. Helen Prejean. Fast forward to the late 1990s where I am studying theology at Boston College, the second most prestigious Catholic University on the East Coast (second only to Georgetown.) [...]

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7 10, 2025

The Commandments Are Not Burdensome.

By |2025-10-06T17:05:55+00:00October 7th, 2025|Theology|

It seems the current Vatican apparatus is promoting sixth commandment sins committed contra naturam even more than even the last Vatican regime.  Of course, that last sentence seems impossible for real Catholics who just endured the last decade of dogmatic madness issuing from Rome.  But it's obvious the current agenda is even more pronounced than the last one.  (Consider the Chicago-based male-couple just brought in to be personal chefs at the Vatican's new Laudato Sí restaurant.) A few Catholics might be thinking (especially after this much brainwashing and gaslighting from the Vatican over the past 14 years) that perhaps the traditional teaching on the commandments is just too hard in [...]

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