Father John Stone, of the Society of St Augustine preaches with ferver a truly magisterial discourse against the PAGAN RITUALS IN THE VATICAN GARDENS. Watch at about 20 minutes into this video

Marguerite Bays dedicated her life to the care of the family unit, to prayer, and to parish community, in simplicity. She never took religious vows. She was born on September 8th, 1815, in La Pierraz, a small village in the Swiss canton of Fribourg. Marguerite chose what was considered an unusual life for that time in history: she decided to remain a single lay woman completely dedicated to prayer and service without entering any religious community. For her entire life she remained a Third Order Franciscan. Father Carlo Calloni, a Franciscan Capuchin in Rome, is the promoter of Marguerite’s cause for sainthood. Watch the full video to discover more!

Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke says if he is elected churches could lose their tax exempt status if they do not support same-sex marriage.. Eric Metaxas, host of the Eric Metaxas Show, has analysis of this threat to religious freedom.

Early in the third century, Callistus, then a deacon, was intrusted by Pope St. Zephyrinus with the rule of the clergy, and set by him over the cemeteries of the Christians at Rome; and, at the death of Zephyrinus, Callistus, according to the Roman usage, succeeded to the Apostolic See in 217.
A decree is ascribed to him appointing the four fasts of the Ember seasons, but his name is best known in connection with the old cemetery on the Appian Way, which was enlarged and adorned by him, and is called to this day the Catacomb of St. Callistus.
During the persecution under the Emperor Severus, St. Callistus was driven to take shelter in the poor and populous quarters of the city; yet, in spite of these troubles, and of the care of the Church, he made diligent search for the body of Calipodius, one of his clergy who had suffered martyrdom shortly before, by being cast into the Tiber. When he found it he was full of joy, and buried it, with hymns of praise.
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Sublime chant from the BBC programme 'Retreat: Meditations from a Monastery'. Pluscarden Abbey is a remote Benedictine monastery on the edge of the Scottish Highlands in Moray and is home to 21 monks.

The thesis that married priests are necessary to reach so called “distant communities” reveals “engrained clericalism,” Father Martín Lasarte Topolanski, a Uruguayan on mission in Angola and participant at the Amazon Synod, writes in a text published by Sandro Magister. According to Lasarte, in the Amazon, a Church has been created where there is little or no sense of belonging. He writes, “I have the impression that we want to clericalize the laity.” And, “Our faith, as Christians, is rooted in baptism, not in priestly ordination.”
Lasarte notices that the Church of Korea was born from the evangelization of the laity. The layman Yi Seung-hun, baptized in China, spread the Church throughout the country, baptizing himself. For the first 50 years until 1835, the Korean Church was evangelized by the laity, with the occasional presence of a priest. That Catholic community flourished and spread far and wide, despite the terrible persecution.
Same in Japan. The Church there was founded by …More

From high atop the colonnades of St. Peter's in Rome, Michael Matt offers commentary on John Henry Newman's canonization which took place today (October 13, 2019) in the Vatican. Bittersweet? Of course! The process of canonization has lost a great deal of credibility over the past thirty years, as the Vatican has streamlined it and even politicized it in an apparent attempt to canonize the Revolution of Vatican II itself. John Henry Newman was a great man who wouldn't have recognized anything going on here at the Amazon Synod as Catholic. Go figure. Nevertheless, the ceremony today was dignified, included lots of Latin and plenty of beautiful and traditional Catholic sacred music. This video also includes magnificent video clips of the Vatican which the RTV team shot from the colonnades during the ceremony. As confusion reigns supreme in Rome, let's take a moment ask John Henry Newman to pray for us and for our Church in crisis and under siege. Support Remnant TV in Rome: If you're …More

"Now the great power of the Rosary lies in this, that it makes the Creed into a prayer; of course, the Creed is in some sense a prayer and a great act of homage to God; but the Rosary gives us the great truths of His life and death to meditate upon, and brings them nearer to our hearts. And so we contemplate all the great mysteries of His life and His birth in the manger; and so too the mysteries of His suffering and His glorified life. But even Christians, with all their knowledge of God, have usually more awe than love of Him, and the special virtue of the Rosary lies in the special way in which it looks at these mysteries; for with all our thoughts of Him are mingled thoughts of His Mother, and in the relations between Mother and Son we have set before us the Holy Family, the home in which God lived. Now the family is, even humanly considered, a sacred thing; how much more the family bound together by supernatural ties, and, above all, that in which God dwelt with His Blessed …More

Unite the Clans: Michael Matt on Catholicism in the time of Pope Francis
Remnant editor Michael Matt sits down with me to discuss his take on Traditional Catholicism, Pope Francis, and more! www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/unite-the-clans…