At 78, her hands were too crippled to sew. So she picked up a paintbrush for the first time—and became one of America's most famous artists. Anna Mary Robertson Moses was 76 years old in 1936, living on a farm in Eagle Bridge, New York. She'd spent her entire life working—farmer's daughter, hired girl, farmer's wife. Seventy-six years of labor raising ten children (five died in infancy), running a farm, churning butter, making soap, surviving. No art. No hobbies. No time for creativity. Just survival. By then, her husband was dead. Her children were grown. And arthritis had crippled her hands so badly she couldn't hold an embroidery needle anymore—the one small creative outlet she'd had. Her sister suggested: "Why not paint instead? "Anna had never painted. She had no training, no art education, no idea what she was doing. But she was bored and her hands needed something to do. So she started painting. Using old boards and scraps of canvas. Cheap house paints. Whatever brushes she …More
For several days, Spain’s newspaper El País has filled its pages with reports of alleged sexual abuse within the Catholic Church. Here is why. Vatican investigation against Spanish bishop One case centers on a Vatican investigation into Bishop Rafael Zornoza Boy, 76, of Cádiz y Ceuta. He is accused of homosexually abusing a male minor in the 1990s while serving as rector of the Getafe seminary. Bishop Zornoza denies the charge as "false". He has stepped back from duties while the Vatican inquiry proceeds. A canonical tribunal in Madrid, under the supervision of the Archbishop of Seville, is handling the case. Abuse-"coverage" as political control Carlos Balén argues on InfoVaticana.com on November 12 that the wave of abuse coverage is about political control. He sees it as a strategy to keep a weakened Church submissive by constantly reviving its scandals: “The Spanish bishops are hostages of their own guilt,” Balén writes. “For fear that someone might pronounce their name next to …More
According to Luis Badilla, Father Marko Rupnik was seen acting as a confessor at St. Mary Major Basilica on October 30th, where Bergoglio is buried. He was wearing the vestments typically worn by Dominicans. Badilla considers this information "quite credible." From a canonical point of view, Bergoglio lifted the excommunication imposed on Rupnik in May 2020, so Rupnik can exercise his priestly powers, Badilla writes.
SAINT: In the confessional, the Holy Cure of Ars did not need to “listen” much as God granted him the gift of reading people’s souls and, therefore, their sins. Saved time and “Listening Room” costs. SINNER: From a long line of kabbalists (satanists), Freud, the pseudo-therapist, ‘listened’ but he did not hear as he focused on the Ego, himself, not his patients. Freud fueled long term psychosis and hysteria with his fiendish lines of coke (medicine) and his kabbalistic manipulation and exploitation of sick people’s weaknesses. Hysterical women were his special prey. Cocaine soothed them temporarily and made them vulnerable before they relapsed, worse, into their psychoses. He stuffed white cotton in their nasal passages when their sinus walls perforated. We don’t need expense gimmicks but the saints’ time-tested and true ascetic example of mortification that lead us along the path of salvation to heaven, man’s end and goal. Novelty=Pride
On Monday, Rev. Toni Faber, the rector of St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna, presented a mobile confessional in front of the cathedral. It will be available for confessions in several districts on the first day of the week. Inside, there are two armchairs, a few lamps, and a carpeted floor. A wooden cross hangs on the partition wall separating it from the driver's compartment. Faber's aim is to make it as easy as possible for people to confess before the start of Advent, and to do so in an allegedly sustainable way using an electric vehicle.
Der Van steht laut dem Dompfarrer aber nicht nur für "echte" Beichten zur Verfügung, sondern auch als "Resonanzraum für Gedanken, Dialog und Reflexion" – also auch für Gespräche über Gott und die Welt. [...] Das besondere Fahrzeug ist dazu mit allem ausgestattet, was zum Beichten gebraucht wird: Im Innenraum gibt es zwei Fauteuils, einige Lampen und sogar einen Teppichboden. An der Trennwand zum Fahrer hängt sogar ein hölzernes Kreuz. Auf welchem Fauteuil sitzt Beichtvater Faber? "Gleich beim Einstieg - also dort, wo das Kreuz hängt."
There is a church almost on every street of Vienna. This is just another photo op. I would not want to hear the confessions. They are likely to be just psychological dialogs. The most accessible confessional is always that wooden box with curtain.
It sounds like a good idea….looks interesting…something Jesus would think cool? Everything is being delivered, why not the sacraments…within limits of course
Saint Josaphat Kuncevyc - November 12 Also known as Giosafat Kuncewycz Jehoshaphat Kuncewycz John Kunsevich Josaphat Kuntsevych Josaphat of Polotsk Jozofat Kuncewicz Memorial 12 November formerly 14 November Profile His father was a municipal counselor, and his mother known for her piety. Raised in the Orthodox Ruthenian Church which, on 23 November1595 in the Union of Brest, united with the Church of Rome. Trained as a merchant‘s apprentice at Vilna, Lithuania, he was offered partnership in the business, and marriage to his partner’s daughter; feeling the call to religious life, he declined both. Monk in the Ukrainian Order of Saint Basil (Basilians) in Vilna at age 20 in 1604, taking the name Brother Josaphat. Deacon. Ordained a Byzantine ritepriest in 1609. Josaphat’s superior, Samuel, never accepted unity with Rome, and looked for a way to fight against Roman Catholicism and the Uniats, the name given those who brought about and accepted the union of the …More
Saint Josaphat Nov 12 breski1 on Nov 13, 2007 In 1595, when today’s saint was a boy, the Orthodox bishop of Brest-Litovsk (famous in World War I) in Belarus and five other bishops representing millions of Ruthenians, sought reunion with Rome. John Kunsevich (Josaphat became his name in religious life) was to dedicate his life and die for the same cause. Born in what was then Poland, he went to work in Wilno and was influenced by clergy adhering to the Union of Brest (1596). He became a Basilian monk, then a priest, and soon was well known as a preacher and as an ascetic.
I had the honor to celebrate my friends anniversary of his return from Desert Storm. He is very thankful he has made it this far! Please pray for Bob! And for all you veterans may God bless you! Thank you for your service to our country!
Dance-Eucharist: Rev Sergio Valverde of the Christ King of the Universe Parish in San José, Costa Rica, regularly dances during the Eucharist. This video is from September 26, 2025. The Instagram description read: "¡Estamos de fiesta con Jesús!" ” ("We are partying with Jesus!").
Dancing Mass: Fr. Sergio Valverde, pastor of Christ King of the Universe Parish in San José, Costa Ric (September 26, 2025)