L"My parents prayed the rosary together their whole lives. Every day." - Pope Leo XIV​

How often do you pray the Rosary?

Pope Leo XIV revealed to newlyweds Cole and Anna Stevens that his parents, Louis and Mildred Prevost, prayed the rosary together “their whole lives.” The pope explained this to the couple following their papal marriage blessing on June 11, 2025.

He advised them to pray together and “find the style” that works for them.

“First of all, it’s very important to go slowly and to find the style of prayer that works for you, we’re all different, many spiritualities,” Pope Leo explains in the video. “For myself, especially praying together with someone, from my own parents, praying the rosary together. My parents prayed the rosary together their whole lives. Every day."

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Pope Leo said he believes that his parents’ praying the daily rosary together blessed him.

“I’m sure, because of it, their love for one another, they put their faith in God, and in the intercession through Mary. It’s a wonderful thing.”

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You may know the story, but these lesser-known miracles and mysteries surrounding Our Lady of Guadalupe are sure to renew your wonder.
The original tilma of St. Juan Diego is displayed behind the main altar at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City. (photo: Cezary Wojtkowski / Shutterstock)

Most Catholics are well-versed in the details of the Marian apparitions that took place in Europe at Lourdes in 1858 and at Fatima in 1917. While many have knowledge of the apparitions of Our Lady of Guadalupe in the 1500s, there are a number of amazing details related to this event that some may find surprising.

Our Lady made four appearances in 1531 near what is today Mexico City. According to the documented account, the shrine that currently rests on Tepeyac hill was built at the request of Our Lady, at a time when only a few of the local inhabitants had converted to the faith. One of the great miracles that resulted from the apparition was that, within a relatively short period (by 1539), more than 8 million Aztecs became Christians as a result of the Virgin Mary’s appearance.

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Your brain is hardwired to look for threats. That’s great if you’re in a jungle being chased by a bear. Not so great when you’re trying to live in the peace Jesus died to give you. In Week 2 of our Living Peace summer series, I delve into the real reason why so many of us are stuck in fear, outrage, and constant conflict, and how Jesus flips the script in one of His most famous parables: the Good Samaritan...

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This brought me to tears.

“Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.”

Young Girl in the Presence of the Eucharist. . . Beautiful

And the king answering, shall say to them: Amen I say to you, as long as you did it to one of these my least brethren, you did it to me. (Douay-Rheims Matthew 25:40)

By now the appalling story of two teenage lads in Mountain View, California, is well known. They were classmates at a local Catholic High School, St Francis, and when younger applied an acne remedy to their faces, causing them to turn black (dark green, really)

Regrettably, and no doubt foolishly, the two boys took selfies of themselves at the time, and eventually those photos got around, causing a furor.

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That act resulted in their lives becoming a living hell for several years. Every single leftie in a vast radius, whose mission is to keep a constant vigil on all those whose personal activities are suspect, no matter how innocent, took notice and the screaming fest began. For when a white man is caught in blackface, no exculpatory explanation is sought nor needed, they are guilty, quod erat demonstrandum.

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And the king answering, shall say to them: Amen I say to you, as long as you did it to one of these my least brethren, you did it to me. (Douay-Rheims Matthew 25:40)

By now the appalling story of two teenage lads in Mountain View, California, is well known. They were classmates at a local Catholic High School, St Francis, and when younger applied an acne remedy to their faces, causing them to turn black (dark green, really)

Regrettably, and no doubt foolishly, the two boys took selfies of themselves at the time, and eventually those photos got around, causing a furor.

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When it comes to his loyal base Trump is usually sure footed. His attempt to make his Epstein problem go away by using his usual bluster and bloviation is a mistake. Suspicion of the Deep State is an article of faith for MAGA. Trump said that everything about Epstein would be revealed and now his Attorney General and his FBI are saying“Never mind! Nothing to see here! Go about your business!

To quote Talleyrand, it is worse than a crime, it is a mistake. He had his enemies on the run and now he has disheartened his friends and handed a sword to his foes.

American bishops should not be excusing crime.

In the early half of the 20th century, beginning in 1917, Mexico’s government began persecuting Catholics. A new constitution outlawed Catholic teaching, banned religious orders, and claimed all Church property for the government. Violent persecution within less than a decade. The priest Luis Bátiz Sainz was arrested for teaching catechism and celebrating Mass and was executed by firing squad. Miguel de la Mora, another priest, was executed while praying the rosary. Rodrigo Aguilar Alemán was arrested while celebrating Mass in secret and hanged. While distributing ashes on Ash Wednesday, Pedro de Jesús Maldonado was attacked by soldiers and tortured and killed in his own church.

