This is very inspiring conversion story. One need not be a beautiful model to identify with Leah Darrow. Nor does one need to be a young woman. Her story is for every fallen away Catholic, especially the young who are … Continue reading
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100 Years Ago Today Pope Saint Pius X Passed Away
Great tribute follows from Rorate Caeli website: Thank you, Saint Pius X! Please, intercede for us in Heaven above, that we may accomplish the words of the Apostle to the Gentiles you made your lifelong aspiration: “to restore all things in … Continue reading
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Nice Home for Sale Near Saint Benedict Center
(Realtor.com— click here for pictures) Looking for that Wow factor? Airy and bright custom open concept home with post & beam effect. Living and dining great room with cathedral ceiling, skylights and floor to ceiling windows. Cherry and pine floors. … Continue reading
Twitter Issue with Catholicism.org
Users attempting to “tweet” posts on this site in the last couple of days will have seen a message like this: “This request looks like it might be automated. To protect our users from spam and other malicious activity, we … Continue reading
Identical Twin Priests Whose Mother Refused Their Abortion
This is a wonderful story, not only because of the mother’s refusal to abort what her doctors told her was a terribly deformed baby with two heads and three arms but also because of the twin’s own conversion after they both stopped practicing their … Continue reading
Transfiguration and Theosis
The Ad Rem just posted today was intended to be up in time for yesterday’s feast of the Transiguration. Circumstances forbad that. I’m posting here something of a “coda” to it. For your consideration of the great mysteries of Our Lord’s … Continue reading
Good News from France
From Gaza to Mosul to America’s southern border to Ukraine, there is an awful lot of Bad News — so much so that it deserves to be capitalized. We are assured of these things, however: “And where sin abounded, grace … Continue reading
The Cause of the Horror in Palestine: Good Article
I just read this excellent post by an anti-Zionist Jew who is not afraid to put his name on line. The horror of the massacres of Palestinian civilians continues, but conservative Catholic websites dismiss the Israeli atrocities by focusing totally … Continue reading
Feminized Clergy and Young Men
This is an issue that we have touched upon many times on this site. (ChurchMilitant.TV) One survey after another keeps coming out showing how young men are in increasing danger. In danger that is, of losing any sense of who … Continue reading
Catholic Action League Condemns New Buffer Zone Law
The Catholic Action League of Massachusetts today condemned the Commonwealth’s new buffer zone statute, which was signed into law this afternoon by Governor Deval Patrick. The Senate and the House of Representatives passed the measure for enactment yesterday. As the legislation … Continue reading
Scorecard for the Visionaries of Medjugorje
Basic Fact Sheet for the Visionaries of Medjugorje Vicka Ivankovic-Mijatovic: the Gospa has so far confided nine secrets to her. For her, the daily apparitions have not yet stopped since June 24, 1981, according to the Visionaries of Medjugorje website. Ivan … Continue reading
Israel Continues to Slaughter and Offer Lies to Justify It
Each day the horror gets worse. The slightest provocation from mostly peaceful demonstrators, as we see today n East Jerusalem (demonstrators protesting the killing of their civilian population, women, and children) brings forth a barrage of bullets. How dare you … Continue reading
Encounter With Muslims
This is an encouraging personal story by a good friend of SBC, “Aged Parent.” It appears on his blog here. I had arrived in London in the Spring of 2008 and was in the process of spending the first day … Continue reading
Credo in Resurrectionem Mortuorum et Vitam Aeternam
Now when it was late that same day, the first of the week, and the doors were shut, where the disciples were gathered together, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them: … Continue reading
