Blessed Arthur Bell: The Franciscan Martyr of England | Saint Story for Kids (December 11th Blessed Arthur Bell (1590–1643), known in the Franciscan Order as Father Francis, was an English priest who courageously served the Church during one of the most dangerous times for Catholics in England. After studying and joining the Franciscans in Spain, he returned secretly to England to help restore the Franciscan presence, teach the faith, and support hidden Catholic communities. But during the English Civil War, simply being a Catholic priest was considered a crime. Father Francis was arrested in 1643 under suspicion of being a spy. Even though the accusations were false, he openly admitted that he was a Catholic priest. Because of this, he was condemned and executed at Tyburn — the same place where many English martyrs gave their lives. In this child-friendly episode, kids will learn: Why Blessed Arthur Bell risked everything to serve God What it meant to be a priest during persecution …More
Cardinal Baltazar Enrique Porras Cardozo, emeritus of Caracas, was stopped from leaving Venezuela on December 10. Authorities at Simón Bolívar International Airport annulled his passport as he prepared to board a flight to Madrid. Officials informed him he was under a travel ban, confiscated his passport, and detained him for about two hours before sending him back to his residence. He was escorted even to go to the bathroom. Authorities claimed “non-compliance with travel regulations” and required Cardinal Porras to sign a document confirming he could not travel. The cardinal reported that when he attempted to photograph the document, he was threatened with arrest. He also said an officer told him he appeared as “deceased” in the government system, which was used to justify the passport cancellation. The incident follows growing tension between the Venezuelan government and the Church. Weeks earlier, Cardinal Porras had described the situation in Venezuela as “morally unacceptable …More
The question is: Will Pope Leo stand up and protect the rank and file? FAT CHANCE Blocking Sainthood: President Maduro claimed Porras dedicated his life to preventing the canonization of Venezuela's first male saint, José Gregorio Hernández,
[Saint Anselm of Canterbury/Anselm of Aosta; XI-XII Century AD; Aosta, Kingdom of Burgundy, Holy Roman Empire/Canterbury, England; (aged 72); Italian Benedictine Monk; Archbishop; Abbot; Philosopher; Theologian; Doctor of the Church] “CHAPTER IV - How the fool has said in his heart what cannot be conceived But how has the fool said in his heart what he could not conceive; or how is it that he could not conceive what he said in his heart? Since it is the same to say in the heart, and to conceive. But, if really, nay, since really, he both conceived, because he said in his heart; and did not say in his heart, because he could not conceive; there is more than one way in which a thing is said in the heart or conceived. For, in one sense, an object is conceived, when the word signifying it is conceived; and in another, when the very entity, which the object is, is understood. In the former sense, then, God can be conceived not to exist; but in the latter, not at all. For no one who understands …More
Here's the architect of 'Traditionis Custodes.' In this video, Andrea Grillo launches into a delirious speech in support of the ordination of women. Just look at how impeccably “measured” he is, professionally speaking, and how reliable his argument sounds. He, the great champion of the fight against Summorum Pontificum and Benedict XVI.
He's making a logical argument. If it is acceptable for women to lead men in the private and public sphere, logically they can lead men in the ecclesial realm. The problem is that that it is unnatural for women to govern men in any sphere, domestic, public or ecclesial. 1 Cor 11:1-3.
Pope Saint Damasus I - December 11 Memorial 11 December Profile Raised in a pious family; his father was a priest in Rome, Italy and Damasus served for a time as deacon in his father‘s church, Saint Laurence. Priest. Assistant to PopeLiberius. Chosen 37th pope in a disputed election in which a minority chose the anti-pope Ursinus. The two reigned simultaneously in Rome which eventually led to violence between their supporters and false accusations of Damasus having committed a crime. His pontificate suffered from the rise of Arianism, and from several schisms including break-away groups in Antioch, Constantinople, Sardinia, and Rome. However, it was during Damasus’ reign that Christianity was declared the religion of the Roman state. He enforced the 370 edict of Emperor Valentinian controlling gifts to prelates, and opposed Arianism and Apollinarianism. He supported the 374 council of Rome which decreed the valid books of the Bible, and the Grand Council of …More
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Book of Isaiah 41,13-20. I am the LORD, your God, who grasp your right hand; It is I who say to you, "Fear not, I will help you." Fear not, O worm Jacob, O maggot Israel; I will help you, says the LORD; your redeemer is the Holy One of Israel. I will make of you a threshing sledge, sharp, new, and double-edged, To thresh the mountains and crush them, to make the hills like chaff. When you winnow them, the wind shall carry them off and the storm shall scatter them. But you shall rejoice in the LORD, and glory in the Holy One of Israel. The afflicted and the needy seek water in vain, their tongues are parched with thirst. I, the LORD, will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them. I will open up rivers on the bare heights, and fountains in the broad valleys; I will turn the desert into a marshland, and the dry ground into springs of water. I will plant in the desert the cedar, acacia, myrtle, and olive; I will set in the wasteland the cypress, together with the plane tree …More
Why Is Christianity So Hard to Find in the Trump Administration? nytimes.com/…6/opinion/trump-hegseth-christian- … As soon as he was nominated to be secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, with his Crusader cross tattoo and his attendance at a hard-edge Calvinist church, became a natural vessel for liberal fears about that dread concept, “Christian nationalism.” This is a term that can be understood in two ways. The first understanding emphasizes the “Christian” part and imagines nationalism as the vehicle through which conservative believers impose their doctrines on a pluralist society. This is the vision that inspires the strongest liberal paranoia, with images of inquisitions, witch trials, the Republic of Gilead. But there’s a second understanding, in which “nationalism” is the controlling word and the religious modifier is the pinch of incense that makes believers comfortable with worldly deeds and choices. With this kind of Christian nationalism, the core fault might not be too …More
