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The Miracle That Gave the Miraculous Medal Its Name
- By Michie
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When the cynical Alphonse Ratisbonne accepted a dare to wear a Miraculous Medal, he didn’t expect to meet the Blessed Mother herself.
Alphonse Ratisbonne in 1865, with the interior of Sant’Andrea delle Fratte in the background (photo: Shutterstock / Wikimedia Commons)
Many are familiar with the expression, “Hurt people hurt people,” meaning that those who have been hurt by others often perpetuate that toxic cycle.
While this truth can often explain the actions of those who have experienced injustice, it can sometimes extend to an excuse for violent or wrongful behavior. An injustice performed in one’s country can lead to violent rioting, even if those protests started out peacefully. A hurtful word can lead someone to harm others in a similar way or even harm themselves.
Have we ever considered that the opposite is also true? That saintly and holy people help make saintly, holy people? That when we respond with mercy instead of anger, we soften the hearts of our enemy? Do we remember that our own prayers and sufferings can redeem the irredeemable?
One such case for this argument is seen in the life of a French anti-Catholic. His life would be forever changed due to the prayers of three men: his brother, his friend, and a complete stranger who gave his life for him.
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Many are familiar with the expression, “Hurt people hurt people,” meaning that those who have been hurt by others often perpetuate that toxic cycle.
While this truth can often explain the actions of those who have experienced injustice, it can sometimes extend to an excuse for violent or wrongful behavior. An injustice performed in one’s country can lead to violent rioting, even if those protests started out peacefully. A hurtful word can lead someone to harm others in a similar way or even harm themselves.
Have we ever considered that the opposite is also true? That saintly and holy people help make saintly, holy people? That when we respond with mercy instead of anger, we soften the hearts of our enemy? Do we remember that our own prayers and sufferings can redeem the irredeemable?
One such case for this argument is seen in the life of a French anti-Catholic. His life would be forever changed due to the prayers of three men: his brother, his friend, and a complete stranger who gave his life for him.
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The Miracle That Gave the Miraculous Medal Its Name
When the cynical Alphonse Ratisbonne accepted a dare to wear a Miraculous Medal, he didn’t expect to meet the Blessed Mother herself.
Pray Jesus Christ provides for, comforts & heals all those affected by the killing of the Columbian politician Miguel Uribe
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Pray Jesus Christ provides for, comforts & heals all those affected by the killing of the Columbian politician Miguel Uribe:
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Miguel Uribe: Colombian senator dies two months after being shot
Miguel Uribe has died of injuries he sustained in a targeted attack on his life at a rally in June.
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Celibacy and Sexual Deviancy: Mystical Theology Has the Answer
- By Michie
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Truth Shocks, Deceit Rarely Does!
It is said that those who have been uncovering the truth about the corruption in the Church, most particularly in high places, are the instruments of the devil because they scandalize the faithful. But the devil is the purveyor of lies not the truth. It is the Holy Spirit who is the purveyor of the truth, and those who speak the truth are acting in his name, and those who refuse to listen are committing the sin against the Holy Spirit. Why, oh why does the truth so often shock when deceit rarely does? It is time we all grew up. The devil wants to keep the evil that is corrupting the Church secret and hidden, so like an insidious cancer it can totally destroy it. It is those who wish to hide its pernicious growth and who seek to hunt down and punish those who speak the truth who are the instruments of the devil.The current scandals that are at present corrupting the Church are predominantly sexual. Almost every week you hear of more shocking cases. These unthinkable cases of abuse were once latent, then blatant, but now they are rampant – so rampant they everyone knows about them both inside and outside the Church. They are so rampant that the possibility of hiding them is no longer an option.What is the cause of so many clerics in the Church, from top to bottom, perpetrating the most heiness sexual demeanours imaginable against the young and innocent? It is time that the question is asked fairly and squarely or we will never find a solution.
Sexual Scandals and Celibacy
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Will Pastors Call on Illegal Immigrants to Repent?
- By Michie
- One Bread, One Body - Catholic
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Three weeks ago I reported on the following:
While of course I want those arrested for immigration crimes provided with chaplains like any other prisoners, I did raise a couple of questions:
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While of course I want those arrested for immigration crimes provided with chaplains like any other prisoners, I did raise a couple of questions:
In Biden’s last year in office, some 400,000 young immigrants were simply lost in our country, sent to unvetted sponsors.
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Will Pastors Call on Illegal Immigrants to Repent? - The Stream
Catholic bishops are offering masses for illegal immigrants. Are they calling them to repent for their lawless behavior?
