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Priest, Catholic Schoolchildren Among Casualties at Waukesha Christmas Parade Attack; Authorities Report 5 Dead, 48 Injured…
The Catholic Community of Waukesha, which includes four parishes, confirmed Sunday night that several members of the community have been hospitalized for injuries. WAUKESHA, Wisc. — A Catholic priest, parishioners, and Catholic school children were injured when an SUV plowed into a crowd during a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin on Sunday, the Archdiocese of Milwaukee has said. “Our prayers...
Good or bad? Top cardiologist gives verdict on chocolate, coffee and wine…
Dark chocolate is a “joy” when it comes to keeping your heart healthy, coffee is likely protective, but wine is at best “neutral”, according to one of the world’s leading cardiologists. As editor of the European Heart Journal for more than a decade, Prof Thomas Lüscher led a team that sifted through 3,200 manuscripts from scientists and doctors every year. Only a fraction – those deemed “truly nov...
A failed star known as “The Accident” is changing the way we look at the galaxy…
There’s a newly observed object in the sky called WISEA J153429.75-104303.3 — more affectionately known as “The Accident.” The Accident is a brown dwarf, a ball of gas that never quite grew large enough to start nuclear fusion and become a star — but it’s cold, strange, and unlike any other brown dwarf we’ve seen. This weird brown dwarf is the first of its kind that we’ve detecte...
Can Pope Francis make lemonade from the lemons of a rough week?
Listen to this article ROME – Every leader has stretches he or she probably would like to forget. Mid-August, for instance, was one of those times for US President Joe Biden, as the chaos of the American withdrawal from Afghanistan sent his poll numbers into a death spiral from which he still hasn’t recovered. For Pope Francis, though not quite on the same level of magnitude, this past week probab...
Exorcist says sacraments are more powerful than rite of exorcism: “The most powerful thing the Church offers to cast out demons is the confessional”…
November 18, 2021 “If there’s anyone listening to this who has not been to confession recently, you should definitely go…The most powerful thing that the Church offers to cast out demons is the confessional. Plus Mass, of course, and the Eucharist. So, go to confession,” said Monsignor Stephen J. Rossetti, Ph.D., author of “Diary of an American Exorcist: Demons, Posse...
Push back against Pilate. Never take his side. Our Lord Jesus Christ is the King of the Universe…..
This Sunday’s Gospel, the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe, Year B, gives us two crucial examples to learn from. First, Christ is an example of how to be courageous when we are faced by the Pontius Pilates of the world. But a second example is just as important — we need to face Jesus when we meet him without ourselves becoming a cocky, self-assured Pilate. Pilate and Jesus...
Pope’s Sunday Angelus: “Christ Is Not Like Other Kings — He Is a King for Others”…
“Even while being above all sovereigns, he draws no dividing line between himself and others. Instead, he wants to have brothers and sisters with whom to share his joy.” Screenshot from Vatican News YouTube channel. He went on: “We do not lose anything in following him — nothing is lost, no — but we acquire dignity because Christ does not want servility around him, but people who are free.” The po...
The best holiday tradition you’ve never heard of: Venezuelans roller skating to Christmas Mass at sunrise…
One of the best parts of Christmas, in my opinion, is hearing about how other people celebrate it. It is going to your in-laws’ house and learning that in place of turkey or ham, they eat Polish sausage, or that they open all but one of their presents on Christmas Eve, or that each person has to do a duet with Grandma. In China people give apples wrapped in colored paper as gifts on Christmas Eve,...
100 years ago, Our Lord protected Our Lady of Guadalupe in a bomb attack…
“Around 10:30 in the morning, a dynamite bomb went off hidden among the flowers. The damages were at the steps of the altar, which are made of marble, the brass candlesticks, and the Sacred Image of our Crucified Lord, that fell to the ground and was left bent,” indicates the story that is in the back of the current basilica, with the crucifix and the photos that were taken after the attack. The e...
Father John Francis Macha, young priest guillotined by Nazis in 1942, is beatified in Poland…
Semeraro proclaimed the beatification formula in Latin and an image of Macha was unveiled. Members of the new blessed’s family brought his relics to the chancel. The relics consisted of Macha’s last letter to his parents and siblings before his execution, a rosary he had made, and a blood-stained handkerchief. EpiskopatNews via Flickr. Ahead of the beatification ceremony, Cardinal Semeraro visited...
Special report from The Pillar Survey: The Catholic hot buttons…
Pope Francis vists the U.S. Capitol in 2015. Credit: U.S. archives/public domain More than three-quarters of weekly Massgoing U.S. Catholics trust Catholic bishops to deal honestly and transparently with sex abuse in the Catholic Church. On the whole, Catholics who practice the faith with regularity are far more likely to report trusting both local and national leaders in the Church. And trust in ...
For 50 years, the word “welcome” was heard three times in the baptismal rite. Now it has been stricken. Here’s why… …
Just over a year ago on Easter 2020, a new translation of The Order of Baptism of Children replaced the translation that had been in use for around 50 years. The first edition of the Latin typical edition of the Rite of Baptism for Children was published in 1969, and many ritual editions in English were based off of that version. Some reprints of the rite also incorporated modifications from secon...
