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Martin I lay too sick to fight on a couch in front of the altar when the soldiers burst into the Lateran basilica. He had come to the church when he heard the soldiers had landed. But the thought of kidnapping a sick pope from the house of God didn’t stop the soldiers from grabbing…
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Reading 1 Ezekiel 37:21-28 Thus says the Lord GOD: I will take the children of Israel from among the nations to which they have come, and gather them from all sides to bring them back to their land. I will make them one nation upon the land, in the mountains of Israel, and there shall…
Pope St. Julius I was born around the year 280 and became Bishop of Rome in 337 AD during a time of intense theological conflict. As pope, he is best known for defending the orthodox Christian faith against the Arian heresy, which denied the divinity of Jesus Christ. When St. Athanasius, the exiled Bishop of…
(Catholic World News) — L’Osservatore Romano published a two-page, five-article tribute in its April 10 edition to Father Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955), the French Jesuit philosopher and paleontologist whose support for eugenics continued even after the Holocaust. Under the red-colored banner “Il 10 aprile 1955 … Continue reading → The post Vatican newspaper continues lionization of Teilhard de Chardin with…
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Julius whose feast day is April 12th. Julius was the son of a Roman named Rusticus. He was elected Pope to succeed Pope St. Mark on February 6, 337. Julius was soon involved in the Arian controversy when Eusebius of Nicomedia opposed the return of Athanasius to the See of Alexandria in 338. Eusebius and…
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Francis X. Rocca has penned a piece for The Atlantic regarding the Traditional Latin Mass. Subtitled, “How the Latin Mass split the Church,” the sympathetic piece is titled, “The Catholics Who Have to Worship Somewhere Else.” This comes from the … Continue reading → The post ‘How the Latin Mass split the Church’ appeared first…
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis’ surprise visit to St. Peter’s Basilica to pray and see ongoing restoration work is a clear sign that his condition is improving, the Vatican press office said. The 88-year-old pope, pushed in a wheelchair by his nurse and using a nasal cannula to deliver supplemental oxygen, entered the basilica…
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One can be tempted to treat Lent as a set of rules and cultural practices that we do just because we are Catholic, without understanding the deeper meaning. But if our Lent is to bear fruit, we ought to remember what our fasting and disciplines are for. They are not arbitrary restrictions on pleasures; rather,…
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In this series I have introduced the prayer, doce me passionem Tuam—teach me Your suffering—a simple aspiration we can pray many times a day. I also offered some suggestions on preparing during Lent for a Consecration to the Most Holy Cross of Jesus on Good Friday, which I will publish here during Holy Week. Today…
St. Stanislaus was born in 1030 near Kraków, Poland, to a noble and devout Catholic family. After being educated in canon law and theology in Paris, he returned to Poland, where he was ordained a priest and eventually appointed Bishop of Kraków in 1072. As bishop, Stanislaus became known for his bold preaching, defense of…