This may be the most confusing line in the New Testament: "Make unto you friends of the mammon of iniquity, that when you shall fail, they may receive you into everlasting dwellings."—St. Luke 16:9. Let's see what the Church Fathers say about it. -Donate: https://www.padreperegrino.org/donate/
p/c Statesman Journal. My answer is "No" to the death penalty for those who have committed abortion, but the abolitionists make a logical argument. Before I get to my answer, let me say I am no softie on abortion. I still try to pray and counsel at the abortion center every other week. I have been arrested for peaceful prayer inside abortion centers on the East Coast twice. But I am not as extreme as the "abolitionists" and a few Catholics who say that women who have had abortions should receive the Death Penalty. Do people really say such things? Yes. Although NPR is rarely to be trusted, they quoted [...]
-The Roman Catechism of Trent (RCT) p. 328-333. -The Sacraments, ep. 31. -Donate: https://www.padreperegrino.org/donate/
Today, we are going to look at canonical due-process as executed by the 15th century Spanish Grand Inquisitor, Tomás De Torquemada (top left) versus that of Cardinal Tucho Fernandez (top-right.) Tucho is the Cardinal who allegedly-excommunicated the SSPX recently on 2 July 2026. (SSPX is the American abbreviation for FSSPX which stands for the Fraternity of the Priestly Society of Pope St. Pius X.) Although a heretic can’t excommunicate anyone (as explained here by the WM Review) we are going to suspend that obvious ecclesial reality in order to evaluate the difference in legal process between the 15th century Dominican and the porn-writer currently living in the Vatican. Fr. William [...]
-Traditional Latin Mass sermons by Fr. David Nix. Today I preach on St. Mark 8:1-9. -Donate: https://www.padreperegrino.org/donate/
The above picture is from the American Museum of the Cuban Diaspora in Miami on a recent trip. A Cuban family brought me to this museum, and it was one of the most spectacular and historically-accurate museums I have ever visited. I learned a lot about fortitude in the priesthood there. This will hopefully be demonstrated in this article. Upon entering, I was surprised to see ¡Viva Cristo Rey! at the entrance to the Cuban museum. I wasn't only surprised to see a promotion of Christ in a seemingly-secular museum, but also surprised because I thought ¡Viva Cristo Rey! was the exclusive war cry of Mexican Catholics in the Cristero [...]
Even JP2's Veritatis Splendor tackles the modernist heresies of moral theology called "consequentialism" and "proportionalism." These two errors "claim to draw the criteria of the rightness of a given way of acting solely from a calculation of foreseeable consequences deriving from a given choice." He continues that proportionalism "weighs the various values and goods being sought, focuses rather on the proportion acknowledged between the good and bad effects of that choice, with a view to the 'greater good' or 'lesser evil' actually possible in a particular situation."—Veritatis Splendor #75. In fact, Veritatis Splendor quotes Christ telling the rich young man that to be saved, he first must keep the commandments. [...]
The Sacraments, ep. 30. -Donate = https://www.padreperegrino.org/donate/ -Act of Perfect Contrition: https://youtu.be/ncNNME98vyA?si=xLiq4rPOiee8PGq6
Sermon from Fr. David Nix on the 5th Sunday After Pentecost on 1 Pet 3 and Luke 15. Music bumpers by Enrique Aguilar.
One of the hazards in growing up in a Protestant nation like the USA is that our theology is suffused with dispensationalism and odd evangelical movies. Because of this, many American Christians (including Catholics) picture Jesus as a hippie with no concern for the moral law. The Pharisees, on the other hand, are portrayed as the people of the First Century in Israel who were overly-concerned with the Commandments and the Jewish law. Indeed, many Christian movies make Jesus out to be the beatnik who dissolved the moral law while the Pharisees were not only hypocrites, but even bad for thinking the Commandments mattered. The Church Fathers, however, paint a [...]
