Daily Devotional: April 5, 2024
Today is Friday, April 5th, 2024, the Friday in the Octave of Easter, a First Class Feast, with the liturgical color of white or gold. In this episode: The Meditation The Lord is risen, Indeed, A preview of Today’s Podcast: Practical Steps for Digital Safety, And a Quote from Archbishop Lefebvre The email version of […]
Practical Steps for Digital Safety: Digital Dangers #8
As we have already touched on in earlier episodes, screens and the content they deliver adversely affect the mental and emotional maturation of young people, with some content–such as pornography–inflicting lifelong damage. These dangers are considered in more detail today, with special attention paid to the responsibilities that all parents must shoulder to ensure their […]
The Final Words of 7 Catholic Saints Before They Died: “My God, I Love You!”
The experience of death is often a complex topic and sometimes generates fear, uncertainty, and anxiety. Those of us who believe in Christ know that death is a transit–a place of passage– and that Jesus with his death and resurrection opened the doors to eternal life for us. Saints face death with this certainty. His […]
The Miracle of the Bent Cross: How Our Lady of Guadalupe’s Tilma Survived an Explosion in Mexico’s Basilica
The Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City, Mexico is home to Saint Juan Diego’s tilma. According to the National Catholic Register, the Basilica is visited by more than 20 million pilgrims annually. Many miracles have been attributed to Saint Juan Diego, as this apparition is one of the most popular in the […]
Moscow: The Orthodox Patriarchate Publishes a Critique of Fiducia Supplicans
On February 20, 2024, a videoconference brought together the Synodal Biblical-Theological Commission of the Russian Orthodox Church, presided over by Metropolitan Hilarion of Budapest and Hungary. The principal item on the day’s agenda was the analysis of the Declaration Fiducia supplicans of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, published on December 18, 2023, […]
Easter Festivities Canceled for Christians of Iraq
As The Pillar reports, ”The Chaldean Catholic Church has announced the cancellation of major events and public festivities for Easter, in protest of the Iraqi government’s ongoing refusal to recognize Cardinal Louis Raphaël Sako as the legal head of the Church and the holder of its endowments and traditional legal privileges.” The high prelate has […]
Cardinal Fernández Is a Victim of Himself
The Declaration of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, Fiducia supplicans (December 18, 2023), authorizing the blessing of irregular or same-sex couples, is much more than a simple declaration. With time, we realize that its ambition is to introduce a new way of thinking and acting in all domains, well beyond irregular or […]
Scotland’s hate crime laws stem from self-loathing
Police Scotland’s ‘hate monster’ is coming to gobble up Christians, writes Ian Dunn he key difference between Scotland and Ireland can be expressed as a number: 270. That is how many more hours of sunshine you get annually in the Irish capital compared to Scotland’s largest city. While the Irish bask in being 200 miles… […]
Gender and children: why is the Government trying to suppress questions?
Young people confused about their identity should not be weaponised in an ideological war, writes Michael Kelly When ideas that people who think of themselves as socially progressive are challenged or questioned, those with a more moderate view are often accused of engaging in so-called ‘culture wars’. Even asking a question can now lead… […]
Irish missionary priest says clergy must do more in tackling scourge of child sexual abuse
Fr Shay Cullen, a Columban missionary priest in the Philippines for the last 55 years, has revealed that according to Unicef reports, seven million Filipino children are abused every year and get no help Additionally, one child in every three are victims of sexual abuse. Fr Cullen has been a longstanding advocate for children’s rights […]