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Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Mother Mary Angelica, RIP

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Mother Mary Angelica, RIP : Mother Angelica , foundress of the Eternal Word Television Network, of two religious orders, and EWTN radio, died Easter Sunday, March 27,...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: An Ordination in Dachau

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: An Ordination in Dachau : During the English Recusant period the missionary priests had travelled to Rome, Reims, Douai, or Vallidolid for their seminary training a...

St Kinga | Independent Catholic News

St Kinga | Independent Catholic News : Princess. St Kunigunde or Kinga, was born in 1226 in Hungary. Her family was distinguished for its political power as well as its ho...

Sts. Justa and Rufina, Roman Catholic Virgins and Martyrs (Feast - July 19)

Sts. Justa and Rufina, Roman Catholic Virgins and Martyrs (Feast - July 19) These martyrs were two Christian women at Seville in Spain who maintained themselves by selling earthenware. Not to concur in idolatrous superstitions, they refused to sell vessels for the use of heathen ceremonies and when the worshipers broke up their stock-in-trade, Justa and Rufina retorted by overthrowing the image of a false goddess. Whereupon the people impeached them for their faith before the governor. The prefect, after they had boldly confessed Christ, commanded them to be stretched on the rack and their sides to be torn with hooks. An idol was placed near the rack with incense, that if they would offer sacrifice they should be released; but their fidelity was not to be shaken. Justa died on the rack; the judge ordered Rufina to be strangled, and their bodies to be burned. Feastday July 19

St Arsenius and St Mary MacKillop | Independent Catholic News

St Arsenius and St Mary MacKillop | Independent Catholic News : Fresco, Mount AthosMonk. Born in Rome, in 354, Arsenius is said to have been a deacon, and later a tutor to the Emperor Theodosi...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Church and State in Colonial British America

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Church and State in Colonial British America : The Eerdman's blog offers an excerpt from Mark A. Noll's book The Old Religion in a New World  about the development of religious ...

Pope Francis: “It is irresponsible to pollute water and air” | Independent Catholic News

Pope Francis: “It is irresponsible to pollute water and air” | Independent Catholic News : Pope Francis has called the shortage of accessible clean water, a 'fundamental right'. Recalling that about two billion people in th...

Discernment of Spirits

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Is Your Concept of God's Love in Need of Correction?

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Daily Reading for Tuesday, July 18th, 2017 HD

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Saint Faustina and Divine Mercy Preview

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Dialogues des Carmelites final

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St Simon Stock | Independent Catholic News

St Simon Stock | Independent Catholic News : This is the patronal feast of the Carmelites. The Order of Carmelites takes its name from Mount Carmel in Israel, which was the firs...

Bl. Richard Langhorne, Roman Catholic lawyer and English Martyr He was hanged at Tyburn, London, on 14 July

Bl. Richard Langhorne, Roman Catholic lawyer and English Martyr He was hanged at Tyburn, London, on 14 July

St Camillus | Independent Catholic News

St Camillus | Independent Catholic News : Patron of nurses and the sick. Born in Naples in 1550, St Camillus was very tall, (six foot six) and, as a young man, hot-tempered a...

The French Revolution: The Rising of the Vendee

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St Veronica | Independent Catholic News

St Veronica | Independent Catholic News : Traditionally, St Veronica was a woman of Jerusalem who was so filled with compassion when she saw Jesus carrying his cross on the w...

St. John Wall, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr, and imprisoned for five months. He was martyred by being hanged, drawn, and quartered at Redhill. Feastday July12

St. John Wall, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr, and imprisoned for five months. He was martyred by being hanged, drawn, and quartered at Redhill. Feastday July12

Bl. David Gonson, Roman Catholic Knight of St. John and English Martyr . David was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Southwark. Feastday July 12

Bl. David Gonson, Roman Catholic Knight of St. John and English Martyr . David was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Southwark. Feastday July 12