Jesuit priest Miguel Pro was captured by federal police and executed by firing squad. When asked his final words, Pro cried out, “Viva Cristo Rey!” In an attempt to stamp out Catholicism and spread fear, the Mexican government photographed the well-known priest’s execution and had it published on the front page of newspapers. Far from driving Catholics away from the sacraments, however, the stunt actually sparked an increased fervor among Mexican Catholics, who refused to stay away from Mass. One young Catholic, 15-year-old José Luis Sánchez del Río, was captured by government soldiers and told to renounce his faith. When he refused, the soles of his feet were cut off and he was made to march to his own grave. All he had to do to avoid death was reject Christ. Instead, he followed in Miguel Pro’s footsteps and cried out, “Viva Cristo Rey!”

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I’m sure you all remember Avery Jackson, the “trans girl” who, at 9, was on the cover of National Geographic. Avery was given the gold standard in gender affirming care: he was chemically castrated and sterilized with “blockers” to hold off male puberty. Nevertheless, he does not pass, and never will.

Now, at age 17, Avery has come out as “nonbinary” — but that’s not the worst part. He also identifies as asexual, meaning that he doesn’t experience sexual attraction.

This is undoubtedly the result of the medication used to delay male puberty; the president of WPATH, Dr, “Marci” Bowers, has said on camera that so-called puberty blockers, which are used to chemically castrate sex offenders, chemically castrate the young boys who take them as well, leaving them incapable of…

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What Happened to the National Geographic Trans “Girl”

Why Catholics Can Never Scatter Someone’s Ashes When They Die

Fr. Mike Schmitz via X explains.

When I was ordained a priest in 1985, my first pastor was about to turn 50 years old; he was a member of the Ordination Class of 1962. He saw himself and others saw him too as a “Vatican II” priest. There were meetings galore, a lot of “co-ministry” with women Religious, and, in discussions, frequent references to the marginalized and minorities of various kinds. But I don’t recall that we had a single Holy Hour in the Presence of the Blessed Sacrament in my five-year assignment there, nor do I remember hearing a word against co-habitation in the parish Pre-Cana program. Moreover, I have no memory of any notices in the weekly bulletin announcing seminars on the topic of natural family planning.

There are always going to be different pastoral emphases, even in what might be regarded as not particularly ideological parishes. What developed, however, in many post-conciliar parishes are what we now call “safe spaces,” meaning places you could go and not be reminded of words and ideas you don’t like. When the “safe space” is breached after decades in some cases, you can well imagine the displeasure in certain quarters. But it was bound to happen at some point.

Over the last few years, men ordained priests in the 1970s have been marking their fiftieth anniversaries and are retiring from the active ministry. They are being replaced by men who weren’t even alive in the 1970s! Indeed, the men in the cohort of younger priests now were only ordained in the last two decades. These younger priests are doctrinally more conservative than the priests they are replacing. This is not just anecdotal; the survey research bears this out too.

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“Anyone who’s saying that Medicaid cuts is why they’re closing is a liar,” April Roberts said, as she oversaw lunch at the Curtis Area Senior Center.

The retirees trickling in for fried chicken and soft-serve ice cream will be hit hardest when the clinic closes this fall, Roberts fears. Seniors who sometimes go in multiple times a month to have blood drawn will have to drive 40 miles to the next nearest health center

Arriving for lunch, retired Navy veteran Jim Christensen said he’d read an op-ed that “tried to blame everything on Trump.”

“Horse feathers,” he said, dismissing the idea.
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“They’re huge [fans of Trump] … and so it doesn’t matter what he does - there’s an excuse for it,” [registered Republican but non-Trump voter] Jorgensen said. The retired corn and cattle farmer was used to being the odd one out in Frontier County, where 86 percent of the vote went to Trump last fall.

Many people in Curtis have directed their frustration at their hospital system instead of their representatives in Washington.

Community Hospital, the nonprofit that runs the clinic known as the Curtis Medical Center and a couple of other facilities in the region, plunged into the center of that national story when it announced on July 2 - one day before the bill’s passage - that a confluence of factors had made its Curtis outpost unsustainable. It cited years-long financial challenges, inflation and “anticipated federal budget cuts to Medicaid,” the public health insurance program for lower-income and disabled Americans.

Rural health care facilities run on thin margins to serve small communities in far-flung locations. And they tend to have more patients on Medicaid, many of them self-employed farmers, small business owners and seasonal workers more likely to need public insurance. Hospital groups and executives have warned that some rural hospitals that long operated at a loss won’t be able to stay open much longer, now that the Medicaid cuts have been voted in.

