[Direct link to the MP3 file — Subscribe using a modern podcast app] In this sermon Father discusses the Immaculate Conception, explaining how Blessed Duns Scotus resolved theological difficulties by arguing that it was fitting for God to preserve His mother from original sin, a doctrine later defined as dogma by Pope Pius 9th. Mary is the “woman” of Genesis who crushes the serpent’s head, and as the “mold of God,” she serves as the perfect mediator to help the faithful be transformed into Christ. We need to practice total consecration to the Immaculate, imitating her virtues and relying on her intercession as it is the surest path to salvation and victory in spiritual warfare. Key quotes from this sermon: St. Augustine: “Mary was the only one who merited to be called the mother and spouse of God.” St. Augustine: “For sin never had any entry into the soul of the Blessed Virgin.” St. Bernard of Clairvaux: “Thou alone was found worthy to be chosen as the one in whose virginal womb …
By J.B. Shurk European civilization is dying. The Trump administration’s new National Security Strategy makes this clear. It has squandered its post-WWII economic and military assistance from the United States by investing in centralized, socialist bureaucracies and expansive welfare States. By chasing the “climate change” con as a means for European governments to justify total control over the drivers of economic growth, European nations have forsaken cheap energy exploration, private entrepreneurship, and technological innovation. By depending upon the United States to defend its territorial interests, European nations have destroyed their military capabilities. In an effort to “juice” their economies with cheap labor and artificial demographic growth, European nations have opened their borders to tens of millions of foreign immigrants. The natural result is that foreign cultures have steadily eroded and replaced millennia-old European cultures without much resistance. The Trump …
7. December 2025 7. December 2025 12/07/2025 Entire blog as a free PDF eBook. British TV personality Piers Morgan has sincerely apologized to Novak Djokovic. Because Djokovic refused to be vaccinated against Covid, Morgan called the tennis star a “liar” and a “cheater.” Three years later, he apologizes. At a time when tennis players and other athletes were buying vaccination certificates, the greatest active tennis player remained openly unvaccinated. Novak Djokovic faced media scrutiny and suspension from competition, but maintained his perfectly logical stance: he didn’t need a Covid vaccination. Quote from Friday’s article on tkp.at: Apology of the Year.Source. Novak Djokovic is not only the best tennis player in the world, he is also a man who did not give in to the pressure and preferred to forgo the championship rather than have an experimental gene-editing agent injected into him. Novak Djokovic is from Serbia. As a twelve-year-old, he experienced the full harshness of Western …
Defenders Of Faith In Word And Deed, Maryknoll Martyrs: Ford & Walsh, Catholic Series. James E. Walsh joined the Catholic Foreign Missionaries of America, also known as the Maryknoll Missionaries. Walsh, along with Fr. Francis Ford were missionaries to China. When the communists took over, these Maryknoll Bishops refused to leave. They were both imprisoned as spies and tortured. They are known as the Martyr Bishops of Maryknoll. This series seeks to examine Catholics who have defended the faith in word and deed by their wet martyrdom, (the shedding of blood) and dry martyrdom, (exclusion or banishment, persecution, imprisonment.) It is hoped that Catholics who view these programs will be strengthened in the Faith they profess by looking more closely at the lives of these who have sacrificed all in it’s defense. Francis Xavier Ford, M.M., was an American bishop of the Catholic Church and a Maryknoll missionary in China. Because of his torture by the Communist Chinese and death in prison …More
Defenders Of Faith In Word And Deed, Maryknoll Martyrs: Ford & Walsh, Catholic Series. ClassicCatholicAudiobooks on Oct 31, 2017 In 1912 James E. Walsh joined the Catholic Foreign Missionaries of America, also known as the Maryknolls. Walsh, along with Fr. Francis Ford were missionaries to China. When the communists took over, these Maryknoll Bishops refused to leave. They were both imprisoned as spies and tortured. They are known as the Martyr Bishops of Maryknoll. This series seeks to examine Catholics who have defended the faith in word and deed by their wet martyrdom, (the shedding of blood) and dry martyrdom, (exclusion or banishment, persecution, imprisonment.) It is hoped that Catholics who view these programs will be strengthened in the Faith they profess by looking more closely at the lives of these who have sacrificed all in it’s defense. Francis Xavier Ford, M.M., was an American bishop of the Catholic Church and a Maryknoll missionary in China. Because of his torture by the …More
Group portrait of Maryknoll Fathers Walsh and Ford with Bishop Gauthier, China, ca. 1918-1938 Colorized lantern slide of Maryknoll Fathers James E. Walsh, second from left, and Francis X. Ford, third from left, with Bishop Auguste Gauthier (1868-1927). A large pile of woven baskets provides a backdrop. James Edward Walsh - Wikipedia
