04/28/2026 Entire blog as a free PDF eBook. I created a Facebook account in 2008 to stay in touch with friends. I only used it sporadically. It wasn’t until six years ago that I decided to start posting my content on this platform as well. What happened next? I described that in the article Facebook Censorship. Later, there was a false sense of relief, and Mr. Zuckerberg promised: “No more censorship!!” You can find the details here. That motto still holds true today, albeit in a slightly modified form: Never again without censorship! Less Facebook. More life. My Facebook posts were severely restricted—more specifically, their reach. Due to shadowbanning, my new posts weren’t visible to my friends until several days later, or not at all. Despite these tactics, many people still managed to find my posts this way. The statistics showed that about 1% of my readers used this method. They used it because two months ago, I was asked to take a selfie to prove that I wasn’t a crocodile. …
“Pope Francis was like a second father to me, and I still miss him deeply,” said his nurse, Massimiliano Strappetti, 56, in an interview with Corriere.it on April 19. Francis hated hospital stays and joked whenever he had to go to Gemelli Hospital: “You’ll see—the cardinals are preparing the conclave now.” “Every morning when he woke up, he would ask me, ‘Hello, who died today?’ That was just how he was,” Strappetti recalled. One day, Strappetti told Francis that he was divorced and living with another woman. The pope replied: “And what’s the problem?” He then asked: “Do they let you receive Communion? If not, tell me the names of those priests who refuse - I’ll go speak to them myself!” For Strappetti, Francis was a “surprising” pope. #newsAzcbcontal
April 29 St. Catherine of Siena. catholiconline on Mar 4, 2016. April 29 Saint Catherine of Siena Virgin(1347-1380) Catherine, the daughter of a humble Christian tradesman, was raised up to be the guide and guardian of the Church in one of the darkest periods of its history, the fourteenth century. As a child, prayer was her delight. She would say the Hail Mary on each step as she mounted the stairs, and was granted in reward a vision of Christ in glory. And He revealed to her the secrets of Christian perfection. When only seven years old she made a vow of virginity, afterwards enduring bitter persecution for refusing to marry. Her parents persisted long in their refusal to allow her to enter religious life, her only ambition; but she made a kind of spiritual and penitential convent cell in her heart's depths, and there she found her Beloved and conversed with Him each day. At the age of fifteen she was permitted to enter the Third Order of Saint Dominic, but continued to reside in …More
Tipjar: buymeacoffee.com/torresangelica Stories of Our Lady rewarding those who promote the Rosary │Audiobook - Secret of the Rosary 8th ROSE - Marvels of the Rosary The reward for those who promote the Rosary. Title: The Secret of the Rosary Author: Saint Louis de Montfort First publication: around 1710 Narrator: Angelica Torres Genre: Religious, Spiritual Growth, Spirituality, Historical Narrative Language: English Version: Unabridged, Divided by Chapters Subtitles included -------------------------------------------------- NOTE: The narration in this video is HUMAN generated. ABOUT ME: I am passionately creating and sharing my Catholic audiobooks here. If you enjoy my work, consider subscribing to my channel. You can also support me by buying the premium, ad-free versions of my audiobooks via my shop: buymeacoffee.com/torresangelica CONNECT WITH ME: Website: Angelica Torres - Cor Animae Meae Email: angelicatorres.org@gmail.com
On April 27, Bishop Emeritus Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas, commented on PillarsOfFaith.net regarding the scandalous reception of Mrs. Sarah Mullally at the Vatican. The woman bears the title and attire of the Anglican “Archbishop” of Canterbury. Monsignor Strickland managed not to mention Pope Leo XIV, even though he had received the lady as an equal “bishop.” Rather, Bishop Strickland merely reaffirmed the Catholic teaching that the priesthood is divinely instituted and that the Church has no authority to ordain women. He argued that public gestures that give the appearance of honoring someone without valid ordination in an office could confuse the faithful about the nature of the Catholic priesthood and ordination. In conclusion, he called on Catholics to respond with prayer, Eucharistic adoration, penance, and reparation for the Church. #newsTwjnhxknic
**The Aleteia article is spot-on and a helpful guide.** Your quoted text about the **green cover** accurately describes it: it's the 1997 Latin *editio typica* (typical edition), which became the official reference text with the definitive English translation and minor refinements from the earlier 1992/1994 French-based version (often tan cover). ### Key Context on Editions by Cover Color - **Tan**: Early 1990s provisional English translation (French original). Good historically, but superseded. - **Green**: 1997 official Latin-based Second Edition. This was long considered *the* standard authoritative version. Many people (including traditional-leaning Catholics) still prefer it for its "classic" status and pre-2018 wording on certain topics. - **Blue** (and some newer hardcovers/white editions): Incorporates the 2018 change to paragraph 2267 on the death penalty (now called "inadmissible" rather than allowing for rare cases). This is the most current official text. ### Thoughts on Your …More
Vatican's message is: "We welcome heretics, sodomites and public sinners, we excommunicate Catholics." And who still thinks they represent Catholic Church???
