She never held office. She never ran for anything. And yet Sarah Josepha Hale is the reason your family sat down to turkey this year. In 1822, on a farm in New Hampshire, Hale became a widow at 34 with five children to raise alone. She had no income, no husband, and no real path forward in a world that didn't leave many open to women. So she picked up a pen. It was less a passion project than a survival plan. Her first novel, Northwood: A Tale of New England, gave her that path. Buried inside its pages was something unusual for a 19th-century novel: a lush, loving description of a New England Thanksgiving. The table settings. The turkey "sending forth the rich odour of its savoury stuffing." The frost of the basting on the skin. It read like a woman writing about something she genuinely missed and wanted the whole country to have. That detail mattered more than anyone could have guessed. Thanksgiving, at the time, wasn't a national holiday. It was a New England custom, rooted in 17th-…More
Completed in May 2026, the restoration of St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in O’Neill, Nebraska, revived its historic artistic character. Like many churches, its interior was disfigured in the mid-20th century, including the loss of its original apsidal fresco and installation of a monumental crucifix with a faux stained-glass-style backdrop. Conrad Schmitt Studios renewed the interior with stenciling, gold leaf, faux-marbled columns, and a new apsidal mural depicting the Ascension. The project also returned the high altar to prominence.
Before and After: St. Patrick's Catholic Church in O’Neill, Nebraska
Cardinal Walter Brandmüller, 97, in a text published by Sandro Magister on September 8, writes about “synodality.” Main points: - According to the classical Catholic understanding, a synod is a meeting of bishops for the purpose of exercising jointly their teaching and pastoral ministry. - In 1965, Paul VI created the so-called Synod of Bishops as a consultative body of the pope. - Recently established bodies whose members include, in addition to bishops, priests and lay faithful of both sexes cannot properly be called synods. - Competent laypeople can, of course, be entrusted with a consultative role. But wherever such collaboration is practiced, one should carefully avoid any misleading use of the terms “synod,” “synodality,” and the like, and instead find a term that adequately expresses the actual situation. - The establishment of such bodies arises from an effort to adopt secular structures and democratic procedures within the life of the Church. - What is being proposed within the …More
Title: The Syro-Phoenician woman's faith The persevering faith of the Syro‑Phoenician woman inspires my own life and strengthens my faith in God. She came to Jesus seeking HIS blessing, pleading for the cure of her afflicted daughter. And I too plead with Jesus for mercy upon my afflicted mother— a cancer patient for the second time. Together, my mother and I persevere in our faith, waiting upon HIS saving help. Though she endures painful, physically exhausting chemotherapy each month, yet she perseveres, keeping her faith and hope strong in God. Her steadfastness is a living witness to the strength that comes from trusting Jesus. #God#Christianlife
The Book of Truth was written by an anonymous Irish writer under the pseudonym, Maria Divine Mercy. ~ She is an anonymous, unapproved seer whose prophecies contain material that is both demonstrably FALSE & Contrary to Catholic teaching regarding the future! ~ National Catholic Register. ~
Why Did Trump Order Up 660 Million Pounds of Mystery Meat? nytimes.com/2026/09/07/opinion/trump-meat-import.… Sept. 7, 2026 CBy Eric Schlosser Eric Schlosser is the author of “Fast Food Nation.” Leer en español If you buy a T-shirt at Gap, it will have a label that tells you where it was made. That’s federal law. The same is true for automobiles, appliances, television sets, every fresh or frozen fruit and vegetable sold at the supermarket. Beef and pork are notable exceptions to these laws. And that may help to explain why President Trump signed a proclamation last month that will allow the duty-free importation of about 660 million pounds of inexpensive beef. If American consumers knew where that beef was coming from, they might not want to eat it. The cuts of meat covered by Mr. Trump’s proclamation aren’t fresh sirloins, rib-eyes and filets. They’re lean beef trimmings that will be added to fattier American cuts to make ground beef. They’re small chunks of frozen meat that could …More
