British Medical Journal: Experts say Covid-19 vaccine trials oversight “grossly inadequate” – Gript

An investigation for the British Medical Journal (BMJ) says that “covid-19 vaccines and drugs were developed at “warp speed” and

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AFRICA/MALI – The Episcopal Conference: “We have no news of the fate of Fr. Hans-Joachim Lohre” – Agenzia Fides

Bamako (Agenzia Fides) – “At the moment we have no further news or contacts with the kidnappers of Fr. Hans-Joachim

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RORATE CÆLI: Happy Thanksgiving: “Either you go to church because you’re nice or you go and it makes you nice but either way it’s good.”

 From Peggy Noonan’s Thanksgiving column for The Wall Street Journal RORATE CÆLI: Happy Thanksgiving: “Either you go to church because

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Aid workers scramble to secure heat as Ukraine braces for winter | Crux

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The Theology of Thanksgiving – Crisis Magazine

When we celebrate the Thanksgiving Meal of the Eucharist, we thank God for our deliverance from the bondage of sin and

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Religion Clause: Suit Claims School’s Restroom Policy Burdens Muslim and Christian Religious Beliefs

Suit was filed this week in an Ohio federal district court challenging a school district’s rule change that allows transgender

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Today’s ✠Challoner Meditation: November 24th on the parable of the Ten Virgins, Matt xxv

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Carissimi; Today’s Mass: St John of the Cross

Carissimi; Today’s Mass: St John of the Cross

Spiritual Reading for Thursday – Twenty-fourth Week After Pentecost

We must pray with humility. St. James says: God resisteth the proud and giveth grace to the humble (Jas. iv. 6). God rejects the prayers of the proud, and does not listen to them; their pride is a wall that hinders the Lord from hearing their petitions. But, on the other hand, Ecclesiasticus says that the prayer of him that humbleth himself shall pierce the clouds … and he will not depart till the Most High behold (Ecclus. xxxv. 21). The prayer of a soul that esteems itself unworthy of being heard penetrates the Heavens, and is presented at the throne of God; and it departs not till God beholds and hears the petition.

Morning Meditation for Thursday – Twenty-fourth Week after Pentecost ~ St Alphonsus Liguori

It will be the very Paradise of the Blessed to rejoice in the joy of the Lord. Thus he who in this life rejoices in the blessedness that God enjoys, and will enjoy for all eternity, can say that even here below on earth, he enters into the joy of the Lord and begins to share in the bliss of Paradise.