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Islamic State Beheads Christians, Burns Churches in Mozambique Rampage
- By Michie
- One Bread, One Body - Catholic
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The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) warned this week of a “silent genocide” in Mozambique, where Islamic State jihadis are destroying churches, burning down villages, and beheading Christians – and then posting triumphant photos and videos of their atrocities online.
MEMRI has long specialized in posting and translating videos from the Middle East that have been ignored or suppressed by local and international media outlets. The Washington, DC-based Institute’s work frequently demonstrates that what Arab leaders say to domestic audiences is very different from what they tell foreign reporters.
In this case, ISIS terrorists in Mozambique have been giddily posting evidence of their attacks on Christians, but it took MEMRI to pull the gruesome social media posts together into a narrative about ethnic and religious cleansing.
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MEMRI has long specialized in posting and translating videos from the Middle East that have been ignored or suppressed by local and international media outlets. The Washington, DC-based Institute’s work frequently demonstrates that what Arab leaders say to domestic audiences is very different from what they tell foreign reporters.
In this case, ISIS terrorists in Mozambique have been giddily posting evidence of their attacks on Christians, but it took MEMRI to pull the gruesome social media posts together into a narrative about ethnic and religious cleansing.
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Islamic State Beheads Christians, Burns Churches in Mozambique Rampage
Islamic State jihadis are conducting a "silent genocide" in Mozambique by beheading Christians, destroying churches, and burning homes.
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Boston’s Sanctuary Sheriff Arrested on Federal Extortion Charges
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We’re witnessing levels of distraction no one’s ever seen before.Link on reclassification:
Trump considers reclassifying marijuana as less dangerous drug: report | Fox Business
President Donald Trump said at a fundraiser he was weighing whether to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug.www.foxbusiness.com
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THE LEO EFFECT: POPE LEO XIV WRITES A LETTER TO CARDINAL GRECH AND IT’S WRITTEN IN LATIN!
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How many letters did Pope Francis write in Latin?
From Vatican News:
In a letter to Cardinal Grech on the 9th of August, Pope Leo reflected on the Virgin Mary's role in salvation history, describing her as “predestined and appointed by God above every creature as an advocate of grace and a model of holiness.” Writing in Latin, the Pope said that the feast would be an occasion for the Church to lovingly contemplate her Assumption and adorn her images with crowns of gold and precious stones as a sign of faith and love for God.
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From Vatican News:
In a letter to Cardinal Grech on the 9th of August, Pope Leo reflected on the Virgin Mary's role in salvation history, describing her as “predestined and appointed by God above every creature as an advocate of grace and a model of holiness.” Writing in Latin, the Pope said that the feast would be an occasion for the Church to lovingly contemplate her Assumption and adorn her images with crowns of gold and precious stones as a sign of faith and love for God.
Screenshot of the Latin Letter from the Leo Effect:
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THE LEO EFFECT: POPE LEO XIV WRITES A LETTER TO CARDINAL GRECH AND IT’S WRITTEN IN LATIN!
How many letters did Pope Francis write in Latin? From Vatican News: In a letter to Cardinal Grech on the 9th of August, Pope Leo reflected...
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This has to be a first, a priestly scandal reported in Road & Track.
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- One Bread, One Body - Catholic
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Which doesn’t lessen the wrong committed, but face it, it’s a welcome change from depressing accounts of priests having their ways with girls‐-or boys, yes?
Chevrolet C8 Corvette Stingray–one of the highest performing American-made sports cars on theroad today.
A bizarre account from Road & Track, one of the most respected auto journals and one your Tatler has been reading off and on since his youth, tells the tale of an underhanded Catholic priest, who rigged the outcome of a church raffle to alter the winner of the top prize, a 2025 Corvette C8.
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Chevrolet C8 Corvette Stingray–one of the highest performing American-made sports cars on theroad today.
A bizarre account from Road & Track, one of the most respected auto journals and one your Tatler has been reading off and on since his youth, tells the tale of an underhanded Catholic priest, who rigged the outcome of a church raffle to alter the winner of the top prize, a 2025 Corvette C8.
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This has to be a first, a priestly scandal reported in Road & Track.
Which doesn’t lessen the wrong committed, but face it, it’s a welcome change from depressing accounts of priests having their ways with girls‐-or boys, yes? Chevrolet C8 Corvette Stingr…
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ASK FATHER: In the confessional Father said the Holy Spirit is a woman.
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QUAERITUR:
The 19 Martyrs of Gorkum are invoked especially for relief from hernias. It seems to me that that jackass priest in that confessional has a brain hernia, cutting off part of his intellect.