The Beginning and Spread of the Catholic Culture by Hilarie Belloc

  The Beginning and Spread of the Catholic Culture How was the Faith was established and spread with such astonishing success throughout a vast society which had begun by knowing it ill, had proceeded to hate it, and had at last accepted it for a universal religion. But what was the internal force? How were men convinced? Why did they join this society in spite of the terrible risks communion with it involved? Often it meant ruin of fortune and thrusting out from the society of one’s fellows and sometimes torture and death. What drove men to it? The answer is that the Church was a person which men came to trust as they come to trust it today. A man became a Christian because he found that the Church affirmed things which he recognized to be true in experience and holy in character. The Holy Catholic Church and Christian Culture We must begin by laying down as a historical fact not to be removed by affection one way or the other, that the conversion of the Roman Empire was

St Benedict | Independent Catholic News

St Benedict | Independent Catholic News : Abbot and founder of Subiaco and Monte Cassino; author of the Rule which bears his name; Patriarch of Western Monasticism; and patro...

Daily Reading for Tuesday, July 11th, 2017 HD

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St Rufina and Secunda | Independent Catholic News

St Rufina and Secunda | Independent Catholic News : Martyrs. These early Christian saints were the daughters of Asterius, a Roman senator. He arranged for them to marry Armentarius and...

Daily Reading for Monday, July 10th, 2017 HD

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Bl. Adrian Fortescue, Roman Catholic English Martyr, he refused to take the Oath of Supremacy supporting Henry VIII' s separation for Rome, Adrian was placed in the Tower of London. Permitted no trial and condemned by Parliament, Adrian was beheaded along with Thomas Dinglay. Feastday July9

Bl. Adrian Fortescue, Roman Catholic English Martyr, he refused to take the Oath of Supremacy supporting Henry VIII' s separation for Rome, Adrian was placed in the Tower of London. Permitted no trial and condemned by Parliament, Adrian was beheaded along with Thomas Dinglay. Feastday July9

Martyrs of Gorkum, A group of nineteen martyrs put to death with great cruelty by Protestant Calvinists in Gorkum, Holland. There were ten Franciscans, two Premonstratensians, a Dominican, a Canon Regular, four secular priests, and one layman in the group. Feastday July 9 Callistus - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online

Martyrs of Gorkum, A group of nineteen martyrs put to death with great cruelty by Protestant Calvinists in Gorkum, Holland. There were ten Franciscans, two Premonstratensians, a Dominican, a Canon Regular, four secular priests, and one layman in the group. Feastday July 9

Daily Reading for Sunday, July 9th, 2017 HD

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St Kilian | Independent Catholic News

St Kilian | Independent Catholic News : A 7th century Irish missionary and martyr, St Kilian left from Mullagh for Germany with 11 companions. They crossed the North Sea, a...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Known and Unknown Martyrs in 1539

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Known and Unknown Martyrs in 1539 : Along Old Kent Road, there was a spot called St. Thomas's Waterings or St. Thomas-a-Watering, where pilgrims to Canterbury, including ...

Daily Reading for Saturday, July 8th, 2017 HD

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St. Humphrey Lawrence, Roman Catholic English Martyr

St. Humphrey Lawrence, Roman Catholic English Martyr. He openly called Queen Elizabeth I a heretic and she had him arrested immediately. He was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Winchester. Feastday July 7

Bl. Ralph Milner, Roman Catholic English Martyr.

Bl. Ralph Milner, Roman Catholic English Martyr. He was arrested the day he received his first Communion. A husbands man by trade, Ralph was allowed a leave from prison and aided priests and Catholics. He was executed at Winchester on July by being hanged, drawn, and quartered for giving assistance to Blessed Roger Dickenson. Feastday July 7

St Sunniva | Independent Catholic News

St Sunniva | Independent Catholic News : A 10th century Irish princess and nun. According to legend, she set sail from Ireland with several companions in search of a haven i...

Daily Reading for Friday, July 7th, 2017 HD

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Bl. Thomas Alfield, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr.

Bl. Thomas Alfield, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr. While raised as an Anglican, he eventually was converted to Catholicism and left England to study for the priesthood at Douai and Reims, France, receiving ordination in 1581. Returning to England, he was soon arrested while handing out copies of the polemic True and Modest Defence by Dr. Allen. Condemned, he was hanged at Tyburn. Feastday July 6

Daily Reading for Thursday, July 6th, 2017 HD

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Church of Santa Susanna in Rome

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Church of Santa Susanna in Rome

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St Athanasius | Independent Catholic News

St Athanasius | Independent Catholic News : Abbot and founder. St Athanasius was born in Trebizond, Turkey, around 920 and studied at Constantinople.He became a monk, at...

