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87-year-old Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg says she’s being treated for liver cancer but working ‘full steam’…
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg participates in taking a new family photo with her fellow justices at the Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., U.S., June 1, 2017. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Friday she is being treated for liver cancer but remains able to work “full steam.” The 87-year-old justice said she began a course of chemotherapy in May to treat a recurrence of cancer after a February scan revealed lesions on her liver. “Immunotherapy first essayed proved unsuccessful. The chemotherapy course, however, is yielding positive results. Satisfied that my treatment course is now clear, I am providing this information,” Ginsburg said in a statement. Ginsburg, a liberal, is the court’...
Satanic symbol painted at church in Connecticut parish where Knights of Columbus began…
St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in New Haven. (Courtesy photo. ) The New Haven parish is the most recent attack on Catholic churches who have experienced a spike in vandalism and desecration. NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A church in the New Haven, Connecticut parish at which the Knights of Columbus was founded was vandalized this week, with a satanic symbol painted on the door. Fr. Michael McGivney, who will soon be beatified, began his priestly ministry at St. Mary’s Parish in New Haven, the city’s first parish, in 1877. The priest founded the Knights of Columbus there in 1882. In 2018, nearby St. Joseph Church became part of St. Mary’s Parish during a diocesan consolidation process. Dominican Fr. John Paul Walker, the parish pastor said in a Facebook post Thursday that vandalism...
The Brown Scapular of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, explained by a Discalced Carmelite priest…
About Us The Discalced Carmelites are a Roman Catholic religious community of priests, brothers, nuns, and laity serving the Church through lives of prayer and ministry, in a fraternal setting. Our roots that go back to twelfth-century hermits on Mount Carmel in the Holy Land. The Discalced Carmelites were established by St. Teresa of Avila in 1562 and St. John of the Cross in 1568 to renew the Order’s commitment to contemplation, simplicity and community. Read More
“The People” — Sheep and Feathers…
Abstract law or the worship of a document is not sufficient for guidance of a people, nor are the paltry checks of public shame and dread enough to deter criminality. We stand a far greater chance of learning wisdom from William Shakespeare’s “Henry VI” than we do from listening to the countless talking heads and screaming rabble-rousers of today. Without a doubt, the United States in 2020 is showing to the world what a “republic” looks like when it degenerates into democracy—understood in Plato’s derogatory sense of the term. I have found my thoughts wandering to one of Western civilization’s most brilliant European white males, William Shakespeare, who has a lot to tell us about how “government of the people, by the people, for the people” actually tends to operate. It’s not a pretty pic...
Hilaire Belloc: “Yet was Her face both great and kind, for Courtesy was in Her Mind…”…
Of Courtesy, it is much less Than Courage of Heart or Holiness, Yet in my Walks it seems to me That the Grace of God is in Courtesy. On Monks I did in Storrington fall, They took me straight into their Hall; I saw Three Pictures on a wall, And Courtesy was in them all. The first the Annunciation; The second the Visitation; The third the Consolation, Of God that was Our Lady’s Son. The first was of Saint Gabriel; On Wings a-flame from Heaven he fell; And as he went upon one knee He shone with Heavenly Courtesy. Our Lady out of Nazareth rode— It was Her month of heavy load; Yet was Her face both great and kind, For Courtesy was in Her Mind. The third it was our Little Lord, Whom all the Kings in arms adored; He was so small you could not see His large inte...
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Our Lady of Mount Carmel and the brown scapular devotion of Fatima…
by Donal Anthony Foley We celebrate the feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmelon July 16, because, according to Carmelite traditions, this is the date in the year 1251 on which the Blessed Virgin originally gave the brown scapular to St. Simon Stock. This apparition took place in England, either at Cambridge or Aylesford, and came about after St. Simon, following a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, became a Carmelite friar. He had met a group of hermits on Mount Carmel who claimed to be the successors of Elijah and his followers, and after he returned to England, he was eventually elected Superior-general of the Carmelite Order. He was praying to Our Lady when he had his famous vision of her bringing the brown scapular to him with the following words, which are preserved in a 14th century narrative:...
