Editor’s note: the Oath against Bad Movies was taken by Catholics on Sunday within the Octave of the Immaculate Conception as part of the Confraternity known in America as the “Legion of Decency.” This and other similar confraternities arose after the 1920s attempt by Hollywood to impose evil images (euphemism: “p-rnography”) on the public in…
The Church, as she leads us through Advent, does so with a pedagogy at once sober and exultant, marked by a rhythm that quickens as the great mysteries draw near. From the 1st Sunday, when the Lord is announced as still distant yet surely coming, the liturgy – Mass and Office – presses forward with…
Spiritual formation of young adults who are in High School.
℣. Grant, Lord, a blessing.Benediction. May God the Father Omnipotent, be to us merciful and clement.℟. Amen. Reading 4Lucy was a maiden of Syracuse, the daughter of a noble Christian family. Her mother Eutychia, being afflicted with an issue of blood, went with her to Catania, to pray before the body of the blessed Agatha. Lucy, by her…
Today is the feast day of our Lady of Guadalupe, Patroness of the Americas. She holds particular significance to the Catholic Church in America, as her appearance to St. Juan Diego on Tepeyac hill in Mexico was the first Marian apparition in the New World. She is dearly beloved by Mexican Catholics, and wherever there is a Mexican…
“Viva Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe!” - final words before his martyrdom.
A Kingdom that “receives all nations under its sway."
Therefore, let him that receiveth much, strive to be all the more lowly.
"It is of no consequence that some Pontiff may have been illegitimately elected."
In the Philippines, the indult was in place since 1587.