Daily Reading for Wednesday, July 5th, 2017 HD

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Saint Genesius of Rome is the Roman Catholic patron saint of comedians, ...

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St Elizabeth of Portugal | Independent Catholic News

St Elizabeth of Portugal | Independent Catholic News : St Elizabeth was forced into an arranged marriage with Denis, King of Portugal, when she was only twelve, in 1283. They had two chil...

Bl. John Carey, Roman Catholic English Martyr, an Irish layman. He was the servant of Blessed Thomas Bosgrave and was put to death with Blesseds Thomas Bosgrave, John Cornelius, and Patrick Salmon at Dorchester in Oxfordshire. Feastday July 4

Bl. John Carey, Roman Catholic English Martyr, an Irish layman. He was the servant of Blessed Thomas Bosgrave and was put to death with Blesseds Thomas Bosgrave, John Cornelius, and Patrick Salmon at Dorchester in Oxfordshire. Feastday July 4

Bl. Edward Fulthrop, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr, he was condemned as a Catholic priest. He was executed at York with three laymen, John Abbot, Thomas Warcop, and William Andleby. Feastday July 4

Bl. Edward Fulthrop, Roman Catholic Priest and English Martyr, he was condemned as a Catholic priest. He was executed at York with three laymen, John Abbot, Thomas Warcop, and William Andleby. Feastday July 4

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: July 4 Martyrs: Priests and Laymen

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: July 4 Martyrs: Priests and Laymen : Eight martyrs suffered on July 4: four each in 1594 and 1597. These executions are examples of a pattern that only existed during Elizabeth ...

Carmelite Mental Prayer

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Contraceptive pills are making fish 'trans' as hormones pollute water su...

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Daily Reading for Tuesday, July 4th, 2017 HD

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St Thomas | Independent Catholic News

St Thomas | Independent Catholic News : The disciple Thomas is called 'Didymus the Twin' in the New Testament, but throughout the Christian world he is known as 'Doubting T...

Coventry Deanery goes high tech with mobile App | Independent Catholic News

Coventry Deanery goes high tech with mobile App | Independent Catholic News : Coventry Catholic Deanery is probably the first in the country to have its own mobile App!! Its free to download and is compatible w...

Daily Reading for Monday, July 3rd, 2017 HD

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St John Francis Regis | Independent Catholic News

St John Francis Regis | Independent Catholic News : Jesuit priest. St John was born in 1597, in Fontcouverte in south-eastern France and lived most of his life there. He worked as a te...

Church of San Silvestro Al Quirinale Rome, Italy

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From Pro Soccer to the Priesthood: The Witness of Fr. Chase Hilgenbrinck

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How to Start Discerning the Priesthood

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Church of Santa Susanna in Rome-Church in Rome for The USA

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Bride of Christ - Taking Vows

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Famous Model Olalla Oliveros Becomes Catholic Nun After 'Earthquake' Exp...

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The Papacy Cannot be Destroyed

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Daily Reading for Sunday, July 2nd, 2017 HD

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Everett Fritz: Why Young People Are Leaving the Church - Catholic Answer...

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St Oliver Plunkett | Independent Catholic News

St Oliver Plunkett | Independent Catholic News : Archbishop. Martyr. Born in Co Meath, Ireland, in 1625, at a time when penal laws against Catholics were very severe, St Oliver stud...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: July 1 and Three Martyrs

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: July 1 and Three Martyrs : St. Thomas More was sentenced to death on July 1, 1535. St. Oliver Plunkett was hanged, drawn and quartered on July 1, 1681 (please see my b...

Story of the Devotion and Chaplet to the Infant Jesus of Prague

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Prayer to the Infant Jesus of Prague

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The Shrine of the Infant Jesus, Prague Oklahoma

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Infant of Prague

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Fundraiser

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Daily Reading for Saturday, July 1st, 2017 HD

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