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Inside Jokes
Cindy reports on God’s humor and a letter from a reader about that term “woman”
Akita and Fatima: Priests Must Be Nicodemus Today
Nicodemus supported Jesus, but had to hide lest the compromised clergy then make him disappear. Just as Fatima secret said of today – two popes?
BFP – The Consecration is Nice But Not What Our Lady Asks of Us Today
Was Friday’s consecration what Our Lady Asks of us today? The 2d secret of Fatima, history, and Akita, imply that we are not doing what she wants…
Deliver Us From Evil
The readings at Mass this weekend confirm that mounting difficulties, even war, around us should spur us to prayer.
Words Have Meaning
Even if you spot a clear error in the scriptures read at Mass, your Bishop does not even have the power to use a correct translation… but who does and why aren’t they?
The Most Powerful Woman
Who, in your perception, is the most powerful woman of our times? Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Michelle Obama, Susan Rice? Some world leader or newsmaking superstar of the silver screen? Their power is fleeting, it is corruptible. There is only one woman with power who holds our very souls in her hands and it is…
Mother Seton, Valiant Woman
Wife, mother, convert, founder, saint. Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton had it all, experienced it all: wealth, renown, the fullness of this life; shattering sorrows, persecution, and devastating illness.
Is Modernism Dead?
Anymore words don’t mean much in the English language. “Modernism” is a word that I think had sharp meaning a century ago, but it seems like it’s just a vague reference these days. It’s diluted partially by other uses of modernism in the world, such as the art movement of the same name. When we…
Epiphany Announced the Battle of Church and State: Pilate, King Herod, and the Slaughter of Faith
What did the Magi do that Herod’s Priests and Scribes did not? And how Epiphany starts the battle of Church and State – like abortion and Holy Communion
Christ’s love heals the world: Celebrating the Jubilee Year of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini
American Catholics finally have something to be joyful about and celebrate. This year marks the 75th Anniversary of the canonization of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, the first American citizen declared a saint by the Roman Catholic Church. It surprises and saddens me is that many American Catholics today have no idea who she is. Maria Francesca Cabrini was born in 1850 in Sant’Angelo Lodigiano in…
