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First feast of Newman since he was declared a Doctor of the Church
Declaration predicted in Littlemore EWTN interview
Meeting Fr Ian Ker, who described himself as the world’s foremost expert on Newman, is an experience I won’t easily forget. To call him blunt would be an understatement. Within minutes his anecdotes about the Church and the ways of [...]
Mother Yvonne-Aimée of Malestroit
The female Padre Pio of our times
One of the most remarkable mystics of the twentieth century is also, paradoxically, one of the least well-known: Mother Yvonne-Aimée of Malestroit (1901-1951). Her life was filled with such numerous and exceptional mystical phenomena that the Vatican in 1960 actually [...]
California ranks dismally in schools – gender idelogy, critical race theory, and more
48th out of 50 states
American students and parents face a wide variety of challenges in today’s society: gender ideology introduced for the youngest students, elements of anti-racism and critical race theory embedded into curricula and standards, union influence on teachers, foreign funding undermining learning, [...]
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Inquiring Minds
Inquiring Minds is a weekly article written by Mary Rose, who boldly ventures to college campuses throughout California to ask hard-hitting questions to some of the world’s most malleable minds.
The Father Martin-Tim Busch reconciliation dinners
First Things editor, Opus Dei vicar among the guests
In a high-rise apartment in New York City overlooking the Freedom Tower and the Statue of Liberty, Catholic thought leaders both conservative and liberal gathered to pray together and share a fine meal over a glass of Cabernet Francis — [...]
RFK, Jr. not letting up on AMA weakness toward child sex changes
If the plastic surgeons can back off, why can't other doctors?
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a letter on Oct. 14 to leading medical organizations requiring them to explain whether they continue to support sex-rejecting procedures for minors, in light of the department’s findings that the [...]
Cordileone just getting started
More of his thoughts you may not have known
Raised in San Diego in a hard-working Sicilian commercial-fishing family, Archbishop Cordileone's faith was forged in the practical, daily rhythm of hard work, family time and parish life — an upbringing that taught him that faith is “just the air [...]
Bells ring out at St. Michael’s Abbey
Public joins in Abbot Caronan celebration
When the bells at Our Lady of Assumption Catholic Church began to peal at 12:39 p.m. on June 19, St. Michael’s Abbey officially entered a new era. When again they rang at 9:50 a.m. on Monday, Sept. 28, the bells [...]
Fr. Illo ends giving sign of peace among his parishioners
That ceremony did not exist in the Church before 1970
Father Joseph Illo, pastor of Star of the Sea parish in San Francisco, gave a 17-minute homily on Sunday, October 18. Today the Gospel is about Church and State. The question is, who rules society? Is it the Church or [...]
Life Giving Wounds weekend, Menlo Park, Nov 13 – 15
Healing retreat for adults with divorced or separated parents
Vallombrosa Retreat Center, Menlo Park 7:00pm Friday – 3:30pm Sunday. This powerful healing retreat weekend invites participants with divorced or separated parents to move past their parents’ relationship to their own deepest origin and identity as God’s beloved, capable of [...]
Forget about St. Michael the Archangel?
Bishop Beckman of Knoxville asks priests to cut prayers before Mass and immediately after it
Monsignor Mark Beckman, bishop of Knoxville (Tennessee), has published a column in his diocesan newspaper titled “Saint Michael the Archangel, pray for us.” Under that heading, with the serenity of someone signing a routine document, he announces that he has [...]
Complete account of St. Francis week in San Francisco
Did papal nuncio and Cordileone open the box of relics togather?
The power of reverent liturgy to bring souls into the Presence of Christ was abundantly on display this week in San Francisco. The Knights of St. Francis, at great expense, have brought the relics of St. Francis to the Cathedral [...]
IVF pioneer says his own industry is lying
Even after six attempts only 34% of patients end up with a baby.
Sir Robert, Lord Winston, at 86, is not just an elder statesman of the science of human fertility, but may be said to be a major founder of the IVF industry: IVF being in vitro fertilisation: the creation of a [...]
