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Race Relations Part 1: The State.
It's not 'reverse racism.' It's just racism. If it didn’t take the Holy Name of Jesus in vain, I would say that Clint Eastwood’s Gran Torino would be one of my…
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Was the Immaculata Pre-Existent?
Did Mary exist before time? No... But the blueprint for her Immaculate body and soul was planned above all time in the mind of God. Some people new to the…
- Theology – Padre Peregrino
Projecting Transient Errors On Past Orthodoxy.
Many serious Christians today (Catholics, Orthodox and Protestants) are interested in discovering how the early Christians lived and worshipped. Many scholars…
- Theology – Padre Peregrino
The Laity Will Not “Save” The Church.
Who is going to save our Church? Not our bishops, not our priests and religious. It is up to you, the people. You have the minds, the eyes and the ears to save…
- Theology – Padre Peregrino
How to Sanctify the Lord’s Day.
A while ago, I wrote an article titled Are Irreverent Masses Binding On Sundays? and the first paragraph of it reads: The most common question I receive from…
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White Martyrs of Compiègne?
What if you "went big" in your self-offering and petitions while suffering for being a traditionalist in the 21st century? Many of you already know the story…
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Ecclesiastical Self-Incriminating Struggle-Sessions.
The above picture is "the governor of Heilongjiang province, Li Fanwu, falling victim to the Cultural Revolution in 1966," (p/c Inside Story of Australia.)…
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Doctrinal Pitfalls to Each Traditional Group.
p/c NASA. Today we consider the intellectual pitfalls to the FSSP, SSPX and sedevacantists, specifically on the topics of the papacy and Vatican II to show no…
- Theology – Padre Peregrino
Death Penalty for Post-Aborts?
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…
- Theology – Padre Peregrino
Due-Process: Torquemada vs. Tucho.
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…
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The Heresy of Consequentialism.
Even JP2's Veritatis Splendor tackles the modernist heresies of moral theology called "consequentialism" and "proportionalism." These two errors "claim to draw…
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Did the Pharisees Keep the Law?
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…
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End of Life Care: What is NOT Required.
p/c American Nurse Journal. What does the Catholic Church teach about DNRs and Ventilators? I have had an article go viral recently on the topic of bioethics…
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A Priest’s “Psych Unit:” Part 2.
p/c sjvcenter.org In Priest Psych Unit: Part 1, I gave an introduction to what happens to Catholic priests who are sent to psychological behavioral centers…
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A Priest’s “Psych Unit:” Part 1.
p/c Globe photo/Lisa Kay, St. Luke Institute, Silver Spring, MD. Some priests were sent by their bishop to the funny-farm to heal them. Others were sent there…
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Ut Salvetur Mundus.
For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through Him.—St. John 3:17. Perhaps the most…
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“Did God Really Say?” Part 2.
Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree…
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“Did God Really Say?” Part 1.
Or how I became a "Catholic Fundamentalist." In 2024, I gave a talk at a women's conference at a traditional Catholic parish called My Two Conversions. I…
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Predestination: Calvinism vs. Catholicism.
The top left is John Calvin, the theological father of modern Presbyterianism who believed in Double-Predestination (the notion that God creates some people…
- Theology – Padre Peregrino
Bonum Ex Integra Causa.
Bonum ex integra causa, malum ex quocumque defectu is Latin for "Goodness comes from a complete cause, evil from any defect whatsoever." You may remember the…
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Who Showed Up to Vatican II? Who Didn’t?
My favorite assignment as a parish priest began in 2017 when I was on-loan to the diocese of St. Augustine in Florida. I lived and offered the Traditional…
- Theology – Padre Peregrino
Three Ages of Martyrs.
The men of that [last] generation will have no deeds whatever, but there will come upon them temptation, and those who are worthy in this temptation will be…
- Theology – Padre Peregrino
Why Do We Need Two Judgments?
Last week, I got this email, and I was given permission to publish it: What does “judge the living and the dead” really mean? We face particular judgement and…
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The USCCB’s Bible Translations.
One can always detect the preferred heresy of the age by what is removed from the Bible. So, before we look at the USCCB’s Bible translations, let’s look at…
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Love and Respect by St. John Chrysostom.
Many couples have been helped by a book called Love & Respect: The Love She Most Desires; The Respect He Desperately Needs. It was written in 2004 by Emerson…
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The Resurrected Bodies of the Elect.
On the evening of that day, the first day of the week, the doors being locked where the disciples were for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them…
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21 Reasons to Reject ‘Sola Scriptura,’ by Joel Peters.
In my last article Debating Protestants, I discussed how and why I used to debate Protestants on a nearly-daily basis with open-Bible verse-wars when I was in…
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Debating Protestants.
Happy Easter, Christ is Risen! Christ is Truly Risen! Χριστὸς ἀνέστη! Ἀληθῶς ἀνέστη! As you probably know, I currently spend more time attacking the heresy of…
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More Conversions (and Departures.)
p/c University of Notre Dame. Doubtless by this point you have seen the news of massive amounts of conversions of non-Catholic young adults coming into…
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St. John and the Synoptics in the Triduum.
Every Triduum, thousands of Catholics (including me) ask the following question: Why do the Synoptic Gospels (Saints Matthew, Mark and Luke) place the Passover…
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Trads Behind the Iron Curtain.
