Khashoggi was long time Washington Post columnist known for his criticism of the Saudi kingdom. He was assassinated and dismembered at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul on October 2, 2018, after going there to get paperwork for his upcoming marriage. But according to veteran reporter Bob Woodward, Trump once bragged about protecting Salman from Congressional scrutiny after the killing, which Trump’s own CIA pinned on the crown prince. “I saved his ass,” Trump is quoted as saying in Woodward’s book, Rage. “I was able to get Congress to leave him alone. I was able to get them to stop.” The Saudi royal, however, has repeatedly denied wrongdoing and told reporters on Tuesday: “We did all the right steps in terms of investigation, etc. in Saudi Arabia and we’ve improved our system to be sure that nothing happened like that.” Trump was also forced to defend his family’s business interests in Saudi Arabia, insisting he had no conflicts of interest as president because he had “nothing to …More
By Emily Mangiaracina A 25-year period of ‘peace among men’ indicated in the La Salette prophecy has come to pass, contrary to common belief, meaning we're likely closer to the Antichrist than many think. How close is the Antichrist? If you’re a Christian, you probably don’t think he’s very far off, as in hundreds of years away. Many think he is coming in our lifetime. But if you’re a Catholic familiar with the prophecy of Our Lady of La Salette, there’s a good chance you don’t think he’s imminent — because we haven’t yet had the 25 years of “peace” and “plentiful harvests.” Or have we? The opinion that we haven’t lived through those 25 years was recently shared by exorcist Father Chad Ripperger, a gem of the Church and a wealth of spiritual knowledge. Admittedly, when I heard he said this, I was perplexed. He is among the best and brightest of the Church. But the Christian faith of the world is so abysmal right now (U.S. faith levels have dropped to the lowest on record), and …More
Reasonable interpretation. But the conclusion is bullet proof: "We should without delay make it a top priority to live in a state of grace, and grow as close to God as possible in prayer and in our moral life. We must fervently pray for those not living in a state of grace, and for priests at risk of succumbing to the religious deception of the Antichrist. We must frequent the sacraments often, and call upon the intercession of our good Mother, Mediatrix of all Grace."
The Winter Travel Issue For Some Nuns, Baking Is an Act of Devotion In convents across Spain, the tradition of selling sweets is alive and well. nytimes.com/…25/11/10/t-magazine/nuns-convent- … Leer en español ON A RECENT morning in Seville, Spain, a city crowded with churches and ceramic tiles depicting the Passion of Christ and the suffering of saints, some visitors slipped into a 14th-century convent and gathered in the shady corner of a courtyard. One rang a bell by a wooden turnstile built into the wall and called out, “Hail Mary, most pure!” “Conceived without sin,” responded a disembodied voice from the other side. What seemed like the start of a prayer was instead the beginning of a pastry order. Patrons at the Convent of Santa Inés asked the cloistered nun for Santa Inés cookies, a lighter, sugar-sprinkled version of shortbread; magdalenas (golden muffins); and other treats from the convent’s ovens. They put down their euros. The turnstile spun, the money vanished and clear …More
Feast Day: November 20 Blessed Maria Fortunata Viti, O.S.B. (born Anna Felicia Viti; 10 February 1827 – 20 November 1922) was an Italian Benedictine nun who has been beatified by the Roman Catholic Church. Anna Felicia Viti was born in Veroli, a comune in Italy's Province of Frosinone, on 10 February 1827.[2] Her father was Luigi Viti, a landowner who was a gambling addict and a heavy drinker,[ and her mother Anna, née Bono, died when Maria was fourteen years old. The third eldest of nine children, Maria was saddled with the responsibility of raising the other children upon the death of her mother. In order to support her family, she worked as a housekeeper. Her father's alcoholism grew worse, and so Maria's employment constituted the majority of the family's income. For a while, she was wooed by a young man from Alatri, but she decided to enter religious life instead. An English engraving of a Benedictine nun: Sr. Maria Fortunata lived as a nun for more than seventy years. Maria joined …More
"Lo! this is a fruit of hell, which grows from their unbelief; and therewith shall unbelief be nourished even in death. For, when the time has come and their nature is weighed down with bitter woe and the sorrow of death, then they are filled with images and unrest and inward fear; and they lose their vacant introversion in quietude, and fall into such despair that none can console them, and they die like mad dogs."
[BLESSED JAN VAN RUYSBROEK – XIII-XIV Century AD; Ruisbroek, Holy Roman Empire/ Groenendael, Holy Roman Empire; Mystic, Spiritual Writer, Doctor Divinus Ecstaticus] Chapter IV - OF THE MEN WHO PRACTISE A FALSE VACANCY “BEHOLD, such folk, by means of a onefold simplification and a natural tendency, are turned in upon the bareness of their own being; and therefore they think eternal life is and shall be nought else but an enduring state of beatitude, without distinction in order in holiness or in reward. Yea, all such are so deep in error that they say that the Persons shall pass away into the Godhead, and that nought else shall remain in eternity than the essential substance of the Godhead; and that all blessed spirits shall be so simply absorbed with God in the Essential Blessedness that nothing shall remain beside it, neither willing nor working, nor the discerning knowledge of any creature whatsoever. Behold, these men have gone astray into the vacant and blind simplicity of their …More