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Thursday’s surprise announcement from the Vatican might have seemed routine, but look more carefully — three things made it remarkable…..
By Phil Lawler ( bio – articles – email ) | Nov 06, 2020 At first glance yesterday’s surprise announcement from the Vatican looks like a routine matter: a shift in office responsibilities. But look more carefully, and the announcement is remarkable for three things: a rare display of candor; a rebuke for the Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin; and a vindication for Cardinal Ge...
Biden projected winner; rollbacks on pro-life and religious liberty protections expected…
CNA Staff, Nov 7, 2020 / 10:55 am MT (CNA).- Joe Biden has won the 2020 presidential election, media outlets reported Saturday morning, after five days of counting in several tight races across the country. President Donald Trump has not conceded the election, citing recounts and legal challenges to some statewide counts. Biden would be the second Catholic president in U.S. history, but has...
The Hope and Trust Rosary: Prayers for those overwhelmed by the pandemic…
Saint Luke Productions has created a new audio meditation to help those suffering during the pandemic. Saint Luke Productions has created a new audio meditation to help those suffering during the pandemic. The Hope and Trust Rosary CD and download was released on October 7, 2020, the Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary. Patti Defilippis, who wrote the reflections for this Rosary, was inspired t...
“Changing the Sabbath” and the Antichrist…
Recently I was contacted by someone who seems quite openminded and who asked me some questions about why we worship on Sunday rather than the Sabbath. In particular, this person was wondering why that should be the case if the only person in the Bible who seeks to change the Sabbath is the Antichrist. I responded as follows . . . When you refer to the Antichrist changing the Sabbath, I assume that...
When former Episcopal minister Andrew Petiprin became Catholic, he made sure his conversion was for all the right reasons…
[embedded content] As an Episcopal priest, Andrew Petiprin loved his ministry, but was also troubled by some of the ongoing controversies within his denomination. When he started to become interested in the Catholic Church, he knew he needed to take an honest assessment of that interest; he wanted to make sure he wasn’t just trying to escape the problems he was encountering in his experience of th...
Francis ‘unplugged’ from being pope in meeting with Argentine ice cream shop owners…
ROSARIO, Argentina – At a time when supporting your local retailers is a way of helping them weather the COVID-19 storm, one ice cream shop hiding in the shade of St. Peter’s Basilica that has one special faithful customer: Pope Francis. The ice-cream shop Padron is so well known in the Vatican that when Silvia – the wife of the owner, Sebastian Padron – showed up to the gates of the world’s small...
This Captain America quote will inspire you in these days following the election…
Captain America is a fascinating character in the Marvel Universe, often described as the “Man Out of Time.” He doesn’t belong to the modern world and continually fights for, “Truth, justice and the American way.” For the most part, this has stayed consistent over the years in the multitude of ways he has been written in comics and movies. One particular stirring quotation that was featured in the...
Louisiana voters approve amendment to exclude ‘right to abortion’ from state constitution…
State Senator Katrina Jackson, a pro-life Democrat, authored the amendment when she was a state representative, along with dozens of co-sponsors from both parties. BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana voters on Tuesday approved a constitutional amendment, authored by a pro-life Democrat, to prevent Louisiana’s courts from finding a “right to abortion,” or to public abortion funding, in the state’s constit...
The recent civil unions ‘imbergoglio’ raise serious questions about the competency and integrity of Vatican communications officials…
The recent comments by Pope Francis about “civil unions” for same-sex couples raise serious questions about the competency and integrity of those who have been entrusted with Vatican communications. There have been spectacular mishaps before. In 2018, a quasi-official spokesman, Basilian Father Thomas Rosica, wrote that the Holy Father was “not bound” by Scripture and Tradition, a flat contradicti...
Long-Awaited McCarrick Report due next week, Vatican sources say…
In October 2018, the Vatican announced that Pope Francis had ordered a “thorough study” of all the documentation in the Vatican archives to “ascertain all the relevant facts” surrounding the case of Theodore McCarrick. VATICAN CITY — The Vatican’s much-anticipated report on the disgraced former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick is expected to be released next week, the Register has learned. Sources say ...
trauma, the body, and what to “go deeper” might mean
I had heard God tell me to go deeper. I had heard him say this for years. I believed him; at least I believed in the value of the idea. But what I didn’t know is what it meant, not really. And I also didn’t know that the outcome of going deeper is an experience, an inhabitance of a place that has always been within me. A place real. A place tangible. But a place not so easily explained with words....
In times like these, we need more Eucharistic Adoration, not less…
The shutdown of Catholic liturgical life by the American bishops in the wake of COVID-19 remains unabated, if somewhat modified: while some churches have reopened, far fewer bishops have reinstated the Sunday Mass obligation and many pastors observe that attendance has not yet reached even pre-March 2020’s anemia. With traditional flu season upon us and local COVID-19 spikes, our current status qu...
