Editor writes... As the Feast of the Queenship of Our Lady brings the Month of Mary to a close today, feel free to share your thoughts on any relevant issues, as well as your own personal devotions to Our Lady on this thread. Post your favourite Marian hymns, prayers, poems and stories, as well. Enjoy! ...
Editor writes... Among the suggestions for ideas on how to best utilise the blog as we approach its closure in July, nobody suggested this one - an open forum for bloggers to post their thoughts on ... whatever! Still, that doesn't mean we can't have said open forum, so voila! If this one proves popular,...
Editor writes... The common theme running through various articles and videos on the subject of friendship, is the need to remove people from our lives who are not helpful - "toxic" people who are not bringing out the best in us. That sort of thing. In this, Jordan Peterson is no different from other commentators. But...
From Bank of England - The digital pound: A new form of money for households and businesses? Overview A Bank of England and HM Treasury publication The way we use money is changing. This Consultation Paper sets out our assessment of the case for a retail central bank digital currency (CBDC) – a so-called ‘digital pound’. It...
Blogger, RCA Victor (USA) writes... "...I’d like to discuss how traditional Catholics (i.e. Catholics) can speak convincingly (not to mention charitably and patiently) to “mainstream” Catholics about why the Novus Ordo is a poverty-stricken, basically anti-Catholic liturgy that should be shunned. I know we just had a topic on the “Stated Purpose of the New...
From The Fatima Center... Faithful Discharge of Our Duties of State. If we perform our duties of state with the proper intention, and of course in the state of grace, we can make fitting penance in reparation for sins. Rather than doing them in the spirit of rancour, if we accept our long days, difficulties...
Editor writes... First things first; as I promised in the May newsletter, Holy Mass will be offered for all our supporters and benefactors, as we close our apostolate. I invited Father Linus Clovis (left), to offer this Mass. In fact, he has promised to offer two novenas of Masses. The first from 1st June 2023 to...
"I was a youth in 1960, but I clearly remember waiting with anticipation in 1960 for the Fatima secret to be revealed. Interest in Fatima was very strong then, the devotion was flourishing, and my parents – like so many others – were anxiously waiting for the Pope to open the sealed letter and...
Extract from the Coronation Oath... "I, Charles, do solemnly and sincerely, in the presence of God, profess, testify, declare, that I am a faithful Protestant, that I will, according to the true intent of the enactments which secure the Protestant succession to the throne, uphold and maintain the said enactments to the best of my...
From Gloria TV... Francis is destroying the foundations of faith and morals, writes Austrian philosopher Josef Seifert, who currently teaches at Munich University, in an Open Letter to the Cardinals sent on 2 May (English text below). Seifert does not understand how all the cardinals except the Dubia cardinals simply remain silent on the problem of...
