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Open Discussion: Your Thoughts on International, National, Church News, Interests… Whatever!

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,...

Duty of State Vs Religious Obligations – Clash?

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...

Closure of the Catholic Truth Blog…

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...

Feast of Our Lady of Fatima – 13 May …

"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...

King Charles III, “in the Presence of God”, Professes Himself to be “A Faithful Protestant”…Prayers!

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...

Latin Mass Provision in Glasgow Reduced…Again. Are We Really Going to Roll Over & Accept This?

Editor writes... News started to come through to me earlier this evening that Archbishop Nolan has further reduced the TLMs in Glasgow, by suppressing the Mass in the Immaculate Heart of Mary parish in Balornock.  I asked around to see if it really was "news" or simply rumours.  Sources, Sources, Sources, was the theme of...

Wake Up to Wokery – It’s EVERYWHERE!

From The Remnant Newspaper... Woke Pope, Woke Disney, Woke Beer, Woke World: WHEN DO WE WAKE UP? ... And now the “good guys” are telling us that if we want to win political elections in the future, we must dial back the Pro-Life thing. If Donald Trump wants to win in 2024, he must endorse “gay...

Critics Accuse Vatican of “Appeasing Wokeism”, Ignoring Anti-Christian Atrocities by Muslims

From Raymond Ibrahim According to a recent report, The Vatican has abrogated three papal bulls, claiming that the documents are offensive to indigenous peoples and “have never been considered expressions of the Catholic faith.” The bulls Dum Diversas (1452), Romanus Pontifex (1455) and Inter Caetera (1493) contain the basis for the “doctrine of discovery,” which “is not part of the teaching of the Catholic...

Should “Multi-Faith” Religious Leaders Actively Participate in the Coronation of King Charles III?

Editor writes... If you have an opinion on anything said in the above TV debate, feel free to share your thoughts in the comments below.

Battling Wokeness: Are Most People Cowards?

From TCW - Defending Freedom... MATTHEW Goodwin has a new book out, Values, Voice and Virtue: The New British Politics, in which he describes the growing divide between the ruling elite and everyone else. Goodwin explained in the Sun, ‘Whereas that old elite had been defined by its extreme wealth, its inherited titles and its country estates, the members...