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VVEDNESDAY AFTERNOON EDITION

Highlighted News, Punditry, and Analysis:The Devil, Communist China, & The Catholic Church – Interview with Steven Mosher – C4CWhy Faith Matters – H.W. Crocker, III, at The Catholic ThingLet Justice Roll Down – Mary Ann Kreitzer

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VVEDNESDAY AFTERNOON EDITION

Mystic Update Top-10:1. Why Faith Matters – H.W. Crocker, III, at The Catholic Thing2. Catholic Action in the Church – Fr. Nathaniel Dreyer at Catholic Stand3. Strategies for Spiritual Warfare – The Catholic Gentleman4. Ask Father:

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VVEDNESDAY AFTERNOON EDITION

Highlighted Political News, Punditry, and Analysis:The Devil, Communist China, & The Catholic Church – Interview with Steven Mosher – C4CWhy Faith Matters – H.W. Crocker, III, at The Catholic ThingAbortion and the American Seriousness Deficit –

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VVEDNESDAY AFTERNOON EDITION

Geopolitical Punditry and Analysis:Gaza Student Protestors Have Emboldened America’s Enemies – J.M. Brodsky at The SpectatorUkraine and a Fractured World – A. Bick, H. Brands, A. Kendall-Taylor, et al., at War on The RocksWill the West

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The Legend of St Philip the Apostle

The feast of the Apostle St Philip is traditionally kept on this day, together with St James the Younger, a custom which derives from the presence of their relics in the Roman basilica of the Twelve

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Love these multiple short notes of conversion

This week has seen several such emails and personal comments as I gave talks in several venues in Texas. People wandering through various denominations and religious groups before discovering their true home in the Catholic Church.

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My fundraiser is LIVE!

Dear Readers, If you can spare the time, please check out my experimental fundraising campaign. The link is here, and the promotional video which was released today is below. I really hope you are able to

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Strategies for Spiritual Warfare

I had to speak with Tom about his passion for spiritual warfare. His zeal was unquestioned, and his desire to fight the good fight was admirable. He had his warrior’s rosary, his prayer book, his holy water,

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Pius XI’s First Visit to the Lateran in 1933

In yesterday’s post about Saints Catherine of Siena and Francis of Assisi being made the patron Saints of Italy, I explained a bit about the state of cold war that existed between the Papacy and the

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ROME 24/4– Day 41 (0): Se vedemo & My View For Awhile

At 06:04 the sun rose over Rome.   At 20:02 the sun will sink past the horizon. The Ave Maria Bell…. poor thing… 20:30. Thank you, Lord, for this 122nd day of this year of Salvation. It

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ASK FATHER: Why do people today freak out about exorcisms?

My mention of a “minor exorcism” the other day prompted a minor flood of email questions.   Some of them deal with how people today seem to see or imagine exorcisms. I answered a question a while

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Mary’s Month of May, and Sir Nikolaus Pevsner

“The happy birds Te Deum sing,/’Tis Mary’s month of May;/ Her smile turns winter into spring,/ And darkness into day;/ And there’s a fragrance in the air,/ The bells their music make,/ And O the world

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Saint Joseph the Worker and Communism

  Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among

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Honesty is hardly ever heard

And we know why.  At least nowadays.  So the media is exploding over a book written by Krisi Noem.  In it, she describes putting one of her dogs down after it became uncontrollable.  Being in the

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Saint of the Day Quote: Saint Peregrine Laziosi

Peregrine Laziosi was born of a wealthy family at Forli, Italy, in 1260. As a youth he was active in politics as a member of the anti-papal party. During one uprising, which the Pope sent St.

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PopeWatch: Fortescue

          One of the prize books in the library of PopeWatch.  The current misunderstanding of the Pope as some sort of divine oracle is a very recent misapprehension of a very limited

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Ukraine War Analysis-April 30, 2024

From The Institute for the Study of War: Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, April 30, 2024 Nicole Wolkov, Angelica Evans, Christina Harward, Karolina Hird, Kateryna Stepanenko, and Frederick W. Kagan April 30, 2024, 7:10pm ET  Click here

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1 May: Feast of St. Jeremiah, Old Testament Prophet

Some people do not realize that many figures of the Old Testament are considered saints by the Catholic Church.  They are not celebrated on our main liturgical calendar but they are in the Roman Martyrology, which

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Snowflake Revolution

Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce. Karl MarxThis post was originally published on

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Burn of the Day

This post was originally published on this site

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Freemasonry: Review of Voice of Reason’s Lecture

I monologue on the insanity of clapping during the liturgy of the Mass, and I am reviewing a lecture given by @VoiceOfReason_ (from a Catholic perspective). The post Freemasonry: Review of Voice of Reason’s Lecture first

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Good Friday 2024 Photopost (Part 2)

Once again, we are very grateful to all those who contributed to this series, which is close to ending. Don’t forget that next week we have the Rogations and the Ascension, and we will be glad

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ONLY FOR CORNUBIPHONES: puns in Middle Cornish?

(1) In the Resurrexio Domini, the Concealed Jesus (line 1290) reassures Cleophas and the Socius on the Way that they will definitely (deffry) enter intothe clos of the one they seek. I had assumed that this

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TVESDAY AFTERNOON EDITION

Highlighted News and Punditry:Former Anglican Vicar Becomes First Bishop of UK Ordinariate – Edward Pentin Catholic News:Prosecutor Dismisses Case Against French Priest Who Said Homosexual Sex are a Sin – CWR Catholic Punditry:Religious Orders Declining Precipitously.

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