Dear Brothers Bishops in the US, I am writing to remind you of the sacred mandate you were given on the day of your episcopal ordination: to lead the flock to Christ. Meditate on Proverbs 9:10: The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom! Do not behave like frightened sheep, but as courageous shepherds. [...]
October 26, 2018, Friday "Some LGBT youths, through various contributions that were received by the General Secretariat of the Synod, wish to 'benefit from greater closeness' and experience greater care by the Church, while some BC [Note: an acronym for "Bishops Conferences"] ask themselves what to suggest 'to young people who decide to create homosexual instead [...]
October 19, 2018, Friday, #2 "On the other hand, you can choose to speak." —Italian Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, appealing in a new open letter, his "Third Testimony," released this morning in Italy, to his "brother bishops and priests who know that my statements are true and who can so testify, or who have access to [...]
October 19, 2018, Friday "On the other hand, you can choose to speak." —Italian Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, appealing in a new open letter, his "Third Testimony," released this morning in Italy, to his "brother bishops and priests who know that my statements are true and who can so testify, or who have access to documents [...]
October 15, 2018, Monday "You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and sky. Why don't you know how to interpret the present time?" —Jesus, Gospel of Luke 12:56 "O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?" —Jesus, Gospel [...]
October 11, 2018, Thursday, #2 BREAKING #2 -- Here is a background article on the Russia-Ukraine situation published by Bloomberg, the influential financial news network. And it is labeled "Opinion," so it is not "News." But this means it is important to know the background and outlook of the man writing the opinion. The piece is [...]
October 11, 2018, Thursday BREAKING -- Autocephaly Granted to the Orthodox Church in Ukraine Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople and the Holy Synod of the Greek Orthodox Church today announced the decision to grant autocephaly to the Orthodox Church in Ukraine. The decision goes against the wishes of the Russian Orthodox Church. This could lead to [...]
October 10, 2018, Wednesday “And what about man? Are you sure that the human world is a terminal point in the evolution of the cosmos? Is it not conceivable that there is still another dimension, a world beyond man’s world; a world in which the question of an ultimate meaning of human suffering would find an [...]
October 9, 2018, Tuesday “Only holiness is subversive with respect to this infernal order in which we are immersed.” —Italian Catholic scholar and writer Alessandro Gnocchi, in an interview with Italian Catholic author Aldo Maria Valli published today on Valli's blog in Italy. Valli was one of the journalists, along with Marco Tosatti, with whom Archbishop [...]
October 7, 2018, Sunday, Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, originally the Feast of Our Lady of Victory, instituted by Pope Paul V after the Battle of Lepanto on October 7, 1571 “Remember him [your Creator] before the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the [...]
