Monday, January 4, 2021 "For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood; but against principalities and powers, against the rulers of the world of this darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in the high places." —St. Paul, Letter to the Ephesians 6:12 "The Truth can be denied by the majority for a certain amount of [...]
Sunday, January 3, 2021 Dear friends, My heartfelt best wishes to you for a blessed, happy New Year. The central point of my own reflection in recent weeks — the days of Advent and of Christmas itself and of the final days of the 2020 "virus year," and the first hours of the year 2021 [...]
Farewell to a Father "John was, first of all, a father and a husband, a man who cared for his wife, Robin, and his children. In his work as an editor, he cared for his authors. As I wrote my book on Archbishop Viganò, he helped me at every turn. He has left us too [...]
A Meditation on the World's Coming "Great Reset" "An alleged pandemic... has been used to create a tremendous global social and economic crisis and so to legitimize the drastic reduction of the basic rights of the population. It is what its authors themselves call the Great Reset, the global reset of the economy, of society [...]
"Deepen your knowledge of Jesus. This ends loneliness, overcomes sadness and uncertainty, gives real meaning to life, curbs passions, exalts ideals, expands energies in charity, brings light into decisive choices. Let Christ be for you the Way, the Truth, and the Life." —St. Pope John Paul II (Pope from 1978 to 2005) December 1, 2020 [...]
From the Early Church Fathers, on Advent "Ignatius, also called Theophorus, to the Church at Ephesus in Asia... predestined from eternity for a glory that is lasting and unchanging, united and chosen through true suffering by the will of the Father in Jesus Christ our God." —Ignatius of Antioch, Letter to the Ephesians 1, A.D. 110 "Christians [...]
"Whilst in Rome before the 2005 papal conclave, the cardinals who were members of the Saint Gallen Group sent their host Ivo Fürer a card saying: 'We are here together in the spirit of Saint Gallen,' and before the conclave they came together for a talk over dinner. According to an anonymous cardinal's excerpts from whose diary were published [...]
November 11, 2020 — Armistice Day and Feast Day of St. Martin of Tours (Armistice Day commemorates the end of the terrible "First World War" in 1918 — a bitter struggle which gave a spiritual and psychological shock to all of Western civilization, which found itself after 1918 unable to fully process the intense evil [...]
The McCarrick Report Is Published: Four "Scapegoats"? Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. And harder to script. What we confront today is a long-awaited “McCarrick Report” which was expected to bring clarity and so healing to the scandal of the former American cardinal, Theodore McCarrick, who betrayed the trust the Church placed in him by [...]
No Clarity As I write on November 5 at 5 p.m., the final result of the US presidential election remains in doubt. Almost two full days have passed since the closing of the polls on November 3. Millions do believe it is "clear" now that Democratic Party candidate Joe Biden has in fact defeated incumbent [...]
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