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Just do it. Today.

“Have confidence. I have overcome the world.” Our Lord Christ, Jn. ch. xvi, v. 33

Ten unforgettable days of pilgrimage in The Eternal City, Rome — Monday, October 4 to Wednesday, October 13.

Eight reasons sure to convince even the (more…)

Pope Jorge Mario Bergoglio – aka Francis – has said so.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/35613790

Will Pope Francis grant Vatican citizenship to Alfie Evans and his father?

Tom Evans asked Pope Francis for asylum & eventual citizenship.

See the EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW of Zenit with the Father of Alfie Evans: “The Pope Told Me ‘No Child’s Life Should Be Taken Away From Him’”.

April 18, 2018 12:23 interview by Deborah Castellano Lubov

https://zenit.org/articles/exclusive-interview-father-of-alfie-evens-the-pope-told-me-no-childs-life-should-be-taken-away-from-him/

He has hours to live, unless God spares him by your prayers. Charlie Gard of London – July 7, 2017

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The lost lecture of the pastor of pastors.


Quite interesting.

The New Pagans and the Church, a lecture delivered in 1958 by then-Father Joseph (more…)

Does His Eminence misinform His Holiness?

The Vatican Press Office tells yesterday that Pope Francis has sent a letter to Cardinal Cupich of Chicago, and that he is praying for nonviolence.

http://www.news.va/en/news/pope-francis-sends-letter-to-cardinal-cupich-prays

Very evidently His Holiness is misinformed about the violence for which Chicago has become infamous in recent years. (more…)

“On the Formal Correction of Pope Francis”

papal-coaThe article (linked below) by John R. T. Lamont, DPhill, deftly treats of the process by which a pope may be corrected, and of true & false notions of obedience to ecclesial authority.

http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2017/02/article-on-formal-correction-of-pope.html

May the Holy Ghost ever-guide Mother Church — not least her higher (and lower) clerics — in these turbulent times!

Weighty words from Carlo Cardinal Caffarra

©CRISTIAN GENNARI CITTA' DEL VATICANO 24-3-2006 PIAZZA S.PIETRO PRIMO CONCISTORO INDETTO DA SUA SANTITA' PAPA BENEDETTO XVI CHE CREA 15 NUOVI CARDINALI IMPOSIZIONE DELLA BERRETTA E L'ASSEGNAZIONE DEL TITOLO O DELLA DIACONIA S.E. CARD. CARLO CAFFARRA

Readers are of course free draw their own conclusions of the interview Carlo Cardinal Caffara gave to Matteo Matzuzzi as published in the Italian newspaper Il Foglio on January 14, 2017. (more…)

An avoidable tragedy – still avoidable.

The following article, written 26 years ago this spring, is still as fresh as a daisy in its valuable lessons.

An Avoidable Tragedy by Eric de Saventhem

Or, “Object lessons to avert artificial estrangements that can last a millennium”.

The essay appeared originally in the April (more…)

Still too late to learn?

vatican.va_photo_pope_pius_xiiRead the admittedly stern words of an holy Father & Prophet to the Bishops of America only 75 years ago (tomorrow), and see if his prophetic warnings have not come to pass practically verbatim.

[ … ] 18. Not with the conquest of material space does one approach to God, (more…)