The opening ceremony for the 2024 Olympics took place along a 4.5-mile stretch of Paris’s Seine River as world sports delegations passed by on boats. Along the way, staged events took place on the riverbank shore, supposedly representing the spirit of France. Millions of Christians watched one scene of the televised event … Read more
To understand better the action of the homosexual movement inside the Church, we are publishing excerpts from the recently published book, The Breached Dam: The Fiducia Supplicans Surrender to the Homosexual Movement. Authors José Antonio Ureta and Julio Loredo discuss the terrible process leading up to the release of the Vatican document … Read more
Council Fathers learned the names of the twenty-four members of the Postulata Commission, appointed by Pius IX; elected the five members of the Judices Querelarum commission; and heard the reading of a new Apostolic Constitution, which regulated the election of the Supreme Pontiff if the pope should die during the works. This … Read more
Most people don’t have a problem with some of the Ten Commandments. There are atheists, for example, who will admit that one should not kill, steal or lie. Thus, posting those specific Commandments in public classrooms or buildings would pose no problem. The problems begin with the First and most important Commandment, … Read more
Pope Pius IX convoked the First Vatican Council on June 29, 1868. It opened the following year on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, December 8, 1869. During the intervening eighteen months, intellectuals, journalists, and the idly curious eagerly anticipated the upcoming Council—the first since the Council of Trent adjourned in 1563. … Read more
On June 27, 2024, the unimaginable happened. A blasphemous statue depicting Our Lady half nude giving birth to Our Lord was featured in an “art” exhibit – at a Catholic cathedral in Linz, Austria. The statue is pornographic. It mocks the purity of the Blessed Virgin Mary by exposing her intimate body … Read more
No story better exemplifies the fruit of the Jesuit’s mission to bring the Catholic faith to the New World’s natives than the conversion and heroic life of the Mohawk maiden, Kateri Tekakwitha. In 1656, deep in the leafy green wilderness where the town of Auriesville, New York, stands today, an infant girl … Read more
Pius IX summoned all the general superiors of religious orders and congregations to participate in the First Vatican Council. At the time, many said that the pope did this to ensure the participation of Dom Prosper Guéranger, Abbot of Solesmes, and Superior of the Benedictine Congregation of France. Nothing could have been … Read more
The Council of Nicaea (325) was the first council intended for the edification of the entire Christian Church. It was called by the Emperor Constantine. Its primary task was to judge the Arian heresy, which disturbed the peace of the Church in the East. The Emperor attended its sessions. He effectively assisted … Read more
There is a growing debate over the posting of the Ten Commandments in public classrooms and buildings. Many Americans feel this august collection of laws has a positive and much-needed effect on all who read them. Those opposing the Ten Commandments claim the posting somehow represents the “establishment” of religion and not … Read more