John B. Manos

Magazine – Vatican II: Cause for Hope

Make a New Year’s resolution that counts!   Get this last issue of the Bellarmine Forum Magazine’s Vatican II volume — packed with punches against those who would misconstrue Vatican II! You’ll be a prize fighter for Mother Church in no time!  The Council: A Distant Memory… So much has been lost. For some, the Second Vatican…

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Pope Francis’s 44th Anniversary

Pope Francis was ordained on 13 December 1969. Even though there is a lot of talk about today being the third Friday the 13th this year (2013), it marks his 44th anniversary as a priest, and his ninth month as Pope – recall he became Pope on 13 March 2013. Ad multos annos!

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Pope Francis: no disposable people

Thank God! I love this quote as it is nearly verbatim what I’ve said for years now! Human beings are themselves considered consumer goods to be used and then discarded. We have created a “disposable” culture which is now spreading. He’s right! He continues: It is no longer simply about exploitation and oppression, but something…

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Pope Paul VI Addresses JFK Assassination on TV

Pope Paul VI gave audience to American TV crews to give this address in response to the news that John F Keenedy had been shot and killed, “We are deeply bereaved by the tragic and sad news of the assassination of the President of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy. and the grave wounding of…

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Greece Slams Turkey’s Attempts to make Hagia Sophia into a Mosque.

The Hagia Sophia is the crown jewel of Byzantium. Emperor Justinian, upon entering it and beholding the finished Church is said to have exclaimed, “I have outdone thee, Solomon!” Today, the Church is a museum, but recent years saw some tolerance (any leeway seems to have been caused by the pressure of Pope Benedict) by…

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Today’s Exorcism Might stop the March to Fantasyland

The news is reporting that Illinois Governor Pat Quinn intends to sign the so-called Gay Marriage Bill into state law today. As we reported here, Bishop Paprocki is ready to exorcise his diocese in reparation for this legislative stroll into fantasyland. The Chicago Tribune, revealing an entirely materialist bent, leads with a headline that this…

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Melkite Nun: Syria is torn apart by foreign interests

Mother Agnes Miriam, who we’ve reported on here in the past is touring the United States discussing the atrocities in Syria. Most importantly, she’s explaining that the so-called “civil war” did not come from within as our news would have us believe. Local TV in Lincoln, NE covered her talk there. They report: To her,…

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Pope Continues to Teach against Authoritarianism

Thanks be to God for Pope Francis! I continue to enjoy his homilies and he often has articulations of concepts that have irked me for a while. He said in his homily today (asianews.it): God save us from the “hegemonic uniformity ” of the “one line of thought” Amen. For too long I’ve been irritated about the…

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Bishop Paprocki is Stealing their happiness? !

You’ve seen the headlines by now:  Bishop Paprocki of Springfield diocese is going to perform an exorcism at the same time as the Governor Pat Quinn of Illinois signs a bill into law that enacts so-call marriages between persons of the same sex (as if that were possible anywhere in God’s creation). The story is…

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How the Local Greeks Commented on the Weeping Icon

I have not found or heard further news on the Icon of St. Michael that had been weeping in Greece. I have found a few comments from Greeks there about the weeping icon. Said the priest at the Church home to the icon:  “it is a message for all of us that we must be…

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