Pray for him to the Martyrs of Gorkum.
Is that jackass a heretic? It depends. Heresy is the persistent denial or doubt of a revealed truth of Catholic doctrine. Putting aside the obvious point that God the Holy Spirit transcends physicality, based on biblical texts the gender of the Holy Spirit as male is a core tenet of Catholic belief. Denying it would heresy.
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I’m reminded of one of the Martyrs of Gorkum, who were killed by Calvinist Protestants because they refused to deny transubstantiation. One of them, a priest, was an infamous rake and fornicator. They expected him to cave in easily. But when he was challenged to denounce his Faith he said “I was a fornicator, but I’m not a heretic” and they killed him.
The 19 Martyrs of Gorkum are invoked especially for relief from hernias. It seems to me that that jackass priest in that confessional has a brain hernia, cutting off part of his intellect.
Pray for him to the Martyrs of Gorkum.
Is that jackass a heretic? It depends. Heresy is the persistent denial or doubt of a revealed truth of Catholic doctrine. Putting aside the obvious point that God the Holy Spirit transcends physicality, based on biblical texts the gender of the Holy Spirit as male is a core tenet of Catholic belief. Denying it would heresy.
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A mirror of God’s majesty
- By Michie
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Today is August 11, the Memorial of St. Clare, Virgin.
We read at today’s Mass, “Moses said to the people: ‘And now, Israel, what does the LORD, your God, ask of you but to fear the LORD, your God, and follow his ways exactly, to love and serve the LORD, your God, with all your heart and all your soul, to keep the commandments and statutes of the LORD which I enjoin on you today for your own good?'” (Dt 10:12-13)
Today Deuteronomy poses a bold and beautiful question: “What does the Lord ask of you?” Moses answers: to love, to serve, to follow and to fear the Lord not out of dread, but out of reverence and devotion.
But how do we actually do this? How do we respond to such a high call every day?
St. Clare gives us an answer in one of her letters to her spiritual daughter, Sister Agnes of Prague. In it, she offers a striking image for the spiritual life: the mirror of Christ.
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We read at today’s Mass, “Moses said to the people: ‘And now, Israel, what does the LORD, your God, ask of you but to fear the LORD, your God, and follow his ways exactly, to love and serve the LORD, your God, with all your heart and all your soul, to keep the commandments and statutes of the LORD which I enjoin on you today for your own good?'” (Dt 10:12-13)
Today Deuteronomy poses a bold and beautiful question: “What does the Lord ask of you?” Moses answers: to love, to serve, to follow and to fear the Lord not out of dread, but out of reverence and devotion.
But how do we actually do this? How do we respond to such a high call every day?
St. Clare gives us an answer in one of her letters to her spiritual daughter, Sister Agnes of Prague. In it, she offers a striking image for the spiritual life: the mirror of Christ.
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A mirror of God's majesty
On the feast of St. Clare of Assisi, we are called to love, serve and be transformed by grace through the mirror of Christ.
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Cardinal Chomali: 21st-century Christian ‘will either be a martyr or will not be a Christian’
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“The Christian of the 21st century will either be a martyr or will not be a Christian,” the archbishop of Santiago and primate of Chile, Cardinal Fernando Chomali, said during a seminar about the role of faith in public life.
The cardinal made the remark during his presentation at the seminar “And in Everything Charity,” which took place on the occasion of the centenary of Pope Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas.
The seminar’s title was inspired by a quote from St. Augustine. Organizations including the Catholic University of Chile’s law department, Community and Justice, and the ConBoca Foundation collaborated to host an event highlighting charity as the central pillar uniting social, cultural, and political efforts.
Chomali opened his presentation with a statement about the current reality: “We are glutted with everything: with words, with discourse, with so-called freedoms. But at the same time, we are full of nothing.”
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The cardinal made the remark during his presentation at the seminar “And in Everything Charity,” which took place on the occasion of the centenary of Pope Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas.
The seminar’s title was inspired by a quote from St. Augustine. Organizations including the Catholic University of Chile’s law department, Community and Justice, and the ConBoca Foundation collaborated to host an event highlighting charity as the central pillar uniting social, cultural, and political efforts.
Chomali opened his presentation with a statement about the current reality: “We are glutted with everything: with words, with discourse, with so-called freedoms. But at the same time, we are full of nothing.”
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Cardinal: 21st-century Christian will ‘be a martyr or will not be a Christian’
“The Christian of the 21st century will either be a martyr or will not be a Christian,” said the archbishop of Santiago, Chile, Cardinal Fernando Chomali.
