Padre Peregrino – Theology from a wandering priest

2 11, 2025

The Faithful Departed: Seven Things Catholics Forgot.
The Faithful Departed: Seven Things Catholics Forgot.

The Faithful Departed: Seven Things Catholics Forgot.

By Father David Nix|2025-11-03T13:22:13+00:00November 2nd, 2025|Theology|

NB Because this article is so long, yet so important for the month of November, it will be my only article this week (except for perhaps another one on the infrequently-viewed Life-Update pull-down.) November is the month where we pray for our faithful departed, for those who repose in the Lord. Clearly, those in heaven cannot benefit from our prayers. Similarly, those in hell cannot benefit from our prayers, either. Thus, our prayers on earth may only benefit those who are currently in Purgatory. Purgatory is that temporary state of purging fire that heals the deceased who are saved, yet must still answer to God's justice for those sins for [...]

30 10, 2025

The “Seamless Garment” Is Quiet Propaganda for Abortion.
The “Seamless Garment” Is Quiet Propaganda for Abortion.

The “Seamless Garment” Is Quiet Propaganda for Abortion.

By Father David Nix|2025-10-30T11:21:00+00:00October 30th, 2025|Theology|

In 2023, Bishop Prevost spoke in Spanish at a Catholic University in Peru after receiving an honorary doctorate. Here are two extremely important paragraphs, originally translated from the Spanish to English here: These reflections particularly concern issues related to the value of human life. Last week, Cardinal Blase Cupichdelivered another address at Fordham University in New York, marking the 40th anniversary of Cardinal Bernardin’s original speech. Cardinal Bernardin, deeply concerned about how abortion and other social justice issues had come to divide certain sectors within the Church, offered an important response rooted firmly in Church doctrine. From this teaching, he proposed looking outward, towards society, within a framework he called [...]

28 10, 2025

Ratio of Death Penalty to Abortion Deaths
Ratio of Death Penalty to Abortion Deaths

Ratio of Death Penalty to Abortion Deaths

By Father David Nix|2025-10-28T11:37:56+00:00October 28th, 2025|Theology|

The above is not an abortion. It is a famous picture of surgery performed on an unborn baby. I only use it because it is more appropriate to this family-friendly article than an image of violence. Abortion Stats In 2023, I wrote an article titled “The Pill” Kills More Than Surgicals where we consider how the Oral Contraceptive Pills (not only the so-called "Morning After" Pills) have abortifacient capabilities. I propose in that article that an extremely low estimate of zygotes killed after fertilization (but before implantation) is about one billion a year globally, especially when one considers breakthrough ovulation. Again, the Pill kills more than a billion babies a [...]

23 10, 2025

Reception of Catholic Converts in Tradition.
Reception of Catholic Converts in Tradition.

Reception of Catholic Converts in Tradition.

By Father David Nix|2025-10-24T16:29:19+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 [...]

21 10, 2025

Leftism: The Easiest Way to Be Selfish.
Leftism: The Easiest Way to Be Selfish.

Leftism: The Easiest Way to Be Selfish.

By Father David Nix|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 [...]

16 10, 2025

We Need Another “Dagger John.”
We Need Another “Dagger John.”

We Need Another “Dagger John.”

By Father David Nix|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 [...]

14 10, 2025

“Dilexi Te:” Treating the Poor As Slaves.
“Dilexi Te:” Treating the Poor As Slaves.

“Dilexi Te:” Treating the Poor As Slaves.

By Father David Nix|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 [...]

9 10, 2025

Where Mercy Meets Justice On the Gallows.
Where Mercy Meets Justice On the Gallows.

Where Mercy Meets Justice On the Gallows.

By Father David Nix|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.) [...]

7 10, 2025

The Commandments Are Not Burdensome.
The Commandments Are Not Burdensome.

The Commandments Are Not Burdensome.

By Father David Nix|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 [...]

2 10, 2025

Suffering Transformed In Your Life (by a Dominican.)
Suffering Transformed In Your Life (by a Dominican.)

Suffering Transformed In Your Life (by a Dominican.)

By guest|2025-09-29T02:06:37+00:00October 2nd, 2025|Theology|

Guest Post: One of the evangelization tracts I keep in my truck is a small pamphlet called: Suffering: How to make the greatest evil in our lives our greatest happiness. It was written by Fr. Paul O'Sullivan, an Irish Dominican born in 1871 (seen in the above picture.) Yes, yes, I know—your eyes probably just glazed over at the notion of reading about suffering from a Dominican from the 19th century. You already know what he's going to say? But there's a reason I keep this in my truck. It brings tremendous meaning to both Catholics and non-Catholics who are suffering (every person on the planet) so I encourage you [...]