CNA: A retired archbishop who accused Pope Francis of heresy has been ordered to cease celebrating Mass in public. Report is here.
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Will Our Lady Reclaim Her Dowry?
Crisis, Joseph PearceL Something is stirring in England. It’s not much. A still, small voice of calm whispering in the dark. Prayers ascending like incense. A rekindled faith. Article is here.
12 Steps to Humility
In [last week”s] Post we considered the 12 Steps of Pride set forth by St. Bernard of Clairvaux. In escalating ways, the 12 twelve steps draw us up to an increasingly mountainous and enslaving pride. St. Bernard also lists the … Continue reading
‘Just Kill It’ Billionaire Presidential Candidate Tells Pregnant Employee
LifeNews:Democratic presidential candidate and billionaire businessman, Michael Bloomberg told his pregnant employee to “kill it” after she disclosed her pregnancy, a lawsuit has alleged. Michael Robinson, SPUC Director of Communication said: “Outrageous comments such as these can pressure women to … Continue reading
Cardinal Zen Offers Pontifical High Mass in NYC
LifeSite News, Jim Hale: It would be easy to understand if 88-year-old Cardinal Joseph Zen had been weary and less than eager for an interview. He had traveled to New York after a grinding schedule of long flights, interviews, and … Continue reading
Lincoln Granted Use of WH Lawn for Fundraiser to Build Black Catholic Church
Catholic World Report: Black Catholic communities have been a part of the Church in the Washington, DC area for centuries. But it wasn’t until the height of the Civil War that black Catholics in DC began the process of founding … Continue reading
Anglo Catholicism Today
The Imaginative Conservative, Charles Coulombe: On November 4, 2009, Pope Benedict XVI issued an Apostolic Constitution, Anglicanorum Coetibus, in response to “groups of Anglicans” who had petitioned “repeatedly and insistently to be received into full Catholic communion individually as well as … Continue reading
Saint Bernard’s 12 Steps to the Slavery of Habitual Pride
Community in Mission, Msgr Pope: So you think the idea of the “Twelve Steps” is new? Well, if you think you’ve got a new idea, go back and see how the Greeks put it, or in this case how the Medieval … Continue reading
The Catholic in Alfred Hitchcock
National Catholic Register, K.V. Turley: Alfred Hitchcock died 40 years ago on April 29, 1980. It is also 100 years since he started working in the film industry in 1920. Hitchcock’s career and life had began in the reign of … Continue reading
Payback: Gov of Oklahoma Bans State Funding of Trips to Pro-Abortion California
Lifesite News, Governor Kevin Stitt: “California and its elected officials over the past few years have banned travel to the State of Oklahoma in an effort to politically threaten and intimidate Oklahomans for their personal values,” Stitt declared in a … Continue reading
RIP Kobe Bryant and Daughter: They Died a Few Hours after Attending Mass
And he named his daughter Gianna. I suspect for Saint Gianna Molla. They had just been to Mass and Communion before the fatal helicopter accident. NYPost: Kobe Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, went to church just hours before dying … Continue reading
China: Confined in Solitary for 13 Years, Bishop Given Temporary 3 Week Reprieve
ChurcMilitant, Bradley Eli: A Catholic bishop jailed by China’s Communist officials for 13 years is being given a few weeks of freedom before being sent back to solitary confinement. Communist authorities are temporarily freeing Bp. Agostino Cui Tai, ordinary of the diocese of Xuanhua … Continue reading
Meditation: ‘And I Knew Him Not’
Msgr. Pope: In Sunday’s Gospel (John 1:29ff), John the Baptist speaks of Jesus, calling Him superior, pre-existent, and anointed by the Holy Spirit. What also stands out is that John twice says, “I did not know Him.” This seems odd … Continue reading
44 Faculty at ‘Catholic’ College Protest Screening of Pro-Life Film
“[Kings College] does not have any official position on abortion” says Principal David Malloy. LifeSiteNews, Anthony Murdoch: Forty-four faculty members from a Catholic university in Canada have demanded the school apologize for allowing campus ministry to show the wildly successful … Continue reading
11 Martyrs of Nowogrodek Poland
Father Z’s blog: I am moved to post this. It is as if I was dragged for some reason back to my keyboard tonight, after having tried to turn in. A couple of clicks – you know how one thing … Continue reading
