Monthly Archives: October 2016

By Austen Ivereigh at Crux: October 31, 2016 Pope Francis and the global Lutheran leader have jointly pledged to remove the obstacles to full unity between their Churches, leading eventually to shared Eucharist. They made the commitment in a joint statement signed before … Continue reading →

Hilary White writes on her blog about the latest and most devastating earthquake that reduced most of her hometown, Norcia, to rubble just yesterday: Thank God for friends! This was what I saw when I dashed out of the Grotta … Continue reading →

By Fr. John Zuhlsdorf,  29 October 2016 I grew up Lutheran. It is of constant consternation and amazement to me that I have had to fight with Catholics over what the Catholic Church teaches about the Eucharist. I have met Lutherans who … Continue reading →

The Battle of Lepanto on Sunday 7 October in 1571 was not the only military engagement in which widespread praying of the Holy Rosary is believed to have granted victory to Catholic forces. That particular decisive victory for subsequent European … Continue reading →

By Father Brian Harrison, 29th October, 2016, Catholic Family News: Pope Francis, in one fell swoop has today carried out a stunning mass removal (see link below) of all conservative cardinals and bishops from the Vatican’s Congregation for Sacraments and … Continue reading →

  1st Reading: Wisdom 11:22-12:2 Wisdom makes us humble in God’s presence In your sight, Lord, the whole world is like a grain of dust that tips the scales, like a drop of morning dew falling on the ground. Yet … Continue reading →

By Pete Balinski and John-Henry Western  ZAGREB, Croatia, October 28, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) — It is “irreformable” dogma of the Catholic Church that only those who believe that Jesus Christ is truly present in the consecrated bread and wine are able … Continue reading →

  Ulf Jonsson S.J. La Civiltà Cattolica WORKING TRANSLATION PROVIDE BY “LA CIVILTÀ CATTOLICA” During a meeting of the editors of the European cultural journals of the Society of Jesus, in mid-June, I expressed to Fr. Antonio Spadaro, editor of … Continue reading →

By Steve Skojec at OnePeterFive: The frightening thing, he reflected for the ten thousandth time as he forced his shoulders painfully backward (with hands on hips, they were gyrating their bodies from the waist, an exercise that was supposed to … Continue reading →

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This is my final blog as the doctors and the respiratory team have advised that I do not have much time left to live due to the fact of being in the end stages of COPD…

  Saints Simon the Zealot and Jude (Thaddeus)   October 28th is the feast of Saint Simon the Zealot and Saint Jude Thaddeus, two of the twelve Apostles named by Jesus. They share a common feast day because, according to … Continue reading →

by Msgr. Charles Pope. Today, let’s wade into the waters of a difficult, mysterious subject. Predestination, and in a wider sense, God’s providence, raises a lot of conundrums in our mind, bound as we are by time and the limits … Continue reading →

Seven young women in Kirkuk, Iraq, credit the Virgin Mary for their safety after spending a harrowing eight hours hidden underneath beds while Islamic State group fighters used their room as a hideout during an assault on the city. KIRKUK, … Continue reading →

              By Roberto de Mattei Two anniversaries overlap each other in 2017: the 100 years of the Fatima apparitions, occurring between May 13th and October 13th 1917, and the 500 years of Luther’s revolt, … Continue reading →

By John-Henry Westen, October 25, 2016, LifeSiteNews Pope Francis will travel to Lund, Sweden, next week to assist in the launch of a yearlong commemoration of the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s nailing of his 95 theses to the door … Continue reading →