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LENTCAzT 2020: 35 – Tuesday in the 5th Week of Lent – Passiontide: Don’t step ahead of Providence!
Today is Tuesday in the 5th Week of Lent – Passiontide. The Roman Station is Santa Maria in Via Lata. I am excited to read today from the new English translation of Fr. Patrick Troadec, SSPX, work Toward Easter. I … Continue reading
Posted in LENTCAzT, PODCAzT
Tagged LENT, LENTCAzT, martyrdom, Patrick Troadec, podcast, PODCAzT, suffering
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ASK FATHER: If a priest keeps hearing confessions, contracts Coronovirus and dies, is he a martyr?
From a reader… QUAERITUR: Father, if a priest catches China Flu while hearing confession and dies of it, is he not a martyr? Why the fuss; mask up, disinfect, wash hands, hear confession. If my priest believes what the Church … Continue reading
Miracles attributed to intercession of Francisco and Jacinta of Fatima
This is from today’s Bolletino: Promulgation of Decrees of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, 23.03.2017 The Holy Father Francis received in audience this morning His Eminence Cardinal Angelo Amato, S.D.B., prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of … Continue reading
Pope Francis speeds cause for Fr. Hamel, murdered by terrorists
A couple weeks ago I wrote that I suspected that Fr. Jacques Hamel was martyred, murdered in Northern France by Islamic terrorists, and that it wouldn’t surprise me were the Pope to speed up the process. During the presser on the airplane returning … Continue reading
16th c. Samurai, martyr, advanced closer to beatification
I like this story. From CNA: This sword-wielding Samurai just moved closer to sainthood! Vatican City, Jan 23, 2016 / 04:02 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The martyrdom of a 16th-century Samurai who died for his Catholic faith was approved this week … Continue reading
St. Charles Lwanga, martyred by sexually deviant King
Today we might contemplate the various ways in which the State is encroaches in our lives and tries to force us to do things that are repugnant to nature and to God’s laws. Today is the feast day of a saint, … Continue reading
Posted in Saints: Stories & Symbols
Tagged homosexuality, martyrdom, St. Charles Lwanga, Uganda
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Did ISIS behead a priest in Mosul?
I am not sure if this is true or not. That said…. From ABNA24.com: ISIS Beheads Iraqi Priest in Mosul According to locals and eye witnesses, ISIS beheads an Iraqi priest who captured him 7 month ago. Local says ISIS militants … Continue reading
The motive of the murder of Fr. Walker and assault on Fr. Terra
In one story about the arrest of the man suspected as the murderer of Fr. Kenneth Walker in Phoenix, I read this: PHOENIX (CBS5) – The person who brutally attacked two Phoenix priests might have a lot of anger toward … Continue reading
Posted in Modern Martyrs, Our Catholic Identity, Priests and Priesthood, The Drill
Tagged Fr. Kenneth Walker, martyrdom
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On fear of the priest
Over at Vultus Christi, which I check every day, dom Mark posted a disturbing quote from St. John Chrysostom’s On the priesthood: All men are ready to pass judgment on the priest as if he was not a being clothed … Continue reading
Global Islamic War on Christians
I have been spot reading in John Allen’s new book, The Global War on Christians: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Anti-Christian Persecution. Along the same line, I saw this at CNS: Sen. Paul: ‘Worldwide War on Christians is Being Waged … Continue reading
SYRIA: Bombs in confessionals
I am catching up on the news. To my horror I saw a story at Vatican Insider, to my knowledge only in Italian at this point, wherein the the Syrian Melkite Greek Catholic Patrairch, Gregorios III, revealed during a visit to … Continue reading
QUAERITUR: Do martyrs killed in the state of mortal sin go to Heaven?
From a reader: I know that the Church teaches that people that die in a state of mortal sin cannot go to Heaven. However, can martyrs killed in a state of mortal sin still go to Heaven? Excellent question, and … Continue reading
Posted in "How To..." - Practical Notes, ASK FATHER Question Box, GO TO CONFESSION, Modern Martyrs, New Evangelization, Our Catholic Identity, Saints: Stories & Symbols, The future and our choices, The Last Acceptable Prejudice
Tagged causes of saints, heroic virtue, martyrdom, mortal sin, Tertullian, virtue
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Mary Stachowicz – murdered by “gay” man – a Martyr for the Faith, says Bp. Paprocki
Preambles: Homosexuals often commit the most physically brutal crimes that the police see. [UPDATE: Some people in the tweetosphere are having a spittle-flecked nutty about the sentence I wrote, above. At least I think that is why there is a … Continue reading
Catholic priest beheaded by practitioners of the ‘religion of peace’? So it seems, yes.
Just in case you were tempted to FORGET… From The Blaze (not the only source… there are videos…: CATHOLIC PRIEST ALLEGEDLY BEHEADED IN SYRIA BY AL-QAEDA-LINKED REBELS AS MEN AND CHILDREN TAKE PICTURES AND CHEER Syrian Catholic priest Francois Murad … Continue reading
Posted in Our Catholic Identity, The future and our choices
Tagged Fr Franҫois Mourad, Islam, martyrdom, Syria, The Religion of Peace
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Martyrdom and you.
Over at the National Catholic Register, Matthew Archbold has this sobering observation: Preparing my Children for Martyrdom I was looking at my children in Mass yesterday and a horrifying thought occurred to me. If I do my job well as … Continue reading
