We Need Another “Dagger John.”
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 in British vessels of the same period.” Then, for the Irish who made it to NYC, life was one of violence, drink and early death. "Death was everywhere. In 1854 [...]
“Dilexi Te:” Treating the Poor As Slaves.
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 flight to Egypt is also a trick of the leftists so predictable that I wrote against it even months before Dilexi Te was released. In US Bishops and Their Moneymaking [...]
RCT 68: “The Reception of the Eucharist.”
The Roman Catechism of Trent (RCT) p. 261-269. The Sacraments, ep. 20. -My Site: https://www.padreperegrino.org
Where Mercy Meets Justice On the Gallows.
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.) I graduated from Boston College in 2000 as pre-med but with a degree in theology. Of course, both Georgetown and Boston College have lost the faith completely, but I didn’t [...]
The Commandments Are Not Burdensome.
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 the 21st century. Or, perhaps a few of you might even be thinking that God’s own commandments are capricious or perhaps arbitrary. We have seen Catholic clergy arguing for several [...]
PIP 7: Rules # 13-14.
-Fr. David Nix continues “Peregrino Ignatian Pathways” (PIP) # 7: Rules no. 13 and 14 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/
Suffering Transformed In Your Life (by a Dominican.)
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 to read this whole thing by the late Fr. Paul: Suffering is the great problem of human life. We all have to suffer. Sometimes small sorrows, sometimes greater ones fall [...]
The Humility of Apostolic Catholicism.
p/c Mary's Secretary. On this feast of St. Michael, let’s look at one of the only passages in the New Testament about the Archangel and and those who oppose him: For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ... just as Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding cities, which likewise indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire, serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire. Yet in like manner these people also, relying on their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and blaspheme the glorious ones. But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, was disputing about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a blasphemous [...]
RCT 67: “The Effects of the Eucharist.”
-The Roman Catechism of Trent (RCT) p. 256-260 -The Sacraments, ep. 19. -Donate: https://www.padreperegrino.org/donate/
Got Hope in Human Nature?
For if they do these things when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?”—Luke 23:31. The head of the synodal church (his words, not mine) recently stated to Crux: “We keep hoping. I believe strongly that we cannot give up hope, ever. I have high hopes in human nature. There is the negative side; there are bad actors, there are the temptations. On any side of any position, you can find motivations that are good and motivations that are not so good.” Hope in human nature? Not in Jesus Christ? Not the Catholic Church as the only way of salvation? Nope... hope in human nature. Some of you might think I am nitpicking his theology to be a tough-guy, but his words demonstrate the pinnacle of modernism—promoting not just a man-centered “church,” but even the alleged [...]