The only novel I have read since ordination was Michael O'Brien's Island of the World. It's a gripping and grinding historical-fiction account about a man…
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Marital Chastity.
Warning: This is an article for adults, not children. The topic today is this: What is permitted behavior in the bedroom between Catholic spouses? From the…
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The Chaplet of the Sacred Heart.
Shortly after my conversion in my early 20s (during the 1990s) I ended up doing street evangelization in NYC. More specifically, I was sharing the faith in…
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Blessed Elena: Russia Will March on Rome.
Russia will march upon all the nations of Europe, particularly Italy, and will raise her flag over the dome of St. Peter's.—Blessed Elena Aiello (1895-1961.)…
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English Genocide Against the Irish.
p/c WM Review. Although the phrase “history is written by the victors” was attributed to Winston Churchill, it was spoken in several different languages before…
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Eighth Commandment Insinuations.
You shall not spread a false report. You shall not join hands with a wicked man to be a malicious witness... Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the…
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Make It Easy to Enter the Faith.
Above is a family I baptized into the Catholic Church. In my last article, I described how easy it was for non-Catholics to receive Holy Communion at nearly…
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Reception of Holy Communion is a Public Act.
One of the strange things about suburban Catholic Mega-Parishes is that there's always a tremendous amount of red-tape in getting children or adults baptized…
- Theology – Padre Peregrino
The Paradox of the Modernists.
At the end of my last article, The Recent Battle of the SSPX, I asked a question that pertains to the traditionalist movement at-large: Why do modernist…
- Theology – Padre Peregrino
The Recent Battle of the SSPX.
This article is just the basics of the Vatican drama that will go down in the annals of Catholic Church history. As most of you know, the traditionalist…
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Overturning the First Two Secrets of Fatima.
For all the energy we rightly spend speculating on the Third Secret of Fatima, I think we also need to look deeper at the first Two Secrets. While studying the…
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Who Are the Infidels?
The Catechism of Pius X states: "Infidels are those who have not been baptized and do not believe in Jesus Christ, because they either believe in and worship…
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A Letter From Hell.
p/c: Kevin Key Sister Claire was a German nun who lived in the first half of the 20th century. But before that, she worked at a business firm with a woman…
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Egyptian Influence Upon Irish Monasticism.
At the farthest southwest reach of County Kerry (already the most southwest county in Ireland) jut-out into the Atlantic Ocean two crags collectively called…
- Theology – Padre Peregrino
Movie Review: The Two Davids.
Two unrelated movies were recently released about my patron, King David. To my surprise, I thought both were phenomenal. I guess I am known as a pretty harsh…
- Theology – Padre Peregrino
The True Faith in Latin America.
The modernist ape-of-the-church continues to decline in Latin America. OSV had a headline that read Catholicism down in Latin America, but belief in God…
- Theology – Padre Peregrino
Why Men Must Lead Their Families.
This is an inspiring true story of an early Christian family, found in the Victories of the Martyrs, compiled by St. Alphonsus Liguori. Upon the death of the…
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Fatima, Darwin and Liturgy
In my last article, Fatima, Darwin and Dogma, we looked at how Darwinian evolution erroneously led most Catholics of the 20th century to believe dogma could…
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Fatima, Darwin and Dogma
The above prelate is Bishop Cuthbert O'Gara, a Canadian-born priest who was a heroic missionary to the Far East in the first half of the 20th century. In 1947…
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Oath Against Modernism
As many priests are being told they must take oaths in favor of ecumenism, I hereby take the oath against modernism that Pope St. Pius X asked all priests to…
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On American Canceled Priests.
What is a canceled priest? A canceled priest is defined as one canceled for an unjust reason. Thus, the rest of this article does not refer, for example, to…
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Gen Z Has Rejected Vatican II
Before we get to what young Americans want from their Catholic parishes, let's see what old people want. Rachel Maddow of MSNBC recently stated: “I was born…
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When Someone Disrespects the Holy Name.
Sunday was the Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus and this was my sermon. The main thrust of my sermon was that when you use the name of Jesus appropriately, you…
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Must Catholics Tithe a Full 10%?
Must Catholics Tithe 10%? The short answer is: “Yes.” The longer answer is: “Yes, more than that.” We are going to prove this from the Bible, the Church…
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My Thoughts On Modern Israel.
Ok, I'm finally going to go there. I might be the last traditional Catholic to weigh-in on the state of Israel and modern Judaism. But there was a method to my…
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This Little Piggy Went to Rome.
Above is a still-frame picture from the body-cam footage from my friend in Rome with me back in October 2019 as we enter the Church of St. Mary of Traspontina…
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Your Diocese Is Not Guaranteed a Future.
p/c Daniel Ibanez, CNA. Most Catholics today do not know this, but the greatest center of Christianity (second only to Rome) during the first five centuries…
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Vaccines: The Sacred Cow of Catholics.
The above is a coin minted by the Vatican in 2022. On it, we see a young masked boy receiving the covid shot. In a tweet back in 2022, Miss Diane Montagna…
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Ecclesial Exigent Circumstances
Above-left is Pope John Paul II with Cardinal Slipyj (p/c OnePeterFive) and above-right is Archbishop Telesphore George Mpundu with Bishop Anthony Ward (p/c…
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Portare Manipulum Fletus et Doloris.
On 15 November 2025, I tweeted: There seems to be two types of trads now alive in 2025: 1) Those who believe the Catholic Church is the unique mode of…