By TFP LA “Why Liberalism and Socialism Hate the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception so Much.” was the topic of the latest Ladies Talk and Tea. It was held in Lafayette, the heart of Acadiana. A short answer is to be found in the affirmation that of all creatures, only Mary (and naturally her Divine Son Jesus) was conceived without the stain of original sin. This makes her unequal to the rest of the human race. It places her in a unique, privileged place in God’s Creation and Divine Plan. For the liberal who believes that the individual is without the effects of original sin, or the socialist who believes the masses are, this anti-egalitarian act of God inspires not admiration but hatred. And this applies to Catholics influenced either by the liberalism of the French Revolution or the socialism of the Russian Revolution. Our country was consecrated to Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception on May 13, 1846. That was years before Blessed Pius IX proclaimed the dogma as a truth of the …
In a hard-hitting interview with Dr. Thomas Ward, President of the John Paul II Academy for Human Life and the Family (JAHLF), renowned German Catholic sociologist and author Gabriele Kuby denounced the German bishops’ conference’s recent document endorsing the “diversity of sexual identities” in Catholic schools. In the interview, published in the latest issue of The Academy Review, Kuby called the document the latest and most alarming manifestation of the German hierarchy’s decades-long rebellion against the Church’s teaching on sexual morality. The document itself, called “Created, Redeemed, and Loved: Visibility and Recognition of the Diversity of Sexual Identities in the School,” was published on 30 October 2025 by the German bishops’ conference under Archbishop Georg Bätsing. It declares that “the diversity of sexual identities is a fact” and it instructs Catholic schools to accept pupils’ self-identification as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, or non …
As a follow-up to the article, “Did Early Christians Believe in the Assumption?,” a similar question is asked in regards to Our Lady’s Immaculate Conception. The Immaculate Conception is a dogma of the Faith, stating that the Blessed Virgin Mary was conceived sinless in the womb of Her mother, Saint Anne. While this truth has been believed since the early times of the Church, it was not until December 8, 1854 that Pope Pius IX dogmatically decreed this truth. Thus ended the possibility of any faithful Catholic even slightly doubting this truth. All Catholics are required to believe in this dogma ‘firmly and constantly’ without exception. The decree of Pope Pius IX in Ineffabilis Deus reads in part: “We declare, pronounce, and define that the doctrine which holds that the most Blessed Virgin Mary, in the first instance of Her conception, by a singular grace and privilege granted by Almighty God, in view of the merits of Jesus Christ, the Savior of the human race, was preserved free …
IF SCIENCE STILL CANNOT EXPLAIN, THERE ARE ONLY TWO OPTIONS: TO BELIEVE OR NOT TO BELIEVE Saint Bernardette Soubirous of Lourdes died in 1879 at the age of 35. Her body was excavated due to the process of canonization and to the surprise of doctors and examiners alike, her body was completely intact. Her teeth and nails were found incorrupt and perhaps equally compelling was the fact that the Rosary in her hands was still wet so many years after her death. Bernardette still has liquid blood flowing through her body. If she were alive today she would be 181 years old
2nd Sunday of Advent – A - Second Reading - Romans 15:4–9 - Christ saves everyone Letter to the Romans 15,4-9. Brothers and sisters: Whatever was written previously was written for our instruction, that by endurance and by the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope. May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to think in harmony with one another, in keeping with Christ Jesus, that with one accord you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Welcome one another, then, as Christ welcomed you, for the glory of God. For I say that Christ became a minister of the circumcised to show God's truthfulness, to confirm the promises to the patriarchs, but so that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written: "Therefore, I will praise you among the Gentiles and sing praises to your name." Denice May
The police, including ICE agents have a right to defend themselves from the ungodly mobs that attack them. All those protestors need to be arrested and given huge fines. Funny thing is most of these mobsters are RENT A MOB as their faces appear in various cities across the USA.
Bishop Strickland To The Faithful: Holding the Nicaean Line Bishop Strickland denounces Prevost's heretic document on the Council of Nicaea, which rejects the deposit of Faith under the pretext of seeking unity without conversion and treats the Church as if it were an institution of human invention where Truth is subject to revision and willing to compromise on faith in order to coexist with the world. Holding the Nicaean Line - Pillars of Faith
PART 3 - THE REIGN OF THE ANTI-CHRIST I have not written a chronology of events, nor details because writing those things would be a lot and the chronology would have to be written with details as to the kind of markers I mentioned in my previous shares. I believe this is the last part I will share, I will try to summarize this dream and skip details not to make it too long. The reign of the Anti-Christ looked like a big beautiful white castle with kings blue painted domes. It was the most beautiful sight you could imagine. The castle was on a hillock. There were 7 streams that connected to it, the water run towards its center like defying gravity. At first glance the water looked very pure and crystalline like, but when I looked at it closely I could see a sediment of impurities, people from all over the world were walking on pilgrimages towards the castle and they were drinking from the waters of the streams. I warned some of the pilgrims on the side of the stream I was on not to drink …More