“Lebanon now is suffering.” —Pope Francis on the papal plane on November 6, 2022, as he returned from his November 3-6 trip to Bahrain (link) “Dear Lebanese friends, I greatly desire to visit you and I continue to pray for you, so that Lebanon will once more be a message of peace and fraternity for [...]
“And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.” —Jesus, Gospel of Mark 3:25 "To believe in Christ means to desire unity; to desire unity means to desire the Church; to desire the Church means to desire the communion of grace which corresponds to the Father's plan from all eternity. Such is [...]
“And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.” —Jesus, Gospel of Mark 3:25 “In what is necessary, unity; in what is not necessary, liberty, and in all things, charity.” —Saint Augustine Letter #161, 2021: Giving Tuesday #2, November 30 Dear friend, Greetings! In 1986, I found myself in Rome working on [...]
"At the centre of the human heart is the longing for an absolute good, a longing which is always there and never appeased by any object in this world." —French philosopher Simone Weil (1909-1943) "Deepen your knowledge of Jesus. This ends loneliness, overcomes sadness and uncertainty, gives real meaning to life..." —St. Pope John Paul [...]
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) May 4, [...]
“Do not be ashamed to enter again into the Church... These are two things: sin and repentance. Sin is a wound; repentance is a medicine. Just as there are for the body wounds and medicines, so for the soul are sins and repentance. However, sin has the shame and repentance possesses the courage.” —St. John [...]
