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Westminster: Bishops to celebrate Christmas Mass in prisons on Independent Catholic News

Launch of Guidelines for Interreligious Marriage on Independent Catholic News

ZENIT - Our Lady of Guadalupe: 'Star of the New Evangelization'

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ZENIT - Pope Benedict XVI Calls on Faithful to Look at the Example of St. John the Baptist

ZENIT - Pope's December Prayer Intentions Dedicated to Migrants

Nigeria - New cardinal says: 'Nowhere is safe now' on Independent Catholic News

Twitter used to promote Year of Faith on Independent Catholic News

ZENIT - Pope: "The Universality of the Church Flows from the Universality of Gods Unique Plan of Salvation for the World."

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In order to understand this very great thing which captured and transformed the old pagan world, we must grasp its nature. We must be able to answer the question, “what was it that spread so rapidly and so triumphantly throughout the Graeco-Roman world?’ Secondly, we must appreciate the “method’ by which this revolution was accomplished; lastly in order to understand both the nature and the method of the ‘thing’ we must discover why it met with so ‘intense a resistance’, for that resistance explains both its character and its ways of propagation and it was victory over that resistance which established the Catholic Faith and practice so firmly over our race for so many centuries and generations. First then, as to the nature of the conquest. The great change did not come because ‘it met a need’; it did indeed meet needs that were universal. It filled up that aching void in the soul which was the prime malady of the dying ancient society; also it relieved and dissipated despair

Archbishop Nichols urges Catholics to be more confident in their faith on Independent Catholic News

Ordinariate: Nine new priests ordained this month on Independent Catholic News

ZENIT - Is a Cohesive Europe That Forgets Its Christian Roots Possible?

ZENIT - The Church's Most Beautiful Congregation

ZENIT - Japan to Celebrate Beatification of Its Martyrs

ZENIT - 5 Martyrs Recognized from Bosnia-Herzegovina

ZENIT - Fulton Sheen Declared Venerable

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 a conversion to what was called by all our ancestry and what is still called by those with any historical sense The Catholic Church. The Empire was not ‘converted’ to what modern men mean when they used the word ‘Christianity’. The phrase is continually used and as continually corrupts the historical judgement of those who use it and those who hear it. In the ears of modern youth, especially in societies which have lost the Catholic Culture, the word ‘Christianity’ means vaguely, “That which is common in various sects, opinions and moods inherited in diluted form from the Reformation”. In England today, for instance ‘Christianity’ means a general feeling of kindliness, particularly to animals. To some more precise in mind it may mean an appreciation of and even an attempt at copying, a Character which seems to them portrayed

How Catholicism stands today is obviously a vital matter both to the man who recognizes it for the salvation of the world, and to the man who regards it as a mortal poison in society. But it is also a vital matter to any neutral observer who has enough history to know that religion is at the root of every culture, and that on the rise and fall of religions the great changes of society have depended. The form of any society ultimately depends upon its philosophy, upon its way of looking at the universe, upon its judgment of moral values: that is, in the concrete, upon its religion. For whether it calls its philosophy by the name of "religion" or no, into what is, in practice, a religion of some kind, the philosophy of any society ultimately falls. The ultimate source of social form is the attitude of the mind; and at the heart of every culture is a creed and code of morals: expressed or taken for granted. 'H. Belloc'

ZENIT - Pope Calls on Prayer Lessons Taught by St. Dominic

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Ever since the disaster of the Protestant Reformation our civilization has been falling into ever deepening crisis, the solution to which Hilarie Belloc says. “Does not permit of indefinite delay. Thus the Protestant Reformation has led to our present disastrous economic situation, where there are on the one hand, a few wealthy men and on the other a multitude of ‘wage slaves’ who have neither a secure ‘status’ nor a place in society, nor any property, except for their labour, upon which to rely on for their daily bread. Furthermore, he shows how this situation contrasts sharply with that of the middle ages, where security of status, with a sufficiency of material goods, was the rule, which thus supported the catholic goal of frugal comfort and family security in this life and salvation in the next, as opposed to the Calvinist ideal of acquiring material wealth, even at the expense of the welfare of one’s neighbor. He concludes by stating that only a return to Catholicism will re

Wisdom from Cardinal Newman on scandals in the Church

Bl. Thomas Abel - Saints & Angels - Catholic Online Bl. Thomas Abel English Catholic Priest who was martyred during the reign of Henry VIII. Arrested by English authorities for denying the spiritual supremacy of the king, He was incarcerated in the Tower of London for six years, he was sentenced to "be drawn on a hurdle to the place of execution, there to be hanged, cut down alive, your members to be cut off and cast in the fire, your bowels burnt before your eyes, your head smitten off, your body to be quartered at the King's will, and God have mercy on your soul finally receiving execution at Smithfield.

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ZENIT - A Martyr Church: Cambodian Catholics Remember Their Heroes

Edith Stein — Convert, Nun, Martyr

Protestantism dying even faster than Catholicism in Luther's homeland

Roman basilica honours modern martyrs on Independent Catholic News

ZENIT - Salesians Take Up Call to New Evangelization, Focus on Evangelizing the Young

ZENIT - 75% of Those Killed for Religious Hatred Are Christian

Vietnam: mass protests after government crackdown on Catholic Church on Independent Catholic News

Appeal Court rules Church can be held responsible for offences by priests on Independent Catholic News

Nigeria: 'Christians must convert' says Islamist group on Independent Catholic News

ZENIT - Paul VI's Proclamation of St. Benedict as Patron of Europe

ZENIT - Christian Unity: A Prayer of the Ages

ZENIT - Testimony of 30 Living Vatican II Participants Said to Stir Wave of Emotions

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A surprising number think that because of his beliefs Tony Blair should have been denied entry into the Church: But wouldn’t that mean a lot of expulsions? | CatholicHerald.co.uk

Hilaire Belloc Discussing the chances of the present struggle for the survival; of the Church in that very civilization which she created and which is now generally abandoning her. The five the main forms of attack These five are, in their historical order, 1. The Aria n; 2. The Mohammedan; 3. The Albigensian ; 4. The Protestant ; 5. One to which no specific name has as yet been attached, but we shall call for the sake of convenience " the Modern .'' The Arian heresy (filling the fourth, and active throughout the fifth, century), proposed to go to the very root of the Church's authority by attacking the full Divinity of her Founder . The Mohammedan attack was of a different kind. It came geographically from just outside the area of Christendom; it appeared, almost from the outset, as a foreign enemy; yet it was not, strictly speaking, a new religion attacking the old, it was essentially a heresy; but from the circumstances of its birth it was a her

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Canada: judge lifts ban on assisted suicide on Independent Catholic News

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The lesson of Constantinople. has not been learned in the USA nor in the UK as well. The Byzantine empire like the British and USA empires were both at odds with The Holy Catholic Church for a variety of reasons. Both had the opportunity to return to The Holy Catholic Church and both failed to do so. The Byzantines agreed to return at the council of Florence and then did not follow through with their promise. The British and Americans (USA) have the guiding message of Vatican II yet little progress has been made other than a few Anglicans returning and those mainly for social reasons rather than religious. Preparing for battle: Circle of Wagons All those that call themselves "Christians" must now return to The Holy Catholic Church from which they came. The Byzantines, just before the fall of their empire led by their local clergy, were heard shouting in the streets "Rather be a Muslim than a Roman Catholic". How sorry they all must have been during an