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Israel and Gaza: A picture is worth a thousand misconceptions
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A picture is worth a thousand misconceptions — at least where the conflict in Gaza is concerned. In the war behind the war, the sweeping campaign of anti-Israel disinformation, Palestinian sympathizers are working overtime in the media to warp and shift public opinion about what’s actually happening. So far, it’s worked. World leaders, all-too eager to make the Jewish state the bully, have latched onto the heart-wrenching images of starving, pained, or wounded women and children. But how much of it is real? An investigation from two German newspapers insists: not much.
Turns out, the shot from a camera can inflict as much damage as the shot from a gun. Carefully manipulated images have become a cottage industry in the last two years of the Israel-Hamas war, dangerously turning global sentiment against the victim of the gruesome terrorist attack of 2023. And one activist photographer seems to be making an outsized contribution to the number of controversial pictures, German newspapers Süddeutsche Zeitungand BILD warn.
Anas Zayed Fteiah, whose images are routinely picked up by major U.S. and international outlets, is being accused of staging photos to evoke sympathy for the Palestinians. In one of the most egregious examples, Fteiah’s emotional depiction of a group of pleading women, desperately holding out empty bowls where food should be, was splashed across Time Magazine’s August 1 cover with the headline, “The Gaza Tragedy.”
The reality, other reporters on the ground revealed, is vastly different. Photos from the same location showed lines of men “calmly receiving food” in the hours when distribution was regularly scheduled. The Süddeutsche Zeitung article blasted the lack of journalistic integrity that makes it difficult to draw reasonable conclusions about the war, noting that “at least some of the images were presented in a false or misleading context.”
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Turns out, the shot from a camera can inflict as much damage as the shot from a gun. Carefully manipulated images have become a cottage industry in the last two years of the Israel-Hamas war, dangerously turning global sentiment against the victim of the gruesome terrorist attack of 2023. And one activist photographer seems to be making an outsized contribution to the number of controversial pictures, German newspapers Süddeutsche Zeitungand BILD warn.
Anas Zayed Fteiah, whose images are routinely picked up by major U.S. and international outlets, is being accused of staging photos to evoke sympathy for the Palestinians. In one of the most egregious examples, Fteiah’s emotional depiction of a group of pleading women, desperately holding out empty bowls where food should be, was splashed across Time Magazine’s August 1 cover with the headline, “The Gaza Tragedy.”
The reality, other reporters on the ground revealed, is vastly different. Photos from the same location showed lines of men “calmly receiving food” in the hours when distribution was regularly scheduled. The Süddeutsche Zeitung article blasted the lack of journalistic integrity that makes it difficult to draw reasonable conclusions about the war, noting that “at least some of the images were presented in a false or misleading context.”
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The Israeli War through the Media’s Broken Lens
A picture is worth a thousand misconceptions - at least where the conflict in Gaza is concerned. In the war behind the war, the sweeping campaign of anti-Israel
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Holy desire or hollow routine?
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Today is August 10, the Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time.
We read at today’s Mass, “Be sure of this: if the master of the house had known the hour when the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into. You also must be prepared, for at an hour you do not expect, the Son of Man will come” (Lk 12:39-40).
Happy Sunday, friends. Today, as we continue reflecting on the theme of thirst, I want to shift our focus slightly. So far, we’ve meditated on what it means to long for God. But what is it that hinders that longing? What is the great enemy of spiritual thirst?
One word: complacency.
It may not be a classic term from the tradition, but I think it names the spiritual condition that dulls our desire for God. Complacency is a kind of interior apathy — a voice that whispers, “I’ve done enough. I’m fine where I am.”
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Holy desire or hollow routine?
When faith becomes routine, we lose our thirst for God, yet simple practices can rekindle holy longing and spiritual life.
A fellow Dominican - Rev. R. Garrigou-Lagrange, O.P. - has a very rich, indeed complete, spirituality to speak to this problem.
Complacency does describe the slow spiritual suicide that prevents the soul from ever attaining holy Thirst for God. This supernatural thirst is never experienced by the "retarded souls" who cling to the shallow pleasures of this world, and remain asleep to the needed saving Gifts of God. Dr. Taylor Marshall gives a brief description of the unhappy state of these spiritually impoverished souls, citing:
The more complete description of this condition is found HERE, in vol 1 of Garrigou-Lagrange's great work, The Three Ages of the Interior Life. The point is, without the Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit to activate and begin to perfect the Virtues, the soul is left bounded within the "natural man", a chasm separating him from the supernatural Life for which we are intended.
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