Yes, you read it correctly. Big Peace website: Next month his beloved Virginia Military Institute will be convening a celebration commemorating the 1300th anniversary of the invasion and occupation of Spain under the Muslim warlord Tariq ibn Ziyad in 711 … Continue reading
It’s astounding that forty hateful bigots, with nothing better to do, have exerted enough pressure on a Spanish University to cause the chaplain to discontinue offering Mass there for the students and faculty. What wimps have we now in the … Continue reading
[Review of A Saint Under Moslem Rule by Justo Perez de Urbel, Catholic Authors Press.] To much of the world, Spain is an enigma. Isolated from the rest of western Europe by the daunting barrier of the rugged Pyrenees Mountains, … Continue reading
What is so shameful, too, is that this man’s family is the only one in that school that is objecting to this outrageously anti-Catholic, morally subversive, and blatantly totalitarian course. And, this, in a country that was once Catholic, indeed … Continue reading
While the Dominican Republic upholds the right to life for all, the mother country is allowing the killing of the pre-born, which is the immediate result of their promotion of contraception and sexual libertarianism in the schools. The Institute [for … Continue reading
Hundreds of thousands is a wide approximation. I remember last year at a similar rally in Madrid the same figure was given. Well, whether it was two hundred or nine hundred thousand, that’s a huge gathering. Viva la santa fe … Continue reading
(The title of this artcile was changed from “…Blessed…” to “…Saint…” after the September 23, 2015 canonization of our subject by Pope Francis. The body text of the article has not been edited.) “For I trust that God will give … Continue reading
“For seventy years, more than six hundred Jesuits had toiled in Baja California, moving steadily northward, never abandoning a mission.” (De Nevi and Moholy) Now, with no regard for age or illness, they were ousted from their Indians and herded … Continue reading
Perhaps the oldest devotion to Our Lady in Europe is the devotion to Our Lady of the Pillar. In Spain, Pilar is a popular girl’s name, as is Mercedes for Our Lady of Mercy. (In fact, General Franco named one … Continue reading
When news media late last winter reported that a plaque was to be placed in the New Hampshire capitol building to honor natives of the state who served in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade during the Spanish Civil War of 1936-39, … Continue reading
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