Is there a definitive cause for the collapse in religious vocations? In this Pints With Aquinas episode, host Matt Fradd asks Sister Miriam Heidland, SOLT, a pressing question: Why are there so few religious sisters today? “I think part of it is the attack on spiritual motherhood and spiritual fatherhood…really, it’s the attack on man and woman, and like, who are we?” she begins. Sister Miriam then shares a personal story and offers her opinion on why there are fewer vocations to the religious life today. “I was talking with the bishop many months ago, and he was saying that in the 1960s…there was a religious community in Wisconsin that was receiving a hundred women a year. 100 women! And they built a brand new novitiate, and then by 1972, they were receiving just four,” she says. At this point in her conversation with the bishop, Sister Miriam says, he posed the question: “Women still have the capacity to say ‘yes’ to this divine invitation. What is preventing them?” Sister Miriam …
The Archdiocese of New York on Monday announced it will set up a $300 million fund to compensate victims of sexual abuse who have sued the church. In a statement, Cardinal Timothy Dolan said the archdiocese would pay for the fund by reducing its budget and selling off assets, including completing the sale of its former headquarters in Manhattan, with the goal that the fund “can be set aside to provide compensation to survivors of sexual abuse.” The archdiocese has also agreed to engage retired Judge Daniel J. Buckley as a mediator between itself and victims to reach a settlement, Dolan said. Buckley had a similar role in negotiations between the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and more than 1,000 people there. A spokesperson for the archdiocese said church officials hope the fund would cover settlements for most, if not all of the roughly 1,300 outstanding claims against the archdiocese. The announcement came as a federal judge on Monday approved a settlement for the New Orleans Archdiocese…
Imagine the good that could have come about with that money. But, instead the shepherds protected priest molester perverts who destroyed the lives and souls of the innocent young. Disgusting.
09.12.2025 POPE LEO’S INTERPRETATION OF VATICAN COUNCIL II PRODUCES POLARIZATION : GERMAN MEDIA NOT CORRECTED Vatican Council II interpreted irrationally is a break with Tradition but the Council can also be interpreted rationally. To prevent war with Israel, Pope Leo must not change the ecclesiocentric interpretation of the Creeds, Councils and Catechisms. It is Pope Leo who now maintains ‘the polarization’, the division in the Church, by interpreting LG 8, 14, 16, UR 3, NA 2, and GS 22 etc irrationally. For me they are not explicit cases in 2025. So the Council is traditional. It in line with the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus (EENS) according to the missionaries and magisterium of the 16th century. In a recent interview with the German media, Cardinal Gerhardt Muller has cautioned the traditionalists (and progressivists). Why? Was he implying that LG 8, 14, 16, UR 3, NA 2, Gs 22 etc, were explicit exceptions for EENS and the rest of Tradition? The German progessivists do not …More
Bishop Schneider promotes and celebrates the Mass in the Roman Rite, yet it is rarely celeberated in Kazakhstan, he told Adrian Milag in an online interview. Main points, video sequence below. - We have no altar girls in all Kazakhstan. It is banned. No women, no altar girls. - We have no Eucharistic ministers at all. - The only ordinary form to receive Holy Communion is kneeling and on the tongue, with the paten. There is no other possibility except for the sick. - Thanks be to God, our liturgies are very worthy… even in the Novus Ordo. - The people are pious and devoted. They don’t know the Latin Mass and some don’t even feel the necessity. If there would be a greater movement, it would be possible also. But until now we have not these considerable groups. - I celebrate in my private episcopal chapel the traditional Latin Mass and when I am teaching in the seminary, I also celebrate for the seminarians. - True ecumenism is that non-Catholics come back to the Church and embrace all …More
After 1945, Germany Constrained Its Army. He’s Trying to Revive It. Boris Pistorius, Germany’s defense minister, is pushing to expand its military in case tensions with Russia escalate. That’s tricky in a country where the Nazi era casts a long shadow. nytimes.com/…any-military-boris-pistorius- … Read the story here: nyti.ms/3MhJGf1 Subscribe: The New York Times More from The New York Times Video: Featured Videos
Verpflichtende Musterung für junge Männer ab 2026: Bundestag beschließt neuen Wehrdienst Vom 1. Januar an soll der neue Wehrdienst kommen. Für junge Männer gilt dann die Pflicht zur Auskunft und Musterung, weiter aber Freiwilligkeit im Dienst. Es gibt auch Kritik und Proteste.
Saint Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin, the first indigenous saint of Mexico and the Americas Dear brothers and sisters, on December 9th, we celebrate the feast of Saint Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin, a poor Indian convert who, on December 9, 1531, was passing by the foot of Mount Tepeyac on his way to Mass. Suddenly, he heard a sweet song, like a flock of birds. Looking up, he saw a bright white cloud amidst a rainbow. An inexplicable joy gave wings to his feet, and he felt called to the mountaintop. He climbed and saw a beautiful Lady whose presence illuminated the plants, thorns, and stones. And she spoke to him in her Nahuatl language: "My son, Juan Diego, whom I love tenderly like a little child, where are you going?" "To Mass, Lady," Juan Diego replied. The beautiful Lady revealed Her identity: My dear son. I am Mary Ever Virgin, Mother of the True God, and it is my desire that a temple be built for me in this place, where, as a mother to you and your neighbors, I will show my loving kindness …More
Quit using woke words like indigenous. He was an Indian, as was taught for over 500 years. The word native is also woke. Everyone BORN in the USA is a native.