National Catholic Register, Kathy Schiffer: When the San Diego Padres drafted Matt LaChappa for their minor league team in 1993, they had high hopes that the tall, lanky left-handed pitcher would be a great asset. According to the Padres’ assistant … Continue reading
“Women will be attended to first or I’ll break every…bone in your body.” (Major Archibald Willingham Butt) CNA: On the fateful voyage that embarked from Southampton and never made it to New York City, a passenger on the RMS Titanic named … Continue reading
The Remnant, posted by Michael Matt: Venerable Brethren, Health and Apostolic Benediction, It would be hard to say how much has been done by holy men from the closing years of the ninth century, when the nations of the East … Continue reading
A Coming Home Network, David Shawkan: My name is David, and I am the Lazarus of that Gospel passage. I was born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1979 to a Muslim family of nine — six boys and three girls. I … Continue reading
Gladstone Institute, Giulio Meotti British multiculturalists are feeding Islamic fundamentalism. Muslims do not need to become the majority in the UK; they just need gradually to Islamize the most important cities. The change is already taking place. British personalities keep … Continue reading
My aunt, Sister Mary Susan Boyle, worked years ago with the late Sister Zita, who headed the Sister Miriam Theresa League House in Convent Station, New Jersey. I used to visit the sisters, with my mother, when I was young. … Continue reading
Aleteia, Larry Peterson: Sister Restituta was very outspoken in her opposition to the Nazi regime. When a new wing to the hospital was built she hung a crucifix in each of the new rooms. The Nazis demanded that they be removed. … Continue reading
Spirit Daily: When we last looked at Fatima, it was the death of little Jacinta Marto — youngest of the three seers. Likewise incredible was her brother, Francisco, little also, for in 1919, when he died a year before she did, … Continue reading
1Peter5, Maike Hickson: Yesterday, 31 March, it became widely known that Pope Francis has chosen Anne-Marie Pelletier, a French Professor of hermeneutics and biblical exegesis, to write the meditations for the Stations of the Cross at the Colosseum on Good … Continue reading
1Peter5, Maike Hickson: An important Conference has been announced today by the Italian website La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana. On 22 April, there will be an international group of theologians and other Catholic specialists coming together in Rome — at the Columbus … Continue reading
One would think that the Cardinal would have a word to say about the persecution of the Church in China and the captivity of Bishop James Su Zhimin, whose whereabouts is still a Communist secret after twenty years. Rather, he is … Continue reading
Scenes of horror are in these photos. All we can do is pray for them. NYT Mideast: The war to drive the Islamic State from its last strongholds in western Mosul has come to this: With every advance by Iraqi … Continue reading
Community in Mission, Monsignor Charles Pope: Farmers – Early each morning (except the Sabbath) farmers walked to reach their vineyards, wheat and barley fields, and olive groves. They might work as many as twelve acres. Unfortunately, it was not uncommon … Continue reading
1Peter5, Steve Skojec: “Then we simply will have to correct the situation, again, in a respectful way, that simply can say that, to draw the response to the questions from the constant teachings of the Church and to make that … Continue reading
LifeSiteNews: Cardinal Raymond Burke said it’s “simply a scandal” that pro-abortion and pro-contraception population control activist Paul Ehrlich was given a platform at a recent Vatican conference. Burke was speaking on Friday to a standing room only crowd at St. Raymond … Continue reading
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