Jun
16
Saint John Francis Regis — Saint of the Day
June 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment
This French saint was born in 1597. When he was eighteen, he entered the Jesuit order. In the seminary, John’s love for God and his vocation showed in the way he prayed. He was also eager to teach catechism in the parishes when he could. After he was ordained a priest, St. John Francis began […]
Jun
16
Feast of the Sacred Heart Missa Solemnis
June 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Traditional Latin Mass filmed on the Feast of the Sacred Heart in the small chapel of the International Seminary of Saint Cure d’Ars, Flavigny, France, in 1999. The seminary is the Society of Saint Pius X’s second European seminary. Typically seminarians spend their first year of spiritually there before leaving for Ecône, Switzerland, to complete […]
Jun
16
Ponticial Acts
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The Holy Father:
- Accepted the resignation from the pastoral care of the diocese of Loja,
Ecuador, presented by Bishop Hugolino Cerauolo Stacey O.F.M., upon having
reached the age limit.
- Appointed Bishop Leo Cornelio S.V.D., of Khandwa, India as archbishop of
Bhopal (area 25,000, population 3,922,000, Catholics 18,550, priests 115,
religious 572), India. The archbishop-elect was born in Kukkunje, India […]
Jun
16
Plan for Pastoral Care and evangelization in Slovakia
June 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment
(VIS) - Today in the Vatican, Benedict XVI received bishops from the Slovak Episcopal Conference, who recently completed their “ad limina” visit.
In his talk to the prelates, the Holy Father said that through them he wished to greet “the entire Slovak people, evangelized by Sts. Cyril and Methodius” and later “compelled to undergo harsh […]
Jun
16
Queen of Angels Church
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The Feast of the Immaculate Conception, December 8, 2006, marked the 30th anniversary of the first Mass celebrated by the SSPX at Queen of Angels church in Dickinson, Texas. The jubilee climaxed with a Mass celebrated by Father Gregory Post, followed by a banquet during which talks from some of the “old-timers”, and a play […]
Jun
16
USA: Separation Church and State
June 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment
The framers of the Constitution did not subscribe to such a separatist view. They were primarily concerned with preventing the establishment of a Nationalist Church. Indeed the establishment clauses did not even apply to State Governments until 1947.
In that year the Supreme Court, citing Jefferson’s wall, extended application of the clause not only with […]
Jun
16
St Bonaventure says that the wound was opened on Christ’s side so
that scripture might be fulfulled, AND so that the Church might be
formed.
So the Water and Blood that flows from the Sacred Heart, the Saint
equates with the spring in Eden that branches into four rivers,
i.e., the Living Water and River that flows through the City […]
Jun
16
The Relevant Mother Angelica
June 16, 2007 | Leave a Comment
Interview With EWTN’s Raymond Arroyo
WASHINGTON, D.C., JUNE 15, 2007 (Zenit.org).- Mother Angelica remains relevant to people because they can’t turn away from her directness, her passion and her lovable humor, says friend and biographer Raymond Arroyo.
Arroyo, director of EWTNews and host of “The World Over,” is the author and editor of two books on the […]
Jun
16
Pope Warns Slovak Bishops of Secularism
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Says It Will Destroy What Communism Couldn’t
Secularism is now affecting the patrimony of Christian values that Communism couldn’t destroy, Benedict XVI told the bishops of Slovakia.
The Pope said this today in his message to the prelates from the formerly Communist country, in Rome for their five-yearly visit.
With the fall of the Soviet Union, the Holy […]



