Jun

23

Blessed Basil Hopko

June 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Blessed Basil Hopko is considered one of the many priests and religious martyred by Communism. He was born in Slovakia to poor parents. His father died when he was a year old and his mother left for the United States when he was four in seach of work.
He remained in Europe and was an excellent […]

Jun

23

Priest Says Christians in Iraq Are Dying Out

June 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment

The Catholic News Agency reports that the procurator of the Chaldean Patriarchate before the Holy See, Father Philip Najim, warned that the terrorist attacks, kidnappings and forced conversions are making the Church in Iraq disappear, as extremists have turned Christians into “sacrificial lambs.”
“Closed churches, car bombs, forced conversions, kidnappings: in Iraq Christians are dying. The […]

Jun

23

Germany’s “Most Prestigious Literary Award” to Catholic Traditionalist

June 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Author Martin Mosebach wins the Georg Buechner Prize, Germany’s most prestigious literary award. Born in 1951, Mosebach has published novels, stories, and collections of poems, written scripts for several films, opera libretti, theatre and radio plays. 
Among his works translated into English is “The Heresy of Formlessness”. This book is a collection of essays on the […]

Jun

23

Richmond NH’s Planning Board Charged with Religious Discrimination

June 23, 2007 | 1 Comment

A lawsuit recently filed by the St. Benedict Center charges Richmond’s planning board with religious discrimination, and says the board deprived the center of its constitutional rights of freedom of religion, speech and assembly. On Friday, the conservative Roman Catholic center filed an appeal in Cheshire County Superior Court of the planning board’s May decision […]

Jun

23

Prime Minister Blair May Become Catholic

June 23, 2007 | 1 Comment

There have been reports that Tony Blair will convert from the Church of England to the Catholic faith of his wife Cherie often during Mr. Blair’s decade in office. The claims were supported by revelations that he has already discussed not only converting to Rome, but also taking a formal lay position within the Church.
Yesterday […]

Jun

23

Pope’s Address to Rome Diocesan Convention

June 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment

ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS BENEDICT XVI
TO THE PARTICIPANTS IN THE CONVENTION
OF THE DIOCESE OF ROME
Basilica of Saint John Lateran
Monday, 11 June 2007

Dear Brothers and Sisters,
For the third consecutive year our diocesan Convention gives me the possibility of meeting and speaking to you all, addressing the theme on which the Church of Rome will be focusing […]

Jun

23

Seek First Gods Kingdom

June 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Why worry about tomorrow?
It may never come my friend.
If it does God will give grace sufficient for that moment.
All that you need He will already have prepared for you.
More and more let us simply enter into the movement of today.
Each day has its own kind of liturgy ebbing and flowing from God.
Through the hours of […]

Jun

23

Blessed Innocent V

June 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Friar & Pope
Peter of Tarentaise was born in Savoy around 1224 and as a young man entered
the Order at Lyons. He was sent to study at Paris where he took the master’s
degree and was given a chair at the university. Together with Saint Thomas
Aquinas, Saint Albert the Great, and two other Dominicans he was
commissioned by […]