At the Whitefish Mountain Resort in Whitefish, Montana, there’s something unusual near the top of Big Mountain’s Chair 2. It’s a statue of Our Lord Jesus Christ, not something one would normally associate with a ski resort. The story of … Continue reading
Category: Catholic America
30,000 Mexican Youth Make Pilgrimage to Top of 8200 Foot Mountain to Shrine of Christ the King
With all the terrible things going on in Mexico and the world this is tremendously encouraging news. CNA: Before the pilgrimage, the president of Testimonio y Esperanza, Victor Leon, said the event is a call to continue in “the struggle … Continue reading
‘I Was in Prison, and You Came to Me’
I just made the acquaintance of a man named Chris Quinn, who volunteers at the Roederer Correctional Facility in LaGrange, Kentucky. He and other Catholic laymen have an apostolate among the prisoners there. Mr. Quinn wrote to tell me how … Continue reading
Canon Law and Lay Apostles
The apostolate is not something reserved to clergy and religious. It never was. Long before Vatican II — which, according to a strange mythology, first asserted the importance of the laity in propagating the Catholic message — Saint Vincent Pallotti … Continue reading
Confederate General Sterling Price, Father John Bannon Was the Greatest Soldier He Ever Met.
Donald McClarey of The American Catholic introduces another American Catholic hero, Chaplain John Bannon, from General Sterling Price’s First Missouri Confederate Brigade. “There were a great many brave men, during the Civil War, but I think it is a safe … Continue reading
First Approved Marian Apparition in the US, Champion, Wisconsin
“I am the Queen of Heaven who prays for the conversion of sinners.” Such is the way the Mother of God introduced herself to a twenty-eight-year-old Belgian immigrant, Adele Brise, on October 9, 1859. The pious young woman was on … Continue reading
Pilgrimage for Restoration, 2011 Dates Announced
What follows is reproduced from the Pilgrimage for Restoration Weblog. The change in the pilgrimage schedule should make it more convenient for collegians, working folks, and most anybody to attend. It’s also more like the schedule of the Chartres Pilgrimage … Continue reading
Thanksgiving, a Feast With Abundant Catholic Meaning and Pre-Pilgrim American History
Taylor Marshall takes an interesting look at the feast of Thanksgiving which I just read this morning on his Canterbury Tales website. He maintains that the “First Thanksgiving,” in what would become part of the United States, was held by … Continue reading
Pray for the Dead and the Dead Will Pray for You!
I’ll never forget my maternal grandfather telling me this boyhood recollection of his Catholic upbringing in New Orleans. It seems that the good Sisters who taught him in grammar school imposed upon the children a vivid awareness of the Holy … Continue reading
Argentinian Archbishop Attacks Imperialistic UN and Satellite Orgs for Conspiracy in Undermining Natural Law
California Catholic News: The archbishop said these ideas are part of a global plan that is based at “the United Nations and a series of its satellite organizations.” He said huge amounts of money are behind the attempts to change … Continue reading
Christopher Columbus More Than an Explorer, Harbinger of the Gospel of Salvation
Joe Hargrave has a fantastic little article, with no apologies, on Christopher Columbus, which is posted on the American Catholic website. Catholic historians used to rave about Columbus. They told what a brave sailor and explorer he was, and, above … Continue reading
Father Thomas Sherman, S.J., Son of General William Tecumseh Sherman
For all of you history buffs, especially those who are keen to Catholic American history, Donald McClaren has an interesting article on the Shermans on The American Catholic website. The General was married to Ellen Ewing, a devout Catholic who … Continue reading
Proper Limits on Governmental Hubris, and You
The central government in Washington D.C. now maintains lists of U.S. citizens who will be killed without due process of law, for unspecified crimes, determined by secret, unaccountable, departments of state. These walking doomed will be terminated by unmanned killer … Continue reading