Saint Francis of Sales, the bishop of Geneva, while on a journey during Lent, went to a church that was attached to the monastery of Capuchin friars. He arrived at sermon time; the preacher had taken ostentation in dress as his sermon’s theme and was inveighing vehemently against prelates and ecclesiastical dignitaries who, instead of...
In a surprising new study, NASA satellite telemetry indicates that an increase in Antarctic snow accumulation is currently adding enough ice to the continent to outweigh the losses from its thinning glaciers. No doubt this data will not sit well with climate alarmists who claim that anthropogenic global warming is destroying the polar ice caps....
The year is closing and it is time to glance back at everything that happened during 2015. We can say that we are in the midst of generalised chaos that has grown a lot during this time not just in our country but also throughout the whole world. In this moment, seemingly so void of...
This is the story of a marvelous miracle that took place a few days before Christmas of 1956 in Communist-occupied Hungary. The story comes to us through a Fr Norbert, a parish priest in Budapest, who later fled to the West. Gertrude was a rabidly militant Communist who was an elementary teacher in a girls’...
Recently the Transgender Equality Network Ireland (TENI) announced that healthcare workers in Galway are the best, outside of Dublin, “when it comes to seeking training and advice on transgender issues.”1 Around the same time, at a conference, the Minister for Education, Ms Jan O’Sullivan said, “young transgender people were a particularly vulnerable group” and needed...
As on the other occasions, Lucia, Francisco and Jacinta first saw a bright light and then they saw Our Lady over the holm oak. Lucia: What does Your Grace wish of me? Our Lady: I wish to tell you that I want a chapel built here in my honour. I am the Lady of the...
The Outburst Queer Arts Festival of Belfast is promoting a blasphemous piece called “The Gospel According to Jesus Queen of Heaven.” Just the title should fill us with indignation. The piece, which already met with fury in Scotland where it made its debut, is “a revolutionary queer ritual in which bread is shared, wine is...
A crowd estimated at 20,000 observed atmospheric phenomena similar to those of the previous apparitions: the sudden cooling of the air, a dimming of the sun to the point where the stars could be seen, and a rain resembling iridescent petals or snowflakes that disappeared before touching the ground. This time, a luminous globe was...
On 13 August, the day the fourth apparition was scheduled, the three children were unable to meet Our Lady at the Cova da Iria. They had been kidnapped by the mayor of Vila Nova de Ourém, who tried to force them to tell him the Secret. The children held firm, despite the mayor imprisoning them...
The father of Jacinta and Francisco noticed that when the third apparition began, a small grayish cloud hovered over the holm oak, the sunlight diminished, and a cool breeze blew over the mountain range, despite it being the height of summer. On this day the following words were exchanged between Lucia and Our Lady: Lucia:...
