“Today we are being tested” — Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen Please Note: Archbishop Sheen had a great love for Pope Paul VI. Other traditional Catholics, who also love bishop Sheen, are more critical … But those of us who love the traditional Faith cannot forget that it was Paul who gave us Humanae Vitae and… Read More Archbishop Sheen on Those Thinking of Leaving the Church
Persecuted by many Catholic dissidents on account of his Catholic orthodoxy, but loved by millions the world over, Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen (1895-1979) was one of the American Church’s greatest intellects, spiritual masters and evangelists. In his lifetime he wrote some 66 books on everything from the philosophy of science and epistemology to works of… Read More Thomas C. Reeves on Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. C-Span.
Physical condition Besides the stigmata which he bore most of his life and the lifelong periods of the dark Night of the soul, “Padre Pio’s medical reports [from the time he was a young man and then friar], as was evident from the symptoms mentioned in the letters, never showed a clean bill of health.… Read More The Divine Illnesses and “Wasted Body” of Padre Pio of Pietrelcina
“…the night is far gone, the day is at hand” -Rm. 13 There is no stable law in the New World Order. It is all designed to change, “evolve,” expand and kill off the weak in the name of “Human Rights” (again). All their assurances about safeguards are worthless. They know what they eventually want:… Read More “Assisted” Dying in the UK and Beyond
And ‘Being Beethoven‘ a BBC documentary chronicling his genius, tragedies and glory. Also, Damian Thompson asks why didn’t Beethoven go to Mass? Too, How did Beethoven feel about Napoleon? And Missa Solemnis. Beethoven and the Catholic Church .By Michael De Sapio.Crisis Magazine. Ludwig van Beethoven, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart form the great trinity… Read More Beethoven and the Catholic Church
“… don’t think that I am a fool to talk like this. But even if you do, listen to me, as you would to a foolish person, while I also boast a little. I have been put in prison more often, been whipped times without number, and faced death again and again. 24 Five different times the… Read More St. Paul’s Cross
“In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.”—Jn.16:33. Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.Mary as “blessed among women”. Pope John Paul II 1. The liturgy today commemorates theNativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary.This feast, very important to popular piety, leads us to admire in Mary the… Read More Praying for the Children
Thinking of Fleeing to the Country to Beat the Crises of the Times? It would be wise to listen to Ross Douthat’s experiences first! Lyme Disease. (With Rod Dreher and Kale Zelden.) One must be prepared. And educated in country living. “In this vulnerable, insightful memoir, the [Catholic] New York Times columnist tells the story of his… Read More Ross Douthat’s Horrific Account of Illness
Galatians 2:20. “I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me; and the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.” Fr. Gabriel of St. Mary Magdalene, who died… Read More Reparation
By Father Gabriel of St Mary Magdalene, O.C.D. Even without the presence of other causes, it is possible to pass from a state of sensible spiritual fervor to one of absolute aridity. This happens by the direct work of God which makes it impossible for the soul to pray with the help of the mind… Read More Aridity and Spiritual Progress
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