"Two days before [Charlie Kirk's] death, Mr. Shillman angrily questioned Mr. Kirk for giving a platform to [Tucker Carlson] and informed him he was withdrawing a $2 million pledge to Turning Point."
Acedia - apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins; sloth). • This sin of acedia results in a fleeing from God, with the manifestation of conducting business with anything save the things of God. Nothing expresses more accurately the malady of synodality. It flees from the climb to Calvary with any and every activity that bears resemblance to that salvific Hill.
As Venerable Lúcia dos Santos explained, the Blessed Virgin asks for four acts of devotion on the first Saturday of five consecutive months: Confession within about eight days before or after Saturday, with the intention of reparation (some say it can be within 20 days during this jubilee year); Holy Communion (preferably on the first Saturday, but allowed within a day if necessary); praying five decades of the Rosary; and, in addition to the recitation, meditating for 15 minutes on one or more mysteries of the Rosary.
"The USCCB Committee on Pro-Life Activities is inviting Catholics to join a focused effort of prayer to stop taxpayer funding of the abortion industry." 2025 Nationwide Invitation to PrayerMore
To commemorate the Army’s 250th birthday. Back in the day, July 4th was a patriotic day.
Vanity parade comes with hefty price tag; will displace Vietnam veterans event Jen Psaki shares reports thatupcoming military parade in Washington, D.C. is expected to cost as much as $45 million, not counting clean-up and road repairs afterward. The spectacle will also force an annual event for Vietnam veterans to be moved away from the Vietnam War memorial. For more context and news coverage of the most important stories of our day click here: MSNBC News - Breaking News and News Today | …More
“the Prince of this world,” whose business it is to tell us that there is no other world. His logic is simple: if there is no heaven there is no hell; if there is no hell, then there is no sin; if there is no sin, then there is no judge, and if there is no judgment then evil is good and good is evil. -- Bishop Fulton Sheen, 'Communism and the Conscience of the West'
"There will be a Counterfeit Church. Christ's Church, the Catholic Church will be one, and the False Prophet will create the other. The False Church will be worldly, ecumenical, and global. It will be a loose federation of churches and religions, forming some type of global association, a world parliament of Churches. It will be emptied of all Divine content; it will be the mystical body of the Antichrist. The Mystical Body on earth today will have its Judas Iscariot, and he will be the False Prophet. Satan will recruit him from our bishops." (Fulton J. Sheen, Communism and the Conscience of the West, Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, (1948), pp. 24-25).
The last three Ember Days of 2024 are December 17, 19, and 20. Ember Days are observed on the Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays following the first Sunday in Lent, Whitsunday-Pentecost, the Feast of the Holy Cross, and the Feast of St. Lucia (December 13).