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Bl. Margaret Pole, Roman Catholic English Martyr, imprisoned in the Tower of London for two years and then beheaded on May 28. She was never given a legal trial and was seventy years old when martyred. Feastday May 28

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Blessed Margaret Pole, pray for us! : Blessed Margaret Pole, beatified in 1886 by Pope Leo XIII with 53 other martyrs, was beheaded on May 27, 1541. EWTN posts this  biography ...

The Outlook for Christian Culture : In spite of the increasing secularization of culture both in the West and in the world at large, I feel that the outlook for Christian culture is brig...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: St. Philip Neri, pray for us! : Blessed John Henry Newman and Father Frederick Faber wrote several hymns in honor of the Oratory's founder, St. Philip Neri, whose fe...

Philippines: Cathedral torched, priest, parishioners taken hostage | Independent Catholic News : Church leaders in the Philippines have expressed “profound heartbreak” at a flare up of violence in the southern island of Minda...

Pope warns against a 'lukewarm Church' | Independent Catholic News

Pope Francis: Open your hearts to the Holy Spirit | Independent Catholic News : It is only the Holy Spirit Who can teach us to say: “Jesus is the Lord.” That was the focus of Pope Francis’ reflections durin...

Did Jesus intend one Church or many denominations? | Catholic Answers

St. Constantine the Great, Roman Catholic emperor called the “Thirteenth Apostle” in the East he founded the Christian city of Constantinople to serve as his new capital, and undertook a long-sighted program of Christianization for the whole of the Roman Empire. May21

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: A Cardinal's Hat and Sainthood for Bishop John Fis... : Pope Paul III passed over the notion that Henry VIII had stripped Bishop John Fisher of his episcopal status and declared the impriso...

Bl. Peter Wright, Roman Catholic English Jesuit Martyr, put to death at Tyburn by Oliver Cromwell

May 19th St Dunstan

Pope Francis: Each one of us is a story of God's love | Independent Catholic News : Pope Francis continued his catechesis on Christian hope during his General Audience with pilgrims in St Peter's Square on Wednesday...

St. Elgiva of Shaftesbury, Roman Catholic Queen and mother of Kings Edwy of the Saxons and Edgar, King of England, and wife of Edmund the First. She gave up public life and became a Benedictine nun at Shaftesbury.

Reflections on Love : If there is any topic more popular at Catholic Match than the essential differences between male and female, it is the definition and nature of Love. Is love a fancy or a feeling … oops! that's Hartley Coleridge, actually — but certainly the debate is energetic over whether love is a feeling or a decision. …

The Secret of True Love : Is there anything in the modern world about which more has been written and said than about love? The term appears in so many places and in so many fo...

Pope Francis reflects on Fatima | Independent Catholic News : Following his pilgrimage to Fatima, Pope Francis said the Regina Coeli on Sunday, took on “a particular significance, imbued with ...

English Historical Fiction Authors: Lordship in the Tenth-century – What was its Polit... : by Annie Whitehead “No man can make himself king, but the people have the choice to select as king whom they please, but after he is con...

Pope: Christians are always on a journey towards God | Independent Catholic News : The life of every Christian is a journey and a process of deepening faith, Pope Francis said in his homily during Mass at Casa Santa...

The surprising connection between Our Lady of Fatima and Islam | Independent Catholic News : As we approach the 100th anniversary of the apparitions of Our Lady of Fátima, one aspect that often goes unnoticed is the subtle c...

How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization. author Thomas Woods describes how and why the Catholic church gave Western Civilization some of its most integral and distinctive characteristics. Ask someone today where Western Civilization originated, and he or she might say Greece or Rome. But what is the ultimate source of Western Civilization? Bestselling author and professor Thomas E. Woods, Jr. provides the long neglected answer: the Catholic Church. Gifts such as modern science, free-market economics, art, music, and the idea of human rights come from the Catholic Church, explains Woods. No institution has done more to shape Western civilization than the two-thousand-year-old Catholic Church - and in ways that many of us have forgotten or never known.

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Supremacy Without Unity : From The Economist , a review of Heretics and Believers by Peter Marshall: Mr Marshall provides convincing evidence that Catholicism s...

English Historical Fiction Authors: Who was Robert Catesby? A look at the real Man Be... : by Linda Root Why May and not November? One would expect a post about the mastermind behind the Gunpowder Treason to appear on Nov...

Blessed Edward Jones and Anthony Middleton, Roman Catholic Priests and English Martyrs. Feastday May 6

May 6 St Edbert-bishop of Lindisfarne

Bishop Richard Moth on 'Risky Business of the Call to Priesthood' | Independent Catholic News : In his Pastoral Letter for the 4th Sunday of Easter, 7th May to the people of Surrey and Sussex, the Bishop of Arundel & Brighton, ...

Holy See renews call for nuclear disarmament | Independent Catholic News : The Head of the Delegation of the Holy See to the Preparatory Committee for the 2020 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty ...

Pope Francis: To evangelize, go out, listen, rejoice | Independent Catholic News

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Agnes Tilney Howard Leaves the Tower : The Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, Agnes Tilney Howard, was freed from the Tower of London on May 5, 1542, even though she had been found gui...

One thousand East Anglia pilgrims walk together at Walsingham | Independent Catholic News : More than 1,000 people joined the annual Diocese of East Anglia pilgrimage to Walsingham on Bank Holiday Monday, May 1.The pi...

Nones prayers to mark 900th anniversary of Merton Priory | Independent Catholic News : A number of churches around the country will be holding special prayer services this week to mark the 900th anniversary of the found...

Supremacy and Survival: The English Reformation: Preparation for the Feast of the English Martyrs : Although this Feast is only celebrated in the dioceses of England on the Fourth of May, I always highlight it here and with an interview o...