A Catholic Rule-of-Life For COVID-19
Whether you think COVID is media hype or a real danger, you'll gain some real practical advice on how to slow down as a Catholic living for Christ in 2020 on this podcast. Please keep praying for Huma. “The remarkable thing about God is that when you fear God, you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God, you fear everything else.”—Oswald Chambers.
How Should I Spend My Sundays when Public Masses Are Canceled?
Part I: Why the Cancelation of Masses due to COVID-19 is probably a good thing. (If Church history does not interest you, feel free to skip to Part II: How Should I Spend My Sunday when Public Masses Are Canceled?) Many bishops in the world have canceled Sunday Masses for several consecutive weeks due to fear over coronavirus (COVID-19.) You might be surprised to read that I actually agree with their decision on this. First, epidemiologically, COVID has the potential to grow big and rapidly in its reach. Even if COVID stayed small in the amount of infections, many people over 50 years old would be placing themselves in harm’s way in any mass gathering (last pun you'll ever see on my blog.) The current mortality rate for those with COVID over 80 years old is 15%. That is a [...]
St. Mary of Egypt (Audio Version)
St. Mary of Egypt went from sex-addict to canonized saint in the fourth century. Tonight's podcast is the verbatim account of another 4th century saint describing her life in 40 minutes. His full written account of St. Mary of Egypt can be found on my blog, here. Thanks also to Fairuz' Good Friday Lebanese Catholic song “Kamat Mariyam” as the music bumpers found here.
Podcast: What Should A Priest Do in a Pandemic?
The ABCs of Salvation is: A) Ask for Faith. B) Baptize. C) Confess. This is what a priest needs to think of every time he goes outside, every time he faces an emergency, every time he thinks of COVID-19.
Islam Still Promotes Kidnapping Christian Children for Sex-Slavery
What Happened? A 14 year old Catholic girl in Pakistan named Huma Younus was kidnapped on 10 Oct 2019 by an adult Muslim named Abdul Jabbar of Dera Ghazi Khan, Punjab Province, who wanted her as a sex-slave for life. He has obtained her for just this sordid purpose. Her family's attorney, Tabassum Yousaf, said, "We have not heard anything from her. Her situation is heart-wrenching. The longer she remains in the hands of her kidnappers, the more she will suffer sexual and mental abuse.” Tabassum Yousaf was able to bring this case to court four months after the kidnapping, but he told Morning Star News: "The hearing on Feb 3 lasted only five minutes, The court, in just a few words citing the sharia, has justified the violation of the girl's body since she has already had her first period." In [...]
Help Padre Build a Hermitage Podcast
PayPal Continue to Give One-Time or Recurring One-Time or Recurring Dear Friends and Listeners, Ave Maria! As many of you know, I am beginning life as a diocesan priest hermit. My rule of life has been tentatively approved by the Archdiocese of Denver and it includes much prayer and some ministry. I am now seeking to raise $250,000 under Peregrino Hermitage Ltd., a tax-deductible 501(c)(3) organization, in order to buy a small home or condo in Denver as a hermitage. Here are a few reasons why you should continue to believe in my priesthood: I will continue praying Holy Mass and the Divine Office. I will be praying several hours a day for the restoration of the Catholic Church and the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. In the past 12 months alone, my blog and podcast had 2,200,000 [...]
Why “The Young Pope” Had To Be North American
Despite what I’m going to write here, I would dissuade any readers from watching anything on HBO. It’s a very lewd channel and I don’t want to go to Purgatory for extra time for you watching The Young Pope or anything else on that channel on my account. What I put together below came after talking to friends and researching the episodes. The Young Pope was a TV drama series produced in Europe in 2016. When the liberal Pope dies, a controversial and conservative young prelate named “Lenny"(Jude Law) from the U.S. is elected to the throne of Peter. He takes the name of Pope Pius XIII. His rallying reform is immediate, disruptive and transparent. This rigid Pope Pius XIII has no tolerance for homosexual bishops or half-hearted laity. In fact, this draws the ire of the Cardinals who [...]
New Age and Catholicism Part 3
Kelly, Michael and I discuss how pride in the Catholic life is not completely unlike the satanism of the New Age. We discuss the supreme importance of humility in the crisis in the Church. What is the connection between New Age and the heresy of good works? Control.
New Age “Catholics” Part 2
In today's podcast, Kelly Nieto discusses her conversion from New Age to Catholicism. The featured image on the blog is a picture I took of Indian "dreamcatchers" placed by the Amazon Synod folks into the Church of Santa Maria Transpontina in Rome last month. Notice the diabolical-looking garment next to the basket.
The Steeling of Adversity in a Church Crisis
The 2016 New York Times Bestselling book Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging was recently discussed by the author Sebastian Junger on a podcast by another host. Neither the host nor his guest, Yunger, have a Christian worldview, but they both said something very profound to Catholic men out there "who have ears to hear." Junger described on the podcast (and in his book) that when the Nazis bombed London in the early 1940s, the British banded together in fire brigades to put out the fires; they slept shoulder-to-shoulder in the tube; they found meaning and camaraderie in pulling the living and the dead out of the rubble amidst 30,000 deaths. Most of my readers who know WWII history already know this. But Junger then added that after the war there was “enormous nostalgia for the blitz.” Why? Because according to [...]