Victims of Communism Day: Year of Miracles
Today is the Victims of Communism Day on which we remember the one hundred million and counting butchered by Communist regimes and movements. Twenty-seven years ago in 1989 I lived through the Year...
View ArticleTwenty-Eight Years Since the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Twenty-eight years ago today my bride and I arrived home from buying software for our Commodore 64 (Yeah, it is that long ago.) and watched stunned after we turned on the tv as we saw East Germans...
View ArticleNovember 9, 1989: Thirty Years Since the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Thirty years ago today my bride and I arrived home from buying software for our Commodore 64 (Yeah, it is that long ago.) and watched stunned, after we turned on the TV, as we saw East Germans dancing...
View ArticleMay 13, 1981: Pope John Paul II Shot
Beyond odd that forty years ago both Pope John Paul II and President Reagan were shot within a few months of each other. Praise God that both survived. The Pope forgave his would be assassin which...
View ArticleRequiescat In Pace: Wanda Poltawska
A giant has left us too soon at the age of 102. Wanda Poltawska was arrested by the Nazi occupiers of Poland in 1941 for aiding the Polish resistance. She survived four years at Ravensbruck...
View ArticleAt Marian Apparition Locations, Great Trials & Tribulations Often Occur...
Marian apparitions have always been a sign of God’s love. It truly is one of His greatest graces, which physically shows us the Blessed Mother along with her love, words of encouragement and warnings...
View ArticleThe United States Youngest Cardinal
A Profile of Daniel DiNardo by Jeff Ziegler On June 17, Cardinal Daniel DiNardo expressed “grave concern over the FDA’s current process for approving the drug Ulipristal (with the proposed trade name...
View ArticleFides et Ratio
Today is the anniversary of what might be John Paul II’s most important encyclical, Fides et ratio. Although I have not the time to give it a full treatment, if you have not read it I strongly urge you...
View ArticleThe Pope Of Christian Unity, Pope Benedict XVI Is In The UK
Many in the mainstream media have failed to see the obvious concerning Pope Benedict XVI’s trip to the United Kingdom, the truth of the Catholic Church has won out. The Pope of Christian Unity (as he...
View ArticleSuspected Al Qaeda Plot to Kill Pope Benedict XVI Foiled In London By...
A sophisticated attack to kill Pope Benedict XVI was appearently foiled in London by Scotland Yard. The Middle Eastern Intelligence website Debka, normally on top of such matters reports that the...
View ArticleBenedict at Westminster
The text of Benedict’s keynote speech on his trip to the UK is here; video of the speech can be found here. Obviously, you read or watch the speech in its entirety, but I will present a few highlights...
View ArticleCNN Joins The Hit Piece Parade Against Pope Benedict XVI and The Catholic Church
It would appear that those in the mainstream media who want to do hit pieces on Pope Benedict XVI need to take a number. The latest to engage in Yellow Journalism is CNN. The “network of record”...
View Article"The End and the Beginning: Pope John Paul II"— George Weigel's sequel to...
George Weigel’s new book, The End and the Beginning: Pope John Paul II — The Victory of Freedom, the Last Years, the Legacy, which was published by Doubleday on September 14, is the fulfillment of a...
View ArticlePraying the Holy Rosary in October
The month of October is dedicated to the Holy Rosary — by personal recommendation of Pope Leo XIII: In a letter of September 1, 1883, mindful of the Rosary’s power to strengthen faith and foster a life...
View ArticleWhy Is Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral In Al Qaeda's Crosshairs?
The target of the Notre Dame Cathedral seemed a bit out of place. Every other Al Qaeda target listed by the captured Ahmed Sadiqui was secular in origin, be the Eiffel Tower in Paris, the Brandenburg...
View ArticleIn An Unprecedented Move, Left Leaning Bishop Kicanas, Vice President Of US...
It was as stunning, as it was unexpected; by a vote of 128-111 the left leaning Bishop Gerald Kicanas, Vice President of the US Bishop’s Conference was passed over for President of the US Bishops by...
View ArticleThe Coming Open Rebellion Against God Part II
In my first article The Coming Open Rebellion Against God, I spoke of a time where God would reveal his omnipotence and some would simply leave their faith behind. Why? Because just as in John 6, some...
View ArticleWhy Do Popes Bother?
Last fall, Pope Benedict issued the post-synodal apostolic exhortation Verbum Domini, On the Word of God in the Life and Mission of the Church. With a handful of exceptions, the response of the...
View ArticleDivini Redemtoris
“Over half a century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of older people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen Russia: ‘Men have forgotten God;...
View ArticleThe Militant Secular Left Shows Their Cards, Proving That The Tide Continues...
The militant secular left thinks they have won a victory with President Barack Obama’s “Accommodation” with regard to the Health and Human Services (HHS) Mandate ordering religious based institutions...
View ArticleHHS Mandate Hastens The Demise Of Liberal Catholicism & Ensures The Growth of...
In a bizarre way President Barack Obama, through his Health and Human Services Mandate (HHS) has united religious orthodoxy across the spectrum as never before. In its wake liberal religiosity is going...
View ArticleJimmy Carter, Ex-President and Anti-Catholic Bigot, Attacks Pope John Paul II
Bad enough that James Earl Carter, Jr. is the worst president this country has had not named James Buchanan or Barack Obama, but he is also an anti-Catholic bigot as his latest mind droppings amply...
View ArticleDivini Redemptoris
“Over half a century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of older people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen Russia: ‘Men have forgotten God;...
View ArticleWanted: Orthodox Catholic Political Leaders (Time To Get Serious)
My adult conversion to Catholicism came about through many converging spiritual streams, but one of the things I remember that had perhaps, the biggest positive impact, was my introduction to the Papal...
View ArticlePope Benedict XVI, A Pontificate Steeped In Humility
Pope Benedict XVI has taken the ultimate step in humility and has decided to resign, because he felt the duties of the Petrine Ministry were too important to continue in a diminished state. I have no...
View ArticlePope John Paull II on the US Constitution and Freedom
Interesting reflections for a Constitution Day courtesy of remarks made by Pope John Paul II to President Reagan on September 10, 1987 during the Pope’s visit to the US: Mr President, 1. I am...
View ArticleApril 2, 1983: Reagan on Passover and Easter
My fellow Americans: This week as American families draw together in worship, we join with millions upon millions of others around the world also celebrating the traditions of their faiths. During...
View ArticleVictims of Communism Day
Today is the Feast Day of Saint Joseph the Worker and Victims of Communism Day. Today we recall the two champions who led the charge that led to the downfall of Communism in Eastern Europe and the...
View ArticleRonald Reagan and Pope John Paul II
Today is my 58th birthday. I have always been pleased to share my birthday with one of the greatest of our presidents: Ronald Wilson Reagan. One of the fascinating aspects of his Presidency was...
View ArticleFortnight For Freedom: John Paul II on the Constitution
Interesting reflections on the Constitution courtesy of remarks made by Pope John Paul II to President Reagan on September 10, 1987 during the Pope’s visit to the US: Mr President, 1. I am...
View ArticleREDEMPTORIS CUSTOS
APOSTOLIC EXHORTATION REDEMPTORIS CUSTOS OF THE SUPREME PONTIFF JOHN PAUL II ON THE PERSON AND MISSION OF SAINT JOSEPH IN THE LIFE OF CHRIST AND OF THE CHURCH To Bishops To Priests and Deacons To...
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