The USCCB’s Bible Translations.
One can always detect the preferred heresy of the age by what is removed from the Bible. So, before we look at the USCCB’s Bible translations, let’s look at two examples of what heretics over the last 500 years have removed from their own versions of the Bible. 1) The Protestant rebels removed Maccabees because of Purgatory. Maccabees is like the Braveheart of the Old Testament. It's one of the most exciting books of the Bible, so no one should have removed it. But the 16th century heretics like Martin Luther removed 1 and 2 Maccabees because it showed Purgatory and the necessity of sacrifice for the dead. Here's the Bible: Then under the tunic of each one of the dead, they found sacred tokens of the idols of Jamnia, which the law forbids the Jews to wear. And [...]
Third Sunday After Easter Sermon.
-Sermon on St. John 16:16-22 on the Church crisis by Fr. David Nix. -Everything I produce is gratis and add free. You can donate so that all can learn and enjoy at: https://www.padreperegrino.org/donate/
Love and Respect by St. John Chrysostom.
Many couples have been helped by a book called Love & Respect: The Love She Most Desires; The Respect He Desperately Needs. It was written in 2004 by Emerson Eggerichs, a non-Catholic but Christian author. Here’s the basic online description: Women primarily need love, whereas men primarily need respect. Husbands and wives are wired differently, so misunderstandings often arise not from malice, but from missing the other’s core need. According to Eggerichs, the “Crazy Cycle” is when a wife feels unloved, she reacts in ways that feel disrespectful to her husband. In response, he reacts in ways that feel unloving to her, causing a destructive cycle. The “Energizing Cycle,” on the other hand, is when a husband shows love (even without experiencing respect from her.) Then, the wife is likely to respond with respect. Similarly, when a wife shows respect [...]
The Resurrected Bodies of the Elect.
On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being locked where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said to them, “Peace be with you.” When He had said this, He showed them His hands and His side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord.—St. John 20:19-20. Notice in the above passage about the Resurrection, Christ is able to walk through walls (hence, the doors being locked and yet He comes to the disciples.) But the reason we know this is not a ghost passing through the walls is precisely because St. John immediately tells us that Christ then "showed them His hands and His side." This means that Christ's resurrected body is physical, but it has spiritual powers he chose not to [...]
RCT 75: Rules for Confession.
-The Roman Catechism of Trent (RCT) p. 310-312. -The Sacraments, ep. 27. -Donate to my charity here: https://www.padreperegrino.org/donate/
21 Reasons to Reject ‘Sola Scriptura,’ by Joel Peters.
In my last article Debating Protestants, I discussed how and why I used to debate Protestants on a nearly-daily basis with open-Bible verse-wars when I was in my early 20s. After learning that these verse-wars rarely make converts, I learned the best way to disprove Protestantism is by simply overturning their completely non-Biblical notion of Sola Scriptura. The little pamphlet in the above picture is called Scripture Alone? 21 Reasons to Reject Sola Scriptura by Mr. Joel Peters. It is the very best book I have ever seen to aid Catholics in immediately sidelining the intellectual errors of Protestantism. But it's very difficult to find on the internet now. Thus, I copied it below (word-for-word) from past websites that apparently crossposted it into the public forum. Perhaps the author took it down to sell his new book, which I’m sure is [...]
Debating Protestants.
Happy Easter, Christ is Risen! Christ is Truly Risen! Χριστὸς ἀνέστη! Ἀληθῶς ἀνέστη! As you probably know, I currently spend more time attacking the heresy of Modernism than Protestantism. Why? Because the former is a cancer that any traditionalist Catholic will admit is more hidden, ubiquitous and destructive than the latter. So, I will keep defending the original Apostolic Faith against modernists who control the buildings. But I first cut my teeth on defending the True Faith by doing open-Bible debates with Protestants in my world travels starting 30 years ago. Before getting to how I did this, let’s define terms. Even National Geographic or a secular Social Studies book will admit there’s only three main branches of Christianity: Catholicism, Orthodoxy and Protestantism. Yet, today I meet many evangelicals, Pentecostals, “emergent church” folks and non-denominationalists who all dislike the term [...]
“Dominica in Albis” Sermon 2026.
-2026 Sermon for the Octave of Easter on 1 John 5 and John 20. -Donate: https://www.padreperegrino.org/donate/
More Conversions (and Departures.)
p/c University of Notre Dame. Doubtless by this point you have seen the news of massive amounts of conversions of non-Catholic young adults coming into American Catholic parishes. This news has been covered by both religious outlets as well as secular ones. Many of these conversions are in unlikely places, like New York City. NCR/EWTN recently reported on a Dominican parish in lower Manhattan serving NYU: "88 people received the sacraments of baptism or confirmation at the Easter vigil this year." Part of this was due to current events: "Many of those coming into the Church, he said, have told him that conservative Christian influencer Charlie Kirk’s murder had a huge effect on them." The conversions are good news. But we need to zoom out a little bit to see what is happening in the big picture. People are going [...]
Easter Sermon 2026.
-To whom does the Preface refer when we hear that “he who conquered at the wood would be conquered at the wood”? -See where Adam is buried: https://www.padreperegrino.org/2025/08/skulladam/