Le Forum Catholique reports: Notre-Dame de Chrétienté, the association that organizes a large pilgrimage to Chartres every year at Pentecost, has recorded a participation rate in 2023 that has never been equaled in the past. No less than 16,000 pilgrims are preparing to travel from Paris to Chartres on May 27, 28 and 29. Neither the motu proprio Traditionis...
https://youtu.be/Dcs6WPjZi0k Editor writes... Paul, a supporter of Catholic Truth from its earliest days, has been ill for quite some time now - we've asked prayers for him before. Now, however, his health has taken a very serious turn, with a diagnosis of a malignant tumour on his neck and major surgery scheduled for Monday next, 13...
Editor writes... I'm frequently asked if Archbishop Nolan of Glasgow is going to end or reduce the provision of traditional Latin Masses (TLMs) in the light of the papal document Traditionis Custodes. As yet, he has not seen the benefits of confiding in my unworthy self, but The Grapevine has it that the archbishop is meeting...
From Vatican News... ST. BERNARD, ABBOTT AND DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH A family gathered together in prayer Bernard was born in 1090 at Fontaine, in France, of a good family. When he was 22, after having studied grammar and rhetoric, he entered the monastery founded by Robert of Molesme at Citeaux (in Latin, Cistercium -- the order...
Archbishop Michel Aupetit is banning the traditional Mass from more than half of the locations where it was regularly celebrated, either on Sundays or in some cases on weekdays. Only five churches in Paris will officially be allowed to use the old Missal. Click here to read more Editor writes... This news came to me in...
Christianity exhorts its adherents to be charitable, but it is really charitable to affirm people in a belief system that tells them that hatred, contempt, and violence are blessed by the deity? The question is pertinent because recently in Nigeria and France, Catholic bishops have used the money donated by their own Catholic people to build...
Comment: There are lots of stories of miracles associated with the Miraculous Medal (hence the adjective!) but the one which follows is of special interest to me because it involves the well-known American priest, Fr John Hardon SJ, whose account of our Scottish martyr, St John Ogilvie is linked on the homepage of our website The...
As the week ahead looks set to be exciting, politically, to put it mildly, the selection of opinions in the video clip below provide food for thought... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gpqZtRD5oc Comment: As the Brexit Battle heats up, and the UK is becoming more divided by the nano-second, we learn that the long-standing desire of the EU to build its...
The Islamic State terror group has come out publicly to reject Pope Francis’ claims that the war being waged by Islamic terrorists is not religious in nature, assuring the pontiff that their sole motivation is religious and sanctioned by Allah in the Qur’an. In the most recent issue of Dabiq, the propaganda magazine of...