Community Hospital officials said they had tried to find another group to take over the clinic, without luck.

In a resurfaced viral video, a priest is attacked during the consecration at Mass.

A young woman approaches the altar as he says the consecration prayers and hits him. In the background, one can hear an audible shriek.

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Priest Attacked by Shrieking Woman at Mass, Then Casts Out Demons with Deliverance Prayer

In a resurfaced video, a priest is attacked during the consecration at Mass. After she is removed, he says a deliverance prayer over her!

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Seminarian Josh Brooks. | Credit: Courtesy of Catholic Philly, official newspaper of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia

Josh Brooks, a native of Delaware County in metro Philadelphia, dreamed of following in the footsteps of his idol LeBron James and becoming a professional basketball player. However, God had other plans for him.

Today, Brooks is in his third year of university studies at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia and is preparing for the priesthood.

“I don't want to just live for myself, but I want to bring the joy God gave me to other people,” Brooks said in a recent interview with Catholic Philly, the official newspaper of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.

Raised in the Baptist faith, Brooks had his first contact with Catholicism when his parents enrolled him at St. Ignatius Loyola Elementary School in West Philadelphia. Later, at Monsignor Bonner & Archbishop Prendergast High School, his interest in the Catholic faith grew.

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Today, the idea of counting patriotism as a virtue makes a lot of people antsy and uncomfortable. But that wasn’t always the case. Aspiring to the love of God and country was the norm for most of human history. And until rather recently, every culture celebrated its great patriots in art, literature, music and film. The classic movies produced during World War II — and then about it — are enduring examples of how we expressed our patriotism before patriotism itself got a bad rap.

But something changed in the United States when the children of the “Greatest Generation” reached adolescence. With body-bag counts from Vietnam reported daily on the 6 o’clock news and the Watergate hearings overriding regular daytime programming on television, almost everyone under 30 struggled to find any reason to be proud. For kids in elementary school like me, the ambivalence permeated everything.

Our fathers and grandfathers fought evil in Europe and the Far East and defeated it at great personal cost. But the society at large was intent on proving that we didn’t owe them anything. The fourth commandment — “honor your father and your mother” — no longer applied. Consequently, I didn’t witness much patriotism until Ronald Reagan was elected president. And when I finally did, it frightened me.

In those years, we were told (in both direct and oh-so-subtle ways) that America’s best days could only be found in history books, but that what was written in those books was misleading.

Our nation was troubled from the start, rife with broken promises at home and prone to arrogant bullying abroad. Strong countercultural forces peddled the narrative that America had little to be proud of and a lot to be ashamed of.

Loving one’s neighbor​

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Warning: This article contains details of extreme violence.

ABUJA, Nigeria — Fulani herdsmen attacked two villages in Kaduna state, Nigeria, killing two Christians and wounding three others, after terrorizing villagers in another area in June, local residents said.

In Jema’a County, herdsmen attacked Dogon Fili and Attang villages after 9 p.m. local time on June 7, said area resident Sandra Musa.

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John MacArthur, the 86-year-old longtime California pastor and broadcaster, has been admitted to the hospital with pneumonia. The announcement was made during Sunday worship, with a church leader telling the congregation he “may be in the presence of the Lord soon.”

The latest update was delivered by Tom Patton, a staff pastor at Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California, where MacArthur has served for over five decades.

Patton asked the congregation to pray for MacArthur and his family, saying the church was placing their pastor “at the feet of the glorious Savior whom he has served so faithfully for so many years and now awaits his final command to be in his presence forever.”

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I know the whole King Charles/Camilla affair happened when I was really young too young to really fully grasp what was going on but it left me as a child well... angry. The whole affair STILL makes me angry inside. Why? Well now because I fully understand what the affair entailed. That King Charles was with Camilla repeatedly and cheated on Princess Diana not just once like my mother lead me to believe for so many years but repeatedly and deliberately. And he was carrying the title prince of Wales back then! He was my future king! He is now my king! And the worst part is? He's STILL living with his mistress! He's still supposed to be a man of God bearing God's holy image and hes unrepentant of his original adultery and his betrayal of his wife Princese Diana! It just makes me so angry!

And yet... I want to forgive him. I have to forgive him but its like... I can't let this go. Its like I completely understand what Prince Harry and Prince William to a degree are going through. Their mom was tragically killed and their father cheated on her repeatedly forcing her to file for divorce when she really didnt want to and now shes just... gone.

