Author: S&P
Updates for this very #2020 day: Donald Trump, COVID-19, Twitter and words from St. Paul…
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Paul Kengor: What the Devil and Karl Marx have to do with America now…
“The deliberate infiltration of churches in the United States — I hope people can kind of sweat it through the awful stuff on Marx and Lenin and Engels (in the book) — and get to that because that takes us really to where we are right now,” said “The deliberate infiltration of churches in the United States — I hope people can kind of sweat it through the awful stuff on Marx and L...
This Sunday, Our Lord warns us how we might lose our vineyard…
By Tom Hoopes, October 1, 2020 This Sunday, the 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A, Jesus tells a parable so clearly intended to unsettle the Jewish leaders he is speaking to that we can forget the ways it should unsettle us, too. The key line is the last: “Therefore, I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people that will produce its fruit,” he says to h...
Dossier To Vatican alleges Cardinal Becciu covertly channeled money to Australia…
An Italian newspaper reported that Vatican prosecutors have received allegations that the funds were transferred after Cardinal George Pell returned there to face sexual abuse charges. VATICAN CITY — Vatican prosecutors are investigating allegations that Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu funneled 700,000 euro through the apostolic nunciature in Australia — an action that one Italian newspaper sugges...
Raffaelle Mincione used former Vatican fund to invest in mafia-linked bond managed by Torzi company…
Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Oct 1, 2020 / 01:00 pm MT (CNA).- An investment fund created for the Holy See Secretariat of State to invest Church assets was used to purchase millions in a bond of debt products issued by companies, some with alleged mafia links. Both the investment fund and the bond, which packaged hospital receivables into a debt security, were managed by companies belonging to two b...
The mystical life of our guardian angels, as revealed by the saints…
How often do you call on your Guardian Angel? The Catholic Church teaches that God assigns every person with at least one Guardian Angel. Several saints, including St. Padre Pio, St. Gemma Galgani, and St. Faustina had mystical encounters with their guardian angels. Don’t forget to call on your guardian angel! He hears you and guides you at all moments! Here’s 10 saint quotes about the powerful an...
The world’s “return to normalcy” will mean parents once again becoming their kids’ first teachers…
This past March, the American education system underwent its most significant transition since World War II. As Spring came, the pandemic forced all education, public, private, lower, and higher to a temporary halt. Schools pivoted and transitioned as best they could to online, remote, and hybrid methods of education. Likewise, parents attempted to adjust to the new normal. Unlike other abnormalit...
Guardian angels and other protectors, as seen in a commercial…
Guardian Angel – Domenichino (1615) Most of us struggle with the fact that God allows bad things to happen. Why does he not intervene more often to protect us from attacks of various sorts and from events that cause sadness, setbacks, or suffering? While the answer is mysterious, the clearest response is that God allows suffering in order that some greater blessing may occur. To some degree I have...
7 suggestions to help beginning homesteaders “stick the landing”…
We have grown a wild variety of plants and animals in our stumbling attempt at farming, and have seen and talked to people coming and going in this wild world of agrarianism. I think I can safely say that I’ve made more mistakes than successes, but I’ve certainly learned a lot through them. As I’ve heard it said – failure is compost if you know what to do with it. So, with my failures and experien...
Hours before president’s coronavirus diagnosis, Trump, Biden pitch to Catholics at virtual Al Smith Dinner…
CNA Staff, Oct 2, 2020 / 09:00 am MT (CNA).- Hours before President Donald Trump announced that he had contracted the coronavirus, the president and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden offered remarks at a virtual Al Smith Dinner Thursday evening, with each making a pitch to Catholic voters. Biden emphasized his personal connection to the Catholic faith, while Trump touted his record on reli...
French soldiers tell how St. Thérèse helped and protected them (and even appeared to them) in World War I…
When France entered into World War I in 1914, Thérèse of Lisieux had yet to be officially declared Blessed. She had died in 1897, but there she was among the French troops — fighting with them, protecting their lives and renewing their faith. After all, she admired Joan of Arc. Soldiers flooded the Carmel in Lisieux with letters about their devotion to her. How she saved them. How she even appeare...
On China, Vatican and U.S. risk flawed assumptions about each other…
ROME – Over the years, I’ve occasionally been asked to give talks or write pieces about the cultural gap between the Vatican and the US. I typically choose the title, “America is from Mars, Rome is from Venus,” because it does sometimes feel like they’re just on different planets. The latest chapter in that incomprehension has been on display this week, as US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and oth...