Pope Francis names Bishop Edward Malesic of Greensburg to lead Diocese of Cleveland…
Pope Francis greets Bishop Edward Malesic at the Vatican. (Vatican Media.) Bishop Malesic, who will turn 60 in August, has led the Diocese of Greensburg since July 2015. Hannah Brockhaus/CNA. VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis Thursday named Bishop Edward C. Malesic of Greensburg, Pa, to lead the Diocese of Cleveland, Ohio. In Cleveland, he fills the vacant see left by Archbishop Nelson Perez’s appointment to the Archdiocese of Philadelphia in January. Bishop Malesic, who will turn 60 in August, has led the Diocese of Greensburg since July 2015. He holds a licentiate in canon law from the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. The Greensburg diocese was among those examined in the August 2018 Pennsylvania grand jury report, which examined seven decades of sexual abuse allegations in s...
Fertility rate: “Jaw-dropping” global crash in children being born…
Image copyright Getty Images The world is ill-prepared for the global crash in children being born which is set to have a “jaw-dropping” impact on societies, say researchers. Falling fertility rates mean nearly every country could have shrinking populations by the end of the century. And 23 nations – including Spain and Japan – are expected to see their populations halve by 2100. Countries will also age dramatically, with as many people turning 80 as there are being born. What is going on? The fertility rate – the average number of children a woman gives birth to – is falling. If the number falls below approximately 2.1, then the size of the population starts to fall. In 1950, women were having an average of 4.7 children in their lifetime. Researchers at...
Texas COVID-19 patient Michael Hickson was black and paralyzed, so doctors decided his life wasn’t worth saving…
Last month, a disabled, 46-year-old African American man was euthanized without his consent or that of his wife. But rather than exploding amid our racial-justice moment, the story hardly yielded a peep from those who control our national discourse. In 2017, Michael Hickson suffered a brain injury that left him paralyzed. Still, he was able to enjoy many activities: having books read to him, listening to music, answering trivia questions. He had memory problems, but he recalled his birthday and Social Security number with ease. Michael was leading the kind of life many people with disabilities do: not without difficulties but intrinsically valuable and dignified. Then Michael contracted COVID-19 and was admitted to St. David’s Medical Center of South Austin, Texas. A disagreement over his ...
The Atlantic’s John McWhorter: “The dehumanizing condescension of ‘White Fragility’”…
I must admit that I had not gotten around to actually reading Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility until recently. But it was time to jump in. DiAngelo is an education professor and—most prominently today—a diversity consultant who argues that whites in America must face the racist bias implanted in them by a racist society. Their resistance to acknowledging this, she maintains, constitutes a “white fragility” that they must overcome in order for meaningful progress on both interpersonal and societal racism to happen. White Fragility was published in 2018 but jumped to the top of the New York Times best-seller list amid the protests following the death of George Floyd and the ensuing national reckoning about racism. DiAngelo has convinced university administrators, corporate human-resources of...
Police seize Mincione’s phones in Vatican real estate corruption probe…
Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 15, 2020 / 09:37 am MT (CNA).- Vatican prosecutors, working with Italian authorities, have executed a search and seizure warrant against the Italian businessman Raffaele Mincione, the man responsible for the controversial investment of hundreds of millions of euros on behalf of the Holy See Secretariat of State. In a seizure carried out on Mincione Wednesday morning at an hotel in Rome, investigators seized electronic devices, including cellular phones and iPads, according to Corriere della Serra. The search and seizure was authorized by Roman magistrate Maria Teresa Gerace, following a request by the Vatican Promoter of Justice Gian Piero Milano and his deputy Alessandro Diddi. The search was carried out by Italian state police. Corriere reported that...
