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Thanksgiving Day: A Great Day to Give God Praise!
Thanksgiving remains a favorite holiday for Americans. It even has little-known Catholic roots. Buck the trend of rejecting God this Thanksgiving, and remember to thank Him for all the gifts that He has showered down upon you and your family. Read more
Ex-Priest Gets a Year, Victim Gets Life
While this is yet another of scores of articles I've written over the last 40 years about pedophile priests who have been convicted for their crimes in Michigan, this story actually contains the words of the victim. The occasion for this news report is the Nov. 8 sentencing of former Michigan priest Timothy Crowley, 74, for unfathomable sex crimes he committed against a minor at an Ann Arbor parish. He was sentenced to one year in prison, five years of probation and slapped with a multitude of restrictions on his behavior. Read more
The Meaning of the Arts and Proper Catholic Anthropology
The goal of learning, especially the liberal arts, is not to teach others but to apply what you have learned to your personal life and to live a "free" and virtuous life. A liberal arts education teaches one how to be free from being tied down to doing one thing. A student of the arts can do anything because he has learned how to learn. Read more
Clerical Heterophobia
The Catholic priesthood in 2023 is largely a gay profession. Straight priests suffer heterophobia because of this sad phenomenon. When straight priests hang out with each other, we can't help but discuss the abuse we suffer from gay clerics. Oftentimes we laugh, but then other times we cry because the Church is doomed if this practice of ordaining gay men is not ended. Read more
‘The Day of Wrath’ — Judgment Day and the Souls in Purgatory
In the old form of the Roman rite, a funeral Mass or a Mass on All Souls' Day is called a Requiem Mass. That word, "Requiem," comes from the opening words of the Introit: "Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine" — "Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord." Read more
Liberals Demonize House Speaker for Protecting Son From Porn
The Left is attacking the new speaker of the House for advocating in favor of anti-porn software and keeping his family safe. Liberals continued their assaults on Mike Johnson, R-La., after a 2022 video recently resurfaced of him speaking at a Baptist church about the accountability software Covenant Eyes. Read more
Goodbye, Heterosexual Men
In April 2002, Michael Rose's "Goodbye, Good Men" shed light on the presence of gay subcultures and "heterophobia" within Catholic seminaries. The book documented the retaliation faced by heterosexual seminarians who either reported sexual misconduct or refused to engage in homosexual relations with their superiors or peers. Read more
Abortion Activists Oppose Our Lord at Murder Mill
Lives are on the line next month in Ohio. And even when confronted by obnoxious murder enthusiasts, Catholics remain steadfast in defending life. Over a hundred Catholics participated in the diocese of Toledo's annual Mass for Life and Eucharistic procession on Saturday, Oct. 28. The 9 a.m. Mass for Life was held at St. Catherine of Siena parish with His Excellency Bp. Daniel Thomas as the celebrant. Read more
Novena for the Holy Souls in Purgatory
Powerful prayer to acknowledge past indifferences towards God and His graces, to express deep remorse and to seek God's grace and mercy for ourselves and the souls in Purgatory. Read more
What You Should Know About St. Anthony Mary Claret
Saint Anthony Mary Claret was born in the year 1807 in the village of Sallent, Catalonia, Spain. He was the fifth of 11 children. He and his family often made pilgrimages to a nearby Marian shrine, and his parents taught him to pray the Rosary. From a young age, he felt called to be a priest, but young Anthony was trained in the family business of weaving. And when he was 17 years old, his family sent him to Barcelona to further study the craft of weaving at a large textile mill. Read more
Jesuit Refugee Service Funds Evil
The Lepanto Institute has received several requests concerning Jesuit Refugee Service, asking if it is safe for Catholic donations. After a lengthy period of research, we must unfortunately report that JRS as an organization is not safe for Catholic giving because directly and through its partnerships, JRS promotes and provides contraception, supports Planned Parenthood sex-education programs and is pushing a homosexualist agenda. Read more
Financial Woes for Thee, Not for Me
Many Americans are suffering emotionally as six out of 10 are now living paycheck to paycheck under the Biden administration. Meanwhile, the U.S. bishops continue to enrich themselves by supporting Democratic policies that financially and psychologically stress the average American. The financial stress of Americans from every demographic group has reached the highest level since 2008, according to the IBD/TIPP Financial Stress Index. Introduced in December 2007, the Index gauges Americans' anxieties regarding bill payments and overall financial stability. Read more
Cameroonian Rapist Priest ‘Rehabilitated’
A ruling from the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith has placed a rapist priest back on the job in Africa, and canon law helped that to happen. On July 1, 2023, Fr. Hilary Ngome, who confessed to raping at least one 13-year-old girl, was fully returned to ministry by a Vatican decree, according to Bp. Michael Miabesue Bibi, prelate of the Buéa diocese in Cameroon. He announced the decree in a public letter dated Aug. 23, 2023. Read more
St. Paul’s ‘Environmentalism’ vs. Modern Environmentalism
As strange as it sounds, St. Paul had a sort of "environmental agenda" of his own, not altogether unlike the one we find posited in Laudato Si. In fact, Pope Francis crafted his encyclical "On Care for our Common Home" according to the framework Paul laid out in Romans 8. So however one comes down on alleged man-made climate change and other charged environmental issues, it must be conceded that Pope Francis and St. Paul agree that the reason creation is in a precarious state is that man, God's image-bearing representative, has rebelled against God. Read more