A common argument about 'recognising and resisting' the modern papal claimants is contrary to divine revelation, as taught by Vatican I, Sacred Scripture and the Church's tradition. M. J. McCusker May 27, 2025 A common argument about 'recognising and resisting' the modern papal claimants is contrary to divine revelation, as taught by Vatican I, Sacred Scripture and the Church's tradition. The primacy promised Everyone is familiar with the beautiful text of Matthew 16, in which Our Lord Jesus Christ promised to build His Church upon St Peter, as upon a rock: Simon Peter answered and said: Thou art Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus answering, said to him: Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-Jona: because flesh and blood hath not revealed it to thee, but my Father who is in heaven. And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven. And whatsoever …More
>>We will cast you out from our land in a way that history itself will remember... an echo that lingers long after the moment has passed you vile bastards.<< Marwa Osman/MidEaStream
A judge yesterday dismissed charges against 75-year-old Scottish grandmother Rose Docherty, who was arrested for offering consensual conversation in a “buffer zone”. Watch Rose’s reaction to the free speech victory, outside court yesterday
[Saint HILDEGARD OF BINGEN ~ XI-XII Century AD; Bermersheim, Holy Roman Empire/Bingen am Rhein, Holy Roman Empire, aged 81; Abbess, Polymath, Writer, Composer, Mystic, Visionary, Philosopher, Medical Writer and Practitioner, Composer of Sacred Monophony, Virgin, Founder, Doctor of the Church] “5. The Trinity (Scivias II, 2) 7. The three components of the human word Three components may be noted in the human word, just as the Trinity may be considered in the unity of the Godhead. How is this to be done? A word is composed of sound, force and breath. A word has sound in order to be heard, force in order to be understood, and breath in order to be completed. In the sound of the word consider the Father, who expresses all things by his ineffable power; in the force of the word consider the Son, marvellously engendered of the Father; in the breath of the word consider the Holy Spirit, who burns gently within them. But if the sound is not heard, then the force does not operate and the breath …More
"Three components may be noted in the human word, just as the Trinity may be considered in the unity of the Godhead. How is this to be done? A word is composed of sound, force and breath. A word has sound in order to be heard, force in order to be understood, and breath in order to be completed. In the sound of the word consider the Father, who expresses all things by his ineffable power; in the force of the word consider the Son, marvellously engendered of the Father; in the breath of the word consider the Holy Spirit, who burns gently within them."
A MIT professor gave a 1-hour lecture in 2019 that has 18 million views. He died 5 months after recording it. It was his final gift to the world. Patrick Winston taught at MIT for 50 years. The smartest engineers on earth sat in his classroom. And he spent his last lecture teaching them the one skill their degrees never covered. How to speak. 15 lessons that will change how you communicate forever: Never open with a joke. Your audience is not ready to laugh yet. Open with a promise of what they will know by the end. Your ideas are like your children. You are too close to them. What is obvious to you is invisible to everyone else. Explain the obvious. The 5-minute rule: the first 5 minutes of any talk determine whether people will listen for the next 55. Spend more time on your opening than anything else. Repeat your most important idea 3 times in 3 different ways. Once is never enough. Build a fence around your idea. Tell people what it is NOT before you tell them what it IS. Verbal …More