Don’t Be Afraid of the Natural Sciences
I frequently hear traditional Catholics say something like, "The natural sciences are inferior and subject to the theological sciences." While this is true, many traditional Catholics often imply there is a contradiction between science and Divine Revelation. Or some believe if there ever were to be found to be a contradiction between biology and religion, religion trumps science. This also is true, but the contradiction is often framed by traditional Catholics as if there really could be a contradiction between our Catholic faith and the natural sciences. (By natural sciences, I mean biology, chemistry, astronomy, geology, meteorology, genetics, etc.) The fear of leftists treating science as a religion is well-founded among us traditionalists. Many leftists and atheists claim "science" as their reason for rejecting God. Strangely, they then accept unscientific principles like abortion and evolution. The traditional Catholic rightly has [...]
VLX 147: Mt 25:31-46. “When Did We See You Hungry?”
-Donate: https://www.padreperegrino.org/donate/ -Telegram: https://t.me/padreperegrino -Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/c-1209063 **** Gospel: When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left. Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, [...]
An Unusual Proof of Traditional Catholicism
You always take the most fire over the target. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41JMkz9kau0 My Telegram channel: https://t.me/padreperegrino
Mr. Morrow’s Near-Death Experience of Hell
Mr. Dominic Morrow was a Chicago gangster who was shot twice in the stomach. He died and went to experience an antechamber to hell, but Our Lord gave him another chance as his soul returned to his body in the hospital where he had arrested. Dominic was not a Christian before his near-death experience (NDE.) Now, he is a Christian, but still not Catholic. Nevertheless, his account of what he saw in hell conforms to what I have read in the Church Fathers and St. Thomas Aquinas. It even supports what the mystics of the Catholic Church have stated in their visions of hell. One small example is that he saw very clearly that the souls in hell have tremendous and everlasting remorse for their sins on earth but no repentance. This lines up exactly to what St. Thomas Aquinas [...]
Relevance, Compromise and Conversion
The Bad News: The above picture is a French Catholic priest recently snapped. According to the caption I read online, his Mass vestments reflect the uniform of the French soccer (football) team. There are not many young people around him as you can see. Clergy seeking "relevance" among peers in modern culture has made very few converts. "We're the exact same as you, so please join our club!" Why? Why would I join a club of old people trying to act young? Below are graphs on the Catholic Church in the United States from Index of Leading Catholic Indicators, a book written in 2003 by Kenneth Jones, a graduate of University of Notre Dame. Notice the great growth of the number of priestly vocations in America before Vatican II: Religious priests tanked after Vatican II, as seen above. Diocesan [...]
RCT 36: The Holy Catholic Church.
The Roman Catechism of Trent (RCT) p. 99-102. The Creed, Article IX, Section A. *** The Catholic Church is the faithful dispersed throughout the entire world who have forsaken the darkness of ignorance and error and now worship the living and true God piously. *** -My site: https://www.padreperegrino.org -Donate: https://www.padreperegrino.org/donate/ -Telegram: https://t.me/padreperegrino ******
Mel Gibson Discusses “Hacksaw” with Me on “Babylon”
This was our discussion with Mel Gibson on a recent episode of Avoiding Babylon: https://youtu.be/JxZP5rDT208?feature=shared
Is the Eucharist a “Prize For the Perfect”?
Many modernist-heretics since the 1970s have purposefully conflated the requirement to receive Holy Communion in a state of grace with the notion of receiving Holy Communion in a state of perfection. This is purposeful and diabolical ambiguity. The Bible and the Catholic Church have always taught that one must receive Holy Communion in "a state of grace." One need not be in a "state of perfection" (normally seen as the unitive stage of prayer, or the religious state or the state of being a bishop) to receive Holy Communion. In light of the above purposeful-conflation, modernist heretics since the 1970s have often said things like "The Eucharist is not a prize for the perfect" in order to deceive those in mortal sin to approach the Eucharist. Yes, it really is that deliberate, and it really is that evil. Perhaps such [...]
Who Gave Priests the Right To Defend Traditional Catholicism?
Anyone who tries to phone me knows that my device is in "airplane mode" about ¾ of the day and then in "moon mode" the other ¼ of the day. This isn't to be rude, but because a traditional priest has several hours of prayer a day. Due to this (and not having a community with whom to share various duties) my only time for "reading" is while washing dishes or cleaning my hermitage or running to the hospital for extreme unction. Thus, I listen to pre-downloaded audio-books or podcasts or Rosaries on airplane-mode much of the day while not in prayer or writing. My goal is to then turn my phone back on during the evening to respond to many texts, maybe one phone call. Yesterday, I listened to two very different podcasts that dovetail in this article. Although [...]
VLX 146: Mt 25:14-30. “The Parable of the Talents.”
-My site: https://www.padreperegrino.org -Donate: https://www.padreperegrino.org/donate/ -Telegram: https://t.me/padreperegrino Gospel: For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property. To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents more. So also he who had the two talents made two talents more. But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master's money. Now after a long time the master of those servants came and settled accounts with them. And he who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents more, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me five talents; [...]