At Rome, the holy martyr Maxima, who confessed Christ with St. Ansanus in the persecution of Diocletian, and yielded up her soul while being beaten with rods. Roman Martyrology
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The good that the humble and meek do, in the eyes of God is infinitely more important than those who ever strut and preen in the limelight.
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To be silent and submissive in all things that happen to us by God’s ordinance or are required of us by holy obedience; to become small in the eyes of God, of the world, and of ourselves, and to prefer a life of obscurity; to love everyone with a holy love, and become all to
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Go here to read the story. Imagine Cardinal Sarah having been chosen Pope in 2013.
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News that I missed, courtesy of The Babylon Bee: PLYMOUTH, MA — After seventeen hours of deliberations over the span of three days, a jury was still struggling to decide whether murder is wrong. The deep nuances of the case delayed the decision, with jurors facing intricate legal and moral questions such as whether it’s
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The resistance to the crowned monster Henry VIII, by the London Carthusians, an order famed and loved for its service to the poor of London, rings down through the centuries. Blessed Richard Bere is one of seven of their number who were chained to posts standing and left to starve to death in Newgate prison.
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Destiny attended Emmeran Bliemel at his birth on the feast day of Saint Michael the Archangel, patron saint of soldiers, in 1831 in Bavaria. From his early boyhood his burning desire was to be a missionary to German Catholics in far off America. Joining a Benedictine Abbey in Latrobe, Pennsylvania in 1851, he was ordained
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Do not forget that the devil is not afraid of our sports fields and our cinemas; instead, he is afraid of our holiness. Blessed Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster
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Patrick McGoohan was an oddity among actors, and thank God for it. A devout Roman Catholic, he was married to his one and only wife for almost 58 years and refused to kiss any actress unless she was his wife. He turned down the role of James Bond because of the promiscuity of the character.
I desire to be dissolved, and to be with Christ Jesus. Blessed Richard Herst
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Go here to read the story. I would like to think this is being done with the secret connivance of Pope Leo, but I doubt this is the case. He has given no evidence that he does not stand behind the Francis policy of tossing faithful Chinese Catholics to the Communist wolves. The faithful Chinese
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Something for the weekend. A violin rendition of Close to You (1970) by Karolina Protsenko. Bonus:
It is said that political categories have no role in the Church. If only that were the case. In the wake of Vatican II there was a witch hunt at most seminaries in this country against orthodox candidates for the priesthood, who were usually also politically conservative, at least in comparison to those leading the
God will not hear our prayers unless we acknowledge ourselves to be sinners. We do this when we ponder on our sins alone, and not on those of our neighbor. Saint Moses the Black
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Agree with some of the above and disagree with other portions, especially the allegation as to the US Deep State, whatever that means in this context, the US bishops and cardinals playing a distinctly minor role at Vatican II. The simple truth is that most bishops would vote to require the Laity to paint
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The rampant ignorance of basic American history among professional scribblers should never be underestimated.
The beginning of a cascade of defeats 250 years ago that had the American Revolution on life support by December. The year in which this nation began came near to being the year it ended. Trying to defend New York City, outnumbered and in the teeth of British naval supremacy, was military madness and
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There is no place that is far from God. Saint Monica
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News that I missed, courtesy of The Babylon Bee: ETERNITY — According to heavenly sources, the newly deceased who enter into the Lord’s rest are shown a blooper reel that spans their entire lives for everyone to laugh at. Hot off the heels of judgment, newcomers in Heaven must also sit through a lengthy blooper
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Seeing this with my Bride and our son on Satuday. I suspect that the lawyers in the family might be laughing at the wrong parts of the movie.
“I am a Percy in life and in death.” Said just prior to his execution, after he scornfully rejected an offer to abjure his Catholic faith in exchange for his life.
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(I originally wrote this post on December 18, 2008. Time to dust it off in light of Sheen’s beatification date coming up of September 24, 2026.) “A Paris reporter asked TV-Comedian Milton Berle how he felt about the Bishop Fulton Sheen program which is on a competing channel with his own show. Said Berle: “We’re
Let us pray that Putin is not planning to add to a losing war in Ukraine with a lashing out against NATO. I doubt if the CIA Director went to Moscow for a sight seeing trip.
Become not fainthearted, in adversity. Become not elevated, in the days of prosperity. Saint Louis King of France
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Justice delayed seventeen years. No one has been punished, so far as I know, for pushing this murderous incompetent up the ranks for fear of seeming anti-Muslim. The lives of the troops were sacrificed to protect the careers of higher ups who foisted a ticking time bomb on those who had the deadly misfortune
Louis IX appeared to be a prince destined to reform Europe, if she could have been reformed, to render France triumphant and civilized, and to be in all things a pattern for men. His piety, which was that of an anchorite, did not deprive him of any kingly virtue. A profound policy was
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God asks us to do what we can, and to leave the rest to Him. Saint Jane Antide Thouret
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News that I missed, courtesy of The Babylon Bee: JERUSALEM — Apostolic sources report that the Apostle Paul was called into the head office for more mandatory sensitivity training yesterday after firing off another one of his epistles to the church at Galatia. According to members of the Galatian church, Paul had somehow managed to
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