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Homosexual Protest at Acushnet, MA, Parish

The Catholic Action League of Massachusetts today criticized the demonstration held yesterday during the 10:30 a.m. Mass at Saint Francis Xavier Parish in Acushnet.  Ten protesters,... More →

Conflicting Reports on ‘Nostra Aetate’

The great deal of talk surrounding the pending Rome-SSPX rapprochement has presented us with two cardinals publicly giving conflicting reports on the magisterial character of Nostra Aetate, the Vatican... More →

SSPX: ‘With or Against Rome from This Point On’

From Kreuz.net via the Eponymous Flower: …Bishop Fellay explained that the current “seemingly comfortable” situation is coming to an end for the Society. The current way will not continue:... More →

Ascension Octave/Pentecost Novena

We are in the Octave of the Ascension, so meditating on this mystery is timely: The Ascension and the Apostolate. We regret that, due to our losing Internet access... More →

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220px-Jerusalem_Cross Loving the Lost Cause

Within the last fortnight, I finished reading The Pope’s Legion, Charles Coulombe’s book on the Papal Zouaves. Besides being intelligently written and enjoyable, the book inspires because the subject matter is itself edifying. The Pontifical Zouaves were Blessed Pius IX’s foreign legion, who fought to defend the Papal States from the anticlericals and revolutionaries that united the Italian peninsula... More →

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Steven Douglas Was Converted by Fr. Damen

Steven Douglas, the famous Senator from Illinois who lost to Lincoln in the presidential race of 1860, was converted to the Catholic Faith by Father Damen, who gave the famous sermon: The One True Church.

 

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