Airport tales and meeting an old bishop friend again. I will be speaking at LifeSite News' Rome Life Forum on 5 December 2025. Please come to Rome and we can hopefully find time together after the conference.
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Roman Catechism of Trent (RCT) p. 261-269. The Sacraments, ep. 20. -My Site: https://www.padreperegrino.org
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.) [...]
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 [...]
-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/
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 [...]
-The Roman Catechism of Trent (RCT) p. 256-260 -The Sacraments, ep. 19. -Donate: https://www.padreperegrino.org/donate/
The rightly-ordered Catholic priest (not one attracted to a lifestyle contra naturam) gives his life entirely to Jesus Christ and the Catholic Church. Christ is my friend, my God and my Savior. The Catholic Church is my mother, and I hope to stand as the best-man for her bridegroom, Christ, in His marriage to her in the Apocalypse. You lay people also love the Catholic Church, but some of you can't understand how personal it is when I see modernists invade her. It's like watching your own mother be harmed by intruders who have no rights to be in your home, especially when she is all you have. How [...]