But the thing is? Like Prince Harry I dont know how to forgive him and he isnt my father hes just my king. A king that is supposed to be righteous and holy (a job that Prince William will be much more qualified for and Queen Elizabeth did so well for so many years) and yet, hes got a deep dark secret that he will never repent for and he will never leave Camilla. But... he doesnt have to do that to earn my forgiveness he just has to... idk take his job as king before God seriously I guess and repent? But that'll never happen so how do I move on from this and get on with my life... help?

I was wondering if somebody could help me forgive him because God commands us to forgive but also if they could give me some biblical advice on forgiveness.

This is Jesus Christ speaking to his 11 disciples, for by this time Judas Iscariot had already departed to betray Jesus to the authorities. And Jesus was speaking during the time period when the Jews were still under the Old Covenant, for Jesus had not yet died and had not been resurrected and had not yet returned to the Father. And Jesus, who was also a Jew, but who was God, the second person of our triune God – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – spoke of himself as the true vine with God the Father being the vinedresser.

Okay, so I am going to introduce a thought here that I had not thought of before in reading this passage of Scripture, and this is something that I will have to look into more thoroughly, but this is what struck me this time in reading about Jesus being the vine and the Father being the vinedresser. The first Scripture that came to mind is 1 Corinthians 10:4 where it says that the Israelites, in the wilderness in the time of Moses, drank from the spiritual Rock that followed (or accompanied) them, and the Rock was Christ.

Now, if you consider that the Scriptures teach that Jesus always existed with God and that he is God (as noted above), and that he is our creator God (see John 1:1-36), then Jesus, the Christ, was with the Israelites always, and he was the spiritual rock that they drank from, even back then. And this is not meaning physical water that they drank, but that they drew their livelihood, their existence, and their spiritual life and sustenance from him who is our rock, our fortress, our tower of strength.

And then I thought of Romans 11 where it also speaks of branches which were broken off from the root, which were the Jews who rejected Jesus Christ (the root), and how we Gentiles by physical birth were grafted into the root by faith in Jesus Christ. For it is Jesus Christ that we come into by faith and we become part of him. He is our root. He is our vine. He alone is our spiritual rock from which we drink (partake). He alone is the one in whom we abide and no other so only he can be that root we were grafted into.

So, the point here is that Jesus Christ was always the root. He was always the rock of our salvation from whom the Israelites who trusted in God had their life and their salvation. He was always the vine. And all who believe in him with God-persuaded faith are his branches. But once he died and was resurrected from the dead, which is when God’s people entered into a new covenant with God/Christ, then for all those who did not believe in him, they were cut off from the vine, like this talks about in John, chapter 15.

If you ever worked a puzzle before, or if you ever tried to solve a mystery, you may have gone through a process of logic and reason and deduction such as, if A=B and if C=B then there must be a connection between A and C. And I may not be explaining this well, but it has to do with associations and with connecting the dots. Like if by faith in Jesus Christ we are now joined with Christ, and he is our root/vine, then the root we were grafted into, which some Jews got cut out of, is Christ. For we are in Christ.

And this fits with this passage in John 15 where it speaks of branches being cut off from the vine due to unbelief (disobedience), which was evident by the fact that they did not bear spiritual fruit for the kingdom of God. There was no spiritual outgrowth or results in their lives that gave evidence to them being true branches. But they were once the Lord’s branches. They were once part of that root/vine, but Jesus had to cut them out because they did not believe in him, which is evidenced by the lack of fruit of obedience.

So, if we want to be “in Christ,” and to be his true branches, we must walk in the faith that we profess. We must, as his branches, leave our lives of sin behind us and now walk in obedience to his commands (New Covenant) in holy living, living separate (unlike, different) from the world because we are being conformed to the likeness of character of Jesus Christ. And we must continue in these walks of faith steadfast until the very end if we want to have salvation from sin and eternal life with God.

For, just like Jesus Christ/God cut out of him the natural branches who did not believe in Jesus Christ (once Jesus had given his life for us on that cross to save us from our sins) he will cut us out, too, if we don’t remain in him, and if we do not bear the kind of spiritual fruit that he requires of us, and if we do not continue in his grace. And his grace instructs us to renounce (say “NO!” to) ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives (see Romans 11:19-24; Titus 2:11-14).

