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Fr. R. Vierling, D.Min, M.A., M.Div. / “I am a Catholic man and a priest. In that Faith have I lived and in that Faith I intend to die.’ (St. Edmund Campion)
Joined March 2010
The village of Dolton, Illinois, has designated Pope Leo XIV’s childhood home as a historic landmark.
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Mayor Jason House described the property as one of the
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The chapel in Rome’s Termini railway station—Italy’s busiest—has been closed after a man who appeared intoxicated desecrated the altar.
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The Chapel at Termini Station in Rome was closed after a man was reported to have urinated on the altar. The closure is deprived the community of access....
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The push for women deacons will undoubtedly persist, even in the face of negative pronouncements from Rome. In an August '25 article, Dr. Monica Miller lays out why the Church—from Scripture, the early Church, and every pope who’s weighed in—has always said no. Solid, readable,
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In early 17th-century Japan, where the winds of Christian persecution swept through the land under the Tokugawa shogunate, one man's quiet transformation from Buddhist monk to devoted Jesuit martyr stands as a poignant testament to the power of faith. Blessed Simon Yempo, also
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Blessed Pietro Pettinaio (c. 1180–1189 – December 4, 1259) was a humble Italian layman, tertiary of the Franciscan Order, and one of the most beloved local saints of medieval Siena. Though never formally canonized, he was beatified by popular devotion and official recognition in
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Saint Bernard degli Uberti was an Italian cardinal, bishop, abbot, and staunch defender of papal authority during one of the most turbulent periods in medieval Church history—the Investiture Controversy. Born around 1060 near Florence into the noble Uberti family (one of the
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Full analysis on the Vatican's response to the question of female deacons here for @PelicanCatholic/@PelicanBriefHQ -- https://t.co/WgHDgaoc7n The Vatican summary text outlines Church teaching, but almost undermines itself at the same time.
BREAKING: Vatican's Cdl Petrocchi study on female deacons notes the Church cannot ordain women to holy orders. Study begun in 2020 published its summary results today -- “The status quaestionis of historical research and theological investigation, as well as their mutual
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True Love of Self 1. There is a passage in the Gospel which might lead us to believe that we are forbidden to love ourselves. “Amen, amen, I say to you,” Jesus declares, “unless the grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone. But if it dies, it brings forth
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The question of female deaconesses as an equivalent to the Sacrament of Holy Orders has been long-settled. The snippet below from Ott’s Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma (1952). The fact that deaconesses were consecrated by a rite specific to them indicates an intention to confer
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Saint John of Damascus (c. 675 – December 4, 749), known in Arabic as Yuhanna al-Dimashqi or Yuhanna ibn Mansur ibn Sarjun, was one of the greatest Christian theologians, hymnographers, and apologists of the early medieval period. Venerated as a saint and Doctor of the Church in
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Saint Giovanni Calabria was an Italian priest, founder of religious congregations, and a man of profound charity who dedicated his life to the poorest and most abandoned, especially orphans and the marginalized, during a time of war and social upheaval. Born on October 8, 1873,
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Blessed Adolph Kolping (1813–1865) was a German priest, social reformer, and founder of the Kolping Society, one of the world’s largest Catholic lay organizations. Often called the “journeymen’s father” (Gesellenvater), he devoted his life to supporting young craftsmen and
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Blessed Francisco Gálvez Iranzo was born into a noble family in the Spanish town of Utiel around 1570, Francisco grew up in a vibrant community that had recently been elevated to city status by King Philip IV. His early education at the Colegio del Salvador, a seminary founded in
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St. Matthew 5:37
A Vatican commission has ruled against admitting women to the diaconate understood as a degree of the sacrament of Holy Orders, but said that it is not currently possible “to formulate a definitive judgment". https://t.co/6epoViq9zT
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From the letters to Saint Ignatius by Saint Francis Xavier, priest We have visited the villages of the new converts who accepted the Christian religion a few years ago. No Portuguese live here—the country is so utterly barren and poor. The native Christians have no priests.
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It is not the barbarians at the gates that worry me; it is the traitors within. Those who forget their Faith, who scoff at their history, and who welcome the enemies of Christ with open arms. These are the ones who will bring down Christendom, brick by brick. (Hilaire Belloc, not
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Blessed Johann Nepomuk von Tschiderer was an Austrian bishop of the 19th century renowned for his extraordinary charity, humility, and courageous defense of the Church during a period of political and social upheaval. He is venerated as a model of pastoral zeal and selfless
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In 20th-century Eastern Europe, where faith clashed relentlessly with atheistic regimes, Blessed Vladislav Bukovinskij emerged as a beacon of unwavering Christian witness. Born Władysław Bukowiński on December 22, 1904, in Berdychiv, a city in present-day Ukraine then part of the
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Saint Francis Xavier (1506–1552), born Francisco de Jasso y Azpilicueta in the Kingdom of Navarre (present-day Spain), stands as one of the most influential Catholic missionaries in history and a key figure of the Counter-Reformation. Alongside Saint Ignatius of Loyola and five
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