Bishops in Belgium Defy Vatican, Publish Ceremony for Blessing Same-Sex Unions| National Catholic Register
The Vatican published an official clarification in March 2021 that the Catholic Church does not have the power to give
Day: September 20, 2022
Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: September 20th
Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation
Royal flags stay at half mast as King and family start final week of mourning
King Charles III has declared the royal family will observe mourning for another seven days, as they won’t carry out
Carissimi: Today’s Mass; St. Eustace & Companions, Martyrs
Carissimi: Today’s Mass; St Eustace & Companions, Martyrs
Spiritual Reading for Tuesday – Fifteenth Week After Pentecost
St. James exhorts us to treat the body and its lusts as we would treat a horse. We put a bridle in the mouth of a horse, and we bring him wherever we please. We put bits in the mouths of horses, that they may obey us, and we turn about their whole body (James iii. 3). Hence, as soon as we feel the cravings of any bad passion, we must restrain it with the bridle of reason; for, if we yield to its demands, it will bring us down to the level of brute animals that obey not the dictates of reason but the impulse of their appetites.
Morning Meditation for Tuesday – Fifteenth Week after Pentecost ~ St Alphonsus Liguori
A dying man may appear to have true and sincere sorrow for the wickedness of his past life. But is his sorrow true sorrow? The wailings of many careless Christians on their death bed do not proceed from sorrow but from fear. As St. Augustine says; They are not afraid of sin but of burning.
Nicaraguan dictatorship prohibits procession for St. Michael the Archangel and St. Jerome – Catholic World Report
The dictatorship of President Daniel Ortega and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, in Nicaragua has prohibited the upcoming processions
US Synod Synthesis Shows ‘Desire for Greater Communion’| National Catholic Register
The Latin Rite synthesis noted several themes: enduring wounds; enhancing communion and participation in the life of the Church; ongoing
Vatican Council II: The ‘supermarket of religion’ – AKA Catholic
Catholic social media was all abuzz last week with reaction to the latest production of the Bergoglian Road Show, namely, the Diabolic Journey of His Humbleness to
Covid delays Cardinal Zen’s Hong Kong trial
According to sources close to the case, Cardinal Zen’s trial has been delayed after a positive Covid-19 test for a