This is a beautiful article and quite personal. I am sure it will touch the hearts of everyone who reads it. I was especially touched by the advice Monsignor’s grandmother gave him when he was a young man trying to … Continue reading
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30,000 Pilgrims Evacuated From Lourdes After Bomb Threat
Catholic Culture reports: Thirty thousand pilgrims, 900 of them severely ill, were evacuated from Lourdes on August 15 following an anonymous bomb threat. After a five-hour investigation by explosives experts, the shrine reopened. AP link here.
Monks Ordered to Stop Selling Caskets Without a Funeral Parlor License
Next thing you know the state will demand monastery have liquor licenses if they sell their own wine. Catholic Culture reports: Citing a state law that threatens violators with major fines and imprisonment, the Louisiana Board of Embalmers and Funeral … Continue reading
Our Lady of Guadalupe Honored With Trophy of Spain’s World Cup Champions
While the court in Mexico City insults God by legalizing same sex “marriage,” and, before that, the legal murdering of the pre-born babies, Our Lady is honored by the faithful people of Mexico and Spain. CNA reports: The Spanish Royal … Continue reading
Woman “Bishop” to “Ordain” Homosexuality Advocate in Catholic Church
All in the name of ecumenism. This would be sacrilegious if it were a male heretic “ordaining” a morally orthodox minister. But, then again,we have the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity’s 1993 Directive: “Catholic churches are consecrated or blessed … Continue reading
Big Exposé of the Southern Poverty Law Center
The magazine Social Contract has dedicated the entirety of its Spring issue to the scam artists at the Southern Poverty Law Center. The issue is entirely online, and here are its contents: A Note from the Editor – The SPLC: … Continue reading
Perseid Meteor Shower Promises a Spectacular Show Thursday Night
CatholicOnline: The Perseid meteor shower, typically one of the best of the year, should be especially spectacular as it peaks under a moonless sky Thursday night, August 12, and Friday morning August 13. People will be able to see the … Continue reading
Water: The Gift of Life
Father Feeney had a wonderful appreciation of water, both as an element of life for the body and as God’s chosen matter for our new life, as His children, which we receive in baptism. I know he would have appreciated … Continue reading
Public Universities in NC Forcing Uninsured Students Into Health Care Plan That Covers Abortions
LifeNews.com: A national pro-life group for college students has uncovered new information revealing that college students who attend public universities in North Carolina will be forced to pay for abortions via their required student health care plan. More on this … Continue reading
War Hawks Beating the Drums in Support of Israeli Preemptive Strike on Iran
Pat Buchanan’s August 6 Column: Thus it is startling to learn 47 House Republicans just signed on to H.R. 1553 declaring unequivocal “support for Israel’s right to use all means necessary to confront and eliminate nuclear threats posed by Iran … Continue reading
Pat Buchanan on the Judical Tyranny of Judge Vaughn Walker
Federal Judge Vaughn Walker is truly a visionary. Peering at the 14th Amendment, Walker found something there the authors of the amendment never knew they put there, and even the Warren Court never found there: The states of the Union … Continue reading
Russian President Raises July 28, Feast of Saint Vladimir’s Conversion, to National Holiday
Hard to believe being the former was a Black Sabbath fan and the latter is ex KGB, but President Medvedev and predecessor, Prime Minister Vladmir Putin, have publicly professed their Christian Faith very frequently. On the new holiday, Vladimir Putin, after … Continue reading
Prefect of Congregation for Sacraments Says Church Should Lower the Age for Holy Communion
California Catholic Daily reports: Children must not be deprived of the Eucharist, a source of grace and assistance to them as they begin their walk with Jesus, says the Vatican prefect of the congregation for sacraments. Read more here.
Love of the Eucharist Led Indian Zoroastrian to the Church and Seminary
In his own words, a clip from the Catholic Online interview with Deacon Hezuk: “I think – he continues – I fell in love with the beauty and truth of Catholic faith and it helped me greatly to hear about … Continue reading
KC Seminarians Work Eight Hour Day in Summer: Charity Work and Learning Spanish
This is a very good and needed project. CNA reports: Joann Roa, director of the diocesan Office of Hispanic Ministry, calls the idea “exciting.” Diocesan Vocations Director Father Richard Rocha calls it “a Godsend.” For four hours a day during … Continue reading
