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" Eternal Father, I offer Thee the Most Precious Blood of Thy Divine Son, Jesus, in union with the masses said throughout the world to...

His Holiness Benedict XVI, Supreme Pontiff Emeritus, died today at 9:34 AM Central European Time (UTC+1) at the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery in...

My beloved brother Jacob passed away this morning. While he was not able to post on the blog regularly for a number of years, his interest i...

A lady with whom I am acquainted at a Catholic web forum moved with her husband to Michigan awhile ago and dropped out of sight.  It has com...

With Election Day past and its aftermath continuing to play out with several states' vote counting being contested, Archbishop Viganò ha...

Archbishop Viganò has sent another open letter ( pdf ) to the president of the United States ahead of the coming election on November 3.  T...

Longtime readers will remember this post from 2016 where I talked about plans to deal with the declining Catholic population of my hometown...

Hello, readers.  For those of you who keep up on Catholic news, you are no doubt aware of what's been going on with the McCarrick affair...

In case you missed it, the folks at Rorate Caeli ran an online poll asking the question, "If Francis offers a Prelature to Society of ...

The previous pontiff, Benedict XVI, otherwise known as Joseph Ratzinger, has said and written a few things over the years since he resigned ...