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Miami Archbishop Joins Bikers In 'Ride With God' Fundraiser

Feb. 13, 2014 Miami Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski smiles as he leans on his Harley Davidson before the opening Mass for the second annual Archbishop's Poker Run charity ride. (CNS/Tom Tracy) By Tom Tracy …More
Feb. 13, 2014
Miami Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski smiles as he leans on his Harley Davidson before the opening Mass for the second annual Archbishop's Poker Run charity ride. (CNS/Tom Tracy)
By Tom Tracy
Catholic News Service
PARKLAND, Fla. (CNS) -- Local computer systems engineer Pierre Victor's Italian-made MV Agusta F4 motorcycle was evidence that almost any hobby or special interest can be an intersection for faith-sharing and awareness raising for a good cause.
"This ride was important to us and it has been very spiritual," said Victor, a native of Haiti who is active in Emmaus ministry at his parish, Mary Help of Christians. The church was the starting place and site of the opening Mass for the Poker Run event Feb. 9 led by Miami Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski and in support of St. Luke's Addiction Recovery Center.
This year's Poker Run was a 72-mile charity ride from Parkland to Cutler Bay and featured several stops along the way where participants picked up a poker card toward a $500…More
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The Pope and Notre Dame. ChurchMilitant.TV .. Lord Jesus, help us save souls.More
The Pope and Notre Dame.
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@Nancy D. ..If you post on any of my uploads again, I will have Yuca tell Jesus about your criticism of the pope the next time Jesus and Yuca have a …More
@Nancy D. ..If you post on any of my uploads again, I will have Yuca tell Jesus about your criticism of the pope the next time Jesus and Yuca have a chat. :)
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Pope Strongly Defends Priestly Celibacy and Consecrated Virginity

Pope strongly defends Priestly Celibacy and Consecrated Virginity Family is the vocation that God wrote in the nature of man and woman, but there is another vocation, complementary to that of matrimony …More
Pope strongly defends Priestly Celibacy and Consecrated Virginity
Family is the vocation that God wrote in the nature of man and woman, but there is another vocation, complementary to that of matrimony: the calling to celibacy and to virginity for the Kingdom of Heaven. It is the vocation that Jesus himself lived. How to recognize it? How to follow it?
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I answer you with two essential elements on how to recognize this vocation to the priesthood or to consecrated life: praying and walking in the Church. These two things go together, they are intertwined. At the source of every vocation to the consecrated life there always is a strong experience of God, an experience that is not forgotten, that is remembered all through life! It is the one that Francis had. And we cannot estimate or program it. God always surprises us! It is God who calls; but it is important to establish a daily relationship with Him, to listen to him in silence before the Tabernacle and in the intimacy of our own …
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Pope Francis vs. Medjugorje? | Fr. Z's Blog

Someone alerted me to a piece at the Italian site Corrispondenza Romana about something that Pope Francis said during a morning “fervorino” at Mass. My translation: Last Saturday 7 September during …More
Someone alerted me to a piece at the Italian site Corrispondenza Romana about something that Pope Francis said during a morning “fervorino” at Mass.
My translation:
Last Saturday 7 September during his morning meditation in the chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae, Pope Francis, speaking on the theme “there is no Christian without Jesus” criticized Christian “revelationists” and expressed his strong reservations about the supposed apparitions at Medjugorje.
The official site of the Holy See and the L’Osservatore Romano, however, purged his words of the reference to Medjugorje, confining itself to refer to them in these terms: “There is another group of Christians without Christ: those who look things that are kind of rare, a bit special, who chase after some private revelations,” whereas instead revelation was concluded with the New Testament. The Holy Father warned about the desire of such Christians to go “to the spectacle of revelation, to hear some new things”. But – and this is …More
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New Acid Attack in Zanzibar Hits Catholic Priest

Fox News: 9/13/13 Zanzibar, Tanzania - Tanzanian police say a Catholic priest was attacked by acid at a busy business area on the island of Zanzibar. Regional Police Commander Mkadam Khamis Mkadam …More
Fox News: 9/13/13
Zanzibar, Tanzania - Tanzanian police say a Catholic priest was attacked by acid at a busy business area on the island of Zanzibar.
Regional Police Commander Mkadam Khamis Mkadam confirmed Friday the priest, Rev. Joseph Anselmo Mwagambwa, was attacked by acid which badly injured his face, chest, thighs and legs. The priest is being treated at the main Mnazi Mmoja hospital.
The policeman said the attack occurred in a crowded part of Stone Town at about 4 p.m. Police are asking for witnesses to the attack.
This is the fifth acid attack on Zanzibar since November. Last month two young British women doing volunteer work were injured when an assailant threw acid in their faces.
Police have not yet made any arrests for the attacks.
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Coptic Christians in Egytian Village Forced to Pay Jizya Tax

9/12/2013 Egypt's Christian community has long been persecuted, with random violence carried out against their churches and businesses perpetrated by Islamist extremists. Now, in the remote village of …More
9/12/2013
Egypt's Christian community has long been persecuted, with random violence carried out against their churches and businesses perpetrated by Islamist extremists. Now, in the remote village of Dalga, Coptic Christians are ordered to pay a special tax, a Jizya tax. Those who are unable to pay find themselves vulnerable to attack.
As referenced in the Koran 9:29, Jizya is the money, or tribute, that conquered non-Muslims historically had to pay to their Islamic overlords with willing submission and while feeling themselves subdued to safeguard their very existence.
(Catholic Online) - The Muslim Brotherhood, the discredited political party of ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, along with its supporters have begun forcing the roughly 15,000 Christian Copts in Dalga to pay the jizya tax.
Father Yunis Shawqi, who spoke to reporters in Dalga, all Copts in the village, without exception, is being forced to pay the jizya tax.
"[The] value of the tribute and method of payment differ …More
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They Didn't See That One Coming...

Rorate Caeli Our friend Dr. Thomas Woods was called to deliver the convocation address at Benedictine College (Kansas), on September 3. It ends with a request that the College was probably not expecting - …More
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Our friend Dr. Thomas Woods was called to deliver the convocation address at Benedictine College (Kansas), on September 3. It ends with a request that the College was probably not expecting - the Traditional Mass must be made available to students:
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