Archbishop Renzo Pegoraro, President of the Pontifical Academy for Life, claims that Catholics could morally assent to a law permitting assisted suicide in Italy. Speaking to the Italian bishops’ newspaper Avvenire.it on September 6, he said: “From the Catholic side, it is a matter of assessing whether we will be faced with an ‘imperfect law’, to which it would nevertheless be moral to give one’s assent, in view of the fact that more permissive and libertarian laws could otherwise quickly be approved in Parliament, laws far more harmful to the dignity of the sick person and the value of life.” Leo XIV appointed Archbishop Pegoraro as President of the Pontifical Academy for Life on May 27, 2025. For a decade, he had already drawn attention for serious deviations from Catholic doctrine on matters of life, including statements that contraception might be morally permissible under certain circumstances. On March 25, 2026, Leo XIV appointed Pegoraro a titular bishop and gave him the personal …More
"Whereas, in Penance, the offense is atoned according to the will of the sinner, and the judgment of God against Whom the sin was committed, because in the latter case we seek not only the restoration of the equality of justice, as in vindictive justice, but also and still more the reconciliation of friendship, which is accomplished by the offender making atonement according to the will of the person offended. Accordingly the first requisite on the part of the penitent is the will to atone, and this is done by contrition; the second is that he submit to the judgment of the priest standing in God's place, and this is done in confession; and the third is that he atone according to the decision of God's minister, and this is done in satisfaction: and so contrition, confession, and satisfaction are assigned as parts of Penance." — St. Thomas Aquinas
The Greek-Orthodox Metropolis (Diocese) of Kaisariani, Vyronas and Ymittos, which covers three suburbs of Athens, announced that an icon of Our Lady is "weeping" in Vyronas. The phenomenon began on September 8, the Nativity of Mary, during a liturgy. It repeated itself the following days and attracted many people. The diocese interprets this as a “signs from God for the faithful.” #newsGxtcpuuxfr
Catholic and Christians around the World. PRAY, Please share this Important book of Truth. REVELATION'S UNFOLDING right before our very eyes... Many Souls around the world , is like wandering Sheep that is been mislead and devour of false teachings. Urgent Call from our Lord Jesus Christ to the …
Ivanka IS VERY MAD MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on his viral response to Ivanka Trump’s bizarre post flaunting her family’s lavish lifestyle, what happened after the post exploded online, and the backlash that followed from Ivanka’s supporters. Visit Meidas+ | MeidasTouch Network | Substack for more! MeidasTouch relies on SnapStream to record, watch, monitor, and clip the news. Get a FREE TRIAL of SnapStream by clicking here: Record TV with SnapStream to get clips that will … Support the MeidasTouch Network: patreon.com/meidastouch Add the MeidasTouch Podcast: The MeidasTouch Podcast Buy MeidasTouch Merch: MeidasTouch Store
Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955) The Heretic Condemned by the Doctrine Of the Vatican I Council in "Dei Filius" (1870) As Well as By Popes Pius XII and John XXIII Is Now the Inspiration for Newchurch's Latest Document Proclaiming de Chardin's Condemned Notion of Panentheism The Basis of Paganism and the Modernist Heresy Holding that there Is No Absolute Goodness, Beauty, and Truth But Everything on Earth is Relative and Subjective
Today, the Vatican announced that Leo XIV approved Archbishop Andrea Ding Yang, 44, of Chongqing, China, on 28 July and that he was consecrated a bishop today. Andrea Ding Yang, born in Chongqing in 1981, was ordained a priest in 2007 after studying at the Beijing state seminary. He was chosen unilateral by the Chinese state religion on 15 April. ChinaCatholic.cn states that he “was elected bishop-designate” on that date. Beijing’s Apparatchik He served as a formator at the National Seminary in Beijing from 2012–14, and was allowed to study at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome in 2014–15 (Opus Dei). What the biography on Vatican.va omits: Ding was deputy secretary-general of the state-recognized Chinese Bishops' Conference and vice-chairman of Chongqing's state-recognized Church. He had also been elected to the Standing Committee of the Chinese 'Patriotic Association' in 2022. Ding was selected as one of the mainland Chinese representatives invited to the 2023 Synod on …More
Standing committee of the CCPA, leading reeducation campaigns ... next will be anti-rightist campaigns and struggle sessions. Let a Hundred Flowers bloom.
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