Author Archives: kathleen

Resisting falling into despair or negativity does not imply Catholics walk through life in blinkers, denying reality. These are rough times in the Church; a return of liberal thought and Modernism has churned the stormy seas to rock the Barque … Continue reading →

From Une Voce Miami. (With a h/t to our longtime visitor from Australia, Geoff Kiernan, for alerting us to this video) ***** Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi Numerous men, both before and after the Novus Ordo Mass was promulgated in the wake … Continue reading →

  It is a whole week now since I returned from my tenth pilgrimage to Chartres! (Apologies for the delay of this report, but recent personal and family events have kept me preoccupied elsewhere.) Once again, over three days of … Continue reading →

Over various centuries of the Middle Ages, valiant Crusaders held back the tides of false prophet Mohammad’s murdering hoards, saving, and sometimes recapturing, Christian lands that the Mohammedans (the name Islam’s followers were previously known by) had taken by force … Continue reading →

In many countries, ten days after the feast of Pentecost, elaborate and beautiful Corpus Christi processions along the streets have been held for centuries and are still being held today in cities and in towns of mainly Catholic countries, although … Continue reading →

St. Simon Stock (1165-1265), whose feast day we celebrate today, 16th May, was born in Kent, England. He was strongly drawn to God as a child, and at the age of twelve he began to live as a hermit in … Continue reading →

Ave Crux Spes Unica – Hail Oh Cross, Our Only Hope! The hope of the Cross is to know that things are never hopeless. If we deny ourselves, pick up our cross and follow Him – (Matthew 16:24), then even … Continue reading →

From the Facebook page of ‘Ending Abortion’ comes this heart-rending video below. Countless women are mentally, morally and physically destroyed forever after they have aborted their babies. Their guilt and remorse haunts them the rest of their lives.  Even those … Continue reading →

Drawing on the sound knowledge from certain “icon experts”, I attempt to describe the deep meaning behind this beautiful icon of Andreas Pavias, displayed in the Alexandros Soutzos Museum, Athens. The following interpretation of this detailed icon depicting the suffering of … Continue reading →

Does anyone still believe that Islam is a “religion of peace”? This much-bandied about slogan, invented by some gullible Western leaders, has become an absolute joke even amongst secularists nowadays. Let’s face facts: Islam is a ‘religion’ of the sword… … Continue reading →

We are in Passion Week, countdown to the most important events (Passion, Death and Resurrection) in the Liturgical year and on which Man’s redemption lies. On this great mystery, Christ’s Holy Church was built. Our prayers and meditations are now … Continue reading →

“Cardinal Nichols thanks Pope Francis for ‘steadfast’ defence of Church teaching” [!!!] Yes, that was the title of the article in Friday’s edition of the Catholic Herald of Cardinal Nichols’ letter of congratulations to Pope Francis on the fourth anniversary … Continue reading →

Since Sunday, 12th February 2017, we have been in the time traditionally known as Septuagesima, a time that marks the first of the three weeks before the start of Lent on Ash Wednesday. This time was described by the Church as … Continue reading →

There was a timely post on Father Z’s blog a few days ago dealing with the dispute of President Trump’s newly-signed restrictions on mass immigration of citizens coming from seven Islamic nations into the States, and the ongoing furore the … Continue reading →

It is a well-known fact – the MSM is brazenly in favour of abortion and their supporters (disguised under the misleading flyer of “pro-choice”). Faced with the dilemma of recent multitudinous pro-life marches taking place all over the Western world, … Continue reading →