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05/08/2024

Church news from Beantown: “Pope Appoints Providence Bishop Richard Henning as Archbishop of Boston”

The following is a Catholic Action League of Massachusetts news release… This morning, August 5, 2024, Pope Francis appointed the Bishop of Providence, the Most Reverend Richard G. Henning, as the …

05/08/2024

The miracle that led to the er****on of the major Marian Basilica in Rome: “Our Lady of the Snows” (355-366)

During the night of August 4 in the year 355, in the middle of summer, snow fell on the Esquiline Hill in Rome, on the exact spot where Our Lady wanted a church to be built in her honor. She let a …

04/08/2024

A good feature article on the amazing founder of the Order of Preachers by a deceased priest friend: “Saint Dominic de Guzman”

“O happy mother, Spain rejoices in giving to the world the joy of new offspring! But, rejoice still more, Bologna, because you are favored with the glory of so great a father…” 1 …

04/08/2024

He was such a good preacher... when's the last time you met an actual Albigensian? Saint Dominic (1221)

He was the founder of the great Dominican Order known as the Order of Preachers. He was born in 1170 in Spain and died when he was only fifty-one years old. His mother, also a saint — Blessed Jane …

04/08/2024

Today’s collect showcases the generosity of the Eternal Father, who will, “add over and above what our prayer does not presume to ask.”

Here is the oration that the Church prays in the Mass and Office for the eleventh Sunday after Pentecost: Omnípotens sempitérne Deus, qui, abundántia pietátis tuæ, et mérita súpplicum excédis et vo…

04/08/2024

Just in advance of the glorious feast, the latest by Mr. Charles A. Coulombe () at Catholicism·org “The Transfiguration and Our Lives”

August 6, the feast of the Transfiguration, is one that comes and goes very quickly in the excitement of the Summer — so much so, that it is often overlooked. But it has a number of important lesso…

03/08/2024

A study by our Sister Marie Gabrielle: “Saint Therese, Novelty, and the Development of Doctrine”

When St. Louis Marie de Montfort set out to fire the world with enthusiasm for Total Consecration to Jesus through Mary, he was careful to establish that this devotion was in keeping with Tradition…

03/08/2024

Next on RECONQUEST: “Bread and Circuses with a Side of Blasphemy”

Episode 430 debuts on August 7, at 8:00 PM Eastern. Rebroadcasts will take place according to the Crusade Channel programming schedule (note: all times listed are Central time). The topic is Bread …

03/08/2024

Proof of devotion to the saints and their relics from the early church! More fascinating detail on this miraculous historical event that Saint Augustine and other contemporaries wrote about: Saint Stephen’s Relics Discovered

The edifying story of St. Stephen the Protomartyr is told in Chapters Six and Seven of the Acts of the Apostles. One of the first seven deacons, St. Stephen is a model of evangelical zeal, who seal…

03/08/2024

Yes it is a liturgical feast, and an historical event mentioned in the Roman Martyrology: The Finding of the Body of Saint Stephen (415)

Saint Stephen, the protomartyr of the Catholic Church, was stoned to death by the Jews in the year 36. He was buried twenty miles from Jerusalem, on the estate of Saint Gamaliel. The precious relic…

03/08/2024

The holy "vendor of purple" (purpuraria) who was the disciple and hostess of Saint Paul: Saint Lydia (First Century)

Saint Lydia was Saint Paul’s first convert on his second missionary journey. Later on, he stayed at her house, as we are told by Saint Luke in the Acts of the Apostles. Her home was at Thyati…

03/08/2024

Very ascetic and zealous French apostle of the Blessed Sacrament: Saint Peter Julian Eymard (1868)

He was a French priest who founded a beautiful Religious Order known as “the Priests of the Blessed Sacrament.” He was a great advocate of early Communion for Catholic children. “…

02/08/2024

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02/08/2024

This lovely Marian-Franciscan feast brings us to ponder that a little daughter of Israel has, by grace, been raised above the nine choirs of angels, the lowest of whom are higher than Her by nature. But the Holy Angels revere and love her as their Queen!

