Daily Devotional: June 3, 2024 – Feria
Today is Monday, June 3, 2024, a Feria, a fourth class feast, with the liturgical color of green. The Mass is of the 2nd Sunday after Pentecost, or a votive. In this episode: the meditation, ”Spiritual Progress Part 3: The Methods,” a preview of the Sermon: “Make Holy Hours This Month,” and a Thought of the […]
Monday within the Octave of Corpus Christi
Editor’s note: to promote the observance of the traditional Corpus Christi Octave as a part of our Crusade of Eucharistic Reparation, we will publish each day the Patristic readings from the Octave, as contained in pre-55 breviaries. The following readings and responsories come from the Roman office as promulgated after Trent in 1570. V. Grant, […]
The Pope Apologizes for Using Inappropriate Vocabulary
The affair quickly made the rounds in the news and provoked reactions of reprobation, even indignation, throughout the world: Pope Francis used a pejorative term–very pejorative for some–when talking about homosexuals during a meeting with the Italian Bishops’ Conference (CEI).
Will There Be African Resistance to the October 2024 Synod? (1)
In an interview with KTO, a French Catholic news channel, on March 17, 2024, Cardinal Fridolin Ambongo Besungu, Archbishop of Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of the Congo) and President of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madigascar (SECAM), discussed the Fiducia supplicans Declaration that authorized the blessing of same-sex couples.
A Mexican Bishop Sounds the Alarm
A Mexican bishop warns of the climate of extreme violence reigning in his country on the eve of the presidential elections which are due to take place on June 2, 2024. Organized crime – mainly the drug trade – is preventing voters from going to the polls in some regions. It is a valuable warning […]
France: Rome Requests a “Fraternal Visit” to the Diocese of Bayonne
The website of the Diocese of Bayonne-Lescar-Oloron has published a press release signed by its bishop, Marc Aillet, announcing a “fraternal visit” to the diocese. Signed on May 27, 2024, the release specifies that this visit will take place in early June and early July.
The Pope Receives a Delegation From the Syro-Malabar Church
The Sovereign Pontiff met the main members of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church hierarchy as well as a delegation of lay people from the Diocese of Ernakulam-Angamaly, Kerala. It shows the particular concern of the Holy See for a Church which plays a key role in India, but which is bogged down in a decades-old liturgical […]
A Tribute to St. Pius X on the Anniversary of His Canonization
On May 29, 1954, 70 years ago, Pope Pius XII canonized Pope Pius X in front of an innumerable crowd. Everyone saw this canonization as extraordinary, since one would have to go back to 1712 – the year in which Clement XI was entered into the canon of saints under the name of Pius V, […]
The War of Words Between Israel and the Vatican
Relations between the Holy See and Israel are like the weather in May: alternating between storms and sun. The latest thunderclap to date: on May 11, 2024, during the closing ceremony for the latest edition of the World Meeting on Human Fraternity, organized by the Vatican’s Fratelli Tutti Foundation.
The Divine Blood Type: Revealed by “Coincidence” of Eucharistic Miracles?
Do we know Jesus’ blood type? An amazing “coincidence” between Eucharistic miracles and relics from the life of Jesus Christ suggests that we might. In the eighth century, a Basilian priest in Lanciano, Italy who doubted the Real Presence of Jesus in the Eucharist, was offering Mass when the Eucharist miraculously turned into natural flesh […]