[Matt 7:21-23; Matt 24:9-14; Lu 9:23-26; Rom 1:18-32; Rom 2:6-8; Rom 6:1-23; Rom 8:1-14,24; Rom 12:1-2; Rom 13:11; 1 Co 6:9-10,19-20; 2 Co 5:10,15,21; 1 Co 1:18; 1 Co 15:1-2; 2 Tim 1:8-9; Heb 9:28; 1 Pet 1:5; Gal 5:16-21; Gal 6:7-8; Eph 2:8-10; Eph 4:17-32; Eph 5:3-6; Col 1:21-23; Col 3:5-17; 1 Pet 2:24; Tit 2:11-14; 1 Jn 1:5-9; 1 Jn 2:3-6,24-25; 1 Jn 3:4-10; Heb 3:6,14-15; Heb 10:23-31; Heb 12:1-2; Rev 21:8,27; Rev 22:14-15]

My Sheep

Based off John 10:1-30 NIV
An Original Work / June 24, 2012
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

My sheep hear me. They know me.
They listen to my voice and obey.
I call them and lead them.
They know my voice, so they follow me.
They will never follow strangers.
They will run away from them.
The voice of a stranger they know not;
They do not follow him.

So, I tell you the truth that
I am the gate, so you enter in.
Whoever does enter
Will find forgiveness and will be saved.
Nonetheless whoever enters
Not by the gate; other way,
He is the thief and a robber.
Listen not, the sheep to him.

Oh, I am the Good Shepherd,
Who laid his own life down for the sheep.
I know them. They know me.
They will live with me eternally.
The thief only comes to steal and
Kill and to destroy the church.
I have come to give you life that
You may have it to the full…

They know my voice, so they follow me.

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Unless We Abide in Christ
Originally written and posted on December 7, 2023
Reposted on December 9, 2024 and July 14, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Was he a disciple ?

ICE and CBP arrested violent and dangerous criminal illegal aliens during the operation who were working at the marijuana site, including:
Roman Izquierdo—an illegal alien from Mexico—who has been convicted of kidnapping, attempted rape and attempted child molestation. ICE previously deported him in 2006.
Juan Duarte-Velasquez—an illegal alien from Mexico—who has been convicted of rape and a DUI.

Now we can see who the progressive protestors defend. And we hope the children are on there way to being united with their families.

14 July, 1789 was the day the Bastille--a fortress/prison in Paris-- was stormed by a mob of angry French citizens, expressing their disgust at the imprisonment of persons who dared to challenge the actions of the French government. As it turned out, only 7 detainees were freed. But it was the start of the French Revolution, and the beginning of the end of the French monarchy. (Not to mention that 4 years later was the Reign of Terror. When madam Guillotine was very busy.) But if nothing else, La Marseillaise, is the best of all national anthems. How many other countries' national songs mention watering fields with the blood of their enemies?

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There are ads on this website with a woman talking about God and the Bible, I am trying to find more of the videos and found them to be very helpful does anyone know where it can be found.

SO WHAT DOES ULTRA- DISPENSATION MEAN ?

And at one time we had two ULTRA in our Assembly , many years ago , and never pushed. their. theology position towards me. !

And what I do know is that they begin the Body of Christ at Acts 28

And do. make a separation between Israel and the Body of Christ !

And maybe reject Water Baptism !

And reject the Lords Supper !

And do not know how they stand on salvation !

What say you. ?

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People talk about the "morally gray" characters in Star Wars Andor. However, I don't think a person who has to do an evil thing morally gray if he understands that what he did was evil without rationalizing it as good.

For instance, the character Luthen says, "I'm damned for what I do." That indicates a person of conventional morality, not different from the average soldier of the Allies during WWII. On a personal note, and why this is an issue of importance to me, all of my elder relatives were ground combat veterans. Toward the ends of their lives--good lives, well-lived lives--they were all still tortured by things they'd done in combat. None of them felt his actions had been justified even though their actions had been forced upon them by circumstances they did not create.

Luthen's acknowledgment--"I'm condemned to use the methods of my enemy to defeat him....I'm damned for what I do"--is not morally gray in the classical sense. It reflects a man with a strong moral compass who knowingly violates it for a cause he believes just. That’s very different from someone who redefines wrong as right, which is often what the term “morally gray” suggests.

Luthen does morally reprehensible things: manipulating people, sacrificing allies, orchestrating civilian deaths, but he never excuses them as good. He doesn’t relativize morality; he believes in it. He just accepts damnation as the cost of victory.

That places him closer to the moral framework of Allied soldiers in WWII: “I’m doing something I believe is necessary, but I still know it’s morally wrong.”

IMO, a "morally gray" character is one who doesn’t operate on a fixed moral code or shifts between ethical systems situationally. A morally gray character denies the evil they do is actually evil, or they deny that good and evil actually exist.

Luthen believes in absolute morality, but he chooses to sin against it consciously and accepts a tragic ending that he considers a just ending for what he has done.