We know in simple, childlike faith that the Blessed Virgin Mary is, in flesh and blood, holier, more beautiful, more powerful and closer to God in divine union than all the choirs and hierarchies o…

02/08/2024

Another holy founder today, and a Doctor of the Church to boot! Saint Alphonsus Maria de Liguori (1787)

He was born in 1696. He was in his ninety-first year when he died. He founded the Redemptorist Order in 1732. He became a Doctor of the Church by constantly preaching and writing about the Holy Euc…

01/08/2024

This is worth a watch, especially to overcome the outrageous gaslighting of those saying that the degenerate performance was not a mockery of the Last Supper — an easily refuted claim that has taken in superficial people who fancy themselves smart: “Jonathan Pageau on How the Olympic Opening Ceremony is Worse than You Thought”

This is worth a watch, especially to overcome the outrageous gaslighting of those saying that the degenerate performance was not a mockery of the Last Supper — an easily refuted claim that ha…

01/08/2024

If we consider that Jesus Christ is the King of the Universe; that all that has been made is for Him; that He has universal dominion over the entire created order, and all for the glory of God; that He is good, and loving, and deserving of all honor, then detracting Him, blaspheming Him, can be seen for what it truly is: a disorder of the very worst kind in the heart of the cosmos itself. It is a calamity, a catastrophe, an outrage that makes most of what outrages us pale in comparison.

A lot has been said about the blasphemous mockery of the Last Supper featured in the four-hour opening ceremonies of the Paris Olympics. There are two points I would like to focus on, the first of …

01/08/2024

To me, this woman, who also died a martyr, epitomizes the command of Saint Paul: “Be not overcome by evil, but overcome evil by good” (Rom. 12:21).

From the Matins readings in yesterday’s Divine Office, here is the faith-filled, courageous, and unsentimental exhortation of an unnamed Jewish mother[1. One tradition calls her, “Saint…

01/08/2024

Their names teach a lesson: Holy Wisdom gives birth to Faith, Hope, and Charity:

These heroic little sisters, aged twelve, ten and nine, were martyred for the Catholic Faith in the early days of the Church. Saint Sophia, their mother, died three days after her little daughters …

31/07/2024

This recently surfaced document points to older intrigue in Papal elections: “US State Department Interference in Papal Election, a Father Feeney Connection” h/t Stephen Kokx

It came to my attention via X the other day, thanks to a posting by Stephen Kokx, that a declassified US State Department telegram from 1958 reveals possible top-level government interference in pa…

31/07/2024

Next on RECONQUEST: "The Franciscan Thesis and the Necessity of the Church"

Episode 429 debuts on July 31, at 8:00 PM Eastern. Rebroadcasts will take place according to the Crusade Channel programming schedule (note: all times listed are Central time). The topic is The Fra…

31/07/2024

A sweet meditation, by Sister Marie Gabrielle, on the place of selfless kindness in the spiritual life: “Smile Anyway”

“A smile is one of nature’s best means of making people happy. One of the most delightful factors in a personality is a real heartwarming smile that comes from within. Actions speak louder than wor…

31/07/2024

A wonderful feature article on the great Basque founder of the Jesuits: “In the Company of Ignatius”

“Therefore every scribe instructed in the Kingdom of Heaven, is like to a man that is a householder, who bringeth forth out of his treasure new things and old. ” (MT 13:52) Throughout t…

31/07/2024

Another piece on Saint Ignatius, a quickie from the 1940’s...

In the sixteenth century the University of Paris was a fair-sized town. It had fifty colleges and schools and some sixteen thousand students thronged its numerous buildings. They were divided into …

31/07/2024

We have a brief concentration of religious founders this time of the liturgical year, beginning with the founder of the Company of Jesus: Saint Ignatius of Loyola (1556)

Saint Ignatius of Loyola, in Spain, was the founder of the Society of Jesus. He was born in 1491, one year before America was discovered. He died in 1556, at the age of sixty-five. He was at first …

30/07/2024

Persian noblemen who were brought as captives to Rome by the Emperor Decius: Saints Abdon and Sennen (250)

These were two Persian noblemen who were brought as captives to Rome by the Emperor Decius, whose purpose it was to keep the Catholic Faith from extending into Persia. Saint Abdon and Saint Sennen …

29/07/2024

A good old Gary Potter article on... “Saint Olaf and the End of the Viking World”

One thousand years ago, an entire world was coming to an end. It was the world of the pagan Vikings. It would be replaced by another: that of Christian Scandinavia. The vanished world and the one …

29/07/2024

Upon becoming king, he called missionaries to Norway to make it a Catholic country: Saint Olaf (1030)

He was a prince, son of a king of Norway, who was baptized as a Catholic when he was fifteen. When he finally became a king he called missionaries to Norway to make it a Catholic country. He was dr…

29/07/2024

The sister of Saints Mary Magdalene and Lazarus, dragon-fighter: Saint Martha (80) https://catholicism.org/saint-martha-80.html via

Saint Martha was the sister of Saint Lazarus and Saint Mary Magdalen. She was often hostess to Jesus in her house in Bethany. Fourteen years after the death of Jesus, Saint Martha, with her sister …

22/07/2024

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