TCE 45: Dating Advice to Young Catholics
Theology and Current Events (TCE) #45 is "Dating Advice to Young Catholics." It's based on my recent blog post: https://www.padreperegrino.org/2022/06/courting/
The Dark Night of the Soul: What It Is Not.
In seminary, my favorite professor taught both ascetical and Carmelite theology. I agree with him that St. John of the Cross was probably not a sullen melancholic. St. John is made out to be today as a debby-downer (especially by us perman-grin Americans) because he writes so much about detachment. But even a cursory study of the life of St. John of the Cross reveals his high levels of energy, not only towards the ascetical life, but even the evangelical life of helping the townsfolk outside his 16th century monastery in Spain. St. John of the Cross' pathway of the Nada, Nada, Nada is where we arrive at the apex of Mount Carmel to find only the honor and glory of God, the Todo, Todo, Todo. But this is quite a process. We do not earn the love of God, [...]
How Conservative Family Lines Went Woke
Really, the full title of this blog should be How Conservative Family Lines Went Woke In Just a Few Generations. It didn't happen overnight. This is not a blog post to cheer on the right and condemn the leftists. It's to ask how our every country in the West went from being civilized to uncivilized in less than 100 years. You all know my theological answers on this, on how "politics is downstream of politics" and how "every grace and error flows from the altar." I also now admit that Vatican II was not the root of modernism, but was just the "coming out" party for modernism. But at the family level, why did traditional families born in the 1940s produce mild liberals in the 1960s who then produced rage-filled leftists in Generation Y and Z? Most American historians show [...]
VLX 114: The One and the Ninety-Nine
Mt 18:11-14 To donate: https://www.padreperegrino.org/donate/ https://rumble.com/embed/v17plsa/?pub=e5jg1
“Ecclesia Dei Adflicta” Turns 34 Years Old
June and July mark some bittersweet anniversaries in the traditional movement. It was on 30 June 1988 that Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre and Bishop Antonio de Castro Mayer did episcopal consecrations without the approval of Rome. Pope John Paul II quickly wrote a document called Ecclesia Dei Adflicta, meaning "On the Afflicted Church of God." This is a barely-veiled reference to imply that Archbishop Lefebvre himself was "afflicting the Church of God" by consecrating bishops without the Pope's approval. Three weeks later, on 18 July 1988, the FSSP was founded with the approval of Rome to remain both canonically regular and maintain the old-rite sacraments. I believe one of the main fulcrum points in these events of 1988 was Pope John Paul II's motu proprio entitled Ecclesia Dei Adflicta. Today, 2 July 2022, is the 34th anniversary of that document. The paragraph I [...]
QuickPod: Planned Parenthood post-RvW Being Overturned
9 minutes on contraception vs. abortion as well as how to get involved in the pro-life movement after the Supreme Court handed the decision on abortion "laws" to the individual states. https://rumble.com/embed/v18361v/?pub=e5jg1
The Last CPX (and my Upcoming RCT)
Yesterday, we released the very last CPX video, found on this YouTube playlist. CPX stands for Catechism of Pius X. It is my doctrinal and catechetical series of 15 minute videos numbered from 1 to 113. Each video contains about five minutes of my reading an old-school catechism and then about ten minutes of my commentary on it. Of course, my commentary is not as important as the words of a canonized Pope from 100 years ago. However, my application to a post-modern man who is battling the heresy of modernism is something the holy Pope never expected to be in the battle-array of a priest in the not-too-distant future. In other words, Pope St. Pius X warned us that modernism could get bad, but never did he expect it to be so bad that nearly the entire hierarchy [...]
CPX 113: The Last CPX (The Worst Sins)
Catechism of Pope St. Pius X (CPX) p.154-155 Q/A 1-9. https://rumble.com/embed/v16w8mb/?pub=e5jg1
Advice to Young Courting Catholics, Part II
N.B This blog post is from a lay guest writer. NOTES FROM A BATTLEFIELD OBSERVER I write this from the perspective of a fifty-something Catholic father with three grown children. Watching my children become young adults has given me a ringside seat from which to view many of the follies and customs of today’s young people, around dating, courtship, and views on marriage. What follows is practical advice. It seems obvious to me that “love” is almost wholly misunderstood, and because it’s misunderstood, it’s highly overrated. That tingle you feel – it’s most likely just a touch of eros. This is not enough on which to base a permanent relationship. Not even close. You young folks who think you’ve found true love, in the process of courtship, most certainly have not. You won’t know true love until after many, many [...]
Pro-Life Martyr Jim Pouillon
Even the Wikipedia page for Jim Pouillon reads that "the murder of Jim Pouillon occurred on September 11, 2009... Pouillon was killed while protesting against abortion in front of Owosso High School in Owosso, Michigan." The man who killed Pouillon is named Harlan James Drake. That same day, he shot a businessman named Michael Fuoss at a different location. Fuoss was also killed. May God rest his soul. Because the two events were unrelated, and because the second shooting had nothing to do with the abortion debate, one might argue that Pouillon just happened to be at "the wrong place at the wrong time," namely, in front of an abortion center. Furthermore, I do not know if Pouillon died a Catholic. To be a martyr, one must die in odium fidei. To die in odium fidei means to die "in hatred of the [...]