Author Archives: kathleen

An extremely forthright post from VOX CANTORIS on the “40th Statewide Investigating Grand Jury Report 1” (with link) was posted yesterday. The tremendous scale of the sex abuse crisis led this infuriated Catholic blogger to plead: ”O GOD, SEND FORTH … Continue reading →

We spend our lives fighting the trying burden of multiple afflictions, seeking ways to alleviate them whatever the cost. They take away from our peace of mind, from the kindness and attention we owe to those around us, and in … Continue reading →

We could hope that more bishops order a halt to this most Protestant type of practice. Prayer services according to the Liturgy of the Hours, without partking of Holy Communion in the absence of a priest, are perfectly legitimate. by … Continue reading →

This paradoxical question is being asked by many unhappy Catholics today. Division, heretical practices and confusion has never been so bad. Good priests and faithful laymen can no longer rely on their peers or shepherds for assurance or protection when, … Continue reading →

Scant notice has been given by the international media to one of the most notorious anti-Catholic ambitions of Spain’s new socialist Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, and which is contained in a twisted one-sided version of “The Law of Historic Memory”. … Continue reading →

  The second Apparition of the Angel to the three children of Fatima in 1916 must have been at the height of summer, when the heat of the day was so intense that they had to take the sheep home … Continue reading →

“[Satan] will set up a counterchurch which will be the ape of the [Catholic] Church … It will have all the notes and characteristics of the Church, but in reverse and emptied of its divine content.” We are living in … Continue reading →

Thérèse often pondered the fact that there is such a disparity between souls, some of whom are blessed to live their whole lives as great saints, while others are deeply flawed and continuously fall along their journey. She wondered how … Continue reading →

Another case on one of those “men without faith reigning in the Church” (about whom Bishop Schneider warned recently) was exposed by the Media last week. “Uncle Ted” Card. Theodore McCarrick, 87, (who once confessed he was lobbied to support … Continue reading →

After the removal of life support in both assisted ventilation and sustenance for baby Alfie Evans, against the parents’ expressed wishes (and with the added suspicion that unnamed  death-provoking drugs might have been administered) the following death of the infant … Continue reading →

CP&S comment – An increasing number of post-V2 Catholics are discovering the transcendent beauty of the Traditional Latin Mass of the Church as one would find a lost and hidden treasure. Once found they are transformed and their faith grows … Continue reading →

COMMENT – Fr. John Bartunek, LC, S.Th.D, answers a troubling question all Catholics should possibly be asking ourselves in the time-consuming digital world we live in today where more and more of our time is spent in cyberspace on computers, … Continue reading →

 From the blog dedicated to Fr Willie Doyle SJ (1873 – 1917) [Fr Doyle once wrote to a spiritual directee]: I do not want, in fact I forbid you, to be imprudent in the matter of corporal penances. But, my … Continue reading →

Father Linus Clovis is the brother of Greg Clovis, father of one of the largest and best known Catholic families in southern England. Greg Clovis and his wonderful wife Aghi (an Iranian convert from Islam) have done so much to … Continue reading →

Annual Pilgrimage to Chartres Friday 18th – Tuesday 22nd May 2018 This year marks the 36th Chartres Pilgrimage – a walk of 70 miles in three days from Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris, to Notre Dame Cathedral, Chartres – with the … Continue reading →